GCP Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 47 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +13
Contract jobs citing GCP 7 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.82% 0.82% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.68% 2.31% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £455 £744 -
25th Percentile £463 £811 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £943 £700
Median % change year-on-year -44.30% +34.64% +14.29%
75th Percentile £619 £967 £781
90th Percentile £690 £969 £793
South West median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 190 130 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 49.48% 35.71% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 81 125
10th Percentile £300 £450 £380
25th Percentile £446 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £688
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £31.53 - £19.10
25th Percentile £31.56 £30.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £34.59 £67.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.76% -10.00% -22.08%
75th Percentile £44.68 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £60.30 - £78.90
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

GCP job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Gloucestershire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Cheltenham +13 3 £588 -38.08% 23
Gloucester - 1 £725 - 20
GCP
South West

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Documentum
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Matillion
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) CircleCI
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IAM Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenID
2 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) SAML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) Application Security
2 1 (14.29%) Case Management
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Data Discovery
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (14.29%) CCSP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) PingFederate
2 2 (28.57%) Podman
2 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Ping Identity
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) OpenText
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat