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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 85 92
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 21 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.24% 1.41% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.89% 9.34% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 22
10th Percentile £316 £374 £478
25th Percentile £320 £487 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -15.61% +12.86%
75th Percentile £675 £569 £700
90th Percentile £761 £668 -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - £88.00 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year - +25.40% -9.24%
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

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 266 289 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.36% 15.14% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 167 344
10th Percentile £200 £214 £186
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £662 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 65 55
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%
75th Percentile £21.92 £21.37 £49.38
90th Percentile £37.46 £60.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 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 1 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
Essex +8 9 £320 -41.83% 8
Cambridgeshire +15 6 £550 +4.76% 32
Hertfordshire +24 3 £650 +30.00% 10
Suffolk - 3 £751 - 3
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 4 (19.05%) Apache
1 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (14.29%) dbt
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) Vertex AI
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Tableau
2 4 (19.05%) BigQuery
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Power BI
3 3 (14.29%) Looker
3 3 (14.29%) Metadata
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Agile Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Developer
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) PySpark
2 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) NumPy
2 5 (23.81%) Pandas
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) React
4 2 (9.52%) Matplotlib
4 2 (9.52%) PyTorch
4 2 (9.52%) scikit-learn
4 2 (9.52%) Seaborn
4 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
5 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.76%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (28.57%) Data Security
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
5 5 (23.81%) Data Science
5 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
6 4 (19.05%) Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
6 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (19.05%) ETL
6 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) Java
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (14.29%) Perl
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) R
6 1 (4.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
1 5 (23.81%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) logstash
3 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Google
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 2 (9.52%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.76%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.76%) Spotify
5 1 (4.76%) VMware