GCP Contracts in Reading

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 67 77
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing GCP 14 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.20% 1.60% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.94% 4.97% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 13
10th Percentile £363 £349 £382
25th Percentile £388 £551 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £620 £588
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +5.53% +2.17%
75th Percentile £535 £694 £725
90th Percentile £585 £700 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £463 £600
% change year-on-year -8.11% -22.92% +9.59%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 355 322 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.45% 32.26% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 253 324
10th Percentile £375 £413 £186
25th Percentile £488 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -3.20%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £56.50 £53.00 £13.20
25th Percentile £56.58 £58.94 £18.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £77.35 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +218.95% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £79.19 £33.00
90th Percentile £60.61 - £44.70
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £39.15 £21.78
% change year-on-year +48.91% +79.79% +46.68%

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 10 May 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Appium
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) MSTest
2 1 (7.14%) NUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) DBA
1 2 (14.29%) Developer
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Designer
2 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) Django
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Express.js
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 7 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (50.00%) Time Management
4 7 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Database Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
7 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Robotic Automation
7 1 (7.14%) SOAR
7 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (50.00%) Istio
3 7 (50.00%) Rancher
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) SAP