GCP Contract Job Trends in Devon

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South West > Devon

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.91% - 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.09% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £494 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £475
75th Percentile £538 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 74 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 21.02% 33.64% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 53 58
10th Percentile £220 £168 £281
25th Percentile £311 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £525 £664 £675
90th Percentile £539 £685 £704
South West median daily rate £475 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.83 -
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £37.28
% change year-on-year -73.04% +87.79% +86.38%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Devon

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Devon region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Plymouth - 3 £525 - 1
GCP
South West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Encryption
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) ESRI
2 1 (33.33%) Rapid7