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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 51 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +37
Contract jobs citing GCP 78 80 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.29% 3.75% 4.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.09% 9.04% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 60 101
10th Percentile £381 £399 £475
25th Percentile £495 £463 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £586 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -9.81% +8.33%
75th Percentile £676 £693 £744
90th Percentile £751 £828 £925
Central London median daily rate £600 £580 £650
% change year-on-year +3.45% -10.77% +8.33%
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 £51.44 £48.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +6.06% -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 773 885 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.52% 41.49% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 617 930
10th Percentile £363 £363 £299
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 10
10th Percentile £24.02 - £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £12.75 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £27.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -60.00% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 - £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £40.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% -48.57% +26.51%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.85%) Luigi
2 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (2.56%) SAS
4 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (56.41%) AWS
2 43 (55.13%) Azure
3 8 (10.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (7.69%) GitHub
6 5 (6.41%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.41%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.13%) dbt
7 4 (5.13%) SaaS
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (3.85%) IaaS
8 3 (3.85%) PaaS
8 3 (3.85%) Serverless
9 2 (2.56%) Apigee
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.56%) Cloud9 IDE
9 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) DNS
1 2 (2.56%) Firewall
1 2 (2.56%) Internet
1 2 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.28%) Modbus
2 1 (1.28%) MQTT
2 1 (1.28%) Network Security
2 1 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.36%) BigQuery
2 10 (12.82%) Big Data
3 9 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.97%) Power BI
5 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.41%) Hadoop
5 5 (6.41%) Tableau
6 4 (5.13%) Looker
6 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.85%) Metadata
8 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.56%) Base SAS
8 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.56%) Parquet
9 1 (1.28%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.28%) MySQL
9 1 (1.28%) Redis
9 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.97%) GitLab
1 7 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.41%) JIRA
3 3 (3.85%) Gradle
3 3 (3.85%) Maven
4 2 (2.56%) Git
4 2 (2.56%) MLflow
4 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.28%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.28%) MSI
5 1 (1.28%) Postman
5 1 (1.28%) Selenium
5 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 27 (34.62%) Finance
2 24 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Banking
4 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.41%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.13%) Marketing
6 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.85%) Retail
8 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Advertising
9 1 (1.28%) Back Office
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Architect
2 14 (17.95%) Senior
3 12 (15.38%) Developer
4 11 (14.10%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Senior Architect
6 6 (7.69%) Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.41%) Security Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.13%) GCP Architect
8 4 (5.13%) GCP Data Architect
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.56%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.56%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) Kafka
1 5 (6.41%) Node.js
2 4 (5.13%) REST
2 4 (5.13%) Spring
3 3 (3.85%) JSON
4 2 (2.56%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.56%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (2.56%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.56%) LDAP
4 2 (2.56%) React
4 2 (2.56%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.56%) Symfony
4 2 (2.56%) XML
5 1 (1.28%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.28%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.28%) JWT
5 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.85%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.56%) Equities
4 2 (2.56%) IVR
4 2 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.28%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Rocky
2 3 (3.85%) Unix
2 3 (3.85%) Windows
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.77%) DevOps
2 21 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.51%) Agile
4 15 (19.23%) Cloud Security
4 15 (19.23%) Data Modelling
5 14 (17.95%) Data Engineering
5 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.38%) Analytics
6 12 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 12 (15.38%) Migration
7 11 (14.10%) Containerisation
7 11 (14.10%) Microservices
8 10 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (10.26%) Software Engineering
10 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.15%) Python
2 24 (30.77%) SQL
3 18 (23.08%) Java
4 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.41%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.13%) Bash
6 4 (5.13%) Scala
7 3 (3.85%) Bicep
8 2 (2.56%) C++
8 2 (2.56%) DAML
8 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.56%) Go
8 2 (2.56%) Perl
8 2 (2.56%) PROC SQL
8 2 (2.56%) R
9 1 (1.28%) Ada
9 1 (1.28%) C
9 1 (1.28%) Groovy
9 1 (1.28%) SAS Macro
9 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.97%) CISSP
2 7 (8.97%) Degree
2 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) CISM
4 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.85%) PMP
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) CEH
6 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.28%) OSCP
6 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) NIST
2 6 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.69%) GDPR
2 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.85%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.28%) Lustre
4 1 (1.28%) NFS
4 1 (1.28%) Veritas File System
4 1 (1.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (25.64%) Terraform
2 18 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.26%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) Consul
4 3 (3.85%) Istio
5 2 (2.56%) Argo
5 2 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) CASB
6 1 (1.28%) Control-M
6 1 (1.28%) Grafana
6 1 (1.28%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.28%) Kibana
6 1 (1.28%) logstash
6 1 (1.28%) Netcool
6 1 (1.28%) Podman
6 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.28%) QRadar
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (47.44%) Google
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.13%) CyberArk
3 4 (5.13%) Splunk
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
4 3 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (2.56%) Adobe
5 2 (2.56%) BT
5 2 (2.56%) Citrix
5 2 (2.56%) Okta
5 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.28%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.28%) Kony
6 1 (1.28%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.28%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow