GCP Contracts in Central London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -26
Contract jobs citing GCP 62 131 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.53% 3.40% 3.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.48% 8.83% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 102 122
10th Percentile £455 £463 £482
25th Percentile £513 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £745 £747 £725
90th Percentile £858 £906 £813
London median daily rate £650 £636 £625
% change year-on-year +2.16% +1.80% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 £81.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.21% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.25 £80.00 £77.18
% change year-on-year -29.69% +3.65% +12.90%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 957 1,483 1,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.08% 38.47% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 1,018 1,594
10th Percentile £350 £313 £389
25th Percentile £430 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £680
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.48 -
25th Percentile £18.93 £27.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £52.60 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%

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 27 April 2024.

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
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 27 April 2024. 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 -6 59 £600 -4.00% 19
West End of London +1 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 2 (3.23%) Apache
1 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) Azure
2 33 (53.23%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) GitHub
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.84%) dbt
4 3 (4.84%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.84%) Vertex AI
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.23%) Serverless
5 2 (3.23%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) DHCP
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (1.61%) LAN
2 1 (1.61%) MPLS
2 1 (1.61%) Multicast
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.61%) VLAN
2 1 (1.61%) WAN
2 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) BigQuery
2 7 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.06%) MySQL
4 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.23%) Looker
6 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.23%) Parquet
6 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) Power BI
6 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.23%) Redis
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.23%) Tableau
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.61%) Big Data
7 1 (1.61%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
1 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) GitLab
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) Subversion
4 1 (1.61%) AppScan
4 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.61%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.61%) Darcs
4 1 (1.61%) Gradle
4 1 (1.61%) Maven
4 1 (1.61%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.61%) Mockito
4 1 (1.61%) Selenium
4 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.61%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Retail
5 2 (3.23%) Front Office
5 2 (3.23%) Marketing
5 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Back Office
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Developer
2 10 (16.13%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) Architect
4 8 (12.90%) Consultant
5 6 (9.68%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Security Consultant
6 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) GCP Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Information Security Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.23%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) Spring
2 4 (6.45%) Node.js
2 4 (6.45%) React
2 4 (6.45%) REST
2 4 (6.45%) SAML
2 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.84%) CSS
3 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.84%) HTML
3 3 (4.84%) Kafka
3 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 2 (3.23%) .NET
4 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Avro
4 2 (3.23%) GWT
4 2 (3.23%) JAX-RS
4 2 (3.23%) JSON
4 2 (3.23%) Middleware
4 2 (3.23%) Restlet
4 2 (3.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.23%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.61%) CBDC
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Genomics
4 1 (1.61%) IVR
4 1 (1.61%) Life Science
4 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.61%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Agile
2 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
3 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
4 9 (14.52%) DevOps
5 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (12.90%) Migration
6 7 (11.29%) Analytics
6 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
6 7 (11.29%) Scrum
6 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
7 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
7 6 (9.68%) ETL
8 5 (8.06%) Cloud Security
8 5 (8.06%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (8.06%) Machine Learning
9 4 (6.45%) Architectural Design
9 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (6.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) Java
3 9 (14.52%) SQL
4 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.06%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) C#
6 3 (4.84%) C++
6 3 (4.84%) Go
6 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.23%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.23%) R
7 2 (3.23%) Scala
7 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.61%) C
8 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.84%) CISM
3 3 (4.84%) CISSP
3 3 (4.84%) CRISC
4 2 (3.23%) SANS
4 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) NIST
2 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) ISO 31000
2 3 (4.84%) NIST 800
2 3 (4.84%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Terraform
2 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.45%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.84%) Puppet
4 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.23%) Graylog
5 2 (3.23%) Nagios
6 1 (1.61%) Argo
6 1 (1.61%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.61%) Kibana
6 1 (1.61%) logstash
6 1 (1.61%) Nessus
6 1 (1.61%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 30 (48.39%) Google
2 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle
4 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.84%) Splunk
5 2 (3.23%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (3.23%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.23%) Databricks
5 2 (3.23%) IBM
5 2 (3.23%) Okta
5 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) Brio
6 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Genesys
6 1 (1.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.61%) Symantec
6 1 (1.61%) Varonis
6 1 (1.61%) Veracode
6 1 (1.61%) VMware