GCP Developer Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Google Cloud Platform Developer
Essex > Basildon

The median Google Cloud Platform Developer daily rate in Basildon is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 2.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £560 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - -
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £570 £511 £543
% change year-on-year +11.55% -5.81% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Basildon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Basildon with a recognized job title 40 20 48
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £350 £315 £440
25th Percentile £500 £321 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £406 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.69% -29.35% +13.86%
75th Percentile £600 £486 £600
90th Percentile - £488 £660
Essex median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 30
10th Percentile £12.55 £32.00 £35.65
25th Percentile £46.25 £35.00 £53.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -44.83% +15.54%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £48.00 -
Essex median hourly rate £20.51 £26.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.87% -52.27% +27.91%

GCP Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, GCP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Basildon region featuring GCP Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) TDD

GCP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Google