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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 167 161
Rank change year-on-year +65 -6 -26
Contract jobs citing GCP 312 258 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.45% 1.24% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.63% 4.72% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 178 283
10th Percentile £313 £346 £401
25th Percentile £403 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £604 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £707
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £68.62 £29.20 £32.65
25th Percentile £70.30 £31.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £74.35 £35.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.43% -46.56% +58.79%
75th Percentile £77.15 £61.50 £70.26
90th Percentile £78.08 £77.40 £76.11
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £70.18
% change year-on-year +8.25% -30.89% +47.74%

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 4,089 5,468 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 26.31% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,910 3,861 5,955
10th Percentile £238 £213 £240
25th Percentile £390 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 255 239
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.52
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -26.17% +28.00%
75th Percentile £34.38 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.63 £59.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.95% -40.00% +62.79%

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 26 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 26 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 +33 117 £550 +4.76% 300
South East +85 64 £575 +22.67% 259
Yorkshire +21 60 £525 -4.55% 81
North West +31 55 £575 +12.20% 198
South West +34 34 £548 -2.67% 99
Midlands +24 34 £455 -24.17% 112
Wales +24 24 £446 -17.22% 27
East of England +22 22 £500 - 65
West Midlands +13 22 £500 -14.89% 74
Scotland +17 20 £575 -4.17% 87
East Midlands +23 12 £391 -21.80% 33
Northern Ireland -4 5 £475 -29.63% 34
North East -3 2 £463 -22.92% 21
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 19 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.77%) Apache
3 15 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.56%) Confluence
4 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.28%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.28%) Mule
6 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.60%) Kondor
2 4 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 226 (72.44%) AWS
2 206 (66.03%) Azure
3 22 (7.05%) Power Platform
3 22 (7.05%) Snowflake
4 17 (5.45%) GitHub
4 17 (5.45%) PaaS
5 11 (3.53%) IaaS
6 10 (3.21%) SaaS
7 9 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.24%) dbt
10 6 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.92%) Google Compute Engine
11 5 (1.60%) Asana
12 4 (1.28%) Apigee
12 4 (1.28%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.73%) Firewall
2 20 (6.41%) VPN
3 15 (4.81%) DNS
4 13 (4.17%) Network Security
5 12 (3.85%) DHCP
5 12 (3.85%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.53%) BGP
6 11 (3.53%) MPLS
6 11 (3.53%) VLAN
7 8 (2.56%) SMTP
8 6 (1.92%) HTTP
9 5 (1.60%) WAN
10 4 (1.28%) OSPF
10 4 (1.28%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.28%) SSL
11 3 (0.96%) NGFW
11 3 (0.96%) VoIP
12 2 (0.64%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.64%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (9.29%) BigQuery
3 26 (8.33%) Big Data
4 18 (5.77%) Power BI
5 17 (5.45%) Tableau
6 16 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.81%) MongoDB
8 14 (4.49%) Data Lake
8 14 (4.49%) Hadoop
8 14 (4.49%) NoSQL
8 14 (4.49%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (4.17%) Looker
10 12 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.53%) Flink
11 11 (3.53%) Metadata
12 10 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.92%) MySQL
15 5 (1.60%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 28 (8.97%) JIRA
2 26 (8.33%) Git
3 23 (7.37%) GitLab
4 21 (6.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.92%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.60%) ERwin
7 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.28%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.28%) JMeter
7 4 (1.28%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.96%) DBeaver
8 3 (0.96%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.96%) Maven
9 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.64%) Introscope
9 2 (0.64%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.64%) Mocha
9 2 (0.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 116 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.63%) Finance
3 51 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.78%) Public Sector
5 30 (9.62%) Telecoms
6 29 (9.29%) Banking
7 15 (4.81%) Legal
8 13 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.85%) Marketing
10 8 (2.56%) Electronics
11 7 (2.24%) Retail
12 5 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.28%) French Language
14 3 (0.96%) Automotive
14 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.96%) Military
15 2 (0.64%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.64%) Games
