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 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 46 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 772 1,153 1,855
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.37% 4.39% 4.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.36% 11.26% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 882 1,426
10th Percentile £463 £463 £475
25th Percentile £518 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% +6.38%
75th Percentile £776 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
England median daily rate £600 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile £49.05 £62.00 £41.31
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.88 £73.15
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £77.18
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +3.65% +12.90%
75th Percentile £58.75 £88.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £63.70 £91.25 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.62% +7.96% +160.00%

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 6,795 10,239 15,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.43% 38.99% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 7,493 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £767
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 84 85
10th Percentile £17.16 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.88 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +23.46% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.44 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 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
Central London -8 65 £600 -7.69% 25
West London +20 20 £488 -25.00% 20
South London +14 7 £500 -9.09% 1
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
1 146 (18.91%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (16.71%) Apache
3 18 (2.33%) Confluence
4 13 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.78%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 518 (67.10%) AWS
2 401 (51.94%) Azure
3 80 (10.36%) dbt
4 53 (6.87%) Snowflake
5 36 (4.66%) GitHub
6 33 (4.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 28 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (2.98%) Vertex AI
9 19 (2.46%) PaaS
10 18 (2.33%) SaaS
10 18 (2.33%) Serverless
11 14 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 14 (1.81%) Google Compute Engine
11 14 (1.81%) IaaS
11 14 (1.81%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.68%) Cloud Run
12 13 (1.68%) Google Analytics
12 13 (1.68%) Nutanix
13 10 (1.30%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.05%) Firewall
2 35 (4.53%) HTTP
3 20 (2.59%) DNS
4 16 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.07%) WAN
5 14 (1.81%) VPN
6 13 (1.68%) DHCP
6 13 (1.68%) LAN
6 13 (1.68%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.42%) Network Security
7 11 (1.42%) OSPF
8 10 (1.30%) NAS
8 10 (1.30%) SAN
8 10 (1.30%) VLAN
8 10 (1.30%) Wireless
9 9 (1.17%) BGP
9 9 (1.17%) HTTPS
9 9 (1.17%) Kerberos
9 9 (1.17%) MPLS
10 8 (1.04%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (15.67%) Apache Ignite
2 92 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (11.40%) BigQuery
4 72 (9.33%) Data Lake
5 63 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
6 61 (7.90%) Apache Arrow
6 61 (7.90%) Dremio
7 52 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (5.83%) Big Data
9 36 (4.66%) NoSQL
10 31 (4.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 30 (3.89%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.72%) MongoDB
13 19 (2.46%) Looker
14 15 (1.94%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.81%) Power BI
15 14 (1.81%) SQL Server
15 14 (1.81%) Tableau
16 13 (1.68%) MySQL
17 9 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 67 (8.68%) Jenkins
2 62 (8.03%) Git
3 44 (5.70%) Cypress.io
4 29 (3.76%) GitLab
5 24 (3.11%) JIRA
6 9 (1.17%) Postman
7 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.91%) Maven
9 6 (0.78%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.39%) Subversion
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.26%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.26%) Mocha
11 2 (0.26%) Selenium
11 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.13%) Deequ
General
1 304 (39.38%) Finance
2 189 (24.48%) Front Office
3 157 (20.34%) Banking
4 136 (17.62%) Social Skills
5 62 (8.03%) Investment Banking
6 61 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (4.40%) Retail
8 16 (2.07%) Marketing
9 15 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.91%) Advertising
14 4 (0.52%) Legal
14 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.39%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 283 (36.66%) Developer
2 172 (22.28%) Architect
3 144 (18.65%) Software Engineer
4 138 (17.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 117 (15.16%) Python Developer
6 85 (11.01%) Python Engineer
6 85 (11.01%) Python Software Engineer
7 83 (10.75%) Senior
8 75 (9.72%) Solutions Architect
9 73 (9.46%) React Developer
