GCP Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 36 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +28
Contract jobs citing GCP 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.46% 2.68% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.80% 5.67% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £553 £484 £569
25th Percentile - £497 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £800
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -32.81% +28.00%
75th Percentile £650 £572 £850
90th Percentile £680 £581 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £538 £800
% change year-on-year +6.98% -32.81% +30.61%

All Cloud Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 141 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 36.27% 47.16% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 103 109
10th Percentile £254 £308 £199
25th Percentile £400 £396 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £560 £625
90th Percentile £623 £630 £729
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £13.30 -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile - £22.63 £21.75
90th Percentile - £23.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -2.44% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Milton Keynes

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Storybook
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) React
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Vitest
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) API Development
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
3 3 (42.86%) Secure Coding
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (28.57%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk