GCP Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 733 1,222 1,909
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.14% 4.51% 4.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.98% 11.57% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 932 1,460
10th Percentile £463 £463 £475
25th Percentile £525 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £636 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +1.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £725
90th Percentile £841 £835 £800
England median daily rate £600 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £49.23 £62.00 £41.31
25th Percentile £52.94 £65.88 £73.15
Median hourly rate £56.25 £80.00 £77.18
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +3.65% +12.90%
75th Percentile £60.81 £88.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £64.53 £91.25 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.09 £69.75
% change year-on-year -26.75% +7.66% +101.73%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,676 10,565 16,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.02% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 7,715 12,114
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.00 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London -14 62 £588 -6.00% 24
West London +16 23 £488 -25.00% 7
South London +19 7 £500 -9.09%
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 124 (16.92%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (14.46%) Apache
3 17 (2.32%) Confluence
4 14 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.27%) CMS
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 498 (67.94%) AWS
2 383 (52.25%) Azure
3 74 (10.10%) dbt
4 46 (6.28%) Snowflake
5 35 (4.77%) GitHub
6 31 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 23 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (3.14%) Vertex AI
8 19 (2.59%) PaaS
9 16 (2.18%) SaaS
10 14 (1.91%) Google Analytics
10 14 (1.91%) IaaS
10 14 (1.91%) Power Platform
10 14 (1.91%) Serverless
11 13 (1.77%) Google Compute Engine
11 13 (1.77%) Nutanix
12 12 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (1.64%) Cloud Run
13 10 (1.36%) Apigee
14 9 (1.23%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.77%) Firewall
2 32 (4.37%) HTTP
3 20 (2.73%) DNS
4 16 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.18%) WAN
5 14 (1.91%) VPN
6 13 (1.77%) DHCP
6 13 (1.77%) LAN
6 13 (1.77%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.50%) Network Security
7 11 (1.50%) OSPF
8 10 (1.36%) NAS
8 10 (1.36%) SAN
8 10 (1.36%) VLAN
8 10 (1.36%) Wireless
9 9 (1.23%) BGP
9 9 (1.23%) Kerberos
9 9 (1.23%) MPLS
10 8 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (1.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (13.37%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (11.46%) BigQuery
3 77 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (8.87%) Data Lake
5 57 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (7.50%) Apache Arrow
6 55 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (7.50%) Dremio
7 45 (6.14%) Big Data
8 36 (4.91%) NoSQL
9 30 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
10 26 (3.55%) Relational Database
11 20 (2.73%) Looker
11 20 (2.73%) MongoDB
11 20 (2.73%) SQL Server
12 14 (1.91%) Power BI
12 14 (1.91%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.91%) Tableau
13 10 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (9.82%) Jenkins
2 65 (8.87%) Git
3 30 (4.09%) Cypress.io
3 30 (4.09%) JIRA
4 27 (3.68%) GitLab
5 16 (2.18%) Postman
6 11 (1.50%) Maven
7 8 (1.09%) SoapUI
7 8 (1.09%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.82%) MLflow
9 3 (0.41%) Subversion
10 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.27%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.27%) Selenium
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.14%) Deequ
11 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
General
1 279 (38.06%) Finance
2 169 (23.06%) Front Office
3 133 (18.14%) Banking
4 132 (18.01%) Social Skills
5 55 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (7.37%) Investment Banking
7 33 (4.50%) Retail
8 15 (2.05%) Marketing
9 13 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.36%) Public Sector
12 7 (0.95%) Advertising
12 7 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.55%) Legal
14 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.41%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.27%) Law
15 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 264 (36.02%) Developer
2 163 (22.24%) Architect
3 130 (17.74%) Software Engineer
4 123 (16.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 98 (13.37%) Python Developer
6 80 (10.91%) Senior
7 72 (9.82%) Solutions Architect
