GCP Contracts in the East of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 88 79
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 24 22 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.11% 1.15% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 7.61% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 34
10th Percentile £317 £332 £413
25th Percentile £354 £485 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -3.76% -11.25%
75th Percentile £650 £597 £650
90th Percentile £756 £675 £700
England median daily rate £575 £613 £620
% change year-on-year -6.12% -1.21% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - £70.09
Median hourly rate £103.00 £88.00 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.05% +25.40% -9.24%
75th Percentile £105.50 - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £51.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.45% -26.07% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 354 289 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.19% 15.10% 26.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 169 367
10th Percentile £200 £220 £186
25th Percentile £389 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 56 33
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £31.64 £21.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.94 £65.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Essex +12 10 £321 -43.37% 53
Cambridgeshire +20 7 £550 +10.00% 79
Hertfordshire +27 3 £650 +85.71% 82
Bedfordshire -2 2 £483 -12.27% 47
Norfolk -5 1 £500 -4.76% 15
Suffolk - 1 £751 - 24
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (20.83%) Apache
2 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (12.50%) Confluence
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (4.17%) CMS
5 1 (4.17%) Headless CMS
5 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 14 (58.33%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) dbt
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) Vertex AI
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Tableau
2 4 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (12.50%) Looker
3 3 (12.50%) Metadata
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data
4 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Automotive
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Gen AI Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Java Programmer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) PySpark
2 5 (20.83%) NumPy
2 5 (20.83%) Pandas
2 5 (20.83%) React
3 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
5 2 (8.33%) Matplotlib
5 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.33%) Seaborn
5 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
6 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (4.17%) JSR 170
6 1 (4.17%) Next.js
6 1 (4.17%) OSGi
6 1 (4.17%) REST
6 1 (4.17%) Spring
6 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) CentOS
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) Data Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (25.00%) Data Security
4 6 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) Data Science
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) SIEM
5 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 4 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 4 (16.67%) Bash
6 3 (12.50%) Perl
7 2 (8.33%) R
8 1 (4.17%) Bicep
8 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) CCIE
3 1 (4.17%) CCIE Security
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) GIAC
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
1 5 (20.83%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Google
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.50%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe
5 1 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Spotify
5 1 (4.17%) Thycotic
5 1 (4.17%) Vertica
5 1 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler