GCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 147 131
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 -8
Contract jobs citing GCP 258 384 616
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.27% 1.63% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 4.92% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 285 451
10th Percentile £333 £406 £413
25th Percentile £411 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -5.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £707 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £620 £604
% change year-on-year -3.23% +2.69% +6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £29.20 £32.65 £21.28
25th Percentile £31.38 £55.00 £24.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £65.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +58.79% +65.00%
75th Percentile £61.50 £70.26 £60.77
90th Percentile £77.40 £76.11 £78.24
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £70.09 £43.75
% change year-on-year -26.16% +60.20% +58.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,249 7,810 9,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.77% 33.23% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,725 5,766 7,287
10th Percentile £213 £250 £210
25th Percentile £370 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 230 292
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.81 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.58% +26.42% -1.88%
75th Percentile £26.50 £63.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.06
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
North of England -11 91 £538 -6.52% 93
Yorkshire -1 51 £550 - 37
South West +28 44 £550 -15.38% 61
South East -33 40 £456 -17.05% 76
North West +2 37 £506 -11.96% 48
Scotland +47 28 £463 -35.09% 34
Midlands 0 23 £600 +14.29% 36
East of England -9 23 £525 -12.24% 25
West Midlands -4 20 £600 +9.09% 21
East Midlands +10 3 £675 +0.93% 15
Wales +8 3 £539 -4.65% 16
Northern Ireland +5 3 £675 +17.39% 24
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
North East - 3 £600 - 8
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (7.75%) Confluence
2 19 (7.36%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.49%) nginx
5 6 (2.33%) Apache
6 4 (1.55%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.55%) CMS
7 3 (1.16%) Drupal
7 3 (1.16%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.78%) SAS
8 2 (0.78%) Traefik
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 162 (62.79%) AWS
2 151 (58.53%) Azure
3 26 (10.08%) GitHub
4 19 (7.36%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (5.43%) Serverless
6 13 (5.04%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.88%) Apigee
8 8 (3.10%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.10%) Kong
9 7 (2.71%) PaaS
9 7 (2.71%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.33%) Google Analytics
10 6 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.94%) CloudBees
11 5 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.85%) VPN
2 24 (9.30%) DNS
3 22 (8.53%) TCP/IP
4 20 (7.75%) Firewall
5 12 (4.65%) HTTP
6 9 (3.49%) HTTPS
7 7 (2.71%) VLAN
8 5 (1.94%) BGP
8 5 (1.94%) DHCP
8 5 (1.94%) Network Security
8 5 (1.94%) OSPF
8 5 (1.94%) SSL
9 4 (1.55%) IPsec
9 4 (1.55%) MPLS
9 4 (1.55%) SAN
9 4 (1.55%) Value-Added Service
9 4 (1.55%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.16%) LAN
10 3 (1.16%) WAN
11 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.79%) BigQuery
2 25 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.91%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.36%) Relational Database
5 16 (6.20%) MongoDB
5 16 (6.20%) Power BI
6 14 (5.43%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.43%) MySQL
7 13 (5.04%) Big Data
8 11 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.26%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.10%) Hadoop
10 7 (2.71%) Metadata
11 5 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.94%) DB2
11 5 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.94%) Tableau
12 4 (1.55%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 34 (13.18%) Jenkins
2 31 (12.02%) Git
3 29 (11.24%) JIRA
4 18 (6.98%) GitLab
5 10 (3.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.10%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.10%) Travis CI
7 6 (2.33%) Selenium
7 6 (2.33%) Spinnaker
8 4 (1.55%) Hudson
8 4 (1.55%) Subversion
9 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.16%) Maven
9 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.78%) Snyk
11 1 (0.39%) Appium
11 1 (0.39%) AppScan
11 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 73 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (12.79%) Finance
4 24 (9.30%) Banking
5 15 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.94%) Legal
7 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.55%) Retail
7 4 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.16%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Automotive
9 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (19.38%) Developer
2 43 (16.67%) Architect
3 27 (10.47%) Java Developer
4 26 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (10.08%) Senior
