GCP Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 -
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 5.29% 2.47% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.95% 14.29% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £543 £565 £923
25th Percentile - £578 £926
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £949
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -34.12% -
75th Percentile - £666 £968
90th Percentile £558 £675 £969
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £625 £943
% change year-on-year -12.00% -33.69% +25.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 41 14 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 24.12% 17.28% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 52
10th Percentile £511 £285 £482
25th Percentile £538 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.49% -5.21%
75th Percentile £613 £672 £638
90th Percentile £680 £681 £717
Gloucestershire median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £22.31 £35.17 £33.00
% change year-on-year -36.57% +6.58% -57.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

GCP job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 2 (22.22%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (88.89%) Containerisation
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Software Delivery
3 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) VMware