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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 49 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 619 738 1,241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.88% 4.13% 4.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.52% 10.95% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 563 948
10th Percentile £450 £463 £463
25th Percentile £513 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £650 £636
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +2.16% +1.80%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £738
90th Percentile £849 £838 £828
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £47.25 £49.23 £62.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.94 £65.88
Median hourly rate £53.50 £56.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -29.69% +3.65%
75th Percentile £58.25 £60.81 £88.44
90th Percentile £76.45 £64.53 £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 5,375 6,737 10,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.39% 37.69% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,733 4,969 7,727
10th Percentile £356 £337 £375
25th Percentile £440 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 76 92
10th Percentile £22.27 £17.78 £19.04
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £23.44
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -32.90% +10.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £39.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £61.25 £87.84
England median hourly rate £26.45 £20.99 £30.25
% change year-on-year +26.04% -30.63% +44.05%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 69 £600 +2.13% 47
East London - 4 £625 - 10
South London -2 3 £473 -5.50% 7
West London -8 2 £563 +15.38% 17
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 68 (10.99%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (6.79%) Apache
3 23 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 20 (3.23%) Confluence
5 4 (0.65%) CMS
6 3 (0.48%) nginx
6 3 (0.48%) SAS
6 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) 1Password
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Shopify
2 4 (0.65%) Unica
3 2 (0.32%) assyst
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.32%) 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
1 444 (71.73%) AWS
2 363 (58.64%) Azure
3 66 (10.66%) dbt
4 60 (9.69%) Snowflake
5 33 (5.33%) GitHub
6 29 (4.68%) SaaS
7 28 (4.52%) Dagster
7 28 (4.52%) Power Platform
8 25 (4.04%) PaaS
9 24 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (3.72%) IaaS
11 22 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (3.23%) Serverless
13 19 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.91%) Entra ID
14 18 (2.91%) OpenShift
15 17 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.49%) Firewall
2 24 (3.88%) Network Security
3 20 (3.23%) DNS
3 20 (3.23%) VPN
4 14 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.94%) DHCP
6 6 (0.97%) HTTP
7 5 (0.81%) Internet
7 5 (0.81%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.65%) Modbus
8 4 (0.65%) MQTT
8 4 (0.65%) SMTP
8 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.65%) VLAN
9 3 (0.48%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.48%) Wireless
10 2 (0.32%) DSL
10 2 (0.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.79%) BigQuery
2 66 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (10.02%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (9.37%) Data Lake
5 57 (9.21%) Amazon Athena
6 53 (8.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 53 (8.56%) Dremio
7 43 (6.95%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (4.52%) Apache Ignite
9 27 (4.36%) Tableau
10 26 (4.20%) Power BI
11 25 (4.04%) Looker
12 19 (3.07%) Big Data
12 19 (3.07%) NoSQL
13 15 (2.42%) Metadata
14 14 (2.26%) Hadoop
15 12 (1.94%) MongoDB
16 11 (1.78%) MySQL
16 11 (1.78%) Relational Database
16 11 (1.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (10.18%) Jenkins
2 41 (6.62%) GitLab
3 32 (5.17%) Git
4 29 (4.68%) JIRA
5 8 (1.29%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.97%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.97%) MLflow
8 5 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.65%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.65%) JUnit
9 4 (0.65%) Maven
9 4 (0.65%) MSI
10 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.48%) ERwin
10 3 (0.48%) Gradle
10 3 (0.48%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.48%) JMeter
10 3 (0.48%) Mockito
10 3 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 205 (33.12%) Finance
2 140 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 109 (17.61%) Banking
4 107 (17.29%) Front Office
5 61 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.85%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.39%) Marketing
7 21 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.23%) Retail
9 9 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.97%) 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 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (22.13%) Architect
2 130 (21.00%) Developer
3 102 (16.48%) Software Engineer
4 77 (12.44%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 69 (11.15%) Senior
6 51 (8.24%) Data Engineer
7 49 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (7.11%) GCP Engineer
8 44 (7.11%) Python Engineer
9 43 (6.95%) AWS Software Engineer
9 43 (6.95%) React Developer
10 36 (5.82%) Lead
11 33 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (5.17%) Data Architect
13 30 (4.85%) Analyst
14 29 (4.68%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (4.68%) Python Developer
15 27 (4.36%) Consultant
15 27 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (15.35%) React
2 67 (10.82%) Node.js
3 63 (10.18%) Redux
4 57 (9.21%) Pandas
5 54 (8.72%) NumPy
6 53 (8.56%) SciPy
7 45 (7.27%) AngularJS
8 42 (6.79%) Vue
9 33 (5.33%) PySpark
10 31 (5.01%) gRPC
11 29 (4.68%) Protocol Buffers
12 28 (4.52%) Kafka
13 23 (3.72%) Spring
14 20 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (2.91%) REST
16 15 (2.42%) RESTful
17 12 (1.94%) .NET
18 11 (1.78%) Spring Boot
19 10 (1.62%) PyTorch
20 9 (1.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 98 (15.83%) Fixed Income
2 41 (6.62%) Equities
3 38 (6.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (5.82%) Hedge funds
5 29 (4.68%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.91%) Derivative
8 18 (2.91%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.29%) IoT
12 8 (1.29%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.27%) Linux
2 29 (4.68%) Windows
3 12 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.13%) Rocky
5 7 (1.13%) Unix
6 3 (0.48%) Solaris
7 2 (0.32%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) CentOS
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (30.69%) Agile
2 162 (26.17%) DevOps
3 151 (24.39%) Software Engineering
4 135 (21.81%) CI/CD
5 112 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (17.29%) Asset Management
7 96 (15.51%) Analytics
8 90 (14.54%) Fintech
9 87 (14.05%) Investment Management
10 85 (13.73%) Migration
11 80 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 79 (12.76%) Containerisation
13 73 (11.79%) ETL
14 67 (10.82%) Data Modelling
15 64 (10.34%) Data Engineering
16 62 (10.02%) Artificial Intelligence
17 59 (9.53%) Data Pipeline
18 56 (9.05%) Machine Learning
19 54 (8.72%) Cloud Security
20 50 (8.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 300 (48.47%) Python
2 135 (21.81%) Java
3 119 (19.22%) JavaScript
4 101 (16.32%) TypeScript
5 100 (16.16%) SQL
6 38 (6.14%) Bash
7 36 (5.82%) PowerShell
8 30 (4.85%) Go
9 14 (2.26%) Scala
10 11 (1.78%) Bicep
11 9 (1.45%) C
11 9 (1.45%) C#
11 9 (1.45%) C++
12 7 (1.13%) R
12 7 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.97%) Perl
14 5 (0.81%) Ruby
14 5 (0.81%) Rust
15 4 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 60 (9.69%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.95%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.30%) Degree
4 23 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.91%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.91%) CISSP
7 14 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.78%) CISM
9 10 (1.62%) CEH
9 10 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.97%) OSCP
13 5 (0.81%) CCNA
13 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.14%) GDPR
2 36 (5.82%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.52%) NIST
4 27 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (4.20%) QA
6 15 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.62%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.97%) GRC
10 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.48%) NCSC
13 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.16%) PMO
14 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (15.51%) Docker
2 22 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.65%) Lustre
5 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.48%) 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 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 113 (18.26%) Terraform
3 65 (10.50%) Ansible
4 21 (3.39%) Grafana
5 16 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.10%) Puppet
7 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.97%) Nagios
10 5 (0.81%) 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 (0.48%) Packer
12 3 (0.48%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 201 (32.47%) Google
2 55 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.36%) Oracle
4 25 (4.04%) Databricks
5 22 (3.55%) Splunk
6 17 (2.75%) IBM
7 16 (2.58%) VMware
8 12 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.78%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.29%) Adobe
11 8 (1.29%) Informatica
11 8 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.29%) SAP
12 5 (0.81%) Cisco
12 5 (0.81%) New Relic
12 5 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.81%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.65%) Talend