GCP Contracts in Edinburgh

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 54 63 95
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -10
Contract jobs citing GCP 13 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.08% 1.10% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 2.96% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £440 £490 £570
25th Percentile £469 £550 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £638 £750
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% -15.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £775
90th Percentile - £702 £790
Scotland median daily rate £575 £475 £713
% change year-on-year +21.05% -33.33% +18.75%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) PowerCenter
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Games
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Environment Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Great Expectations
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) AIX
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Microservices
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) API Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CEH
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) GCFA
1 1 (7.69%) GCIH
1 1 (7.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Teradata
4 1 (7.69%) Confluent
4 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) StreamSets
4 1 (7.69%) TSYS