8 68 (9.28%) Python Engineer
8 68 (9.28%) Python Software Engineer
9 57 (7.78%) React Developer
10 52 (7.09%) Finance Manager
11 48 (6.55%) GCP Engineer
12 47 (6.41%) Cloud Architect
13 44 (6.00%) Data Engineer
14 42 (5.73%) Lead
15 41 (5.59%) Java Developer
16 40 (5.46%) Full Stack Developer
17 37 (5.05%) Consultant
18 36 (4.91%) .NET Developer
19 35 (4.77%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (17.05%) React
2 108 (14.73%) gRPC
2 108 (14.73%) Protocol Buffers
3 90 (12.28%) Redux
4 73 (9.96%) Pandas
5 59 (8.05%) NumPy
6 58 (7.91%) Material-UI
7 56 (7.64%) Node.js
8 52 (7.09%) SciPy
9 51 (6.96%) Kafka
10 46 (6.28%) RESTful
11 45 (6.14%) .NET
12 37 (5.05%) AngularJS
13 36 (4.91%) HTML
14 31 (4.23%) CSS
15 26 (3.55%) Akka
15 26 (3.55%) REST
15 26 (3.55%) Vue
16 23 (3.14%) .NET Core
17 22 (3.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 163 (22.24%) Fixed Income
2 125 (17.05%) Hedge funds
3 112 (15.28%) Equities
4 90 (12.28%) Derivative
5 82 (11.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.46%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.50%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.36%) PKI
14 10 (1.36%) Replication
15 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (7.09%) Linux
2 21 (2.86%) Windows
3 19 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.91%) Unix
5 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.09%) Solaris
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (41.75%) Agile
2 205 (27.97%) Software Engineering
3 193 (26.33%) DevOps
4 168 (22.92%) Asset Management
5 145 (19.78%) Machine Learning
6 140 (19.10%) Investment Management
7 134 (18.28%) CI/CD
8 115 (15.69%) Analytics
9 103 (14.05%) Microservices
10 100 (13.64%) Full Stack Development
11 86 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 82 (11.19%) Artificial Intelligence
14 79 (10.78%) Containerisation
15 78 (10.64%) Computer Science
16 68 (9.28%) TDD
17 65 (8.87%) ETL
18 61 (8.32%) Data Science
19 59 (8.05%) Fintech
20 54 (7.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 324 (44.20%) Python
2 175 (23.87%) JavaScript
3 168 (22.92%) TypeScript
4 158 (21.56%) Java
5 131 (17.87%) SQL
6 50 (6.82%) Scala
7 46 (6.28%) C#
8 42 (5.73%) Bash
9 38 (5.18%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.50%) Go
11 21 (2.86%) R
12 18 (2.46%) Ruby
13 11 (1.50%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.68%) Bicep
15 5 (0.68%) Groovy
16 4 (0.55%) C++
16 4 (0.55%) Perl
17 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (10.10%) Degree
2 55 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (6.55%) Security Cleared
4 46 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.32%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.05%) CISSP
6 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.36%) CCNP
9 9 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.95%) CISM
11 6 (0.82%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.68%) CCNA
13 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.55%) CRISC
14 3 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.41%) CCIE
14 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.27%) PhD
15 2 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.14%) QA
2 27 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.32%) NIST
4 14 (1.91%) GDPR
5 11 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.95%) SLA
8 6 (0.82%) WCAG
9 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.55%) ISO 31000
10 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 88 (12.01%) Docker
2 28 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.95%) ACF2
4 7 (0.95%) IAG
4 7 (0.95%) RACF
4 7 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.82%) Firmware
5 6 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.55%) Shibboleth
7 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 147 (20.05%) Kubernetes
2 127 (17.33%) Terraform
3 49 (6.68%) Ansible
4 24 (3.27%) Puppet
5 19 (2.59%) Grafana
6 16 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
9 8 (1.09%) Netcool
9 8 (1.09%) Tivoli
9 8 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.55%) Nessus
11 4 (0.55%) Oracle Identity Management
12 3 (0.41%) Argo
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) Nagios
13 2 (0.27%) Graylog
Vendors
1 268 (36.56%) Google
2 54 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.73%) Oracle
4 32 (4.37%) CyberArk
5 26 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.86%) Cisco
7 20 (2.73%) BeyondTrust
8 18 (2.46%) Splunk
8 18 (2.46%) Typelevel
8 18 (2.46%) VMware
9 17 (2.32%) IBM
10 14 (1.91%) Bloomberg
10 14 (1.91%) Databricks
11 10 (1.36%) HP
11 10 (1.36%) Okta
12 9 (1.23%) Adobe
12 9 (1.23%) Dell
12 9 (1.23%) SAP
13 8 (1.09%) EMC
13 8 (1.09%) Serena