GCP Contracts in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 97 168 137
Rank change year-on-year +71 -31 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 63 37 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 0.67% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.92% 2.69% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 63
10th Percentile £314 £290 £355
25th Percentile £463 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -15.91% -9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £680 £600 £737
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +89.19% -63.37%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South East 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
Thames Valley +63 41 £534 +7.78% 54
Berkshire +47 30 £575 +25.00% 33
Hampshire +33 18 £575 +27.78% 21
Buckinghamshire +22 8 £350 -37.78% 10
Oxfordshire +5 5 £700 +64.71% 17
Surrey - 4 £280 - 13
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (88.89%) AWS
2 40 (63.49%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) IaaS
3 10 (15.87%) PaaS
3 10 (15.87%) Snowflake
4 8 (12.70%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.35%) SaaS
6 3 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (3.17%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.17%) Google Ads
7 2 (3.17%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (3.17%) Miro
7 2 (3.17%) OCI
8 1 (1.59%) Asana
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Firewall
2 10 (15.87%) VPN
3 9 (14.29%) DNS
4 8 (12.70%) DHCP
4 8 (12.70%) SMTP
5 7 (11.11%) Network Security
6 6 (9.52%) BGP
6 6 (9.52%) MPLS
6 6 (9.52%) TCP/IP
7 5 (7.94%) VLAN
8 4 (6.35%) SSL
9 3 (4.76%) NGFW
10 2 (3.17%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.59%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (1.59%) IPFIX
11 1 (1.59%) LAN
11 1 (1.59%) VoIP
11 1 (1.59%) VoLTE
11 1 (1.59%) VoWiFi
11 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) Big Data
2 10 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (12.70%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.94%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.94%) MySQL
6 5 (7.94%) Tableau
7 4 (6.35%) Power BI
8 3 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 3 (4.76%) Oracle Database
9 2 (3.17%) Looker
9 2 (3.17%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.59%) QlikView
10 1 (1.59%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) GitLab
2 6 (9.52%) Git
3 5 (7.94%) JIRA
3 5 (7.94%) Robot Framework
4 2 (3.17%) DBeaver
4 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.59%) ERwin
5 1 (1.59%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) Mocha
5 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Telecoms
3 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Billing
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Architect
2 8 (12.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (12.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Support Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Automation Tester
4 5 (7.94%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Security Architect
4 5 (7.94%) Telecoms Tester
4 5 (7.94%) Tester
5 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) .NET
2 4 (6.35%) CSS
2 4 (6.35%) HTML
3 3 (4.76%) Django
3 3 (4.76%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.76%) Flask
3 3 (4.76%) RESTful
3 3 (4.76%) SAML
4 2 (3.17%) Angular 2
4 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.17%) HTML5
4 2 (3.17%) Node.js
4 2 (3.17%) NumPy
4 2 (3.17%) Pandas
4 2 (3.17%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.59%) ADO
5 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.59%) JSON
5 1 (1.59%) Kafka
5 1 (1.59%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.29%) PKI
3 8 (12.70%) Clustering
3 8 (12.70%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.35%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.17%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Windows
2 10 (15.87%) Windows Server
3 8 (12.70%) Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.75%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.40%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Migration
4 13 (20.63%) Containerisation
5 12 (19.05%) Machine Learning
6 11 (17.46%) Agile
6 11 (17.46%) Microservices
6 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
7 10 (15.87%) Analytics
7 10 (15.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (15.87%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (15.87%) RBAC
8 9 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (14.29%) Data Management
8 9 (14.29%) Data Security
8 9 (14.29%) ETL
9 8 (12.70%) Data Migration
9 8 (12.70%) Multithreading
9 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.11%) Bash
6 6 (9.52%) C#
7 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.17%) Java
9 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.81%) Degree
3 10 (15.87%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) CISSP
4 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.52%) CISM
6 4 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.35%) PMI Certification
6 4 (6.35%) PMP
7 3 (4.76%) CCNP
7 3 (4.76%) CEH
8 2 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.17%) CCSP
8 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.17%) SANS
9 1 (1.59%) CCSK
9 1 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) GDPR
2 6 (9.52%) HIPAA
3 4 (6.35%) NIST
3 4 (6.35%) QA
4 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (30.16%) Docker
2 11 (17.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (15.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (12.70%) BitLocker
4 8 (12.70%) Hyper-V
4 8 (12.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (12.70%) Terminal Services
4 8 (12.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 16 (25.40%) Ansible
3 8 (12.70%) Nagios
3 8 (12.70%) Puppet
3 8 (12.70%) vCenter Server
3 8 (12.70%) vMotion
4 3 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (4.76%) Terraform
5 1 (1.59%) CASB
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.59%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Google
2 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.87%) VMware
4 8 (12.70%) Citrix
4 8 (12.70%) HP
4 8 (12.70%) Symantec
5 3 (4.76%) Databricks
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) Adobe
6 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 2 (3.17%) TikTok
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.59%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.59%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.59%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.59%) SAP