GCP Contracts in the South West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 134 113
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 -17
Contract jobs citing GCP 44 33 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.38% 0.93% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.51% 2.74% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 43
10th Percentile £300 £395 £432
25th Percentile £450 £531 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £615 £716 £641
90th Percentile £688 £751 £768
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 798 1,203 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.07% 33.94% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 969 861
10th Percentile £206 £300 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £719 £674
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 57 20
10th Percentile £12.53 £16.43 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.19 £19.92 £17.50
Median hourly rate £16.95 £52.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -67.72% +100.00% -41.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £56.85
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol +23 30 £488 -15.22% 29
Wiltshire +2 6 £650 - 2
Dorset - 4 - - 2
Gloucestershire -4 2 £500 -20.00% 16
Somerset 0 1 £550 -18.67%
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (18.18%) Confluence
2 4 (9.09%) Apache Solr
2 4 (9.09%) nginx
3 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.27%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) OCI
3 5 (11.36%) PaaS
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) Google Container Engine
6 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) VPN
2 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) HTTPS
2 4 (9.09%) IPsec
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.09%) Couchbase
2 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) JIRA
2 5 (11.36%) Spinnaker
3 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.82%) Maven
5 2 (4.55%) GitLab
5 2 (4.55%) Snyk
5 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Legal
3 2 (4.55%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Architect
3 9 (20.45%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.82%) IT Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Automation Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Office Automation Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) SAML
2 9 (20.45%) Spring
2 9 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 8 (18.18%) REST
4 7 (15.91%) GWT
4 7 (15.91%) JAX-RS
4 7 (15.91%) Restlet
5 4 (9.09%) JSON
5 4 (9.09%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (9.09%) ModSecurity
5 4 (9.09%) OpenID
5 4 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (9.09%) YAML
6 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.82%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (4.55%) .NET
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Public Cloud
2 9 (20.45%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.36%) Security Posture
4 4 (9.09%) Blockchain
4 4 (9.09%) Insider Threat
4 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) PKI
5 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) DevOps
2 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
3 11 (25.00%) Microservices
4 10 (22.73%) Agile
4 10 (22.73%) Migration
5 9 (20.45%) ArchiMate
6 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
9 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
9 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
9 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (11.36%) Information Security
9 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.36%) Project Delivery
9 5 (11.36%) TDD
9 5 (11.36%) Technical Architecture
10 4 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) Java
2 6 (13.64%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) PHP
3 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) CCSP
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 5 (11.36%) GDPR
2 5 (11.36%) HIPAA
2 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (11.36%) NIST
3 4 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (9.09%) NCSC
4 1 (2.27%) GRC
4 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
1 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (27.27%) Terraform
3 9 (20.45%) Ansible
4 8 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (11.36%) Istio
6 4 (9.09%) OPNET
7 2 (4.55%) Argo
7 2 (4.55%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) Google
2 7 (15.91%) VMware
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
4 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.55%) Salesforce