GCP Contracts in Cambridge

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 15 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.39% - 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.15% - 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £503 - £493
25th Percentile £506 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £556 - £619
90th Percentile £568 - £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 21 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.95% 10.82% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 43
10th Percentile £425 £225 £200
25th Percentile £478 £312 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.56% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £544
90th Percentile £605 £559 £574
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.82% -8.33% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £15.28 £19.99 -
25th Percentile £15.70 £27.28 -
Median hourly rate £16.90 £41.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.15% - -
75th Percentile £17.60 £57.28 -
90th Percentile £17.72 £65.66 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Cambridge

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (60.00%) Workload Management
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) VMware