GCP Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.29% 1.54% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.94% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £433 £667 -
25th Percentile - £673 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £694 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% - -
75th Percentile £538 £711 -
90th Percentile £653 £716 -
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £563 £575
% change year-on-year - -2.17% -2.54%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 63 14 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 41.45% 10.77% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 30
10th Percentile £235 £453 £327
25th Percentile £439 £463 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £504 £506
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -0.49% -7.95%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £629
90th Percentile £630 £723 £635
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £41.29 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £70.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year -46.80% +295.70% -18.67%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Southampton

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Southampton over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Southampton

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) gRPC
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (20.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) SABSA
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) Rust
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Podman
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (20.00%) Qualys
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable