GCP Contracts in Manchester

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 63 54
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 32 46 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.22% 2.59% 4.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 6.27% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 81
10th Percentile £100 £450 £450
25th Percentile £375 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £609 £644
90th Percentile £758 £650 £725
North West median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 531 734 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.82% 41.28% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 560 816
10th Percentile £313 £325 £275
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £613
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 26
10th Percentile £22.90 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £18.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £37.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.62% +35.64% +71.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
% change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +44.63%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Wigan - 4 £400 -
GCP
North West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) nginx
2 2 (6.25%) Traefik
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 19 (59.38%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Google Analytics
4 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.50%) Mimecast
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.13%) BigCommerce
7 1 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Matillion
7 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
3 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.38%) Data Hub
4 3 (9.38%) DB2
4 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
1 4 (12.50%) Hudson
2 3 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Data Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
2 6 (18.75%) Senior
3 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) cloud-init
1 2 (6.25%) Node.js
1 2 (6.25%) SAML
1 2 (6.25%) Spring
1 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.13%) Express.js
2 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.13%) HTML
2 1 (3.13%) HTML5
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) koa
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Data Fabric
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 4 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 4 (12.50%) zOS
4 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) CentOS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Analytics
2 8 (25.00%) ETL
3 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 4 (12.50%) Data Management
6 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.50%) Open Source
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (9.38%) Data Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Database Optimisation
7 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.63%) Go
5 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.38%) Java
7 2 (6.25%) Bash
7 2 (6.25%) Ruby
7 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CCNA
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) MCSE
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) NCSC
2 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.25%) Consul
4 2 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (6.25%) Graphite
4 2 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 2 (6.25%) Istio
4 2 (6.25%) linkerd
4 2 (6.25%) Packer
4 2 (6.25%) Podman
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
4 2 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Google
2 4 (12.50%) F5
2 4 (12.50%) Sophos
2 4 (12.50%) Splunk
3 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
3 3 (9.38%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) Qualys
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat