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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 65 79
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -29
Contract jobs citing GCP 62 131 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.56% 3.46% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.44% 8.98% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 103 112
10th Percentile £378 £471 £482
25th Percentile £500 £533 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £745 £753 £700
90th Percentile £858 £925 £800
London median daily rate £650 £630 £625
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% +6.38%
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 £55.00 £80.00 £77.18
% change year-on-year -31.25% +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 962 1,458 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.69% 38.55% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 992 1,578
10th Percentile £350 £313 £381
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
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 7 8 13
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -13.92%
75th Percentile £25.38 £88.30 £27.75
90th Percentile £36.30 - £48.30
London median hourly rate £25.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -51.43% +29.63% +8.00%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -13 59 £600 -7.69% 25
West End of London +3 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
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) AWS
1 34 (54.84%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) GitHub
3 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.84%) dbt
3 3 (4.84%) Vertex AI
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.23%) Serverless
4 2 (3.23%) Twilio
4 2 (3.23%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.61%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) CTI
1 3 (4.84%) VoIP
2 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) DHCP
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.61%) HTTP
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) MPLS
3 1 (1.61%) Multicast
3 1 (1.61%) Network Security
3 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.61%) SSH
3 1 (1.61%) VLAN
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.68%) BigQuery
2 6 (9.68%) MySQL
3 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.23%) Parquet
5 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.23%) Redis
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.61%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Git
1 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) GitLab
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Maven
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%) 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 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Retail
5 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Front Office
6 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Back Office
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Architect
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Consultant
4 8 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.45%) Security Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) GCP Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Information Security Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) SOX Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Spring
2 6 (9.68%) REST
3 5 (8.06%) React
3 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.45%) GWT
4 4 (6.45%) JAX-RS
4 4 (6.45%) Middleware
4 4 (6.45%) Node.js
4 4 (6.45%) RESTful
4 4 (6.45%) Restlet
4 4 (6.45%) SAML
5 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.84%) CSS
5 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.84%) HTML
5 3 (4.84%) Kafka
6 2 (3.23%) JSON Schema
6 2 (3.23%) PySpark
6 2 (3.23%) Svelte
6 2 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) IVR
1 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.23%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.23%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.61%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.61%) CBDC
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) Clustering
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Genomics
4 1 (1.61%) Life Science
4 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.61%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Linux
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Agile
2 12 (19.35%) DevOps
3 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
4 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
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%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
7 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.06%) ETL
8 5 (8.06%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (8.06%) Machine Learning
8 5 (8.06%) Scrum
8 5 (8.06%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.45%) Cloud Security
9 4 (6.45%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (6.45%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Java
2 14 (22.58%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) SQL
4 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.06%) Bash
6 4 (6.45%) C#
7 3 (4.84%) Go
7 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.23%) C++
8 2 (3.23%) Scala
8 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.61%) C
9 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.84%) CISM
4 3 (4.84%) CISSP
4 3 (4.84%) CRISC
4 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.23%) SANS
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.45%) NIST
3 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.84%) ISO 31000
3 3 (4.84%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) 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 5 (8.06%) Oracle
4 4 (6.45%) Genesys
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 3 (4.84%) Splunk
6 2 (3.23%) Avaya
6 2 (3.23%) Databricks
6 2 (3.23%) IBM
6 2 (3.23%) Okta
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.61%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.61%) F5
7 1 (1.61%) Informatica
7 1 (1.61%) Symantec
7 1 (1.61%) Varonis
7 1 (1.61%) Veracode
7 1 (1.61%) VMware