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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 117 119
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 +41
Contract jobs citing GCP 87 66 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.45% 1.36% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 5.59% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 45 61
10th Percentile £328 £238 £340
25th Percentile £447 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% -15.22% +2.22%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £713
90th Percentile £650 £738 £850
England median daily rate £550 £612 £613
% change year-on-year -10.13% -0.08% -2.00%
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% -65.42%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £37.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +42.67% -51.61% +44.86%

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 1,044 1,180 1,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.34% 24.27% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 840 1,125
10th Percentile £220 £300 £208
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £671 £710
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 32 54
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.80 £18.69
Median hourly rate £18.82 £29.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.66% +8.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £53.19 £60.78
90th Percentile £48.55 £61.01 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.32
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.36% +50.33%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +21 56 £513 +2.50% 59
Berkshire +29 47 £550 +11.11% 28
Hampshire +26 22 £575 +4.55% 25
Buckinghamshire +3 7 £313 -45.65% 12
Surrey +12 5 £419 +104.27% 17
Oxfordshire -9 3 £438 +2.94% 20
East Sussex - 2 £319 - 4
West Sussex +2 1 £325 -29.73% 3
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 (9.20%) Apache Spark
1 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 77 (88.51%) AWS
2 63 (72.41%) Azure
3 10 (11.49%) GitHub
3 10 (11.49%) IaaS
3 10 (11.49%) PaaS
4 8 (9.20%) Entra ID
4 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
4 8 (9.20%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.75%) dbt
6 5 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.60%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (3.45%) SaaS
9 2 (2.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.30%) OCI
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.24%) Firewall
2 9 (10.34%) DNS
2 9 (10.34%) VPN
3 8 (9.20%) DHCP
3 8 (9.20%) SMTP
4 6 (6.90%) Network Security
5 4 (4.60%) NAS
5 4 (4.60%) SAN
6 2 (2.30%) HTTP
6 2 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.30%) SSL
7 1 (1.15%) 5G
7 1 (1.15%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (1.15%) IPFIX
7 1 (1.15%) MPLS
7 1 (1.15%) SSH
7 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.15%) VoIP
7 1 (1.15%) VoLTE
7 1 (1.15%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) Big Data
2 9 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (9.20%) Power BI
3 8 (9.20%) Tableau
4 5 (5.75%) Hadoop
4 5 (5.75%) MySQL
4 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.15%) Parquet
7 1 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.15%) Redis
7 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
2 9 (10.34%) GitLab
3 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.30%) MLflow
5 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.15%) ERwin
5 1 (1.15%) Mocha
5 1 (1.15%) Poetry
5 1 (1.15%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.49%) Finance
6 5 (5.75%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Billing
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) Architect
2 11 (12.64%) Senior
3 9 (10.34%) Developer
4 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (9.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Data Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Python Developer
4 8 (9.20%) Security Architect
4 8 (9.20%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.20%) RESTful
2 7 (8.05%) FastAPI
3 4 (4.60%) Flask
3 4 (4.60%) Kafka
4 3 (3.45%) .NET
4 3 (3.45%) CSS
4 3 (3.45%) Django
4 3 (3.45%) HTML
4 3 (3.45%) NumPy
4 3 (3.45%) Pandas
5 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.30%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.30%) Web Services
6 1 (1.15%) ADO
6 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.15%) JSON
6 1 (1.15%) OAuth
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Basis
6 1 (1.15%) SOAP
6 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.34%) PKI
3 8 (9.20%) Clustering
3 8 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 5 (5.75%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Windows
2 10 (11.49%) Linux
3 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) Mac OS
4 4 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) CI/CD
2 31 (35.63%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (32.18%) DevOps
4 18 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (18.39%) Machine Learning
6 14 (16.09%) Analytics
7 13 (14.94%) Decision-Making
8 12 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 12 (13.79%) High Availability
8 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.64%) Agile
9 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (12.64%) Microservices
9 11 (12.64%) Visualisation
10 10 (11.49%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (11.49%) Containerisation
10 10 (11.49%) ETL
10 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (11.49%) Threat Modelling
10 10 (11.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.13%) Python
2 17 (19.54%) SQL
3 14 (16.09%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.49%) Java
5 9 (10.34%) Bash
6 8 (9.20%) Go
7 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (2.30%) Korn
9 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) Bicep
10 1 (1.15%) Groovy
10 1 (1.15%) Scala
10 1 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.29%) Degree
3 17 (19.54%) SC Cleared
4 13 (14.94%) AWS Certification
5 10 (11.49%) Azure Certification
5 10 (11.49%) DV Cleared
5 10 (11.49%) Master's Degree
6 9 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (9.20%) CISSP
8 6 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (5.75%) CCSP
10 2 (2.30%) CCNA
10 2 (2.30%) CCNP
10 2 (2.30%) CISM
10 2 (2.30%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (2.30%) SANS
11 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.69%) GDPR
2 16 (18.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (9.20%) NIST
4 7 (8.05%) PCI DSS
5 6 (6.90%) Data Quality
6 5 (5.75%) PSD2
7 3 (3.45%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.30%) GRC
9 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (25.29%) Docker
2 13 (14.94%) Active Directory
3 12 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (9.20%) BitLocker
4 8 (9.20%) Hyper-V
4 8 (9.20%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (9.20%) Terminal Services
4 8 (9.20%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.15%) UAG
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (36.78%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.09%) Ansible
3 9 (10.34%) Puppet
4 8 (9.20%) Nagios
4 8 (9.20%) vCenter Server
4 8 (9.20%) vMotion
5 7 (8.05%) Terraform
6 5 (5.75%) Grafana
7 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.60%) SCCM
8 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.15%) Argo
9 1 (1.15%) CASB
9 1 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (1.15%) Istio
9 1 (1.15%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (24.14%) Google
2 16 (18.39%) Microsoft
3 13 (14.94%) VMware
4 12 (13.79%) Citrix
5 8 (9.20%) HP
5 8 (9.20%) Symantec
6 7 (8.05%) Databricks
7 4 (4.60%) EMC
7 4 (4.60%) NetApp
7 4 (4.60%) Pure Storage
7 4 (4.60%) Virgin Media
8 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.45%) Splunk
9 2 (2.30%) Ab Initio
9 2 (2.30%) Oracle
9 2 (2.30%) SAP
10 1 (1.15%) Adobe
10 1 (1.15%) Cisco
10 1 (1.15%) Forcepoint
10 1 (1.15%) Red Hat