GCP Contracts in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 96 107 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 -21
Contract jobs citing GCP 20 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.23% 0.99% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 2.98% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 8
10th Percentile £430 £393 £563
25th Percentile £487 £400 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £713
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -33.33% +18.75%
75th Percentile £619 £656 £775
90th Percentile £693 £714 £783
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £51.75 £70.18
% change year-on-year +1.45% -26.26% +47.74%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +9 13 £505 -20.78% 23
Glasgow -4 6 £600 +50.00% 21
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 13 (65.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.00%) Figma
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) PowerCenter
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Lead Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Architect
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Open Source Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) RESTful
2 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.00%) Pandas
2 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) Great Expectations
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) NumPy
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) API Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) OO
5 2 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Go
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CEH
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) GCFA
3 1 (5.00%) GCIH
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Teradata
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Confluent
4 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
4 1 (5.00%) TSYS
4 1 (5.00%) Workday