GCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 163 166
Rank change year-on-year +56 +3 -28
Contract jobs citing GCP 302 265 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.39% 1.26% 1.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.24% 4.71% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 183 287
10th Percentile £308 £353 £406
25th Percentile £374 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -1.08%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £663
90th Percentile £700 £688 £712
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £68.50 £29.93 £32.65
25th Percentile £70.00 £33.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £43.03 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.31% -34.31% +58.79%
75th Percentile £78.10 £60.69 £70.26
90th Percentile £78.46 £77.07 £76.11
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £49.78 £68.50
% change year-on-year +7.48% -27.33% +56.57%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,174 5,632 8,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.00% 26.84% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,987 3,985 6,270
10th Percentile £239 £213 £239
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% -1.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 251 260
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.05 £16.08
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% -20.48% +20.46%
75th Percentile £34.49 £26.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £59.95 £70.31
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.19% -23.64% +30.24%

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 3 April 2025.

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
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 3 April 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
North of England +50 115 £550 +10.00% 244
South East +76 69 £575 +4.55% 257
Yorkshire +31 58 £550 +22.22% 67
North West +30 53 £599 +15.37% 151
Midlands +18 34 £475 -17.39% 113
South West +27 33 £606 +12.79% 92
West Midlands +10 22 £477 -17.04% 69
East of England +21 20 £468 -6.50% 67
Wales +20 17 £398 -26.22% 23
Scotland +10 17 £600 -10.11% 59
East Midlands +21 12 £374 -25.30% 40
Northern Ireland +1 5 £475 -29.63% 24
North East -2 4 £340 -39.56% 26
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 16 (5.30%) Apache
2 12 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.64%) Confluence
4 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.32%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.32%) Mule
5 4 (1.32%) SAS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Kondor
2 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 218 (72.19%) AWS
2 198 (65.56%) Azure
3 24 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.63%) Snowflake
5 14 (4.64%) PaaS
6 12 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.64%) SaaS
8 10 (3.31%) GitHub
9 9 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.65%) IaaS
11 7 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.32%) dbt
12 6 (1.99%) Google Compute Engine
13 5 (1.66%) Asana
13 5 (1.66%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.32%) Apigee
14 4 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.32%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.97%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.64%) BGP
2 14 (4.64%) Firewall
2 14 (4.64%) VPN
3 13 (4.30%) MPLS
3 13 (4.30%) VLAN
4 11 (3.64%) Network Security
5 9 (2.98%) DNS
6 8 (2.65%) DHCP
7 6 (1.99%) HTTP
7 6 (1.99%) SSL
7 6 (1.99%) WAN
8 5 (1.66%) NGFW
8 5 (1.66%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.66%) SMTP
9 3 (0.99%) OSPF
9 3 (0.99%) VoIP
10 2 (0.66%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.66%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.66%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (8.61%) BigQuery
3 20 (6.62%) Power BI
4 19 (6.29%) Big Data
5 14 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.30%) Data Lake
6 13 (4.30%) Hadoop
6 13 (4.30%) Looker
6 13 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.30%) Tableau
7 12 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.97%) Metadata
7 12 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.64%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.65%) Flink
10 8 (2.65%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.65%) MySQL
11 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (10.60%) JIRA
2 23 (7.62%) Git
2 23 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.28%) GitLab
4 9 (2.98%) Robot Framework
5 5 (1.66%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.66%) CircleCI
5 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.66%) ERwin
6 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.32%) JMeter
6 4 (1.32%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.99%) DBeaver
7 3 (0.99%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.99%) Maven
8 2 (0.66%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.66%) TestRail
8 2 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 105 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.87%) Finance
3 54 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.93%) Telecoms
5 32 (10.60%) Public Sector
6 29 (9.60%) Banking
7 15 (4.97%) Legal
8 13 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.97%) Marketing
10 9 (2.98%) Electronics
11 7 (2.32%) Retail
12 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.99%) Automotive
14 3 (0.99%) French Language
14 3 (0.99%) Games
15 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Military
16 1 (0.33%) Advertising
