GCP Contracts in Edinburgh

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 88 84
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing GCP 11 17 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.34% 1.34% 2.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.65% 3.43% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 35
10th Percentile £331 £570 £403
25th Percentile £475 £713 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £655 £775 £800
90th Percentile £694 £790 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £713 £600
% change year-on-year -35.09% +18.75% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 301 495 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.66% 39.16% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 380 423
10th Percentile £256 £230 £314
25th Percentile £410 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £581
90th Percentile £675 £613 £675
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £15.66 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £29.50
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Google Data Studio
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Google Sheets
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
2 4 (36.36%) Big Data
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
3 3 (27.27%) Tableau
4 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Flink
5 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Gradle
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Social Media Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Audit Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) Regular Expression
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Social Media
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
4 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Web Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Brandwatch
2 2 (18.18%) Facebook
2 2 (18.18%) Hootsuite
2 2 (18.18%) Instagram
2 2 (18.18%) Twitter
2 2 (18.18%) YouTube
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks