GCP Contracts in the South West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 108 128
Rank change year-on-year +33 +20 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 36 48 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.10% 1.48% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.88% 5.97% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 21
10th Percentile £352 £300 £390
25th Percentile £355 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £611 £725
90th Percentile £653 £688 £760
England median daily rate £588 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +124.86% - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £70.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -21.53% +7.83%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 523 804 1,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.51% 24.81% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 608 907
10th Percentile £225 £213 £288
25th Percentile £363 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £651
90th Percentile £676 £675 £723
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 61
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.70 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.25 £29.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% -36.36% +155.81%
75th Percentile £34.50 £70.00 £75.50
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bristol +3 13 £370 -24.10% 45
Wiltshire +37 9 £525 -19.23% 3
Somerset +9 7 £600 +9.09% 9
Gloucestershire +21 3 £700 +40.00% 30
Devon - 2 £513 - 7
Dorset +3 1 - - 7
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (97.22%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.78%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.78%) Matillion
5 1 (2.78%) npm
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) BGP
1 2 (5.56%) Firewall
1 2 (5.56%) MPLS
1 2 (5.56%) OSPF
1 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.56%) VLAN
1 2 (5.56%) VPN
1 2 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.33%) SAP BW
1 3 (8.33%) SAP HANA
2 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.78%) Looker
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) Appium
4 1 (2.78%) Code Climate
4 1 (2.78%) Snyk
4 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Marketing
4 7 (19.44%) Electronics
4 7 (19.44%) Manufacturing
4 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 7 (19.44%) Telecoms
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.11%) Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Advertising
8 1 (2.78%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Applications Support
2 8 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Applications Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Build Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) QA Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) SAP Technical Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) CSS
1 9 (25.00%) HTML
2 8 (22.22%) .NET
3 4 (11.11%) React
3 4 (11.11%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) Node.js
4 3 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.56%) Playwright
6 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.78%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.78%) Jest
6 1 (2.78%) Kafka
6 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.78%) Vue
6 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 11 (30.56%) Software Engineering
4 9 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) TDD
5 8 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 8 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) Service Management
5 8 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 8 (22.22%) User Experience
5 8 (22.22%) Web Development
6 7 (19.44%) Agile
6 7 (19.44%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (19.44%) Programme Management
7 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 6 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (22.22%) C#
5 6 (16.67%) Bash
6 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.33%) Go
7 3 (8.33%) Java
8 1 (2.78%) C
8 1 (2.78%) C++
8 1 (2.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 8 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) CCIE
5 2 (5.56%) CCNP
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) JNCIE
5 2 (5.56%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Basel III
1 3 (8.33%) IFRS
1 3 (8.33%) IFRS 17
1 3 (8.33%) IFRS 9
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Terraform
2 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.89%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Grafana
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.78%) Kibana
6 1 (2.78%) logstash
6 1 (2.78%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Google
2 10 (27.78%) SAP
3 5 (13.89%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.56%) Juniper
4 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.78%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) Criteo
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) ESRI
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.78%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk