Google Compute Engine Contract Job Trends in the South West

Google Compute Engine
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.035% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £533 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -7.39% +15.00% -19.03%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 738 543 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.64% 32.79% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 409 641
10th Percentile £227 £229 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 11 26
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £54.00 £18.32 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -73.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £17.47
90th Percentile £62.70 £68.75 £35.20
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Google Compute Engine job vacancy trend in the South West

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol - 1 - -
Google Compute Engine
England

Google Compute Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Network Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google