GCP Contracts in the City of London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 60 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing GCP 61 129 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.81% 3.57% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.14% 9.41% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 102 110
10th Percentile £378 £463 £481
25th Percentile £500 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £745 £754 £690
90th Percentile £858 £925 £813
Central London median daily rate £588 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -7.84% +6.25% +9.09%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -41.21% - -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 854 1,371 1,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 37.97% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 921 1,454
10th Percentile £363 £313 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £674 £713 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.39% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -13.92%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) AWS
1 30 (49.18%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) GitHub
3 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.92%) dbt
3 3 (4.92%) Google Analytics
3 3 (4.92%) Vertex AI
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.28%) Serverless
4 2 (3.28%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.64%) Alation
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Run
5 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.64%) CTI
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) LAN
2 1 (1.64%) MPLS
2 1 (1.64%) Multicast
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.64%) VLAN
2 1 (1.64%) VoIP
2 1 (1.64%) WAN
2 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) BigQuery
2 6 (9.84%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.20%) MySQL
4 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.28%) Looker
5 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Power BI
5 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.28%) Redis
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Tableau
6 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.64%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.64%) Metadata
6 1 (1.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Git
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
2 3 (4.92%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Maven
3 2 (3.28%) Subversion
4 1 (1.64%) AppScan
4 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.64%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.64%) Darcs
4 1 (1.64%) Gradle
4 1 (1.64%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.64%) Mockito
4 1 (1.64%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.64%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (27.87%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Banking
4 4 (6.56%) Retail
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Front Office
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.64%) Advertising
6 1 (1.64%) Back Office
6 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Games
6 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) Senior
3 9 (14.75%) Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) GCP Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Information Security Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) SOX Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Spring
2 6 (9.84%) REST
3 5 (8.20%) React
3 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.56%) GWT
4 4 (6.56%) JAX-RS
4 4 (6.56%) Node.js
4 4 (6.56%) RESTful
4 4 (6.56%) Restlet
4 4 (6.56%) SAML
5 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.92%) CSS
5 3 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.92%) HTML
6 2 (3.28%) .NET
6 2 (3.28%) Kafka
6 2 (3.28%) Svelte
6 2 (3.28%) Vue
7 1 (1.64%) LDAP
7 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.28%) IVR
3 2 (3.28%) PKI
3 2 (3.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.64%) CBDC
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Genomics
4 1 (1.64%) Life Science
4 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.64%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) Agile
2 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (14.75%) DevOps
4 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
4 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (11.48%) Computer Science
5 7 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (11.48%) Migration
6 6 (9.84%) Analytics
6 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
6 6 (9.84%) Scrum
7 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (8.20%) ETL
7 5 (8.20%) Machine Learning
7 5 (8.20%) Roadmaps
7 5 (8.20%) Software Engineering
7 5 (8.20%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.56%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) Java
3 8 (13.11%) SQL
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.20%) Bash
6 4 (6.56%) C#
7 3 (4.92%) Go
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.28%) R
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) Rust
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.92%) CISM
3 3 (4.92%) CISSP
3 3 (4.92%) CRISC
4 2 (3.28%) SANS
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) NIST
2 3 (4.92%) ISO 31000
2 3 (4.92%) NIST 800
2 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.92%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Terraform
2 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) Ansible
4 3 (4.92%) Grafana
4 3 (4.92%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.92%) Puppet
4 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.28%) Graylog
5 2 (3.28%) Nagios
6 1 (1.64%) Argo
6 1 (1.64%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.64%) Kibana
6 1 (1.64%) logstash
6 1 (1.64%) Nessus
6 1 (1.64%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) Google
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Splunk
5 2 (3.28%) Genesys
5 2 (3.28%) IBM
5 2 (3.28%) Okta
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.64%) Brio
6 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.64%) Databricks
6 1 (1.64%) Informatica
6 1 (1.64%) Symantec
6 1 (1.64%) Varonis
6 1 (1.64%) Veracode
6 1 (1.64%) VMware