GCP Contracts in Essex

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 11 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 11.25% 5.86% 4.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.62% 25.00% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 9
10th Percentile £315 £473 -
25th Percentile £317 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -41.83% +5.16% +16.22%
75th Percentile £478 £669 £530
90th Percentile £493 £675 £558
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £593
% change year-on-year - -15.61% +12.86%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate - £88.00 £70.18
% change year-on-year - +25.40% -9.24%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26 52 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 32.50% 23.42% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 44
10th Percentile £181 £270 £202
25th Percentile £243 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% -3.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £475 £553 £548
90th Percentile £495 £650 £621
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £64.00 - £20.03
25th Percentile £115.00 - £21.60
Median hourly rate £200.00 £88.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% +257.43% -8.75%
75th Percentile - - £26.78
90th Percentile - - £48.88
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Essex

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Essex

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Essex

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Essex

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Essex 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
Basildon +6 6 £318 -52.89% 33
Brentwood +6 1 £468 +24.67% 2
GCP
East of England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) dbt
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 3 (33.33%) Looker
2 3 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Automotive
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DBA
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) PySpark
2 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
2 4 (44.44%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Kafka
3 3 (33.33%) NumPy
3 3 (33.33%) Pandas
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Workflow
4 3 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
2 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace