GCP Contracts in Central London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 60 80
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -29
Contract jobs citing GCP 65 132 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.68% 3.50% 3.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 9.10% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 104 113
10th Percentile £385 £472 £483
25th Percentile £506 £534 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +7.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £723 £751 £700
90th Percentile £849 £925 £810
London median daily rate £650 £633 £625
% change year-on-year +2.77% +1.20% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 £81.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.21% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £77.18
% change year-on-year -31.25% +3.65% +12.90%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 959 1,450 1,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.55% 38.44% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 985 1,585
10th Percentile £350 £313 £382
25th Percentile £427 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £754 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 13
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.20 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £35.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -13.92%
75th Percentile £25.38 £88.30 £27.75
90th Percentile £36.30 - £48.30
London median hourly rate £25.50 £47.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -46.32% +17.28% +8.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London -8 62 £600 -7.69% 23
West End of London +2 1 - -
GCP
London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (3.08%) Apache
1 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.85%) AWS
1 35 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) GitHub
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.62%) dbt
4 3 (4.62%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.62%) Vertex AI
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.08%) Serverless
5 2 (3.08%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) CTI
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.08%) VoIP
2 1 (1.54%) DHCP
2 1 (1.54%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
2 1 (1.54%) LAN
2 1 (1.54%) MPLS
2 1 (1.54%) Multicast
2 1 (1.54%) Network Security
2 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.54%) SSH
2 1 (1.54%) VLAN
2 1 (1.54%) WAN
2 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) BigQuery
2 7 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.23%) MySQL
4 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.08%) Looker
6 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.08%) Parquet
6 2 (3.08%) Power BI
6 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.08%) Redis
6 2 (3.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.54%) Big Data
7 1 (1.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Git
1 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Maven
3 2 (3.08%) Subversion
4 1 (1.54%) AppScan
4 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.54%) Darcs
4 1 (1.54%) Deequ
4 1 (1.54%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.54%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.54%) Mockito
4 1 (1.54%) Selenium
4 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.54%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (27.69%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 4 (6.15%) Retail
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Front Office
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Advertising
7 1 (1.54%) Back Office
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Senior
3 10 (15.38%) Architect
4 8 (12.31%) Consultant
4 8 (12.31%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.15%) Security Consultant
5 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) GCP Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Information Security Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Lead
6 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) SOX Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) Spring
2 6 (9.23%) REST
3 5 (7.69%) React
3 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.15%) GWT
4 4 (6.15%) JAX-RS
4 4 (6.15%) Node.js
4 4 (6.15%) RESTful
4 4 (6.15%) Restlet
4 4 (6.15%) SAML
5 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.62%) CSS
5 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.62%) HTML
5 3 (4.62%) Kafka
5 3 (4.62%) Middleware
6 2 (3.08%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.08%) JSON Schema
6 2 (3.08%) PySpark
6 2 (3.08%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (4.62%) IVR
3 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) PKI
3 2 (3.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.54%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Genomics
4 1 (1.54%) Life Science
4 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.08%) Agile
2 11 (16.92%) DevOps
3 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.31%) Analytics
5 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
5 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
5 8 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (12.31%) Migration
6 7 (10.77%) Scrum
7 6 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (9.23%) Data Modelling
7 6 (9.23%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) ETL
8 5 (7.69%) Machine Learning
8 5 (7.69%) Roadmaps
8 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (7.69%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.15%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) Java
1 16 (24.62%) Python
2 9 (13.85%) SQL
3 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.69%) Bash
5 4 (6.15%) C#
6 3 (4.62%) Go
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.08%) C++
7 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.08%) R
7 2 (3.08%) Scala
7 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.54%) C
8 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.62%) CISM
3 3 (4.62%) CISSP
3 3 (4.62%) CRISC
3 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.08%) SANS
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) NIST
1 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) ISO 31000
2 3 (4.62%) NIST 800
2 3 (4.62%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Terraform
2 11 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Ansible
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
4 3 (4.62%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.62%) Puppet
4 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.08%) Graylog
5 2 (3.08%) Nagios
6 1 (1.54%) Argo
6 1 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.54%) Kibana
6 1 (1.54%) logstash
6 1 (1.54%) Nessus
6 1 (1.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 31 (47.69%) Google
2 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) Genesys
4 3 (4.62%) Splunk
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 2 (3.08%) Databricks
5 2 (3.08%) IBM
5 2 (3.08%) Okta
5 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) Avaya
6 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.54%) F5
6 1 (1.54%) Informatica
6 1 (1.54%) Symantec
6 1 (1.54%) Varonis
6 1 (1.54%) Veracode
6 1 (1.54%) VMware