GCP Contracts in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 87 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 -17
Contract jobs citing GCP 20 47 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.05% 2.03% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.42% 5.41% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 39 41
10th Percentile £500 £463 £385
25th Percentile £538 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.17% +18.50%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £1,100
90th Percentile - £719 -
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 452 868 1,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.75% 37.43% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 613 888
10th Percentile £213 £300 £219
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +11.55%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.69 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +20.97%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile £29.35 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Birmingham +5 11 £600 -14.29% 10
Warwickshire +3 5 £675 +35.00% 3
Coventry +6 3 £575 +12.20% 3
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (15.00%) CMS
1 3 (15.00%) Drupal
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) Apigee
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (25.00%) Power BI
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (10.00%) Data Vault
5 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.00%) Big Data
6 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.00%) Impala
6 1 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) OLTP
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (5.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 3 (15.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (5.00%) Automotive
1 1 (5.00%) Banking
1 1 (5.00%) Finance
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Database Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL Server Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Informatica Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.00%) Flask
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ETL
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) CRM
4 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) E-Discovery
4 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (20.00%) Runbook
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Epics
5 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (15.00%) Software Assurance
5 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) HiveQL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Denodo
4 1 (5.00%) F5
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Talend