GCP Contracts in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 143 106
Rank change year-on-year +40 -37 +40
Contract jobs citing GCP 28 29 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 1.05% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 2.90% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 44
10th Percentile £383 £563 £402
25th Percentile £400 £619 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £713 £600
Median % change year-on-year -35.09% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £547 £775 £791
90th Percentile £656 £783 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £70.09 £47.50
% change year-on-year -26.16% +47.55% +72.01%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 724 1,000 1,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.26% 36.22% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 749 770
10th Percentile £243 £250 £300
25th Percentile £369 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +21 16 £400 -38.46% 15
Edinburgh +26 11 £619 -17.50% 17
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 14 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 20 (71.43%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Google Data Studio
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) Google Sheets
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.86%) BigQuery
3 4 (14.29%) Big Data
4 3 (10.71%) Power BI
4 3 (10.71%) Tableau
5 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.57%) Flink
6 1 (3.57%) GIS
6 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.57%) QGIS
6 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Gradle
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JMeter
3 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.57%) Mockito
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 10 (35.71%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Social Media Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) GCP Architect
6 1 (3.57%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Kafka
2 11 (39.29%) Spring Boot
3 10 (35.71%) Spring
4 9 (32.14%) RESTful
5 8 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (28.57%) OpenTracing
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 9 (32.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (7.14%) Social Media
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Microservices
2 10 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) SDLC
3 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (21.43%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Release Management
6 5 (17.86%) Scrum
7 4 (14.29%) Analytics
7 4 (14.29%) Post-Production
7 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
8 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
2 10 (35.71%) Scala
3 9 (32.14%) Kotlin
4 7 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) Perl
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (3.57%) Elixir
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
1 1 (3.57%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 8 (28.57%) Zipkin
3 4 (14.29%) Grafana
3 4 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Brandwatch
3 2 (7.14%) Facebook
3 2 (7.14%) Hootsuite
3 2 (7.14%) Instagram
3 2 (7.14%) Twitter
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) YouTube
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle