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 10 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 142 141
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 356 350 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.04% 1.65% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.19% 5.23% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 271 413
10th Percentile £318 £350 £425
25th Percentile £400 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £768
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £52.82 £26.50
25th Percentile - £56.26 £34.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.55% +29.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £67.00 £62.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £68.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.71% +163.46% -56.67%

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 4,954 6,696 10,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.40% 31.57% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,171 4,857 7,702
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 246 263
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £33.93 £23.43 £19.71
Median % change year-on-year +44.85% +18.85% +3.74%
75th Percentile £69.69 £55.00 £34.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £70.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +6.06% +46.67% +5.16%

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 10 October 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
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 10 October 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 +45 157 £535 +1.90% 102
Yorkshire +33 98 £550 +8.37% 27
South East +31 74 £500 -16.67% 93
North West +19 47 £513 -6.82% 62
East of England +19 33 £320 -42.34% 25
Scotland +21 31 £475 -5.00% 20
Midlands -26 31 £500 - 41
South West +5 21 £550 -12.00% 38
West Midlands -5 20 £612 +2.00% 26
Wales +4 12 £438 +28.68% 17
North East +3 12 £485 +21.25% 15
East Midlands -16 11 £356 -28.80% 15
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 41 (11.52%) Apache Spark
2 29 (8.15%) Confluence
3 18 (5.06%) Apache
4 11 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.97%) CMS
6 5 (1.40%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.40%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.56%) WordPress
9 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 245 (68.82%) AWS
2 229 (64.33%) Azure
3 34 (9.55%) GitHub
4 25 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.93%) Serverless
7 13 (3.65%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.37%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.09%) Google Compute Engine
9 11 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (2.81%) OCI
11 9 (2.53%) Apigee
11 9 (2.53%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 9 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (2.53%) Kong
11 9 (2.53%) PaaS
12 8 (2.25%) AWS Direct Connect
12 8 (2.25%) Google Tag Manager
13 7 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.99%) VPN
2 27 (7.58%) Firewall
3 24 (6.74%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.78%) DNS
4 17 (4.78%) MPLS
5 16 (4.49%) BGP
6 14 (3.93%) HTTP
6 14 (3.93%) Network Security
7 12 (3.37%) SD-WAN
7 12 (3.37%) WAN
8 9 (2.53%) SMTP
9 8 (2.25%) DHCP
9 8 (2.25%) LAN
9 8 (2.25%) SSL
10 7 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (1.97%) NGFW
10 7 (1.97%) OSPF
10 7 (1.97%) VLAN
11 6 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 6 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.76%) BigQuery
2 27 (7.58%) Big Data
3 26 (7.30%) NoSQL
4 25 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.90%) Data Lake
5 21 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (5.90%) Hadoop
5 21 (5.90%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.62%) Power BI
7 17 (4.78%) MySQL
8 16 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.49%) Spark SQL
8 16 (4.49%) Tableau
9 14 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.09%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (2.53%) Looker
13 6 (1.69%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 64 (17.98%) Git
2 51 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 51 (14.33%) JIRA
3 26 (7.30%) GitLab
4 20 (5.62%) CircleCI
5 14 (3.93%) Artifactory
5 14 (3.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (3.65%) Travis CI
7 12 (3.37%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.25%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.69%) JUnit
9 6 (1.69%) Maven
9 6 (1.69%) Mockito
10 4 (1.12%) Mercurial
11 3 (0.84%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.56%) Flyway
12 2 (0.56%) Hudson
12 2 (0.56%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 87 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (15.73%) Finance
4 26 (7.30%) Banking
5 24 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 17 (4.78%) Marketing
8 13 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.25%) Electronics
11 7 (1.97%) Legal
12 6 (1.69%) Billing
13 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.84%) Law
16 2 (0.56%) Retail
17 1 (0.28%) Automotive
17 1 (0.28%) Military
17 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (27.53%) Architect
2 58 (16.29%) Developer
3 51 (14.33%) Senior
4 30 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
5 25 (7.02%) Data Engineer
6 23 (6.46%) Analyst
