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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.14% 1.15% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.64% 4.88% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £280 £425
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -34.12% -33.59%
75th Percentile £556 - £438
90th Percentile £568 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £390 £425
% change year-on-year +41.03% -8.24% -33.59%

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 66 41 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 37.71% 23.56% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 33
10th Percentile £330 £225 £180
25th Percentile £431 £340 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £430 £488
90th Percentile £700 £495 £585
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.70
25th Percentile - - £27.67
Median hourly rate £17.80 - £38.86
75th Percentile - - £51.31
90th Percentile - - £58.02
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.00
% change year-on-year - +8.67% -3.23%

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

GCP
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
1 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (33.33%) Case Management
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Data Enrichment
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 3 (33.33%) SOAR
3 3 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (33.33%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) IFRS
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Google
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) IBM
3 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (33.33%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (11.11%) VMware