GCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 61 124 115
Rank change year-on-year +63 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 41 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.71% 0.78% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.02% 2.78% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 26
10th Percentile £312 £363 £340
25th Percentile £358 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £495 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -7.91% -4.44%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £679
90th Percentile £700 £600 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +24.32% -15.91% -9.47%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +47 30 £575 +25.00% 99
Buckinghamshire +22 8 £350 -37.78% 76
Oxfordshire +5 5 £700 +64.71% 50
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (7.32%) Apache
1 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 37 (90.24%) AWS
2 36 (87.80%) Azure
3 9 (21.95%) Snowflake
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Miro
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) dbt
6 1 (2.44%) OCI
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Network Security
2 6 (14.63%) BGP
2 6 (14.63%) MPLS
2 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
3 5 (12.20%) VLAN
4 4 (9.76%) SSL
5 3 (7.32%) Firewall
5 3 (7.32%) NGFW
6 2 (4.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (4.88%) VPN
7 1 (2.44%) 5G
7 1 (2.44%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (2.44%) DNS
7 1 (2.44%) IPFIX
7 1 (2.44%) LAN
7 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.44%) VoIP
7 1 (2.44%) VoLTE
7 1 (2.44%) VoWiFi
7 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (12.20%) Big Data
3 5 (12.20%) Data Lake
3 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 5 (12.20%) MySQL
4 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) Tableau
6 1 (2.44%) Power BI
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
1 6 (14.63%) GitLab
2 5 (12.20%) Robot Framework
3 3 (7.32%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) DBeaver
5 1 (2.44%) ERwin
5 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Architect
2 5 (12.20%) Automation Tester
2 5 (12.20%) Data Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Security Architect
2 5 (12.20%) Telecoms Tester
2 5 (12.20%) Tester
3 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.32%) DBA
4 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
5 2 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Django
1 3 (7.32%) FastAPI
1 3 (7.32%) Flask
1 3 (7.32%) RESTful
1 3 (7.32%) SAML
2 2 (4.88%) CSS
2 2 (4.88%) HTML
2 2 (4.88%) NumPy
2 2 (4.88%) Pandas
2 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.44%) ADO
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.44%) Jinja
3 1 (2.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.44%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Cloud Native
1 8 (19.51%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (9.76%) Security Posture
4 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.44%) PKI
6 1 (2.44%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (36.59%) Migration
3 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 10 (24.39%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (21.95%) Data Security
6 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (19.51%) Data Management
6 8 (19.51%) Data Migration
6 8 (19.51%) ETL
6 8 (19.51%) RBAC
6 8 (19.51%) SIEM
7 7 (17.07%) Agile
7 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.07%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (17.07%) Microservices
8 6 (14.63%) Analytics
8 6 (14.63%) DevOps
8 6 (14.63%) Security Architecture
9 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.20%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) Bash
4 2 (4.88%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) CISSP
2 5 (12.20%) CISM
2 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.32%) CCNP
4 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
4 3 (7.32%) PMP
5 2 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CCSP
5 2 (4.88%) CEH
5 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) SANS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) PgMP
6 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) GDPR
2 6 (14.63%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Ansible
2 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (4.88%) Terraform
5 1 (2.44%) CASB
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Databricks
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.44%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.44%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.44%) Rapid7