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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 91 144
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 -38
Contract jobs citing GCP 32 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.89% 1.36% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.26% 3.91% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 6
10th Percentile £409 £381 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £412 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -25.09% -16.98%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £694
90th Percentile £711 £549 £731
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.24% -1.80%

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 608 716 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.98% 34.69% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 483 723
10th Percentile £312 £213 £260
25th Percentile £413 £366 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £545
90th Percentile £599 £626 £618
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 10
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £17.26
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £62.39
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £64.30
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +21 22 £475 -13.64% 51
Glasgow -28 10 £550 +37.50% 37
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 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Adobe XD
1 1 (3.13%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
1 22 (68.75%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
2 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.13%) Collibra
4 1 (3.13%) Figma
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.13%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (3.13%) npm
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.13%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) BigQuery
1 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Star Schema
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.25%) Looker
4 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 2 (6.25%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) PowerCenter
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) DB2
5 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 5 (15.63%) ER Studio
4 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.25%) Gradle
5 2 (6.25%) JIRA
5 2 (6.25%) JUnit
5 2 (6.25%) Maven
5 2 (6.25%) Mockito
6 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Data Modeller
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Modeller
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) GCP Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) RESTful
2 8 (25.00%) Kafka
3 6 (18.75%) Spring
3 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 5 (15.63%) React
5 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.25%) CSS
5 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.25%) HTML
5 2 (6.25%) JPA
5 2 (6.25%) Node.js
5 2 (6.25%) PySpark
5 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.25%) SOAP
5 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.13%) OAuth
6 1 (3.13%) OpenID
6 1 (3.13%) SAML
6 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Legacy Code
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Unix
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) AIX
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) DevOps
4 10 (31.25%) Microservices
5 8 (25.00%) Migration
6 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
7 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (15.63%) Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) API Development
8 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (15.63%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (15.63%) Physical Data Model
8 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
9 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Java
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 12 (37.50%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.50%) Perl
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.13%) Bash
7 1 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CEH
3 1 (3.13%) GCFA
3 1 (3.13%) GCIH
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) GRC
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Informatica
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Teradata
4 1 (3.13%) Adobe
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Confluent
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.13%) Facebook
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.13%) TSYS
4 1 (3.13%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) Workday