GCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 115 112
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -52
Contract jobs citing GCP 21 36 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.78% 1.23% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 4.27% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 43
10th Percentile £363 £340 £453
25th Percentile £413 £356 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -4.44% +18.42%
75th Percentile £581 £679 £666
90th Percentile £600 £700 £738
South East median daily rate £463 £550 £608
% change year-on-year -15.91% -9.47% +15.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.40
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £18.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +89.19% -63.37% +102.00%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 755 844 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.09% 28.74% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 615 842
10th Percentile £275 £300 £183
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 21
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.49 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.23 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.59% +43.95% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £22.36 £24.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -8.74% +16.39% -2.21%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire -31 14 £460 -16.36% 7
Oxfordshire +7 5 £425 - 3
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £563 - 7
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.76%) Google App Engine
4 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) LAN
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) DB2
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Appium
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) MSTest
2 1 (4.76%) NUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.76%) Spinnaker
2 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) DBA
1 3 (14.29%) Developer
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
3 1 (4.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (4.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Data Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) GWT
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) Restlet
1 2 (9.52%) Spring
1 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (4.76%) CSS3
2 1 (4.76%) gRPC
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5
2 1 (4.76%) JAX-RS
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Life Science
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (33.33%) Time Management
3 7 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (14.29%) Database Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) TDD
6 1 (4.76%) API Development
6 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CCNA
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Istio
2 7 (33.33%) Rancher
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) VMware