GCP Contracts in Berkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 110 81
Rank change year-on-year +47 -29 +20
Contract jobs citing GCP 30 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.56% 0.71% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.58% 2.54% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 25
10th Percentile £460 £388 £340
25th Percentile £517 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £555 £688
90th Percentile - £588 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +24.32% -15.91% -9.47%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +33 14 £613 +23.74% 45
Bracknell +23 7 - - 4
Wokingham - 5 £500 - 1
Slough - 1 £650 - 39
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (86.67%) AWS
2 25 (83.33%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Miro
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) dbt
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) Network Security
2 6 (20.00%) BGP
2 6 (20.00%) MPLS
2 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (16.67%) VLAN
4 4 (13.33%) SSL
5 3 (10.00%) Firewall
5 3 (10.00%) NGFW
6 2 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (6.67%) VPN
7 1 (3.33%) 5G
7 1 (3.33%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (3.33%) DNS
7 1 (3.33%) IPFIX
7 1 (3.33%) LAN
7 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.33%) VoIP
7 1 (3.33%) VoLTE
7 1 (3.33%) VoWiFi
7 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Big Data
2 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) Tableau
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Robot Framework
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) DBeaver
4 1 (3.33%) ERwin
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 5 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Telecoms Tester
2 5 (16.67%) Tester
3 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (10.00%) DBA
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Security Advisor
5 1 (3.33%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) SAML
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) NumPy
2 2 (6.67%) Pandas
2 2 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) ADO
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.33%) Blazor
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) Jinja
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) MACH
3 1 (3.33%) Prophet
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.33%) N-Tier
6 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
6 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Migration
2 8 (26.67%) SIEM
3 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) Data Security
6 4 (13.33%) ETL
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (13.33%) Microservices
6 4 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (10.00%) Data Science
7 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) CISSP
2 5 (16.67%) CISM
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.00%) CCNP
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.67%) CCSP
5 2 (6.67%) CEH
5 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) SANS
5 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA
6 1 (3.33%) CCSK
6 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.33%) OSCP
6 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Ansible
2 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.67%) Terraform
5 1 (3.33%) CASB
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Google
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Darktrace
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) Rapid7