GCP Contracts in Somerset

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 16 26 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing GCP 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 5.76% 0.49% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.22% 2.94% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £575 - £623
25th Percentile £603 £525 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £676
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.67% -15.47%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £715
90th Percentile £641 - £731
South West median daily rate £548 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -0.45% -15.38% +18.18%

All Cloud Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36 34 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 25.90% 16.75% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 49
10th Percentile £406 £198 £213
25th Percentile £431 £224 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £585
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -23.01% +31.35%
75th Percentile £634 £525 £688
90th Percentile £639 £536 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £15.76
25th Percentile - £12.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -31.58% -
75th Percentile - £13.50 £37.19
90th Percentile - - £44.88
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Somerset

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Somerset

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Somerset 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
Street - 6 £625 - 1
Bath - 2 £600 - 35
GCP
South West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Google Ads
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) MPLS
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
1 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Mining
1 3 (37.50%) Tableau
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Science
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Data Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (37.50%) Database Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CCIE
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (25.00%) JNCIP
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Apple
4 1 (12.50%) Criteo
4 1 (12.50%) Databricks