GCP Contracts in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 97 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 -26 +14
Contract jobs citing GCP 39 54 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.40% 1.79% 3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.40% 4.81% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 45 96
10th Percentile £100 £455 £419
25th Percentile £375 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £675
90th Percentile £758 £650 £738
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +184.78% +53.33%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £24.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £69.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +0.36% +29.58%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 887 1,122 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.77% 37.25% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 836 1,101
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.83 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.41 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -28.34% -15.10% +38.92%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £64.65 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester -6 31 £525 -8.70% 55
Merseyside +18 4 - - 3
Cheshire -5 4 - - 4
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) AWS
2 27 (69.23%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) Google Analytics
4 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.26%) Mimecast
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 2 (5.13%) Azure App Service
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.56%) BigCommerce
7 1 (2.56%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Matillion
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.26%) BGP
2 4 (10.26%) MPLS
2 4 (10.26%) OSPF
2 4 (10.26%) Value-Added Service
2 4 (10.26%) VLAN
2 4 (10.26%) VPN
2 4 (10.26%) Wireshark
3 3 (7.69%) DNS
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) SAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) BigQuery
2 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.69%) Data Hub
4 3 (7.69%) DB2
4 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Hudson
2 3 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Lead
2 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Performance Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Node.js
1 2 (5.13%) SAML
1 2 (5.13%) Spring
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) cloud-init
2 1 (2.56%) Express.js
2 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) HTML5
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) koa
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Data Fabric
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.56%) Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) PKI
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.26%) Mac OS
3 4 (10.26%) zOS
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Analytics
1 9 (23.08%) Migration
1 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.51%) ETL
3 6 (15.38%) Agile
3 6 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
4 5 (12.82%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (12.82%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (10.26%) Change Management
5 4 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (10.26%) Data Management
5 4 (10.26%) Incident Response
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (10.26%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (10.26%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.26%) Go
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) CCNP
1 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) CCIE
2 4 (10.26%) VCAP
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) MCSE
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) Consul
3 1 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.56%) Graphite
3 1 (2.56%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.56%) Istio
3 1 (2.56%) linkerd
3 1 (2.56%) Packer
3 1 (2.56%) Podman
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Puppet
3 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) F5
2 4 (10.26%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
2 4 (10.26%) Sophos
3 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.69%) Databricks
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco
5 1 (2.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.56%) Qualys
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat