Google Cloud Anthos
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Anthos skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Anthos over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 688 821
Rank change year-on-year +102 +133 -154
Contract jobs citing Anthos 4 15 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.025% 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.029% 0.069% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 29
10th Percentile £468 £606 £550
25th Percentile £495 £663 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +15.38% +15.04%
75th Percentile £554 £775 £713
90th Percentile £597 £786 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Anthos is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Anthos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Anthos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Anthos in the UK

Anthos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Anthos in the UK

Anthos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Anthos over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Anthos in the UK

Anthos
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Anthos within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +116 4 £520 -30.67% 2
UK excluding London - 2 £520 -
North of England - 2 £520 -
Yorkshire - 2 £520 -
Work from Home +118 1 £520 -30.67% 1
London +82 1 £450 -40.00% 2

Anthos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Datadog
1 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Apigee
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Istio
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Kiali
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) New Relic
3 1 (25.00%) webMethods