GCP Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 12 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 9.09% 3.45% 4.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.53% 8.70% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £510 - £514
25th Percentile £563 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -20.75% +6.00%
75th Percentile - - £778
90th Percentile - - £821
Central London median daily rate £613 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +16.76% -16.00% -2.91%

All Cloud Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17 23 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 38.64% 39.66% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 11
10th Percentile £417 £420 £425
25th Percentile £466 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +41.18%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £838
90th Percentile £788 - £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.59 - -
Median hourly rate £18.94 - -
75th Percentile £19.34 - -
90th Percentile £19.44 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the City of Westminster

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Westminster - 3 £650 - 1
Paddington -2 1 £475 -9.52%
GCP
Central London

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Fastify
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Loki
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) WebRTC
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (50.00%) SABSA
3 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) CASP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) CSSLP
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk