GCP Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.55% - 6.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.24% - 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £362 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile £368 - -
90th Percentile £369 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £368 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29 5 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 20.57% 16.13% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 10
10th Percentile £367 £404 £300
25th Percentile £368 £466 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £499 £554 £466
90th Percentile £534 £652 £505
Suffolk median daily rate £495 £275 £265
% change year-on-year +80.00% +3.77% -33.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £13.73 - -
25th Percentile £15.26 - -
Median hourly rate £16.20 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £16.20 - -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Ipswich

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
2 4 (80.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 4 (80.00%) RTCP
2 4 (80.00%) RTP
3 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Servlets
2 4 (80.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (60.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Conversational AI
2 3 (60.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Metaswitch
3 2 (40.00%) Google