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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 158 163
Rank change year-on-year +49 +5 -29
Contract jobs citing GCP 293 273 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.33% 1.30% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.06% 4.80% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 188 292
10th Percentile £305 £363 £406
25th Percentile £367 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.43%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £671
90th Percentile £700 £688 £724
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £68.50 £30.65 £32.65
25th Percentile £70.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.06 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.90% -22.05% +58.79%
75th Percentile £78.10 £62.00 £70.26
90th Percentile £78.46 £77.60 £76.11
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £53.03 £68.50
% change year-on-year +0.89% -22.59% +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 4,152 5,684 8,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.95% 26.99% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,967 4,020 6,318
10th Percentile £238 £213 £238
25th Percentile £384 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -2.03% +2.14%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 257 261
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.13 £15.81
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% -20.04% +19.78%
75th Percentile £34.75 £26.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £60.57 £70.26
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.19% -23.64% +30.64%

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 1 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 1 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 +28 107 £550 +10.00% 235
South East +83 68 £575 +4.55% 265
Yorkshire +22 54 £525 +7.14% 63
North West +29 49 £624 +18.76% 146
South West +37 33 £606 +12.79% 84
Midlands +21 33 £465 -19.13% 97
West Midlands +11 21 £476 -17.22% 61
East of England +17 20 £468 -6.50% 58
Scotland +10 18 £575 -16.97% 55
Wales +20 17 £398 -26.22% 26
East Midlands +24 12 £374 -25.30% 33
Northern Ireland -1 5 £475 -29.63% 26
North East -4 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 (5.46%) Apache
2 12 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.75%) Confluence
4 10 (3.41%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.37%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.37%) Mule
5 4 (1.37%) SAS
6 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Kondor
2 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (74.06%) AWS
2 198 (67.58%) Azure
3 24 (8.19%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.80%) Snowflake
5 13 (4.44%) PaaS
6 12 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.75%) SaaS
8 9 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (2.73%) GitHub
10 7 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.39%) dbt
10 7 (2.39%) IaaS
11 6 (2.05%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (1.71%) Asana
13 4 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.37%) npm
13 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.12%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.78%) BGP
3 13 (4.44%) Firewall
3 13 (4.44%) MPLS
3 13 (4.44%) VLAN
3 13 (4.44%) VPN
4 10 (3.41%) Network Security
5 8 (2.73%) DNS
6 7 (2.39%) DHCP
7 6 (2.05%) HTTP
7 6 (2.05%) SSL
7 6 (2.05%) WAN
8 5 (1.71%) NGFW
8 5 (1.71%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.37%) SMTP
10 3 (1.02%) OSPF
10 3 (1.02%) VoIP
11 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.68%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (8.19%) BigQuery
3 20 (6.83%) Power BI
4 18 (6.14%) Big Data
5 14 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 13 (4.44%) Data Lake
6 13 (4.44%) Hadoop
6 13 (4.44%) Looker
6 13 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.44%) Tableau
7 12 (4.10%) Metadata
7 12 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.73%) MySQL
11 8 (2.73%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.05%) Flink
13 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.71%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 28 (9.56%) JIRA
2 23 (7.85%) Git
3 18 (6.14%) GitLab
4 17 (5.80%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.07%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.71%) ERwin
7 4 (1.37%) JMeter
7 4 (1.37%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.02%) DBeaver
8 3 (1.02%) ER Studio
8 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.68%) Mocha
9 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.68%) TestRail
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 104 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.45%) Finance
3 54 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.26%) Telecoms
5 31 (10.58%) Public Sector
6 27 (9.22%) Banking
7 15 (5.12%) Legal
8 13 (4.44%) Manufacturing
9 12 (4.10%) Marketing
10 9 (3.07%) Electronics
11 7 (2.39%) Retail
12 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.02%) Automotive
14 3 (1.02%) French Language
14 3 (1.02%) Games
15 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.68%) Military
