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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 62 96
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GCP 30 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.89% 0.88% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.55% 2.37% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 3
10th Percentile £417 £272 £340
25th Percentile £450 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £505 £590 £569
90th Percentile £580 £626 £610
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £400
% change year-on-year - +15.63% -38.46%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 239 295 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.93% 37.01% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 174 311
10th Percentile £407 £169 £243
25th Percentile £450 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -7.00%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £524
90th Percentile £581 £638 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 1
Median hourly rate - £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.09 £18.69 £43.75
% change year-on-year -19.25% -57.29% +146.90%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 August 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
2 18 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.00%) Serverless
3 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.67%) Akamai
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.33%) Collibra
5 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.33%) npm
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) Star Schema
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.67%) Looker
4 2 (6.67%) Metadata
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) PowerCenter
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) ER Studio
2 5 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Liquibase
4 2 (6.67%) git-flow
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Banking
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Data Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Data Modeller
5 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Modeller
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) GCP Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) RESTful
2 6 (20.00%) Kafka
2 6 (20.00%) Spring
2 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (10.00%) React
3 3 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.67%) PySpark
4 2 (6.67%) SOAP
5 1 (3.33%) CSS
5 1 (3.33%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.33%) HTML
5 1 (3.33%) Jest
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) Pandas
5 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (10.00%) Legacy Code
6 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) Agile
2 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (36.67%) Microservices
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Data Modelling
6 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 5 (16.67%) API Development
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
9 4 (13.33%) API Design
9 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Java
2 12 (40.00%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.00%) Go
5 3 (10.00%) Perl
6 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CEH
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) GCFA
3 1 (3.33%) GCIH
3 1 (3.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Grafana
3 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Google
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) F5
3 3 (10.00%) Informatica
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) Teradata
5 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Confluent
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.33%) TSYS
5 1 (3.33%) VMware