GCP Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring GCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +8
Contract jobs citing GCP 11 16 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.10% 3.66% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.58% 16.16% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile £505 £274 -
25th Percentile £513 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -29.41% -39.29%
75th Percentile £671 £438 £438
90th Percentile £729 £513 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £425 £533
% change year-on-year +29.41% -20.19% -18.08%

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 104 99 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.30% 22.65% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 57
10th Percentile £250 £286 £180
25th Percentile £409 £340 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £563 £518
90th Percentile £700 £602 £591
East of England median daily rate £505 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +20.24% -11.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year - +4.15% +4.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £31.25 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +91.72% -18.50% +29.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 25 September 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 25 September 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 -6 10 £525 +75.00% 8
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 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (36.36%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Task Automation
1 6 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Case Management
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Data Enrichment
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
3 4 (36.36%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) SOAR
3 4 (36.36%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (36.36%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) IFRS
1 1 (9.09%) QA
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) Splunk
4 3 (27.27%) IBM
4 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (9.09%) VMware