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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 617 703 1,285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.90% 3.89% 4.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.53% 10.40% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 545 973
10th Percentile £450 £475 £451
25th Percentile £513 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £738
90th Percentile £838 £823 £835
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £51.45 £44.52 £62.00
25th Percentile £51.75 £46.75 £64.50
Median hourly rate £55.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -31.25% +3.65%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £83.75
90th Percentile £59.95 £63.70 £92.50
England median hourly rate £53.50 £51.06 £70.09
% change year-on-year +4.79% -27.16% +7.83%

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 5,353 6,762 10,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.50% 37.46% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,740 4,947 7,969
10th Percentile £356 £325 £375
25th Percentile £438 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 77 92
10th Percentile £22.27 £17.47 £16.78
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £22.60
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -25.71% -
75th Percentile £54.50 £48.75 £69.63
90th Percentile £67.50 £61.00 £82.95
England median hourly rate £26.50 £21.00 £25.83
% change year-on-year +26.19% -18.69% +25.93%

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 3 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
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 3 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 +9 60 £513 -12.77% 42
East London +17 4 £625 +25.00% 3
South London 0 3 £473 -5.50% 6
West London -2 3 £500 - 15
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 63 (10.21%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (6.97%) Apache
3 25 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.76%) Confluence
5 4 (0.65%) CMS
5 4 (0.65%) nginx
5 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 2 (0.32%) Drupal
7 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) 1Password
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.13%) 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
Cloud Services
1 439 (71.15%) AWS
2 366 (59.32%) Azure
3 67 (10.86%) dbt
4 56 (9.08%) Snowflake
5 38 (6.16%) GitHub
6 32 (5.19%) Power Platform
7 31 (5.02%) Dagster
8 30 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
9 24 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (3.57%) SaaS
11 21 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (3.40%) PaaS
12 20 (3.24%) Serverless
13 19 (3.08%) OpenShift
14 17 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.76%) IaaS
15 15 (2.43%) Entra ID
16 14 (2.27%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.54%) Firewall
2 21 (3.40%) DNS
3 19 (3.08%) Network Security
4 16 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.43%) VPN
6 11 (1.78%) DHCP
7 6 (0.97%) HTTP
7 6 (0.97%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.97%) Modbus
7 6 (0.97%) MQTT
8 5 (0.81%) VLAN
9 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.49%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.49%) Internet
10 3 (0.49%) NGFW
10 3 (0.49%) SMTP
10 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.49%) Wireless
11 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (10.86%) BigQuery
2 61 (9.89%) Data Lake
3 56 (9.08%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (8.91%) Amazon Athena
5 53 (8.59%) Apache Iceberg
5 53 (8.59%) Dremio
6 39 (6.32%) Apache Arrow
7 31 (5.02%) Apache Ignite
7 31 (5.02%) Power BI
8 28 (4.54%) Looker
9 26 (4.21%) Tableau
10 24 (3.89%) Big Data
11 19 (3.08%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.76%) Metadata
13 15 (2.43%) Hadoop
13 15 (2.43%) MongoDB
13 15 (2.43%) MySQL
14 11 (1.78%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 47 (7.62%) GitLab
3 41 (6.65%) Git
4 26 (4.21%) JIRA
5 9 (1.46%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.13%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.13%) MLflow
7 7 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.97%) MSI
9 5 (0.81%) JUnit
10 4 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.65%) JMeter
10 4 (0.65%) Maven
10 4 (0.65%) Subversion
10 4 (0.65%) TestNG
11 3 (0.49%) Gradle
11 3 (0.49%) Postman
11 3 (0.49%) Selenium
11 3 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 213 (34.52%) Finance
2 131 (21.23%) Social Skills
3 103 (16.69%) Front Office
4 96 (15.56%) Banking
5 59 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.54%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.24%) Marketing
9 19 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 19 (3.08%) Retail
10 11 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.81%) Advertising
14 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.49%) Legal
15 3 (0.49%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 125 (20.26%) Architect
1 125 (20.26%) Developer
2 94 (15.24%) Software Engineer
3 69 (11.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 64 (10.37%) Senior
5 56 (9.08%) Data Engineer
6 55 (8.91%) Python Engineer
7 50 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 50 (8.10%) GCP Engineer
8 42 (6.81%) AWS Software Engineer
9 38 (6.16%) React Developer
10 37 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (5.35%) Lead
12 30 (4.86%) Python Developer
13 29 (4.70%) Analyst
13 29 (4.70%) Python Software Engineer
14 28 (4.54%) Consultant
14 28 (4.54%) Data Architect
15 27 (4.38%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.26%) React
2 63 (10.21%) Node.js
2 63 (10.21%) Pandas
3 58 (9.40%) Redux
4 57 (9.24%) NumPy
5 56 (9.08%) SciPy
6 42 (6.81%) AngularJS
7 40 (6.48%) PySpark
7 40 (6.48%) Vue
8 34 (5.51%) gRPC
9 32 (5.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 28 (4.54%) Kafka
11 23 (3.73%) Spring
12 19 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (3.08%) REST
13 14 (2.27%) .NET
14 13 (2.11%) RESTful
15 10 (1.62%) PyTorch
15 10 (1.62%) Spring Boot
16 9 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 90 (14.59%) Fixed Income
2 33 (5.35%) Hedge funds
3 29 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 26 (4.21%) Equities
5 24 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (3.73%) Public Cloud
7 20 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.92%) Derivative
8 18 (2.92%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.62%) IoT
13 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.46%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.97%) Clustering
15 6 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.10%) Linux
2 28 (4.54%) Windows
3 11 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.30%) Unix
5 7 (1.13%) Rocky
6 6 (0.97%) Solaris
7 3 (0.49%) CentOS
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (29.50%) Agile
2 181 (29.34%) DevOps
3 153 (24.80%) Software Engineering
4 149 (24.15%) CI/CD
5 112 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (16.86%) Asset Management
7 98 (15.88%) Analytics
8 87 (14.10%) Fintech
9 83 (13.45%) Investment Management
10 82 (13.29%) Migration
11 81 (13.13%) Containerisation
12 79 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (10.70%) Data Engineering
14 65 (10.53%) ETL
15 64 (10.37%) Data Modelling
16 63 (10.21%) Artificial Intelligence
17 60 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
18 55 (8.91%) Microservices
19 54 (8.75%) Machine Learning
20 53 (8.59%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 314 (50.89%) Python
2 150 (24.31%) Java
3 115 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 98 (15.88%) SQL
5 95 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 39 (6.32%) Bash
7 38 (6.16%) Go
8 32 (5.19%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.43%) Scala
10 11 (1.78%) C#
11 9 (1.46%) C++
12 8 (1.30%) C
12 8 (1.30%) R
13 7 (1.13%) Bicep
13 7 (1.13%) Perl
13 7 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.81%) Ruby
15 5 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.97%) Degree
3 38 (6.16%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.24%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.27%) CISSP
8 10 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.46%) CEH
10 8 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.97%) CISM
12 5 (0.81%) CCNA
12 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.81%) CRISC
12 5 (0.81%) OSCP
13 4 (0.65%) CCSP
13 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.70%) QA
3 28 (4.54%) GDPR
4 26 (4.21%) NIST
5 18 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.62%) HIPAA
8 8 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.81%) GRC
10 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.65%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.49%) NCSC
12 2 (0.32%) COBIT
12 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.32%) 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
1 102 (16.53%) Docker
2 19 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.97%) Lustre
6 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.49%) NFS
9 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.32%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.32%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.16%) HDFS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (23.99%) Kubernetes
2 119 (19.29%) Terraform
3 69 (11.18%) Ansible
4 21 (3.40%) Grafana
5 18 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.94%) Puppet
7 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.97%) Karpenter
9 6 (0.97%) Podman
9 6 (0.97%) QRadar
9 6 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.81%) Argo
10 5 (0.81%) Kibana
10 5 (0.81%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.81%) Nagios
10 5 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.65%) logstash
11 4 (0.65%) Tivoli
11 4 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 196 (31.77%) Google
2 46 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.54%) Oracle
4 23 (3.73%) Splunk
5 18 (2.92%) Databricks
5 18 (2.92%) IBM
5 18 (2.92%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.76%) VMware
7 11 (1.78%) CyberArk
7 11 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.46%) Adobe
8 9 (1.46%) SAP
9 8 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.97%) Cisco
10 6 (0.97%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.81%) New Relic
11 5 (0.81%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.81%) Qualys
11 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.65%) BeyondTrust