GCP Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring GCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 50 63
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing GCP 7 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.97% 1.67% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.42% 6.34% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £285 - £221
25th Percentile £406 £203 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £205 £500
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% -59.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £438 £354 £623
90th Percentile £505 £595 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £494 £576
% change year-on-year +1.27% -14.32% +4.77%

All Cloud Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 142 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 30.62% 26.35% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 110 209
10th Percentile £191 £250 £195
25th Percentile £204 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% -0.54% -7.00%
75th Percentile £550 £552 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £755
South East median daily rate £486 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile - £55.95 £25.35
25th Percentile £28.00 £60.38 £38.44
Median hourly rate £29.00 £69.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -57.97% +41.54% +91.18%
75th Percentile £30.69 £78.88 £51.88
90th Percentile £31.94 £84.05 £71.83
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -53.53% +48.62% +30.63%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Surrey

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Surrey

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Staines +2 2 £425 +107.32%
Woking - 2 £413 -
Epsom - 1 £550 - 2
Guildford - 1 £425 - 3
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Implementation Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Software Implementation Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Implementation Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) CMDB
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Release Management
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Okta