GCP Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 48 48 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 611 753 1,224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.87% 4.22% 4.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.50% 11.17% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 574 933
10th Percentile £450 £463 £464
25th Percentile £513 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £725 £780 £738
90th Percentile £850 £875 £833
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £46.25 £49.05 £62.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 £65.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -31.25% +3.65%
75th Percentile £55.63 £58.75 £88.44
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.70 £91.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the London 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
Central London +14 71 £600 +2.56% 71
East London - 4 £625 - 12
South London +3 3 £473 -5.50% 4
West London -9 2 £563 +15.38% 23
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 69 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (6.87%) Apache
3 24 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 20 (3.27%) Confluence
5 4 (0.65%) CMS
6 3 (0.49%) nginx
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
6 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.33%) Luigi
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) 1Password
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Shopify
2 3 (0.49%) Unica
3 2 (0.33%) assyst
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.33%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 440 (72.01%) AWS
2 359 (58.76%) Azure
3 65 (10.64%) dbt
4 57 (9.33%) Snowflake
5 34 (5.56%) GitHub
6 30 (4.91%) SaaS
7 27 (4.42%) Dagster
7 27 (4.42%) Power Platform
8 26 (4.26%) PaaS
9 24 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (3.93%) IaaS
10 22 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (3.27%) Serverless
12 19 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (3.11%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.95%) OpenShift
14 17 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.73%) Firewall
2 24 (3.93%) Network Security
3 21 (3.44%) VPN
4 20 (3.27%) DNS
5 14 (2.29%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.96%) DHCP
7 6 (0.98%) HTTP
8 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.65%) Internet
9 4 (0.65%) Modbus
9 4 (0.65%) MQTT
9 4 (0.65%) SMTP
9 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.65%) VLAN
10 3 (0.49%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.49%) Wireless
11 2 (0.33%) BGP
11 2 (0.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.29%) BigQuery
2 66 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (9.66%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (9.33%) Amazon Athena
5 55 (9.00%) Data Lake
6 53 (8.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 53 (8.67%) Dremio
7 44 (7.20%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (4.58%) Apache Ignite
9 27 (4.42%) Tableau
10 25 (4.09%) Power BI
11 23 (3.76%) Looker
12 21 (3.44%) NoSQL
13 20 (3.27%) Big Data
14 15 (2.45%) Hadoop
15 14 (2.29%) Metadata
16 13 (2.13%) MongoDB
17 11 (1.80%) MySQL
17 11 (1.80%) Relational Database
18 10 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 65 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 42 (6.87%) GitLab
3 32 (5.24%) Git
4 29 (4.75%) JIRA
5 8 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.15%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.98%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.98%) MLflow
8 5 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.65%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.65%) JUnit
9 4 (0.65%) Maven
9 4 (0.65%) MSI
10 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.49%) ERwin
10 3 (0.49%) Gradle
10 3 (0.49%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.49%) JMeter
10 3 (0.49%) Mockito
10 3 (0.49%) TestNG
General
1 206 (33.72%) Finance
2 138 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 108 (17.68%) Banking
4 107 (17.51%) Front Office
5 61 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.91%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.27%) Marketing
8 20 (3.27%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.27%) Retail
9 9 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.82%) Advertising
11 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.65%) Legal
11 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (22.42%) Architect
2 133 (21.77%) Developer
3 103 (16.86%) Software Engineer
4 78 (12.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 68 (11.13%) Senior
6 50 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
7 48 (7.86%) Data Engineer
8 44 (7.20%) AWS Software Engineer
8 44 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (6.87%) Python Engineer
10 41 (6.71%) React Developer
11 40 (6.55%) GCP Engineer
12 35 (5.73%) Lead
13 34 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (5.24%) Data Architect
15 31 (5.07%) Python Developer
16 29 (4.75%) Analyst
17 28 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
18 27 (4.42%) AWS Developer
18 27 (4.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (16.20%) React
2 68 (11.13%) Node.js
3 63 (10.31%) Redux
4 57 (9.33%) Pandas
5 54 (8.84%) NumPy
6 53 (8.67%) SciPy
7 50 (8.18%) AngularJS
8 45 (7.36%) Vue
9 33 (5.40%) gRPC
10 32 (5.24%) PySpark
11 29 (4.75%) Kafka
11 29 (4.75%) Protocol Buffers
12 25 (4.09%) Spring
13 21 (3.44%) REST
14 20 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (2.45%) RESTful
16 13 (2.13%) Spring Boot
17 12 (1.96%) .NET
18 11 (1.80%) SOAP
19 10 (1.64%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 99 (16.20%) Fixed Income
2 44 (7.20%) Equities
3 41 (6.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 38 (6.22%) Hedge funds
5 32 (5.24%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.95%) Derivative
9 17 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.62%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.31%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.31%) IoT
14 8 (1.31%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (7.20%) Linux
2 29 (4.75%) Windows
3 12 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.15%) Rocky
6 6 (0.98%) Unix
7 3 (0.49%) Solaris
8 2 (0.33%) Android
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.33%) CentOS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (31.42%) Agile
2 161 (26.35%) DevOps
3 153 (25.04%) Software Engineering
4 139 (22.75%) CI/CD
5 109 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (17.51%) Asset Management
7 95 (15.55%) Analytics
8 90 (14.73%) Fintech
9 87 (14.24%) Investment Management
10 84 (13.75%) Migration
11 79 (12.93%) Containerisation
11 79 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 70 (11.46%) ETL
13 65 (10.64%) Data Modelling
14 63 (10.31%) Data Engineering
15 61 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
16 56 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
16 56 (9.17%) Machine Learning
17 51 (8.35%) Microservices
18 50 (8.18%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 298 (48.77%) Python
2 135 (22.09%) Java
3 120 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 102 (16.69%) TypeScript
5 98 (16.04%) SQL
6 38 (6.22%) Bash
7 35 (5.73%) PowerShell
8 31 (5.07%) Go
9 18 (2.95%) Scala
10 12 (1.96%) Bicep
10 12 (1.96%) C#
11 8 (1.31%) C
11 8 (1.31%) C++
12 7 (1.15%) R
12 7 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.98%) Perl
13 6 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.82%) Ruby
14 5 (0.82%) Rust
15 4 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 60 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 43 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.22%) Degree
4 22 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 22 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.95%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.95%) CISSP
6 14 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.80%) CISM
8 10 (1.64%) CEH
8 10 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.98%) OSCP
12 5 (0.82%) CCNA
12 5 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.22%) GDPR
2 35 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.58%) NIST
4 27 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (4.26%) QA
6 15 (2.45%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.64%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.98%) GRC
9 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.49%) NCSC
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.16%) PMO
13 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (16.04%) Docker
2 23 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.65%) Lustre
5 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.16%) HDFS
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.16%) NFS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.16%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 136 (22.26%) Kubernetes
2 113 (18.49%) Terraform
3 65 (10.64%) Ansible
4 21 (3.44%) Grafana
5 16 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.13%) Puppet
7 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.98%) Nagios
10 5 (0.82%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.65%) Argo
11 4 (0.65%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.65%) Kibana
11 4 (0.65%) logstash
11 4 (0.65%) Podman
11 4 (0.65%) vRealize
12 3 (0.49%) Consul
12 3 (0.49%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 193 (31.59%) Google
2 55 (9.00%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.42%) Oracle
4 25 (4.09%) Databricks
5 22 (3.60%) Splunk
6 16 (2.62%) IBM
6 16 (2.62%) VMware
7 12 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.80%) CyberArk
9 9 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.31%) Adobe
10 8 (1.31%) Informatica
10 8 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.31%) SAP
11 5 (0.82%) Cisco
11 5 (0.82%) New Relic
11 5 (0.82%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.82%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.82%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.65%) Talend