GCP Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 44 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing GCP 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.90% 2.01% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 4.68% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £553 £484 £569
25th Percentile - £497 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £800
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -32.81% +30.61%
75th Percentile £650 £572 £850
90th Percentile £680 £581 -
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £595
% change year-on-year -1.55% -15.97% +8.18%

All Cloud Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 132 171 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 35.87% 42.96% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 126 119
10th Percentile £211 £256 £202
25th Percentile £344 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £564 £558 £631
90th Percentile £610 £634 £739
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £13.30 £18.73
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £13.75 £22.63 £22.25
90th Percentile - £23.30 £23.15
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -60.38% +72.73% +35.07%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

GCP job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Buckinghamshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Milton Keynes +4 7 £575 +6.98% 5
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Storybook
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) React
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Vitest
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
3 3 (42.86%) Secure Coding
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk