GCP Developer Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Developer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Developer daily rate in the UK is £606 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 689 804
Rank change year-on-year +110 +115 -163
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Developer 15 27 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.045% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.048% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 35
10th Percentile £490 £506 £448
25th Percentile £513 £550 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% - +23.81%
75th Percentile £713 £706 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -1.36% -15.38% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

GCP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GCP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Developer in the UK

GCP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Developer.

Daily rate trend for GCP Developer in the UK

GCP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Developer in the UK

GCP Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +107 15 £606 -6.73% 2
Work from Home +126 13 £613 +2.08% 1
London +98 12 £613 -7.55% 2
UK excluding London +63 2 £543 -1.36%
East of England - 2 £543 -

GCP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, GCP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring GCP Developer in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) GCP
2 9 (60.00%) Google
3 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 5 (33.33%) Python
5 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 5 (33.33%) React
6 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) GitLab
6 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
6 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (20.00%) Django
7 3 (20.00%) Azure
7 3 (20.00%) AWS
7 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
7 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
7 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (20.00%) HTML
7 3 (20.00%) CSS
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering

GCP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Apigee
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) Django
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
3 2 (13.33%) OpenID
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
3 2 (13.33%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) YAML
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Data Science
3 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) API Design
4 2 (13.33%) API Management
4 2 (13.33%) B2B
4 2 (13.33%) B2C
4 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
4 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (13.33%) Non-Blocking Code
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
1 2 (13.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Google