GCP Contracts in West Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +30 0 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 37 13 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.48% 1.34% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.42% 4.42% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 35
10th Percentile £400 £300 £435
25th Percentile £456 £375 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.91% -16.36%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £679
90th Percentile £655 £607 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 240 294 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 42.03% 30.40% 34.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 210 386
10th Percentile £272 £275 £341
25th Percentile £375 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £595 £631
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £27.82 - £35.40
25th Percentile £30.17 - £41.63
Median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.73% -72.22% +170.00%
75th Percentile £50.48 - £68.00
90th Percentile £79.33 - £75.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +119.73% -60.26% +100.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in West Yorkshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for GCP in West Yorkshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in West Yorkshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +26 34 £563 +13.64% 47
Halifax - 4 £481 - 1
GCP
Yorkshire

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (29.73%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Magento
1 1 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) Google Compute Engine
4 3 (8.11%) npm
4 3 (8.11%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (5.41%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Miro
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) LAN
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) VLAN
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Flink
2 7 (18.92%) BigQuery
2 7 (18.92%) MongoDB
2 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.41%) Bigtable
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) Looker
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) webpack
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) DBeaver
4 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) GCP Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Data Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) GCP Data Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Angular Developer
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Flutter Developer
7 1 (2.70%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) GCP DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Lead
7 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) Kafka
2 9 (24.32%) Apache Beam
2 9 (24.32%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (18.92%) JDBC
4 3 (8.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.11%) CSS
4 3 (8.11%) Flask
4 3 (8.11%) HTML
4 3 (8.11%) pytest
4 3 (8.11%) REST
4 3 (8.11%) RESTful
4 3 (8.11%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) EDI
5 1 (2.70%) Middleware
5 1 (2.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) CentOS
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) DevOps
2 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (27.03%) Analytics
4 10 (27.03%) High Availability
5 9 (24.32%) Event-Driven
6 8 (21.62%) Data Engineering
7 7 (18.92%) Data Ingestion
7 7 (18.92%) Data Science
7 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
8 5 (13.51%) ETL
9 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.81%) Data Analytics
9 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (10.81%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.81%) SDLC
9 4 (10.81%) Workflow
10 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
10 3 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) Scala
4 5 (13.51%) Bash
5 3 (8.11%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.41%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 7 (18.92%) Ansible
3 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Google
2 10 (27.03%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) Adobe
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) WooCommerce