GCP Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 21.43% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 75.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £831 - -
90th Percentile £835 - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% -3.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 0 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 28.57% - 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.25%
75th Percentile £831 - £588
90th Percentile £835 - £670
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
East Kilbride - 6 £800 - 1
GCP
Scotland

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 (16.67%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
1 6 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle