GCP Contracts in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 124 113
Rank change year-on-year +42 -11 +23
Contract jobs citing GCP 31 23 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.65% 0.94% 2.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.23% 2.79% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 41
10th Percentile £381 - £463
25th Percentile £400 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -38.46% +23.81%
75th Percentile £581 £500 £750
90th Percentile £636 £629 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +6.84%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 593 825 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.64% 33.55% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 579 906
10th Percentile £213 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £407 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £600 £623 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 19
10th Percentile £16.69 £14.53 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.42 £16.58 £15.68
Median hourly rate £21.14 £23.86 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +34.65% -71.87%
75th Percentile £24.18 £39.06 £20.71
90th Percentile - £50.88 £28.15
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +62.79% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Glasgow +11 19 £450 +12.50% 13
Edinburgh +21 7 £520 -0.95% 12
Aberdeen - 3 - - 1
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (22.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (90.32%) Azure
2 27 (87.10%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Adverity
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (9.68%) Google Data Studio
4 3 (9.68%) Google Sheets
4 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.68%) Sprout Social
5 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Tableau
3 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) CircleCI
3 6 (19.35%) TeamCity
4 5 (16.13%) JIRA
5 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket
5 4 (12.90%) GitLab
6 3 (9.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (9.68%) Mercurial
6 3 (9.68%) Travis CI
7 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.23%) Mockito
7 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 10 (32.26%) Java Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Architect
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Backend Developer
6 3 (9.68%) IT Architect
6 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Senior IT Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Social Media Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Perl Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) Kafka
2 10 (32.26%) Spring Boot
3 9 (29.03%) Spring
4 7 (22.58%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (22.58%) OpenTracing
4 7 (22.58%) RESTful
5 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
6 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.45%) Regular Expression
6 2 (6.45%) YAML
7 1 (3.23%) CSS
7 1 (3.23%) React
7 1 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Data Structures
2 8 (25.81%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (9.68%) Social Media
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Android
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
1 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 13 (41.94%) Microservices
3 9 (29.03%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (25.81%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) Scrum
5 7 (22.58%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
6 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (19.35%) Dependency Injection
6 6 (19.35%) SDLC
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (12.90%) Backlog Refinement
8 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
8 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.90%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) Bash
2 7 (22.58%) Kotlin
2 7 (22.58%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) Scala
3 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
1 1 (3.23%) ISO 8583
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (22.58%) Ansible
2 7 (22.58%) Progress Chef
2 7 (22.58%) Prometheus
2 7 (22.58%) Zipkin
3 5 (16.13%) Terraform
4 4 (12.90%) Grafana
4 4 (12.90%) Puppet
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.45%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 2 (6.45%) SCCM
5 2 (6.45%) SCOM
5 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) Brandwatch
3 3 (9.68%) Facebook
3 3 (9.68%) Hootsuite
3 3 (9.68%) Instagram
3 3 (9.68%) Splunk
3 3 (9.68%) Twitter
3 3 (9.68%) YouTube
4 2 (6.45%) Apple
4 2 (6.45%) Citrix
4 2 (6.45%) HP
4 2 (6.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Snow