GCP Contracts in Central London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 59 73 58
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +15
Contract jobs citing GCP 71 63 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.56% 2.58% 3.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.27% 6.60% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 47 103
10th Percentile £394 £385 £464
25th Percentile £494 £500 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £723 £741
90th Percentile £744 £849 £906
London median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £47.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.94 £46.75 £81.25
Median hourly rate £71.25 £48.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.91% -41.21% -
75th Percentile £85.94 £50.25 £83.75
90th Percentile £94.38 - -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -3.64% -31.25% +3.65%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Central London 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
City of London +14 68 £600 +2.13% 46
City of Westminster - 2 £538 - 1
West End of London -2 1 £425 - 14
Southwark - 1 - -
GCP
London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Luigi
2 2 (2.82%) SAS
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 45 (63.38%) AWS
2 42 (59.15%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub
4 5 (7.04%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.23%) IaaS
5 3 (4.23%) PaaS
5 3 (4.23%) SaaS
5 3 (4.23%) Serverless
6 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.82%) dbt
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.82%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Modbus
1 4 (5.63%) MQTT
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) VPN
3 2 (2.82%) Internet
3 2 (2.82%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.41%) DNS
4 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) BigQuery
2 7 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.04%) Looker
3 5 (7.04%) Power BI
3 5 (7.04%) Tableau
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Big Data
5 3 (4.23%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.82%) Base SAS
6 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.82%) Metadata
6 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Flink
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.41%) Parquet
7 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.04%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) GitLab
3 4 (5.63%) MSI
4 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.82%) Git
5 2 (2.82%) Subversion
6 1 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.41%) Serena SBM
6 1 (1.41%) Snyk
6 1 (1.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (39.44%) Finance
2 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Banking
4 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.04%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.41%) Advertising
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Architect
2 8 (11.27%) Developer
2 8 (11.27%) Senior
2 8 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
3 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (7.04%) Security Architect
4 4 (5.63%) Data Scientist
4 4 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Lead
4 4 (5.63%) Senior Architect
5 3 (4.23%) Analyst
5 3 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Integration Architect
5 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Business Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Implementation Project Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Project Implementation Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) JSON
1 5 (7.04%) Kafka
2 4 (5.63%) Hugging Face
2 4 (5.63%) LangChain
2 4 (5.63%) REST
3 3 (4.23%) Spring
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Beam
4 2 (2.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (2.82%) LDAP
4 2 (2.82%) Node.js
4 2 (2.82%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (2.82%) Symfony
5 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.41%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.41%) JWT
5 1 (1.41%) ONNX
5 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.41%) React
5 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) IoT
2 3 (4.23%) Hedge funds
2 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.82%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.82%) Clustering
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.82%) Equities
3 2 (2.82%) Insider Threat
3 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.82%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.31%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Rocky
3 3 (4.23%) Unix
3 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.82%) Solaris
5 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) DevOps
2 18 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (23.94%) CI/CD
4 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
5 10 (14.08%) Agile
6 8 (11.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
6 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (11.27%) Microservices
6 8 (11.27%) Migration
7 7 (9.86%) Analytics
7 7 (9.86%) Data Engineering
7 7 (9.86%) Data Science
7 7 (9.86%) Data Security
7 7 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (9.86%) Machine Learning
8 6 (8.45%) Configuration Management
8 6 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) SQL
3 15 (21.13%) Java
4 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.04%) Bash
6 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) Bicep
7 2 (2.82%) C#
7 2 (2.82%) DAML
7 2 (2.82%) Go
7 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 2 (2.82%) PROC SQL
7 2 (2.82%) Scala
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.41%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) R
8 1 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (1.41%) SAS Macro
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) CISM
3 5 (7.04%) CISSP
3 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMP
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) GDPR
1 7 (9.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.45%) NIST
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.23%) QA
4 2 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.41%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) Lustre
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.41%) NFS
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.41%) Veritas File System
4 1 (1.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (22.54%) Kubernetes
1 16 (22.54%) Terraform
2 8 (11.27%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Consul
4 2 (2.82%) Control-M
4 2 (2.82%) Karpenter
4 2 (2.82%) Podman
4 2 (2.82%) QRadar
4 2 (2.82%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.41%) CASB
5 1 (1.41%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.41%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) Istio
5 1 (1.41%) logstash
5 1 (1.41%) Netcool
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 26 (36.62%) Google
2 6 (8.45%) CyberArk
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle
4 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.23%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) VMware
5 2 (2.82%) BMC
5 2 (2.82%) BT
5 2 (2.82%) Citrix
5 2 (2.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.82%) IBM
5 2 (2.82%) Okta
5 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.82%) Qualys
6 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco
6 1 (1.41%) EMC
6 1 (1.41%) SAP