GCP Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring GCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 75 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +34
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.39% 0.99% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.44% 5.88% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 8
10th Percentile £412 £429 £448
25th Percentile £447 £470 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £595
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +13.45% +19.00%
75th Percentile £588 £741 £650
90th Percentile £600 £788 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £590
% change year-on-year - -15.25% +7.27%

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 221 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.87% 16.76% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 157 192
10th Percentile £277 £356 £313
25th Percentile £418 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.73% +6.80%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
South East median daily rate £480 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 22
10th Percentile £19.00 - £15.24
25th Percentile £19.88 - £19.37
Median hourly rate £40.00 £17.69 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +126.12% -18.67% +13.52%
75th Percentile £67.81 - £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 - £74.50
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +29.43%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Hampshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Hampshire

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Basingstoke +7 10 £575 -14.81% 5
Fleet - 7 £447 - 2
Southampton - 2 £694 - 1
Farnborough - 2 £525 - 2
Portsmouth - 1 £384 - 6
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) IaaS
3 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
3 8 (34.78%) PaaS
4 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Dagster
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) DNS
3 10 (43.48%) DHCP
4 8 (34.78%) SMTP
4 8 (34.78%) VPN
5 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.35%) SSH
6 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Big Data
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (34.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Parquet
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Poetry
2 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) MLflow
3 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
3 1 (4.35%) Pylint
3 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Support Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) SIEM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) Flask
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) NumPy
1 1 (4.35%) Pandas
1 1 (4.35%) PySpark
1 1 (4.35%) pytest
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Clustering
1 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
1 8 (34.78%) PKI
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Linux
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (17.39%) Mac OS
4 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (8.70%) CentOS
6 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (34.78%) Machine Learning
2 8 (34.78%) Software Deployment
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Business Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
7 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) Bicep
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) CEH
3 2 (8.70%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.70%) RHCE
3 2 (8.70%) RHCSA
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) GDPR
2 6 (26.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
4 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
3 12 (52.17%) Docker
4 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
4 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
4 8 (34.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (34.78%) Terminal Services
4 8 (34.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (8.70%) KVM
6 1 (4.35%) UAG
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Ansible
2 10 (43.48%) Puppet
3 8 (34.78%) Nagios
3 8 (34.78%) vCenter Server
3 8 (34.78%) vMotion
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (17.39%) SCCM
5 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Argo
6 1 (4.35%) Grafana
6 1 (4.35%) Istio
6 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) VMware
2 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
3 12 (52.17%) Citrix
4 9 (39.13%) Google
5 8 (34.78%) HP
5 8 (34.78%) Symantec
6 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
7 1 (4.35%) Criteo
7 1 (4.35%) Databricks
7 1 (4.35%) NetIQ
7 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.35%) Zscaler