GCP Contracts in the City of London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 66 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing GCP 69 60 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.93% 2.73% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.06% 7.01% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 100
10th Percentile £380 £378 £463
25th Percentile £488 £500 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £745 £745
90th Percentile £746 £858 £908
Central London median daily rate £600 £585 £625
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% +4.17%
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 - -
Central London median hourly rate £71.25 £48.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +46.91% -41.21% -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 856 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.37% 38.96% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 610 937
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
GCP
Central London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.90%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Luigi
2 2 (2.90%) SAS
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (63.77%) AWS
2 40 (57.97%) Azure
3 6 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.25%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.80%) GitHub
6 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.35%) IaaS
6 3 (4.35%) PaaS
6 3 (4.35%) SaaS
6 3 (4.35%) Serverless
7 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.90%) dbt
7 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.90%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Modbus
1 4 (5.80%) MQTT
2 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) Internet
2 2 (2.90%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.90%) VPN
3 1 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) BigQuery
2 7 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.25%) Looker
3 5 (7.25%) Power BI
3 5 (7.25%) Tableau
4 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.35%) Big Data
5 3 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.90%) Base SAS
6 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.90%) Metadata
6 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.45%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.25%) JIRA
3 4 (5.80%) GitLab
3 4 (5.80%) MSI
4 3 (4.35%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.90%) Git
5 2 (2.90%) Subversion
6 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.45%) Serena SBM
6 1 (1.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (39.13%) Finance
2 20 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 16 (23.19%) Banking
4 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.90%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Advertising
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Architect
2 9 (13.04%) Senior
3 8 (11.59%) Developer
3 8 (11.59%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Security Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Data Scientist
5 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Lead
5 4 (5.80%) Senior Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Integration Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.90%) Implementation Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Project Implementation Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) JSON
1 5 (7.25%) Kafka
2 4 (5.80%) Hugging Face
2 4 (5.80%) LangChain
2 4 (5.80%) REST
3 3 (4.35%) Spring
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Beam
4 2 (2.90%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.90%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (2.90%) LDAP
4 2 (2.90%) Node.js
4 2 (2.90%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (2.90%) Symfony
5 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.45%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.45%) JWT
5 1 (1.45%) ONNX
5 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) IoT
2 3 (4.35%) Hedge funds
2 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.90%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.90%) Clustering
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Equities
3 2 (2.90%) Insider Threat
3 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) CMDB
4 1 (1.45%) Derivative
4 1 (1.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Windows
3 3 (4.35%) Rocky
3 3 (4.35%) Unix
3 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.90%) Solaris
5 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) DevOps
2 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 11 (15.94%) Software Engineering
5 9 (13.04%) Agile
6 8 (11.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (11.59%) Data Modelling
6 8 (11.59%) Microservices
7 7 (10.14%) Data Engineering
7 7 (10.14%) Data Science
7 7 (10.14%) Data Security
7 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.14%) Machine Learning
7 7 (10.14%) Migration
8 6 (8.70%) Analytics
8 6 (8.70%) Cloud Security
8 6 (8.70%) Configuration Management
8 6 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) Python
2 18 (26.09%) SQL
3 15 (21.74%) Java
4 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.80%) Bash
5 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.90%) Bicep
6 2 (2.90%) C#
6 2 (2.90%) DAML
6 2 (2.90%) Go
6 2 (2.90%) Perl
6 2 (2.90%) PROC SQL
6 2 (2.90%) Scala
7 1 (1.45%) Ada
7 1 (1.45%) Groovy
7 1 (1.45%) R
7 1 (1.45%) Ruby
7 1 (1.45%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Degree
1 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) CISM
2 5 (7.25%) CISSP
2 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.35%) PMP
4 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) GDPR
1 6 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.70%) NIST
2 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.90%) QA
3 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.45%) PMO
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Lustre
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) NFS
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.45%) Veritas File System
4 1 (1.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.29%) Terraform
3 7 (10.14%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Consul
5 2 (2.90%) Control-M
5 2 (2.90%) Karpenter
5 2 (2.90%) Podman
5 2 (2.90%) QRadar
5 2 (2.90%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.45%) CASB
6 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.45%) Grafana
6 1 (1.45%) Istio
6 1 (1.45%) Kibana
6 1 (1.45%) logstash
6 1 (1.45%) Netcool
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Google
2 6 (8.70%) CyberArk
2 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.35%) Splunk
4 3 (4.35%) VMware
5 2 (2.90%) BMC
5 2 (2.90%) BT
5 2 (2.90%) Citrix
5 2 (2.90%) Databricks
5 2 (2.90%) IBM
5 2 (2.90%) Okta
5 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.90%) Qualys
5 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Serena