16 1 (0.34%) Advertising
16 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (22.87%) Architect
2 43 (14.68%) Developer
3 29 (9.90%) Senior
4 28 (9.56%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (6.83%) Analyst
7 17 (5.80%) Lead
7 17 (5.80%) Security Architect
8 15 (5.12%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.10%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.10%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.75%) Tester
11 10 (3.41%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) Automation Tester
12 9 (3.07%) GCP Architect
12 9 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.17%) .NET
1 21 (7.17%) HTML
2 19 (6.48%) CSS
3 17 (5.80%) Kafka
4 16 (5.46%) RESTful
5 11 (3.75%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.41%) Node.js
6 10 (3.41%) SOAP
7 9 (3.07%) React
7 9 (3.07%) TensorFlow
8 8 (2.73%) Middleware
8 8 (2.73%) NumPy
8 8 (2.73%) PySpark
8 8 (2.73%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.73%) SAML
9 7 (2.39%) Pandas
9 7 (2.39%) REST
9 7 (2.39%) scikit-learn
10 6 (2.05%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.48%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.41%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.39%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.05%) PKI
8 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.71%) NHS
8 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.29%) Linux
2 26 (8.87%) Windows
3 17 (5.80%) Unix
4 10 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.05%) Android
6 5 (1.71%) AIX
6 5 (1.71%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (35.15%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (34.47%) CI/CD
3 77 (26.28%) Agile
4 76 (25.94%) DevOps
5 50 (17.06%) Computer Science
5 50 (17.06%) Containerisation
6 49 (16.72%) ETL
7 45 (15.36%) Analytics
8 44 (15.02%) Software Engineering
9 43 (14.68%) Microservices
10 42 (14.33%) Migration
11 37 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (11.60%) Data Governance
12 34 (11.60%) Data Modelling
13 33 (11.26%) Test Automation
14 32 (10.92%) Data Science
15 29 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (9.22%) Data Engineering
16 27 (9.22%) Machine Learning
17 26 (8.87%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.32%) Python
2 76 (25.94%) SQL
3 38 (12.97%) Java
4 33 (11.26%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.85%) Bash
6 18 (6.14%) C#
7 15 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.10%) Go
9 10 (3.41%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.07%) Scala
11 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.71%) Perl
13 4 (1.37%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.37%) HiveQL
13 4 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.02%) C
15 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (20.48%) Degree
2 49 (16.72%) Security Cleared
3 43 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (13.31%) SC Cleared
5 30 (10.24%) Azure Certification
6 24 (8.19%) AWS Certification
7 19 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (5.46%) CISSP
9 15 (5.12%) CISM
10 13 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (4.10%) DV Cleared
12 11 (3.75%) Master's Degree
13 10 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (2.05%) CEH
16 5 (1.71%) CCSP
16 5 (1.71%) PMI Certification
16 5 (1.71%) PMP
17 4 (1.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.19%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.17%) QA
3 18 (6.14%) GDPR
4 14 (4.78%) NIST
5 10 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.39%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.05%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.37%) Basel III
8 4 (1.37%) COBIT
8 4 (1.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 64 (21.84%) Docker
2 13 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.37%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.37%) HDFS
5 4 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.37%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (25.60%) Kubernetes
2 44 (15.02%) Terraform
3 39 (13.31%) Ansible
4 13 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.07%) Grafana
6 8 (2.73%) Puppet
7 7 (2.39%) logstash
8 5 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.71%) Nagios
9 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.37%) vMotion
10 3 (1.02%) Istio
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.68%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.68%) SCCM
12 1 (0.34%) CASB
12 1 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.34%) Consul
12 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 130 (44.37%) Google
2 45 (15.36%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.85%) Databricks
4 18 (6.14%) Oracle
5 12 (4.10%) VMware
6 10 (3.41%) IBM
6 10 (3.41%) SAP
7 8 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.73%) Splunk
8 7 (2.39%) Cisco
9 5 (1.71%) HP
9 5 (1.71%) Informatica
9 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.37%) Citrix
10 4 (1.37%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.37%) Denodo
10 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.37%) Sybase
10 4 (1.37%) Symantec
10 4 (1.37%) Talend