16 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (23.18%) Architect
2 43 (14.24%) Developer
3 33 (10.93%) Senior
4 28 (9.27%) Data Engineer
5 21 (6.95%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (6.62%) Analyst
7 18 (5.96%) Security Architect
8 17 (5.63%) Lead
9 16 (5.30%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.64%) Software Engineer
11 12 (3.97%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.64%) Tester
13 10 (3.31%) Applications Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.98%) Automation Tester
14 9 (2.98%) GCP Architect
14 9 (2.98%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.62%) Kafka
2 21 (6.95%) .NET
2 21 (6.95%) HTML
3 20 (6.62%) RESTful
4 19 (6.29%) CSS
5 12 (3.97%) Node.js
6 11 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 11 (3.64%) React
7 10 (3.31%) SOAP
8 8 (2.65%) Middleware
8 8 (2.65%) NumPy
8 8 (2.65%) PySpark
8 8 (2.65%) SAML
8 8 (2.65%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.32%) Pandas
9 7 (2.32%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.32%) REST
10 6 (1.99%) OpenAPI
10 6 (1.99%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.31%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.65%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.32%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.32%) PKI
8 6 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.66%) Clustering
9 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.66%) NHS
9 5 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.32%) Derivative
10 4 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.91%) Linux
2 27 (8.94%) Windows
3 19 (6.29%) Unix
4 11 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.99%) Android
6 5 (1.66%) AIX
6 5 (1.66%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (35.43%) CI/CD
2 105 (34.77%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (26.16%) DevOps
4 78 (25.83%) Agile
5 55 (18.21%) Containerisation
6 49 (16.23%) Computer Science
6 49 (16.23%) ETL
7 48 (15.89%) Microservices
8 47 (15.56%) Software Engineering
9 45 (14.90%) Analytics
10 42 (13.91%) Migration
11 37 (12.25%) Data Modelling
11 37 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
11 37 (12.25%) Test Automation
12 34 (11.26%) Data Governance
13 31 (10.26%) Data Science
14 29 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (8.94%) Data Engineering
16 27 (8.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 125 (41.39%) Python
2 81 (26.82%) SQL
3 43 (14.24%) Java
4 33 (10.93%) JavaScript
5 27 (8.94%) Bash
6 18 (5.96%) C#
7 16 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.64%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.97%) Go
10 9 (2.98%) Scala
11 6 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.66%) Perl
13 4 (1.32%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.32%) HiveQL
13 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.99%) C
14 3 (0.99%) Groovy
15 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.66%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 60 (19.87%) Degree
2 50 (16.56%) Security Cleared
3 42 (13.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (12.91%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.93%) Azure Certification
6 24 (7.95%) AWS Certification
7 19 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (5.30%) CISSP
9 15 (4.97%) CISM
10 13 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.30%) DV Cleared
11 11 (3.64%) Master's Degree
12 10 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (2.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (1.99%) CEH
15 5 (1.66%) CCSP
15 5 (1.66%) PMI Certification
15 5 (1.66%) PMP
16 4 (1.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.95%) QA
3 18 (5.96%) GDPR
4 15 (4.97%) NIST
5 11 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.65%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.99%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.32%) Basel III
8 4 (1.32%) COBIT
8 4 (1.32%) MiFID
9 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 70 (23.18%) Docker
2 14 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.99%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.66%) BitLocker
5 5 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (1.66%) Terminal Services
5 5 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.32%) HDFS
7 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (26.82%) Kubernetes
2 46 (15.23%) Terraform
3 40 (13.25%) Ansible
4 15 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.30%) Grafana
6 9 (2.98%) Puppet
7 7 (2.32%) logstash
8 6 (1.99%) Nagios
9 5 (1.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.66%) Istio
9 5 (1.66%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.66%) vMotion
10 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.66%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.66%) Control-M
11 2 (0.66%) Kiali
11 2 (0.66%) SCCM
12 1 (0.33%) CASB
12 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 135 (44.70%) Google
2 46 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.62%) Databricks
4 18 (5.96%) Oracle
5 13 (4.30%) VMware
6 10 (3.31%) IBM
6 10 (3.31%) SAP
6 10 (3.31%) Splunk
7 8 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.32%) Cisco
9 6 (1.99%) HP
10 5 (1.66%) Citrix
10 5 (1.66%) Informatica
10 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.66%) Symantec
11 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.32%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.32%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.32%) Sybase
11 4 (1.32%) Talend