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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 68 66
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.73% 0.25% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.43% 0.93% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 17
10th Percentile £301 - £480
25th Percentile £369 £663 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £638
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £454 £688 £700
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £588 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +4.08%

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 185 214 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.03% 26.49% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 145 222
10th Percentile £250 £163 £205
25th Percentile £363 £306 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £448
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.03% -0.56%
75th Percentile £500 £515 £550
90th Percentile £549 £645 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile £14.69 - £13.16
25th Percentile £17.65 £14.00 £14.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £15.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.67% -23.43% +1.91%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £26.48
90th Percentile £21.87 £27.50 £30.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +13 16 £383 - 9
Leicestershire - 4 £475 - 4
Derbyshire - 2 £381 - 4
Nottinghamshire +4 1 £400 -40.74% 10
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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.70%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Luigi
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Anthos
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Google App Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
1 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Power Query
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Introscope
1 2 (8.70%) LoadRunner
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Identity Management Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Business Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) LDAP
2 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
2 8 (34.78%) OAuth
2 8 (34.78%) OpenID
2 8 (34.78%) SAML
2 8 (34.78%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 2 (8.70%) J2EE
4 2 (8.70%) Web Services
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
5 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) AIX
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) VMS
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
3 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (26.09%) RBAC
4 5 (21.74%) Biometrics
4 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps
4 5 (21.74%) Digital Identity
4 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Data Extraction
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) ETL
6 3 (13.04%) Microservices
6 3 (13.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (13.04%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) SDLC
6 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) C
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) R
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) GDPR
2 6 (26.09%) HIPAA
3 3 (13.04%) QA
4 2 (8.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (8.70%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) CA Wily
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Google
2 8 (34.78%) IBM
3 7 (30.43%) Ping Identity
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
5 2 (8.70%) Splunk
6 1 (4.35%) HP
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle