GCP Contracts in Glasgow

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 48 69
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.13% 2.59% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.08% 7.38% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 7
10th Percentile £400 £395 -
25th Percentile £413 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £412 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% +3.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £566 £513 £550
90th Percentile £613 £565 £650
Scotland median daily rate £469 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.88% -34.62%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 292 244 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.55% 35.16% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 181 206
10th Percentile £349 £200 £363
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -13.00% +5.15%
75th Percentile £557 £500 £584
90th Percentile £627 £594 £650
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.78 £19.71
25th Percentile - £26.69 £29.54
Median hourly rate £15.09 £35.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -57.79% -22.70% +110.23%
75th Percentile - £45.19 £59.20
90th Percentile - £50.33 £60.01
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £18.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.55% -67.50% +41.98%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Glasgow

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Glasgow

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Glasgow

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Gradle
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) Mockito
3 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 3 (33.33%) JPA
2 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (22.22%) Spring MVC
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
4 1 (11.11%) OpenID
4 1 (11.11%) SAML
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
4 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Facebook
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Workday