GCP Contracts in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 111 136
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 -23
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 56 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 1.67% 1.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.50% 4.79% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 47 51
10th Percentile £500 £463 £379
25th Percentile £550 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.39% +7.73%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £850
90th Percentile - £707 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £59.25
% change year-on-year -21.62% +18.44% +137.00%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 658 1,170 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.34% 34.86% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 841 1,199
10th Percentile £190 £213 £207
25th Percentile £325 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 33
10th Percentile - £14.71 £13.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £20.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +8.11% +23.33%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.94 £22.25
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £24.95
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands -4 20 £600 +9.09% 21
East Midlands +10 3 £675 +0.93% 15
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (13.04%) CMS
1 3 (13.04%) Drupal
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 5 (21.74%) Serverless
5 4 (17.39%) Apigee
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Power Automate
6 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
1 3 (13.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (26.09%) Power BI
3 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.70%) Big Data
5 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.70%) Data Vault
5 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 2 (8.70%) MySQL
6 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.35%) DB2
6 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.35%) Impala
6 1 (4.35%) OLAP
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (4.35%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) Artifactory
2 3 (13.04%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
2 3 (13.04%) Subversion
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Database Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Power Apps Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior SQL Server Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Developer
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 2 (8.70%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Beam
3 1 (4.35%) Flask
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) gRPC
3 1 (4.35%) JMS
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) ETL
2 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
3 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Analytics
4 4 (17.39%) CRM
4 4 (17.39%) E-Discovery
4 4 (17.39%) Runbook
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Epics
5 3 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (13.04%) SDLC
5 3 (13.04%) Software Assurance
5 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) HiveQL
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Rust
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Informatica
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Denodo
3 1 (4.35%) F5
3 1 (4.35%) Qualys
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Talend