5 21 (8.14%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.04%) Lead
6 13 (5.04%) Software Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.26%) Analyst
8 11 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.88%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.49%) DBA
11 8 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.10%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.71%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.71%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 6 (2.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
13 6 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.85%) Kafka
2 25 (9.69%) Spring
3 23 (8.91%) Spring Boot
4 20 (7.75%) RESTful
5 19 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (5.43%) JSON
6 14 (5.43%) REST
7 13 (5.04%) SAML
8 12 (4.65%) YAML
9 11 (4.26%) XML
10 9 (3.49%) GWT
10 9 (3.49%) Restlet
11 8 (3.10%) HTML
11 8 (3.10%) JAX-RS
11 8 (3.10%) OpenTracing
12 7 (2.71%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.33%) CSS
13 6 (2.33%) Node.js
13 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.85%) Public Cloud
2 22 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.53%) Data Structures
3 16 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.33%) Replication
7 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.94%) PKI
7 5 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.55%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.55%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.57%) Linux
2 11 (4.26%) Unix
3 9 (3.49%) Windows
4 6 (2.33%) CentOS
5 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.55%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.55%) zOS
6 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.01%) DevOps
2 73 (28.29%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.52%) Agile
4 59 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (15.50%) Containerisation
5 40 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (13.57%) Migration
7 34 (13.18%) Microservices
8 33 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (10.47%) Software Engineering
10 26 (10.08%) Computer Science
10 26 (10.08%) Roadmaps
11 23 (8.91%) ETL
11 23 (8.91%) SDLC
11 23 (8.91%) Test Automation
12 22 (8.53%) Analytics
12 22 (8.53%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
13 21 (8.14%) Data Modelling
13 21 (8.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (29.84%) Python
2 54 (20.93%) Java
3 42 (16.28%) SQL
4 32 (12.40%) Bash
5 25 (9.69%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.30%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.98%) Scala
8 14 (5.43%) Go
9 13 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.49%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.33%) Ruby
12 5 (1.94%) Groovy
12 5 (1.94%) PHP
13 3 (1.16%) C
13 3 (1.16%) C#
13 3 (1.16%) Perl
14 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.78%) Bicep
15 1 (0.39%) CQL
15 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (11.24%) Degree
2 28 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.10%) CCNP
7 4 (1.55%) CCIE
7 4 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.55%) VCAP
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.16%) CCNA
8 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.39%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.39%) RHCE
10 1 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.36%) QA
2 9 (3.49%) NIST
3 8 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.33%) NCSC
5 5 (1.94%) GDPR
5 5 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.55%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (19.77%) Docker
2 16 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.71%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.55%) zsh
6 3 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.16%) HDFS
7 2 (0.78%) vSphere
8 1 (0.39%) ACF2
8 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
8 1 (0.39%) IAG
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.39%) RACF
8 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.38%) Terraform
3 36 (13.95%) Ansible
4 21 (8.14%) Prometheus
5 17 (6.59%) Grafana
6 14 (5.43%) Istio
7 13 (5.04%) Puppet
8 11 (4.26%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.88%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (3.10%) Kibana
11 8 (3.10%) logstash
11 8 (3.10%) Zipkin
12 7 (2.71%) Rancher
13 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.55%) OPNET
15 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.78%) HAProxy
15 2 (0.78%) Nagios
15 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (40.70%) Google
2 20 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.75%) VMware
3 18 (6.98%) Splunk
4 17 (6.59%) Oracle
5 8 (3.10%) Cisco
6 7 (2.71%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.71%) F5
6 7 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.94%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.55%) Databricks
8 4 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.55%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.55%) Sophos
9 3 (1.16%) Citrix
9 3 (1.16%) Informatica
9 3 (1.16%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.16%) SAP
10 2 (0.78%) Brandwatch
10 2 (0.78%) Hootsuite