Google Compute Engine Contract Job Trends in the South East

Google Compute Engine
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 - 184
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.015% - 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.056% - 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £390
England median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -30.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Google Compute Engine 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 1,798 1,031 1,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.07% 29.58% 25.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 674 804
10th Percentile £263 £204 £302
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £674
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 41 24
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £30.05 £15.50 £19.10
Median hourly rate £61.74 £18.82 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +228.06% -53.53% +43.82%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 £60.11
90th Percentile £103.93 £51.00 £64.73
England median hourly rate £34.06 £26.38 £30.59
% change year-on-year +29.13% -13.78% -7.30%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Compute Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Google Compute Engine job vacancy trend in the South East

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Google Compute Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
West Sussex - 1 - -
Google Compute Engine
England

Google Compute Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google