GCP Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring GCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 70 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.23% 0.98% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 3.75% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
10th Percentile £342 £415 £340
25th Percentile £370 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £610
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -18.03% +1.67%
75th Percentile £652 £581 £684
90th Percentile £695 £608 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 244 240 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 33.42% 26.09% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 159 249
10th Percentile £304 £260 £313
25th Percentile £389 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £578 £590 £638
90th Percentile £650 £775 £715
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 15
10th Percentile £18.13 £66.25 £25.35
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% +15.79%
75th Percentile - - £54.38
90th Percentile £35.25 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £34.90
% change year-on-year -73.04% +100.59% +58.63%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Bristol

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Bristol

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) npm
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Looker
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Electronics
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) Express.js
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) Next.js
4 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (11.11%) Jest
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) API Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Release Automation
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) TypeScript
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) logstash
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP