GCP Contracts in the North of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 94 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 114 123 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.40% 2.22% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.01% 6.15% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 99 142
10th Percentile £375 £450 £413
25th Percentile £440 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
England median daily rate £600 £625 £604
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.48% +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £66.73 -
25th Percentile - £68.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +216.30% +53.33%
75th Percentile - £76.44 £24.50
90th Percentile - £78.58 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.09 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.53% +7.83% +47.23%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,423 1,999 2,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.98% 36.05% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 1,484 1,942
10th Percentile £263 £288 £186
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 44 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.06 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.28% +36.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £56.10 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +18 71 £515 -6.36% 37
North West +2 40 £513 -10.87% 70
North East +14 3 £600 +50.00% 6
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (10.53%) Apache Spark
1 12 (10.53%) Confluence
2 5 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.39%) nginx
3 3 (2.63%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Traefik
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 87 (76.32%) AWS
2 80 (70.18%) Azure
3 15 (13.16%) GitHub
4 13 (11.40%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (10.53%) Serverless
6 9 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.89%) Kong
7 8 (7.02%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
8 6 (5.26%) Apigee
8 6 (5.26%) Google Analytics
9 5 (4.39%) CloudBees
9 5 (4.39%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.51%) Mimecast
10 4 (3.51%) SaaS
10 4 (3.51%) Vertex AI
10 4 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.79%) TCP/IP
2 17 (14.91%) Firewall
3 16 (14.04%) DNS
3 16 (14.04%) VPN
4 9 (7.89%) HTTP
5 6 (5.26%) VLAN
6 5 (4.39%) HTTPS
7 4 (3.51%) BGP
7 4 (3.51%) MPLS
7 4 (3.51%) OSPF
7 4 (3.51%) Value-Added Service
7 4 (3.51%) Wireshark
8 3 (2.63%) BIG-IP
8 3 (2.63%) DHCP
8 3 (2.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.63%) SSL
9 1 (0.88%) LAN
9 1 (0.88%) SAN
9 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.81%) BigQuery
2 14 (12.28%) MongoDB
3 12 (10.53%) Big Data
3 12 (10.53%) Hadoop
4 11 (9.65%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (8.77%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.39%) Power BI
10 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
11 4 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.63%) Bigtable
12 3 (2.63%) ClickHouse
12 3 (2.63%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.63%) DB2
12 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (28.07%) Git
2 27 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (12.28%) GitLab
3 14 (12.28%) JIRA
4 10 (8.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (7.89%) CircleCI
5 9 (7.89%) Travis CI
6 4 (3.51%) Hudson
7 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
General
1 43 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.53%) Finance
4 10 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Retail
7 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (20.18%) Architect
2 15 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (8.77%) Senior
3 10 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (7.89%) Lead
5 7 (6.14%) Analyst
5 7 (6.14%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 6 (5.26%) DBA
6 6 (5.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Developer
7 5 (4.39%) GCP Architect
7 5 (4.39%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Database Specialist
8 4 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.16%) Kafka
2 10 (8.77%) JSON
2 10 (8.77%) XML
3 9 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.89%) YAML
4 7 (6.14%) GraphQL
5 6 (5.26%) JWT
5 6 (5.26%) RESTful
6 5 (4.39%) gRPC
6 5 (4.39%) OAuth
6 5 (4.39%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.39%) Swagger
7 4 (3.51%) Spring
8 3 (2.63%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.63%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.63%) Playwright
8 3 (2.63%) REST
9 2 (1.75%) cloud-init
9 2 (1.75%) Node.js
9 2 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.26%) Replication
4 4 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.63%) Clustering
5 3 (2.63%) Data Fabric
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.63%) PKI
5 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.18%) Linux
2 9 (7.89%) Unix
3 7 (6.14%) Windows
4 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.51%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.51%) zOS
5 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.75%) CentOS
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.21%) DevOps
2 37 (32.46%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (31.58%) Agile
3 36 (31.58%) Containerisation
4 35 (30.70%) CI/CD
5 26 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (21.93%) Data Modelling
7 19 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (16.67%) ETL
8 18 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (14.91%) Analytics
10 15 (13.16%) Data Integration
10 15 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (13.16%) Task Automation
11 14 (12.28%) DevSecOps
12 13 (11.40%) Data Governance
12 13 (11.40%) Use Case
13 12 (10.53%) Migration
14 11 (9.65%) Scrum
14 11 (9.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (54.39%) Python
2 28 (24.56%) Java
3 26 (22.81%) Bash
3 26 (22.81%) SQL
4 19 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.65%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.77%) Go
7 6 (5.26%) Scala
8 5 (4.39%) Groovy
8 5 (4.39%) Ruby
8 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.63%) ActionScript
9 3 (2.63%) C
10 1 (0.88%) C#
10 1 (0.88%) CQL
10 1 (0.88%) Perl
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
10 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.89%) Degree
2 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) CCNP
4 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) CCIE
5 4 (3.51%) VCAP
6 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.88%) CEH
8 1 (0.88%) CISSP
8 1 (0.88%) MCSE
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) GDPR
2 5 (4.39%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.63%) NIST
4 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.75%) NCSC
4 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 26 (22.81%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.75%) HDFS
3 2 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) ACF2
4 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.88%) IAG
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.88%) RACF
4 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (27.19%) Terraform
2 28 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 19 (16.67%) Ansible
4 12 (10.53%) Grafana
5 11 (9.65%) Docker Swarm
5 11 (9.65%) Prometheus
5 11 (9.65%) Puppet
6 9 (7.89%) Kibana
6 9 (7.89%) logstash
6 9 (7.89%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.75%) Consul
8 2 (1.75%) Graphite
8 2 (1.75%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.75%) Istio
8 2 (1.75%) linkerd
8 2 (1.75%) Packer
8 2 (1.75%) Podman
8 2 (1.75%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (39.47%) Google
2 15 (13.16%) Splunk
3 12 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.14%) F5
5 4 (3.51%) Databricks
5 4 (3.51%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (3.51%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.51%) Sophos
5 4 (3.51%) VMware
6 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle
7 2 (1.75%) Cisco
7 2 (1.75%) Citrix
7 2 (1.75%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.88%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.88%) Dell
8 1 (0.88%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow