Stackdriver Contracts

Google Stackdriver
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Stackdriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Stackdriver over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 568 642
Rank change year-on-year +22 +74 +204
Contract jobs citing Stackdriver 7 2 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.005% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.057% 0.015% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 27
10th Percentile £483 - £580
25th Percentile - £575 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £625 £700
90th Percentile £498 - £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £595
% change year-on-year - - +3.48%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Stackdriver 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,217 13,249 19,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.09% 33.79% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,186 9,247 13,997
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 270 342
10th Percentile £15.15 £14.16 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.41 £53.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £70.00 £78.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £26.50
% change year-on-year -11.70% -19.36% +32.50%

Stackdriver
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Stackdriver as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Stackdriver in the UK

Stackdriver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Stackdriver in the UK

Stackdriver
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 Stackdriver within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 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
England +16 5 £495 -17.50% 10
London - 5 £495 - 6
Work from Home +27 2 - - 3
UK excluding London - 2 £475 - 4
Scotland - 1 - -
South East - 1 £475 - 1

Stackdriver
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 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) GitHub
3 5 (71.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (57.14%) Apigee
5 2 (28.57%) AWS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
6 1 (14.29%) Datadog
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Gradle
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Node.js
2 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth
4 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
4 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
4 2 (28.57%) OpenID
4 2 (28.57%) Swagger
4 2 (28.57%) YAML
5 1 (14.29%) Fastify
5 1 (14.29%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (14.29%) Jest
5 1 (14.29%) JSON
5 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 3 (42.86%) High Availability
4 3 (42.86%) SOA
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Application Security
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) API Management
6 1 (14.29%) Brown Bag Session
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Puppet
4 3 (42.86%) Istio
5 1 (14.29%) Demisto
5 1 (14.29%) Fluentd
5 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Google
2 6 (85.71%) Splunk
3 4 (57.14%) MuleSoft
4 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 1 (14.29%) Intel