GCP Contracts in the East of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing GCP 28 31 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.46% 1.50% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.72% 5.90% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 49
10th Percentile £378 £478 £403
25th Percentile £485 £502 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% +12.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £700 £625
90th Percentile £666 - -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.63% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £88.00 £70.18 £77.32
Median % change year-on-year +25.40% -9.24% -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.09 £69.75
% change year-on-year -26.75% +7.66% +101.73%

All Cloud Skills
East 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 East of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 288 525 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.06% 25.36% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 344 538
10th Percentile £219 £184 £185
25th Percentile £322 £275 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £574 £589 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 57 66
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +22.58% +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.37 £35.00 £22.13
90th Percentile £64.55 £70.00 £46.25
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.63% +44.05% -2.33%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Essex +4 13 £550 +5.16% 3
Hertfordshire +7 7 £500 -13.04% 12
Norfolk +13 6 £525 +16.67%
Cambridgeshire -6 1 £525 -8.70% 6
Bedfordshire - 1 £500 - 3
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.57%) dbt
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) Big Data
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Automotive
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Genesys Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) E-Commerce Developer
6 2 (7.14%) E-Commerce Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Developer
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) RESTful
2 4 (14.29%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Akka
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) NumPy
3 1 (3.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (14.29%) IVR
3 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 11 (39.29%) Roadmaps
4 10 (35.71%) DevOps
5 9 (32.14%) Agile
5 9 (32.14%) Migration
6 8 (28.57%) Data Science
7 7 (25.00%) Business Strategy
7 7 (25.00%) Fintech
7 7 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (25.00%) TOGAF
7 7 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
8 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (21.43%) Identity Management
8 6 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (21.43%) Technology Transformation
9 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
9 5 (17.86%) Pair Programming
9 5 (17.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Degree
2 8 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) zsh
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Genesys
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Typelevel