GCP Contracts in Reading

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 72 83
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing GCP 12 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.02% 1.65% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 5.14% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 14
10th Percentile - £369 £338
25th Percentile £413 £552 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £610 £588
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +3.83% +2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £691 £707
90th Percentile £590 £700 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £460 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +9.59%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 359 331 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.45% 32.04% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 257 335
10th Percentile £375 £420 £184
25th Percentile £497 £504 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +8.17% -0.95%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £623
90th Percentile £688 £725 £666
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £56.50 £53.00 £13.20
25th Percentile £56.58 £58.94 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £77.35 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +218.95% -59.58%
75th Percentile £59.95 £79.19 £33.00
90th Percentile £60.61 - £44.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £21.05
% change year-on-year +150.21% +10.69% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Reading

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Reading

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Reading

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 7 (58.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DB2
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Appium
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) MSTest
2 1 (8.33%) NUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) DBA
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
1 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (58.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (58.33%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (58.33%) Time Management
3 7 (58.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Database Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (8.33%) SOAR
5 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (58.33%) Istio
3 7 (58.33%) Rancher
4 2 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle