GCP Contracts in Suffolk

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 4.05% - 5.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.09% - 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +80.65%
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £593
% change year-on-year - -15.61% +12.86%

All Cloud Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 20 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 44.59% 32.79% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £171 £176 £213
25th Percentile £184 £199 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £278 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% -60.36% +64.71%
75th Percentile £316 £563 -
90th Percentile £443 £644 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £46.18 £11.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +301.57% -30.30% +6.45%
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Suffolk

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Suffolk

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 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
Ipswich - 3 £751 - 22
GCP
East of England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) logstash
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft