GCP Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 1.85% 4.00% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 12.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £721 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.61% - -
Somerset median daily rate £450 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% -12.87%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 71 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 65.74% 32.00% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 5 4
10th Percentile £406 £316 -
25th Percentile £450 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -17.09%
75th Percentile £650 £710 £600
90th Percentile £730 £723 -
Somerset median daily rate £524 £275 £532
% change year-on-year +90.45% -48.31% -3.27%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Taunton

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware