GCP Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 +68
Contract jobs citing GCP 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.86% 3.31% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.10% 10.81% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £471 - -
25th Percentile £485 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £477 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% +46.77% -23.98%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £338
90th Percentile - £487 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £594
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.79% +0.64%

All Cloud Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 98 37 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 36.43% 30.58% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 26 12
10th Percentile £357 £310 £211
25th Percentile £429 £420 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £508 £478
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +6.28% -8.52%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £541
90th Percentile £552 £567 £584
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

GCP job vacancy trend in Shropshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Telford -28 5 £496 +3.98%
GCP
West Midlands

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Engagement Manager
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Engagement Manager
1 4 (80.00%) SAP Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Budget Management
2 4 (80.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (80.00%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Denodo
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle