GCP Contracts in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 108 136 108
Rank change year-on-year +28 -28 +33
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 28 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.04% 0.98% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 2.73% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 44
10th Percentile £394 £563 £402
25th Percentile £400 £619 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £713 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +14.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £788
90th Percentile £712 £783 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £618
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.09% +12.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £70.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year -30.89% +47.74% +59.05%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 742 1,027 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.62% 35.98% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 771 784
10th Percentile £256 £250 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £661 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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 27 April 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 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
Glasgow +8 12 £400 -38.46% 15
Edinburgh +36 11 £638 -15.00% 22
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 11 (47.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.35%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DHCP
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Big Data
1 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Flink
4 1 (4.35%) GIS
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) QGIS
4 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Gradle
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JMeter
3 1 (4.35%) LoadRunner
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 7 (30.43%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Backend Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Security Technical Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) GIS Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Kafka
2 6 (26.09%) RESTful
3 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (21.74%) OpenTracing
3 5 (21.74%) Spring
3 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Structures
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) Microservices
2 7 (30.43%) SDLC
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (21.74%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
6 3 (13.04%) ETL
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) Scala
3 6 (26.09%) Kotlin
3 6 (26.09%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Elixir
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
3 1 (4.35%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Zipkin
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle