GCP Contracts in the East Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 69 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -28
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 1.66% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 5.72% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 10
10th Percentile - £480 £378
25th Percentile £663 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £669 £590
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +13.35% -5.60%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £813
90th Percentile - - £850
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £59.25
% change year-on-year -21.62% +18.44% +137.00%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 297 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.27% 29.00% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 228 294
10th Percentile £163 £195 £163
25th Percentile £279 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £525
90th Percentile £653 £700 £634
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 17
10th Percentile - £14.52 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.63 £20.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.85% +8.11% +23.33%
75th Percentile £27.50 £25.12 £23.75
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £31.13
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Northamptonshire +5 1 - - 3
Nottinghamshire 0 1 £675 -3.57% 5
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Rust Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Beam
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) RAML
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle