GCP Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring GCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 1.85% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30 26 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 27.78% 17.57% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 65
10th Percentile £205 £175 £304
25th Percentile £350 £175 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -35.71% +3.96%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £638
90th Percentile £550 £769 £673
South West median daily rate £475 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -10.12% -3.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -71.73%
75th Percentile - - £18.84
90th Percentile - - £22.22
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -73.04% +76.99% +97.75%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Dorset

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
Bournemouth - 2 £500 - 1
GCP
South West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Code Climate
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI