GCP Contracts in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 76 104 118
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +23
Contract jobs citing GCP 35 29 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.83% 1.05% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 4.22% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 41
10th Percentile £319 £466 £463
25th Percentile £398 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +11.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £659 £700
90th Percentile £761 £688 £708
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 22 £500 -14.89% 66
East Midlands +19 13 £396 -32.68% 36
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.71%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Luigi
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) AWS
2 26 (74.29%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.43%) Asana
4 4 (11.43%) Power Automate
4 4 (11.43%) PowerApps
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.86%) Anthos
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (2.86%) dbt
7 1 (2.86%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) HTTP
3 1 (2.86%) DSL
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 5 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 5 (14.29%) Power BI
2 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) Big Data
3 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.86%) Looker
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) Power Query
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Introscope
3 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) IT Manager
4 4 (11.43%) IT Project Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Junior
4 4 (11.43%) Junior Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Junior Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
1 4 (11.43%) HTML
1 4 (11.43%) Middleware
2 3 (8.57%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) CSS
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.71%) Flutter
3 2 (5.71%) J2EE
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) React
3 2 (5.71%) Web Services
3 2 (5.71%) WebAssembly
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) Next.js
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) SCADA
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) AIX
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 13 (37.14%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) DevOps
3 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) Data Governance
5 8 (22.86%) ERP
5 8 (22.86%) Migration
6 7 (20.00%) Data Extraction
7 6 (17.14%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) Cloud Security
7 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (17.14%) Data Integration
7 6 (17.14%) Data Migration
8 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
8 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
4 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.71%) C
5 2 (5.71%) Go
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.86%) R
6 1 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) CEH
4 1 (2.86%) CISA
4 1 (2.86%) CISM
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.43%) NIST
3 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.71%) QA
5 1 (2.86%) GDPR
5 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) CA Wily
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Kibana
4 1 (2.86%) logstash
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Podman
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Google
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.86%) Alibaba
5 1 (2.86%) HP
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) SAP