7 22 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 21 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (5.62%) Lead
10 19 (5.34%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (4.78%) GCP Architect
12 14 (3.93%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.65%) Consultant
13 13 (3.65%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.37%) AWS Architect
14 12 (3.37%) Senior Architect
15 11 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.09%) GCP Engineer
16 9 (2.53%) Data Architect
16 9 (2.53%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.48%) Kafka
2 29 (8.15%) RESTful
3 28 (7.87%) REST
4 25 (7.02%) Spring
5 22 (6.18%) PySpark
6 21 (5.90%) Spring Boot
7 19 (5.34%) SOAP
8 18 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (4.21%) HTML
9 15 (4.21%) SAML
10 14 (3.93%) CSS
10 14 (3.93%) React
11 12 (3.37%) JSON
11 12 (3.37%) XML
11 12 (3.37%) YAML
12 11 (3.09%) .NET
12 11 (3.09%) Node.js
13 10 (2.81%) .NET Framework
13 10 (2.81%) Web Services
13 10 (2.81%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.83%) Public Cloud
2 19 (5.34%) Data Structures
3 18 (5.06%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.93%) Low-Code
5 14 (3.93%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.69%) CMDB
8 6 (1.69%) PKI
8 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.12%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.12%) Replication
10 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 55 (15.45%) Linux
2 24 (6.74%) Windows
3 15 (4.21%) Unix
4 9 (2.53%) CentOS
5 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.69%) Android
7 5 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.40%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.56%) AIX
9 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) zOS
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (30.06%) CI/CD
2 103 (28.93%) DevOps
3 95 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
4 94 (26.40%) Agile
5 70 (19.66%) Containerisation
6 56 (15.73%) Data Modelling
7 47 (13.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (12.92%) Computer Science
9 43 (12.08%) ETL
9 43 (12.08%) Microservices
10 39 (10.96%) Scrum
10 39 (10.96%) Software Engineering
11 37 (10.39%) Data Integration
12 35 (9.83%) Analytics
12 35 (9.83%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (8.43%) Data Governance
14 29 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
14 29 (8.15%) Data Science
14 29 (8.15%) Task Automation
15 28 (7.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 150 (42.13%) Python
2 90 (25.28%) SQL
3 83 (23.31%) Java
4 42 (11.80%) Bash
5 33 (9.27%) PowerShell
6 32 (8.99%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.06%) Perl
7 18 (5.06%) Scala
8 12 (3.37%) R
8 12 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.25%) C#
10 7 (1.97%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.69%) Go
12 4 (1.12%) C
13 3 (0.84%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.84%) C++
14 2 (0.56%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.56%) Groovy
14 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (15.73%) Degree
2 44 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.25%) CCNP
8 5 (1.40%) CISSP
8 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.12%) CCIE
9 4 (1.12%) CCNA
9 4 (1.12%) CEH
9 4 (1.12%) CISM
9 4 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.12%) VCAP
10 3 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.84%) CCSP
10 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.84%) OSCP
11 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.78%) QA
3 14 (3.93%) GDPR
4 9 (2.53%) NIST
5 6 (1.69%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.84%) COBIT
8 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 74 (20.79%) Docker
2 18 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.97%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.40%) HDFS
7 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.84%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.84%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.28%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) Lustre
9 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (26.97%) Kubernetes
2 71 (19.94%) Terraform
3 52 (14.61%) Ansible
4 32 (8.99%) Grafana
5 24 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.90%) Progress Chef
6 21 (5.90%) Puppet
7 12 (3.37%) logstash
7 12 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.53%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.53%) Kibana
9 7 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (1.97%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.40%) Zipkin
11 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.12%) SCCM
12 3 (0.84%) OPNET
12 3 (0.84%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.84%) vMotion
12 3 (0.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 155 (43.54%) Google
2 47 (13.20%) Microsoft
3 33 (9.27%) Oracle
4 21 (5.90%) VMware
5 19 (5.34%) Red Hat
6 16 (4.49%) Databricks
6 16 (4.49%) Splunk
7 14 (3.93%) IBM
8 13 (3.65%) SAP
9 12 (3.37%) Cloudera
10 10 (2.81%) CheckPoint
10 10 (2.81%) Fortinet
10 10 (2.81%) Juniper
10 10 (2.81%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.25%) Cisco
11 8 (2.25%) F5
12 7 (1.97%) Citrix
12 7 (1.97%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.69%) Okta
14 5 (1.40%) HP