GCP Contracts in South London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 36 44
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.26% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.54% 1.22% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £459 - £460
25th Percentile £468 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £546 - £525
90th Percentile £549 - £540
London median daily rate £600 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% -

All Cloud Skills
South London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 78 82 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 45.61% 44.09% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 65 98
10th Percentile £246 £290 £409
25th Percentile £416 £400 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -3.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £632 £530 £663
90th Percentile £708 £567 £690
London median daily rate £531 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.52% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.63
Median hourly rate - - £17.63
75th Percentile - - £18.63
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +7.67% -52.00% +35.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in South London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in South London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Croydon +5 8 £525 -
GCP
London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Great Expectations
2 1 (11.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) CQRS
2 8 (88.89%) Design Patterns
2 8 (88.89%) Domain-Driven Design
2 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
3 7 (77.78%) Code Quality
3 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
3 7 (77.78%) Continuous Delivery
3 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Data Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Explainable AI
4 1 (11.11%) LLM
4 1 (11.11%) MLOps
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes