GCP Contracts in Berkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 87 105
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 -51
Contract jobs citing GCP 16 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.79% 1.78% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.69% 6.45% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 21
10th Percentile £384 £340 £440
25th Percentile £398 £350 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £515 £688 £713
90th Percentile £583 £700 £763
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £601
% change year-on-year - -8.52% +16.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.40
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £18.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +89.19% -63.37% +102.00%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 595 512 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.21% 27.66% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 372 533
10th Percentile £328 £391 £184
25th Percentile £438 £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £615 £639 £600
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 15
10th Percentile £20.50 £14.98 £18.15
25th Percentile £41.25 £19.25 £21.03
Median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +6.89%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.63 £63.27
90th Percentile £62.00 £79.19 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year +0.93% +9.26% -

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 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
Reading -9 12 £495 -18.85% 6
Bracknell -10 2 £375 +10.29%
Newbury - 2 £398 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 7 (43.75%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) DB2
3 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Appium
3 1 (6.25%) AppScan
3 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) MSTest
3 1 (6.25%) NUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) DBA
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) Regular Expression
2 2 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
3 9 (56.25%) Translating Business Requirements
4 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (43.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (43.75%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (43.75%) Time Management
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Database Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CSSLP
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SANS
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (43.75%) Istio
3 7 (43.75%) Rancher
4 3 (18.75%) Ansible
5 2 (12.50%) Kibana
5 2 (12.50%) logstash
5 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (12.50%) Puppet
6 1 (6.25%) Grafana
6 1 (6.25%) Graylog
6 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
6 1 (6.25%) Nagios
6 1 (6.25%) Nessus
6 1 (6.25%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Checkmarx
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Veracode