GCP Contracts in Hertfordshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 42 66 69
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 -30
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.93% 0.84% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 9.33% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile - £326 £453
25th Percentile £625 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £744 - £644
90th Percentile £785 £535 £678
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £593
% change year-on-year - -15.61% +12.86%

All Cloud Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 79 75 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 24.61% 8.99% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 100
10th Percentile £396 £268 £169
25th Percentile £463 £413 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £614
90th Percentile £701 £763 £788
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 21
10th Percentile - £15.19 -
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.35 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.97 £18.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.61% -72.52% +167.35%
75th Percentile £31.64 £20.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £35.35 £22.33 -
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 Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Hertfordshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Hertfordshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Hertfordshire 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
Hatfield +4 1 £775 +55.00%
GCP
East of England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Matplotlib
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) Seaborn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Munging
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) LLM
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Reinforcement Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Spotify