GCP Contracts in Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 54 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 -40
Contract jobs citing GCP 62 75 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.72% 3.32% 2.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.16% 9.75% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 57 41
10th Percentile £407 £450 £413
25th Percentile £435 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -10.57% +6.96%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £700
90th Percentile £645 £700 £925
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £59.25
% change year-on-year -21.62% +18.44% +137.00%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 471 769 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 28.25% 34.03% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 575 698
10th Percentile £250 £256 £181
25th Percentile £400 £419 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £575
90th Percentile £639 £691 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 16
10th Percentile £13.43 £21.63 £16.13
25th Percentile £14.63 £27.81 £17.11
Median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £18.88
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +129.14% -4.43%
75th Percentile £17.31 £62.00 £22.40
90th Percentile £22.00 £72.80 £22.88
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% -

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 +4 47 £543 -9.58% 18
West Yorkshire -8 11 £490 -12.89% 17
North Yorkshire - 3 £375 - 2
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 9 (14.52%) Apache Spark
1 9 (14.52%) Confluence
2 5 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.84%) Jupyter
3 3 (4.84%) nginx
4 2 (3.23%) Apache
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 48 (77.42%) AWS
2 46 (74.19%) Azure
3 12 (19.35%) GitHub
4 11 (17.74%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (14.52%) Kong
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.68%) Apigee
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 6 (9.68%) Serverless
7 5 (8.06%) CloudBees
8 3 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (4.84%) Vertex AI
9 2 (3.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (3.23%) SaaS
10 1 (1.61%) Heroku
10 1 (1.61%) IaaS
10 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Firewall
2 9 (14.52%) DNS
2 9 (14.52%) HTTP
2 9 (14.52%) TCP/IP
2 9 (14.52%) VPN
3 5 (8.06%) HTTPS
4 3 (4.84%) BIG-IP
4 3 (4.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (4.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (4.84%) SSL
5 1 (1.61%) LAN
5 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) BigQuery
2 11 (17.74%) MongoDB
3 10 (16.13%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (16.13%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.52%) Big Data
4 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
4 9 (14.52%) Hadoop
5 8 (12.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (4.84%) Bigtable
9 3 (4.84%) ClickHouse
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (3.23%) Apache Hive
10 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (3.23%) Metadata
10 2 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) Git
2 22 (35.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 10 (16.13%) GitLab
3 10 (16.13%) JIRA
4 9 (14.52%) CircleCI
4 9 (14.52%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Banking
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.06%) DBA
4 5 (8.06%) GCP Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Database Specialist
5 4 (6.45%) MongoDB DBA
5 4 (6.45%) Senior
6 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 3 (4.84%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (1.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) Kafka
2 10 (16.13%) XML
3 9 (14.52%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (14.52%) JSON
3 9 (14.52%) YAML
4 5 (8.06%) RESTful
5 4 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.45%) gRPC
5 4 (6.45%) JWT
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth
5 4 (6.45%) OpenAPI
5 4 (6.45%) Swagger
6 3 (4.84%) Apache Beam
6 3 (4.84%) Keycloak
7 2 (3.23%) Playwright
7 2 (3.23%) Spring
8 1 (1.61%) JSP
8 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.61%) Servlets
8 1 (1.61%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Data Structures
2 6 (9.68%) Replication
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) NHS
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (48.39%) Containerisation
2 26 (41.94%) DevOps
3 25 (40.32%) Agile
3 25 (40.32%) CI/CD
3 25 (40.32%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (29.03%) Data Modelling
6 15 (24.19%) Task Automation
7 14 (22.58%) DevSecOps
7 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (20.97%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (19.35%) Use Case
10 11 (17.74%) Data Integration
11 10 (16.13%) API Development
11 10 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (16.13%) Data Governance
11 10 (16.13%) Scrum
12 9 (14.52%) API Integration
12 9 (14.52%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 43 (69.35%) Python
2 21 (33.87%) Bash
2 21 (33.87%) Java
3 11 (17.74%) SQL
4 9 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.68%) Scala
6 5 (8.06%) Go
6 5 (8.06%) Groovy
7 3 (4.84%) ActionScript
7 3 (4.84%) Ruby
8 2 (3.23%) C
8 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.61%) CQL
9 1 (1.61%) Perl
9 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.23%) Degree
1 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.61%) CCNA
2 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (32.26%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (3.23%) HDFS
4 1 (1.61%) ACF2
4 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.61%) IAG
4 1 (1.61%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
1 21 (33.87%) Terraform
2 14 (22.58%) Ansible
3 12 (19.35%) Grafana
4 9 (14.52%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (14.52%) Kibana
4 9 (14.52%) logstash
4 9 (14.52%) Progress Chef
4 9 (14.52%) Prometheus
4 9 (14.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (38.71%) Google
2 9 (14.52%) Splunk
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.84%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco
5 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Tanium