GCP Contracts in Birmingham

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 39 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +18
Contract jobs citing GCP 11 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.11% 1.42% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.40% 5.19% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £380 £313 £463
25th Percentile £400 £388 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% -14.29% +57.75%
75th Percentile £538 £650 -
90th Percentile £658 £710 £730
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 172 212 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 27.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 162 252
10th Percentile £190 £250 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.05 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £18.49 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +125.96% +28.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile £60.63 £33.63 £24.47
90th Percentile - £55.00 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Birmingham

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Birmingham

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Birmingham

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Power Automate
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) PowerApps
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) DSL
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) Looker
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Junior
2 4 (36.36%) Junior Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Junior Solutions Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Advisor
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
1 1 (9.09%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) B2B
3 4 (36.36%) Data Extraction
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) ERP
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) Interface Catalogue
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CEH
2 1 (9.09%) CISA
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Alibaba
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk