GCP Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 71 72 64
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,046 1,601 2,575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.84% 3.26% 3.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.92% 8.92% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 1,236 1,946
10th Percentile £413 £450 £463
25th Percentile £506 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +7.46%
75th Percentile £750 £720 £713
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 13
10th Percentile £30.90 £55.55 £22.33
25th Percentile £37.94 £63.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +7.96% +160.00%
75th Percentile £64.94 £83.13 £77.32
90th Percentile £76.30 £90.00 £80.07
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £70.09 £47.50
% change year-on-year -26.16% +47.55% +72.01%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,728 17,953 26,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.60% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 13,134 19,834
10th Percentile £300 £325 £336
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 305 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%
75th Percentile £32.69 £65.75 £43.80
90th Percentile £62.50 £78.00 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +6 772 £650 +3.17% 377
North of England -9 89 £525 -8.70% 87
Yorkshire -4 48 £538 -2.27% 34
South West +26 44 £550 -15.38% 64
North West -7 38 £506 -11.96% 45
South East -24 38 £463 -15.91% 72
Midlands +5 25 £600 +14.29% 36
East of England -7 23 £525 -14.74% 27
West Midlands -2 22 £600 +9.09% 20
East Midlands +10 3 £675 +0.93% 16
North East - 3 £600 - 8
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 161 (15.39%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (12.81%) Apache
3 38 (3.63%) Confluence
4 18 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.24%) nginx
6 12 (1.15%) CMS
7 7 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.57%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.38%) Drupal
9 4 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.29%) SAS
11 2 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
12 1 (0.096%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.096%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Shopify
2 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.096%) Magento
2 1 (0.096%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 682 (65.20%) AWS
2 554 (52.96%) Azure
3 82 (7.84%) dbt
4 66 (6.31%) GitHub
5 60 (5.74%) Snowflake
6 46 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
7 39 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 29 (2.77%) Serverless
9 28 (2.68%) Power Platform
10 27 (2.58%) PaaS
11 26 (2.49%) Vertex AI
12 24 (2.29%) Apigee
12 24 (2.29%) SaaS
13 20 (1.91%) Google Analytics
13 20 (1.91%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (1.72%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.63%) Google Compute Engine
16 17 (1.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.74%) Firewall
2 47 (4.49%) HTTP
3 43 (4.11%) DNS
4 41 (3.92%) VPN
5 36 (3.44%) TCP/IP
6 23 (2.20%) WAN
7 20 (1.91%) LAN
8 19 (1.82%) DHCP
9 18 (1.72%) HTTPS
9 18 (1.72%) Network Security
10 17 (1.63%) VLAN
11 16 (1.53%) OSPF
12 14 (1.34%) BGP
12 14 (1.34%) SAN
12 14 (1.34%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.24%) MPLS
13 13 (1.24%) Wireless
14 12 (1.15%) IPsec
14 12 (1.15%) NAS
15 9 (0.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (11.95%) BigQuery
2 121 (11.57%) Apache Ignite
3 103 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
4 86 (8.22%) Data Lake
5 81 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
6 63 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
7 62 (5.93%) NoSQL
8 61 (5.83%) Apache Arrow
8 61 (5.83%) Dremio
9 54 (5.16%) Big Data
10 42 (4.02%) Relational Database
11 36 (3.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 36 (3.44%) MongoDB
12 28 (2.68%) Power BI
13 27 (2.58%) MySQL
14 24 (2.29%) SQL Server
15 20 (1.91%) Looker
16 18 (1.72%) Metadata
17 17 (1.63%) RDBMS
18 16 (1.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (9.75%) Jenkins
2 88 (8.41%) Git
3 50 (4.78%) GitLab
4 48 (4.59%) JIRA
5 45 (4.30%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.15%) Maven
7 11 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.86%) Postman
9 9 (0.86%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.86%) Travis CI
10 7 (0.67%) Spinnaker
10 7 (0.67%) Subversion
11 6 (0.57%) MLflow
11 6 (0.57%) Selenium
12 4 (0.38%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.38%) Hudson
13 3 (0.29%) Gradle
13 3 (0.29%) Mockito
General
1 336 (32.12%) Finance
2 209 (19.98%) Social Skills
3 189 (18.07%) Front Office
4 170 (16.25%) Banking
5 95 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (5.93%) Investment Banking
7 41 (3.92%) Retail
8 34 (3.25%) Public Sector
9 25 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.10%) Marketing
11 13 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.86%) Legal
15 7 (0.67%) Advertising
16 5 (0.48%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.38%) Automotive
17 4 (0.38%) Electronics
18 3 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 321 (30.69%) Developer
2 222 (21.22%) Architect
3 156 (14.91%) Software Engineer
4 141 (13.48%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 118 (11.28%) Python Developer
6 114 (10.90%) Senior
7 90 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
8 86 (8.22%) Python Engineer
9 85 (8.13%) Python Software Engineer
10 74 (7.07%) React Developer
11 64 (6.12%) Data Engineer
