GCP Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 60 77
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -22
Contract jobs citing GCP 59 124 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.71% 3.50% 3.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.87% 9.19% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 98 107
10th Percentile £370 £468 £481
25th Percentile £500 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £756 £754 £689
90th Percentile £866 £925 £798
Central London median daily rate £588 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +9.09%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -41.21% - -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 1,350 1,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 38.07% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 902 1,445
10th Percentile £363 £316 £400
25th Percentile £434 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £666 £700 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -23.48%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -12.14%

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 11 May 2024.

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
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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) AWS
1 31 (52.54%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) GitHub
3 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.08%) dbt
3 3 (5.08%) Vertex AI
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.39%) Serverless
4 2 (3.39%) Twilio
4 2 (3.39%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.69%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.69%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) CTI
1 3 (5.08%) VoIP
2 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) DHCP
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) Firewall
3 1 (1.69%) HTTP
3 1 (1.69%) LAN
3 1 (1.69%) MPLS
3 1 (1.69%) Multicast
3 1 (1.69%) Network Security
3 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.69%) SSH
3 1 (1.69%) VLAN
3 1 (1.69%) WAN
3 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) BigQuery
1 6 (10.17%) MySQL
1 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.39%) Redis
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) Big Data
5 1 (1.69%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.69%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.69%) Metadata
5 1 (1.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
1 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.08%) GitLab
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) Maven
3 2 (3.39%) Subversion
4 1 (1.69%) AppScan
4 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.69%) Darcs
4 1 (1.69%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.69%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.69%) Mockito
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.69%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Retail
5 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Front Office
6 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Back Office
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Games
7 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Developer
2 11 (18.64%) Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Security Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) GCP Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Information Security Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Lead
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (3.39%) Oracle Consultant
9 2 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) SOX Consultant
9 2 (3.39%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Spring
2 6 (10.17%) REST
3 5 (8.47%) React
3 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.78%) GWT
4 4 (6.78%) JAX-RS
4 4 (6.78%) Node.js
4 4 (6.78%) RESTful
4 4 (6.78%) Restlet
4 4 (6.78%) SAML
5 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.08%) CSS
5 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.08%) HTML
5 3 (5.08%) Middleware
6 2 (3.39%) .NET
6 2 (3.39%) Kafka
6 2 (3.39%) Svelte
6 2 (3.39%) Vue
6 2 (3.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) IVR
1 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.39%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) PKI
3 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Clustering
4 1 (1.69%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Genomics
4 1 (1.69%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
1 4 (6.78%) Windows
2 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.03%) Agile
2 12 (20.34%) DevOps
3 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
4 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (11.86%) Computer Science
5 7 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (11.86%) Migration
6 6 (10.17%) Analytics
6 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.47%) Machine Learning
7 5 (8.47%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (6.78%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (6.78%) Information Security
8 4 (6.78%) Microservices
8 4 (6.78%) Scrum
8 4 (6.78%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) Java
2 13 (22.03%) Python
3 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.17%) SQL
4 5 (8.47%) Bash
5 4 (6.78%) C#
6 3 (5.08%) Go
6 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.39%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) C
8 1 (1.69%) Rust
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.08%) CISM
4 3 (5.08%) CISSP
4 3 (5.08%) CRISC
4 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.39%) SANS
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.78%) NIST
3 3 (5.08%) ISO 31000
3 3 (5.08%) NIST 800
3 3 (5.08%) QA
4 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.39%) GDPR
4 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (15.25%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Terraform
2 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.78%) Ansible
4 3 (5.08%) Grafana
4 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.08%) Puppet
4 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.39%) Graylog
5 2 (3.39%) Nagios
6 1 (1.69%) Argo
6 1 (1.69%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.69%) Kibana
6 1 (1.69%) logstash
6 1 (1.69%) Nessus
6 1 (1.69%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 28 (47.46%) Google
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 4 (6.78%) Genesys
5 3 (5.08%) Cisco
5 3 (5.08%) Splunk
6 2 (3.39%) Avaya
6 2 (3.39%) IBM
6 2 (3.39%) Okta
6 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) Databricks
7 1 (1.69%) F5
7 1 (1.69%) Informatica
7 1 (1.69%) Symantec
7 1 (1.69%) Varonis
7 1 (1.69%) Veracode
7 1 (1.69%) VMware