GCP Contracts in Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing GCP 61 50 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.00% 2.96% 3.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.18% 10.68% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 56
10th Percentile £143 £381 £459
25th Percentile £394 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -14.06%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £641 £648 £700
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 377 468 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.07% 27.71% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 327 589
10th Percentile £241 £250 £255
25th Percentile £360 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £29.90 £13.43 £21.63
25th Percentile £31.69 £14.63 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%
75th Percentile £99.42 £17.31 £62.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £22.00 £72.80
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Yorkshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Yorkshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Yorkshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Yorkshire +7 33 £513 -10.87% 9
West Yorkshire +32 30 £550 +12.24% 56
North Yorkshire +8 1 £263 -30.00% 9
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (13.11%) Apache Spark
2 6 (9.84%) Apache
3 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (44.26%) AWS
2 25 (40.98%) Azure
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 3 (4.92%) CloudBees
5 3 (4.92%) PaaS
5 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (3.28%) npm
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.64%) Miro
7 1 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) HTTP
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.28%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.64%) LAN
3 1 (1.64%) SSH
3 1 (1.64%) SSL
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.64%) VLAN
3 1 (1.64%) VPN
3 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) BigQuery
2 12 (19.67%) Flink
3 6 (9.84%) Looker
4 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.92%) Power BI
7 2 (3.28%) Big Data
7 2 (3.28%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.28%) Hazelcast
7 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.64%) MySQL
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.84%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) Jaeger
4 2 (3.28%) JMeter
4 2 (3.28%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.28%) TestRail
4 2 (3.28%) webpack
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.64%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Architect
2 8 (13.11%) Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Data Analyst
3 7 (11.48%) Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Administrator
5 4 (6.56%) GCP Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Junior
6 3 (4.92%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Junior Data Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Angular Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.28%) LDAP Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Performance Tester
7 2 (3.28%) QA Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) Kafka
2 7 (11.48%) Apache Beam
2 7 (11.48%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (6.56%) JDBC
3 4 (6.56%) RESTful
4 3 (4.92%) LDAP
4 3 (4.92%) Middleware
5 2 (3.28%) .NET
5 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.28%) CSS
5 2 (3.28%) Flask
5 2 (3.28%) gRPC
5 2 (3.28%) HTML
5 2 (3.28%) JWT
5 2 (3.28%) pytest
5 2 (3.28%) REST
5 2 (3.28%) SAML
5 2 (3.28%) Web Services
6 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.64%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.28%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) AIX
4 1 (1.64%) CentOS
4 1 (1.64%) Solaris
4 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (29.51%) DevOps
3 17 (27.87%) ETL
4 16 (26.23%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
6 12 (19.67%) Agile
7 10 (16.39%) Data Governance
7 10 (16.39%) Decision-Making
7 10 (16.39%) High Availability
8 9 (14.75%) Analytics
8 9 (14.75%) Data Engineering
9 8 (13.11%) Data Science
9 8 (13.11%) Workflow
10 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
10 7 (11.48%) Data Modelling
10 7 (11.48%) Event-Driven
10 7 (11.48%) Migration
11 6 (9.84%) Data Analysis
11 6 (9.84%) Data Management
11 6 (9.84%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Python
2 17 (27.87%) SQL
3 7 (11.48%) Bash
3 7 (11.48%) Java
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.20%) Scala
5 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.56%) Groovy
6 4 (6.56%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) ActionScript
8 2 (3.28%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) Korn
9 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.64%) CISM
3 1 (1.64%) CISSP
3 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.67%) Terraform
3 6 (9.84%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Grafana
5 2 (3.28%) Control-M
5 2 (3.28%) Istio
5 2 (3.28%) Kiali
5 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Nagios
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (52.46%) Google
2 11 (18.03%) Databricks
3 3 (4.92%) IBM
3 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.92%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.28%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.28%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (3.28%) xMatters
5 1 (1.64%) Centrify
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco
5 1 (1.64%) Confluent
5 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Thycotic