GCP Contracts in the East Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 40 66 66
Rank change year-on-year +26 0 +15
Contract jobs citing GCP 27 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.74% 0.23% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.74% 0.92% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 1 17
10th Percentile £319 - £452
25th Percentile £371 £663 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -39.26% +28.57% -20.75%
75th Percentile £440 £688 £700
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £575 £613 £623
% change year-on-year -6.12% -1.61% -0.40%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 212 217 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.40% 25.12% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 139 225
10th Percentile £308 £179 £202
25th Percentile £366 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £538
90th Percentile £541 £632 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 18
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.62 £13.11
25th Percentile £16.89 - £13.57
Median hourly rate £20.95 £14.00 £24.49
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -42.83% +24.79%
75th Percentile £21.39 £26.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.55 £27.50 £90.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +14 20 £401 - 18
Leicestershire - 4 £475 - 16
Derbyshire - 2 £381 - 29
Nottinghamshire +2 1 £400 -40.74% 26
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Luigi
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Anthos
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.70%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Power Query
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Introscope
1 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Identity Management Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Business Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.70%) GCP Architect
5 1 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) LDAP
2 12 (44.44%) Hibernate
2 12 (44.44%) OAuth
2 12 (44.44%) OpenID
2 12 (44.44%) SAML
2 12 (44.44%) Spring
3 4 (14.81%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) J2EE
4 1 (3.70%) Next.js
4 1 (3.70%) Web Services
4 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) AIX
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) VMS
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (51.85%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 10 (37.04%) RBAC
5 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (29.63%) DevSecOps
7 6 (22.22%) Agile
7 6 (22.22%) Biometrics
7 6 (22.22%) Digital Identity
8 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (18.52%) Scrum
9 4 (14.81%) Facial Recognition
9 4 (14.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 4 (14.81%) Project Management
9 4 (14.81%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
10 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 3 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) R
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) GDPR
2 10 (37.04%) HIPAA
3 4 (14.81%) QA
4 2 (7.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.41%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 12 (44.44%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (44.44%) IBM
3 11 (40.74%) Ping Identity
4 7 (25.93%) Google
5 2 (7.41%) VMware
6 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.70%) HP
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) Splunk