Google Compute Engine Contracts

Google Compute Engine
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Google Compute Engine skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google Compute Engine over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 713 826
Rank change year-on-year +135 +113 -163
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 16 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.005% 0.033%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.014% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile £400 £618 £636
25th Percentile £450 £644 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £569 £844 £759
90th Percentile £638 £893 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £650

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Compute Engine is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,985 22,031 34,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,926 15,923 24,891
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Compute Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Compute Engine.

Daily rate trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Compute Engine over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Compute Engine 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 +130 16 £500 -31.03% 4
London +117 13 £500 -31.03% 3
Work from Home +127 3 £625 -13.79% 2
UK excluding London - 2 £625 - 1
North of England - 2 £625 -
Yorkshire - 2 £625 -

Google Compute Engine
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (68.75%) Vertex AI
3 2 (12.50%) CloudBees
3 2 (12.50%) Google App Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (12.50%) Looker
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
1 6 (37.50%) GCP Architect
2 5 (31.25%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.25%) Express.js
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) Vue
1 1 (6.25%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (75.00%) Analytics
3 11 (68.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (68.75%) Generative AI
3 11 (68.75%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (68.75%) Resource Management
3 11 (68.75%) Security Monitoring
4 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 10 (62.50%) Data Science
4 10 (62.50%) Machine Learning
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (12.50%) Coaching
7 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 2 (12.50%) ETL
7 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 2 (12.50%) SDLC
7 2 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google