15 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (23.40%) Architect
2 50 (16.03%) Developer
3 34 (10.90%) Senior
4 29 (9.29%) Data Engineer
5 23 (7.37%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.45%) Analyst
8 15 (4.81%) Lead
9 14 (4.49%) Security Architect
10 12 (3.85%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.53%) Data Analyst
11 11 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.21%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.21%) GCP Architect
12 10 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (2.88%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.33%) Kafka
2 23 (7.37%) RESTful
3 21 (6.73%) .NET
3 21 (6.73%) HTML
4 19 (6.09%) CSS
5 12 (3.85%) SOAP
6 10 (3.21%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.21%) Node.js
6 10 (3.21%) NumPy
6 10 (3.21%) Pandas
6 10 (3.21%) PySpark
6 10 (3.21%) React
6 10 (3.21%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.88%) PyTorch
8 8 (2.56%) Middleware
8 8 (2.56%) REST
8 8 (2.56%) scikit-learn
9 7 (2.24%) Apache Beam
10 6 (1.92%) Flask
10 6 (1.92%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.21%) PKI
6 9 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.88%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.56%) Clustering
7 8 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) NHS
10 5 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.60%) Derivative
10 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.82%) Linux
2 28 (8.97%) Windows
3 15 (4.81%) Unix
4 13 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.28%) AIX
5 4 (1.28%) Android
5 4 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Solaris
8 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.97%) CI/CD
2 104 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (24.68%) DevOps
4 72 (23.08%) Agile
5 52 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 52 (16.67%) ETL
6 46 (14.74%) Containerisation
6 46 (14.74%) Microservices
7 45 (14.42%) Analytics
7 45 (14.42%) Migration
8 43 (13.78%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (13.46%) Software Engineering
10 41 (13.14%) Data Modelling
11 37 (11.86%) Data Governance
12 35 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 34 (10.90%) Data Science
14 32 (10.26%) Machine Learning
15 31 (9.94%) Data Engineering
16 28 (8.97%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (39.74%) Python
2 87 (27.88%) SQL
3 37 (11.86%) JavaScript
4 36 (11.54%) Java
5 28 (8.97%) Bash
6 22 (7.05%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.77%) C#
8 14 (4.49%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.21%) Scala
10 9 (2.88%) Go
11 8 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.60%) Perl
12 5 (1.60%) R
13 4 (1.28%) DataWeave
13 4 (1.28%) Groovy
14 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.64%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.64%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.64%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (20.83%) Degree
2 50 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 43 (13.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (11.22%) Azure Certification
5 34 (10.90%) SC Cleared
6 28 (8.97%) AWS Certification
7 19 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.45%) DV Cleared
8 17 (5.45%) Master's Degree
9 11 (3.53%) CISSP
10 10 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.56%) CISM
12 7 (2.24%) CCNP
12 7 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.60%) CEH
14 4 (1.28%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.28%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.28%) PMI Certification
14 4 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.37%) QA
3 20 (6.41%) GDPR
4 11 (3.53%) NIST
5 10 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.24%) Basel III
6 7 (2.24%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.24%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.60%) MiFID
8 4 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (20.19%) Docker
2 13 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.56%) BitLocker
5 8 (2.56%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (2.56%) Terminal Services
5 8 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 74 (23.72%) Kubernetes
2 43 (13.78%) Terraform
3 35 (11.22%) Ansible
4 12 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.53%) Grafana
5 11 (3.53%) Puppet
6 9 (2.88%) Nagios
7 8 (2.56%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.56%) vMotion
8 5 (1.60%) logstash
9 4 (1.28%) Istio
10 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.64%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.64%) Control-M
11 2 (0.64%) Kiali
11 2 (0.64%) Kibana
11 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (45.83%) Google
2 53 (16.99%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.01%) Databricks
4 16 (5.13%) Oracle
5 14 (4.49%) VMware
6 13 (4.17%) SAP
7 12 (3.85%) IBM
7 12 (3.85%) Splunk
8 9 (2.88%) HP
9 8 (2.56%) Cisco
9 8 (2.56%) Citrix
9 8 (2.56%) Symantec
10 7 (2.24%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.60%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.60%) Sybase
12 4 (1.28%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.28%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto