Google Compute Engine Contracts

Google Compute Engine
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Google Compute Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google Compute Engine over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 712 835
Rank change year-on-year +129 +123 -156
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 17 4 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.007% 0.032%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.018% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 9
10th Percentile - £635 £634
25th Percentile £400 £688 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £850 £675
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £534 £913 £763
90th Percentile £638 £920 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £650

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Compute Engine 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 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
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 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
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%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Compute Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Compute Engine.

Daily rate trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Compute Engine over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +133 17 £500 -41.18% 3
London +124 14 £500 -31.03% 3
Work from Home +128 3 £625 -26.47% 2
UK excluding London - 2 £625 -
North of England - 2 £625 -
Yorkshire - 2 £625 -

Google Compute Engine
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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (64.71%) Vertex AI
3 3 (17.65%) Google App Engine
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) CloudBees
4 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) Looker
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) GCP Architect
2 5 (29.41%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.88%) Express.js
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) Vue
1 1 (5.88%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (70.59%) Analytics
2 12 (70.59%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (64.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (64.71%) Generative AI
3 11 (64.71%) Resource Management
3 11 (64.71%) Security Monitoring
4 10 (58.82%) Computer Science
4 10 (58.82%) Data Science
4 10 (58.82%) Machine Learning
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) Data Management
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) Groovy
4 2 (11.76%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Google