10 49 (6.35%) Finance Manager
10 49 (6.35%) Lead
11 47 (6.09%) GCP Engineer
12 46 (5.96%) Cloud Architect
12 46 (5.96%) Full Stack Developer
13 45 (5.83%) Java Developer
14 42 (5.44%) Full Stack Engineer
15 40 (5.18%) Data Engineer
16 38 (4.92%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 36 (4.66%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (18.52%) React
2 132 (17.10%) gRPC
3 130 (16.84%) Protocol Buffers
4 105 (13.60%) Redux
5 79 (10.23%) Pandas
6 72 (9.33%) Material-UI
7 65 (8.42%) NumPy
8 58 (7.51%) SciPy
9 55 (7.12%) Kafka
10 52 (6.74%) Node.js
11 49 (6.35%) RESTful
12 48 (6.22%) .NET
13 37 (4.79%) AngularJS
14 35 (4.53%) HTML
15 33 (4.27%) REST
16 30 (3.89%) CSS
17 29 (3.76%) Akka
18 25 (3.24%) .NET Core
18 25 (3.24%) Vue
19 21 (2.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 184 (23.83%) Fixed Income
2 147 (19.04%) Hedge funds
3 129 (16.71%) Equities
4 95 (12.31%) Derivative
5 86 (11.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (3.50%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.72%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.81%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.68%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.30%) Clustering
14 10 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.30%) PKI
14 10 (1.30%) Replication
15 9 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.51%) Linux
2 24 (3.11%) Windows
3 19 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.94%) Unix
5 9 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.04%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (43.39%) Agile
2 227 (29.40%) Software Engineering
3 194 (25.13%) DevOps
4 186 (24.09%) Asset Management
5 160 (20.73%) Machine Learning
6 155 (20.08%) Investment Management
7 136 (17.62%) CI/CD
8 114 (14.77%) Full Stack Development
8 114 (14.77%) Microservices
9 108 (13.99%) Analytics
10 99 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 93 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (11.40%) Computer Science
13 84 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 71 (9.20%) Containerisation
15 69 (8.94%) TDD
16 64 (8.29%) ETL
17 61 (7.90%) Data Science
18 60 (7.77%) Fintech
19 57 (7.38%) Automated Trading
Programming Languages
1 351 (45.47%) Python
2 189 (24.48%) TypeScript
3 179 (23.19%) JavaScript
4 170 (22.02%) Java
5 125 (16.19%) SQL
6 52 (6.74%) Scala
7 45 (5.83%) Bash
7 45 (5.83%) C#
8 43 (5.57%) Go
9 38 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 20 (2.59%) R
10 20 (2.59%) Ruby
11 13 (1.68%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.78%) Perl
12 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.65%) Bicep
13 5 (0.65%) Groovy
14 3 (0.39%) C++
14 3 (0.39%) Rust
14 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (10.75%) Degree
2 62 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (6.61%) Security Cleared
4 49 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.33%) CISSP
7 14 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.17%) CCNP
11 8 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.91%) CISM
12 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.65%) CCNA
15 3 (0.39%) CRISC
16 2 (0.26%) CCIE
16 2 (0.26%) CISA
16 2 (0.26%) PhD
16 2 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.96%) QA
2 27 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.33%) NIST
4 17 (2.20%) GDPR
5 11 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.91%) SLA
8 6 (0.78%) WCAG
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 31000
9 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS
11 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (12.44%) Docker
2 34 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.91%) ACF2
4 7 (0.91%) IAG
4 7 (0.91%) RACF
4 7 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) Firmware
5 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.52%) Shibboleth
7 2 (0.26%) KVM
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 161 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 132 (17.10%) Terraform
3 49 (6.35%) Ansible
4 23 (2.98%) Puppet
5 20 (2.59%) Grafana
6 17 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.55%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
9 8 (1.04%) Netcool
9 8 (1.04%) Tivoli
9 8 (1.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (0.78%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.52%) Nessus
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle Identity Management
12 3 (0.39%) Argo
12 3 (0.39%) Kibana
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 294 (38.08%) Google
2 58 (7.51%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.70%) Oracle
4 31 (4.02%) CyberArk
5 24 (3.11%) Cisco
5 24 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.46%) Typelevel
6 19 (2.46%) VMware
7 18 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.33%) Splunk
8 17 (2.20%) IBM
9 14 (1.81%) Bloomberg
9 14 (1.81%) Databricks
10 12 (1.55%) Okta
11 11 (1.42%) F5
12 10 (1.30%) HP
12 10 (1.30%) SAP
13 9 (1.17%) Adobe
13 9 (1.17%) Dell
14 8 (1.04%) EMC