GCP Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing GCP 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.40% 1.32% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.77% 4.76% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile £513 £325 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £488
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -28.21% -2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £375 £497
90th Percentile - - £499
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -1.50% -16.67% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 57 42 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 38.78% 27.63% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 48
10th Percentile £222 £325 £177
25th Percentile £259 £398 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £581
90th Percentile £603 £650 £658
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year - -22.62% +90.06%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -61.77% +75.93% +28.57%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Banbury - 4 - - 1
Oxford - 1 £525 - 5
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (80.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk