GCP Contracts in Wales

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 24 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.19% 0.76% 2.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.69% 2.11% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 2 16
10th Percentile £217 £401 £206
25th Percentile £253 £449 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £539 £565
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% -4.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £545 £619 £650
90th Percentile £598 £662 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +1.63%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.59% 35.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 118 138
10th Percentile £188 £159 £159
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £466
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.24% -1.84%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Wales

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Wales

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Wales

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales +25 23 £461 -14.52% 29
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) Azure
2 17 (70.83%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) PaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Metadata
2 5 (20.83%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (45.83%) Public Sector
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) GCP Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Migration Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.17%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) Node.js
1 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (8.33%) RESTful
1 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.17%) Angular 2
2 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) Express.js
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) HTML5
2 1 (4.17%) NestJS
2 1 (4.17%) NumPy
2 1 (4.17%) Pandas
2 1 (4.17%) Playwright
2 1 (4.17%) SciPy
2 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) NHS
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 9 (37.50%) Data Science
3 8 (33.33%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Data Analytics
4 7 (29.17%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 6 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
6 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.67%) ITIL
7 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Azure Certification
2 12 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 10 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (41.67%) Degree
3 10 (41.67%) Master's Degree
4 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (20.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (16.67%) CITP
6 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) Google
2 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Databricks
4 4 (16.67%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy