GCP Contracts in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 140 128
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 -28
Contract jobs citing GCP 46 86 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 1.45% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% 4.96% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 65 112
10th Percentile £355 £355 £451
25th Percentile £413 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £601
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.52% +16.75%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £675
90th Percentile £627 £737 £762
England median daily rate £600 £625 £608
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.88% +10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £38.38
25th Percentile - £17.75 £43.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.19% -63.37% +102.00%
75th Percentile - £19.25 £61.54
90th Percentile - - £72.86
England median hourly rate £51.75 £70.18 £69.75
% change year-on-year -26.26% +0.61% +101.73%

All Cloud Skills
South East

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,437 1,733 2,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.56% 29.22% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 1,277 1,822
10th Percentile £243 £251 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 53 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.02 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +9.26% -
75th Percentile £58.06 £57.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £27.83 £20.70
% change year-on-year -25.37% +34.44% -5.91%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
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 GCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -7 22 £460 -14.42% 18
Berkshire -26 16 £425 -22.73% 9
Hampshire +2 13 £525 -11.76% 13
Surrey +3 6 £595 +8.18% 7
West Sussex 0 5 £463 -7.50% 1
Oxfordshire +12 4 £513 +20.59% 4
Buckinghamshire +31 2 £563 - 5
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) AWS
2 24 (52.17%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.52%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.17%) npm
7 1 (2.17%) OCI
7 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Network Security
1 8 (17.39%) VPN
2 3 (6.52%) Firewall
3 2 (4.35%) HTTP
3 2 (4.35%) LAN
3 2 (4.35%) NAS
3 2 (4.35%) SAN
3 2 (4.35%) WAN
3 2 (4.35%) Wireless
4 1 (2.17%) BGP
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (2.17%) OSPF
4 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) BigQuery
2 5 (10.87%) MySQL
3 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.70%) Metadata
3 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.35%) DB2
5 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Appium
4 1 (2.17%) AppScan
4 1 (2.17%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.17%) MSTest
4 1 (2.17%) NUnit
4 1 (2.17%) Selenium
4 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.17%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.17%) Subversion
4 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Architect
1 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
1 7 (15.22%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) GCP Architect
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Platform Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DBA
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.70%) CSS
2 4 (8.70%) HTML
3 3 (6.52%) .NET
3 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.52%) Node.js
3 3 (6.52%) RESTful
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.35%) CSS3
4 2 (4.35%) HTML5
4 2 (4.35%) JSON
4 2 (4.35%) Kafka
4 2 (4.35%) Regular Expression
4 2 (4.35%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) Spring
4 2 (4.35%) XML
4 2 (4.35%) YAML
5 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.17%) GWT
5 1 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Life Science
3 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (47.83%) DevOps
3 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
5 9 (19.57%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (19.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 8 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (17.39%) Microservices
6 8 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (15.22%) API Development
7 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
7 7 (15.22%) Open Source
7 7 (15.22%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
7 7 (15.22%) Time Management
8 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
8 6 (13.04%) Network Architecture
8 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) SQL
3 6 (13.04%) Java
3 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.87%) Bash
5 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.35%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.17%) C
7 1 (2.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) CCNP
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) CSSLP
6 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (45.65%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.22%) Istio
3 7 (15.22%) Rancher
4 6 (13.04%) Ansible
5 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.35%) FortiGate
6 2 (4.35%) Grafana
6 2 (4.35%) Kibana
6 2 (4.35%) logstash
6 2 (4.35%) Nagios
6 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.35%) Puppet
7 1 (2.17%) Graylog
7 1 (2.17%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.17%) Nessus
7 1 (2.17%) SCCM
7 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Google
2 9 (19.57%) VMware
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle
5 3 (6.52%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.35%) Splunk
7 1 (2.17%) Aruba
7 1 (2.17%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) F5
7 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.17%) QinetiQ
7 1 (2.17%) Veeam
7 1 (2.17%) Veracode