GCP Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 6 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.17% 0.20% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.90% 1.15% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £505 - £493
25th Percentile £513 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £671 £563 £619
90th Percentile £729 - £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £593
% change year-on-year - -15.61% +12.86%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 87 87 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 31.52% 17.58% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 93
10th Percentile £338 £210 £206
25th Percentile £425 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -8.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £525
90th Percentile £650 £563 £574
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 51 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £17.40 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £18.50
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Cambridgeshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Cambridgeshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Cambridgeshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridge - 5 £525 - 62
GCP
East of England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Workload Management
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Enrichment
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) SOAR
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) VMware