12 62 (5.93%) Java Developer
13 58 (5.54%) Lead
14 57 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
14 57 (5.45%) GCP Engineer
15 49 (4.68%) Cloud Architect
15 49 (4.68%) Finance Manager
16 47 (4.49%) Consultant
17 46 (4.40%) Full Stack Developer
18 44 (4.21%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (14.15%) React
2 134 (12.81%) gRPC
3 131 (12.52%) Protocol Buffers
4 105 (10.04%) Redux
5 79 (7.55%) Pandas
6 72 (6.88%) Material-UI
7 69 (6.60%) Kafka
8 67 (6.41%) RESTful
9 65 (6.21%) NumPy
10 64 (6.12%) Node.js
11 58 (5.54%) SciPy
12 55 (5.26%) REST
13 54 (5.16%) .NET
14 47 (4.49%) AngularJS
15 44 (4.21%) HTML
16 38 (3.63%) Spring
17 37 (3.54%) CSS
18 33 (3.15%) Spring Boot
19 32 (3.06%) SAML
20 30 (2.87%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 184 (17.59%) Fixed Income
2 147 (14.05%) Hedge funds
3 129 (12.33%) Equities
4 95 (9.08%) Derivative
5 86 (8.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 57 (5.45%) Public Cloud
7 44 (4.21%) Cloud Native
8 26 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 23 (2.20%) Algorithms
11 21 (2.01%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.91%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.63%) Replication
15 15 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.43%) PKI
16 14 (1.34%) Data Centre
16 14 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.99%) Linux
2 35 (3.35%) Windows
3 27 (2.58%) Unix
4 22 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (0.76%) Solaris
7 7 (0.67%) CentOS
8 6 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.48%) zOS
10 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (37.95%) Agile
2 288 (27.53%) DevOps
3 250 (23.90%) Software Engineering
4 221 (21.13%) CI/CD
5 188 (17.97%) Asset Management
6 182 (17.40%) Machine Learning
7 155 (14.82%) Investment Management
8 150 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (13.48%) Microservices
10 131 (12.52%) Analytics
11 126 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 123 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 118 (11.28%) Computer Science
13 118 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
14 111 (10.61%) Containerisation
15 99 (9.46%) Migration
16 87 (8.32%) TDD
17 86 (8.22%) ETL
18 79 (7.55%) Data Science
19 69 (6.60%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 438 (41.87%) Python
2 217 (20.75%) Java
3 208 (19.89%) JavaScript
4 207 (19.79%) TypeScript
5 172 (16.44%) SQL
6 79 (7.55%) Bash
7 67 (6.41%) PowerShell
8 60 (5.74%) Scala
9 59 (5.64%) Go
10 52 (4.97%) C#
11 26 (2.49%) Ruby
12 20 (1.91%) R
13 13 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.96%) Groovy
15 8 (0.76%) Perl
16 7 (0.67%) Bicep
17 6 (0.57%) PHP
17 6 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.48%) C
18 5 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 117 (11.19%) Degree
2 85 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 84 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 78 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 26 (2.49%) AWS Certification
6 20 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (1.91%) CISSP
7 18 (1.72%) CCNP
8 17 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.86%) CCNA
14 8 (0.76%) CISM
15 6 (0.57%) CCIE
16 4 (0.38%) VCAP
17 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.29%) CISA
17 3 (0.29%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.12%) QA
2 35 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.58%) NIST
4 24 (2.29%) GDPR
5 17 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.86%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.67%) SLA
9 7 (0.67%) WCAG
10 6 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.57%) NCSC
10 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.19%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.096%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 138 (13.19%) Docker
2 41 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.76%) ACF2
5 8 (0.76%) IAG
5 8 (0.76%) RACF
5 8 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.67%) Firmware
7 6 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.38%) Shibboleth
8 4 (0.38%) zsh
9 3 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.29%) HDFS
9 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) KVM
10 2 (0.19%) vSphere
11 1 (0.096%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.096%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.096%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 226 (21.61%) Kubernetes
2 188 (17.97%) Terraform
3 88 (8.41%) Ansible
4 35 (3.35%) Puppet
5 33 (3.15%) Grafana
6 31 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 25 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 17 (1.63%) Istio
10 12 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.86%) Kibana
11 9 (0.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 8 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (0.76%) logstash
12 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.76%) Netcool
12 8 (0.76%) Tivoli
13 7 (0.67%) Rancher
14 6 (0.57%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 410 (39.20%) Google
2 80 (7.65%) Microsoft
3 60 (5.74%) Oracle
4 39 (3.73%) VMware
5 38 (3.63%) Cisco
6 35 (3.35%) Splunk
7 34 (3.25%) CyberArk
8 31 (2.96%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.01%) BeyondTrust
10 20 (1.91%) Typelevel
11 18 (1.72%) F5
11 18 (1.72%) Genesys
11 18 (1.72%) IBM
12 17 (1.63%) Databricks
13 14 (1.34%) Bloomberg
13 14 (1.34%) SAP
14 12 (1.15%) HP
14 12 (1.15%) Informatica
14 12 (1.15%) Okta
14 12 (1.15%) Salesforce