GCP Contracts in Reading

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 46 79 70
Rank change year-on-year +33 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing GCP 14 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.35% 1.01% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.97% 3.25% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £540 - £369
25th Percentile £559 £413 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £495 £610
Median % change year-on-year +23.74% -18.85% +0.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £691
90th Percentile £676 £590 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -16.36% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Reading

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Reading

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Reading

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (92.86%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) OCI
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) BGP
1 5 (35.71%) MPLS
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
1 5 (35.71%) VLAN
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
3 3 (21.43%) NGFW
3 3 (21.43%) SSL
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Robot Framework
2 1 (7.14%) ERwin
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
1 5 (35.71%) Automation Tester
1 5 (35.71%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (35.71%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Strategy Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) Blazor
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
1 5 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 3 (21.43%) Application Security
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) Data Security
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 2 (14.29%) Data Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Scala
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 3 (21.43%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCSP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) OSCP
3 1 (7.14%) SANS
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Darktrace
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow