GCP Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 5.26% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £554 £500 -
% change year-on-year +10.75% - -

All Cloud Skills
Bedford

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 31.58% 38.46% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £99 £209 -
25th Percentile £184 £253 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £325 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +62.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £488 - £388
90th Percentile £578 - £395
Bedfordshire median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £100.00 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -11.29% +195.24%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

GCP job vacancy trend in Bedford

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI