GCP Contracts in Bedfordshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.89% 0.92% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 4.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £510 -
25th Percentile £454 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - -
75th Percentile £511 £575 -
90th Percentile - £590 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £103.00 £88.00 £70.18
% change year-on-year +17.05% +25.40% -9.24%

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 79 45 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 35.27% 20.64% 38.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 48
10th Percentile £217 £368 £181
25th Percentile £481 £434 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £516
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% +2.66% -
75th Percentile £600 £574 £600
90th Percentile £641 £581 £629
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £53.16 £40.58 -
25th Percentile £70.73 £56.44 -
Median hourly rate £100.00 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% - -
75th Percentile £102.75 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £104.40 - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.50 £16.30 £22.00
% change year-on-year +25.77% -25.91% +41.94%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Bedfordshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Bedfordshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. 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
Luton -10 1 - - 2
GCP
East of England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE Security
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Salt
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Vertica
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler