GCP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 80 84
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 +46
Contract jobs citing GCP 88 30 33
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.98% 1.66% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.52% 5.14% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 18 24
10th Percentile £408 £363 £375
25th Percentile £468 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £594
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -18.57% +18.75%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £667
90th Percentile £790 £612 £746
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 764 584 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.57% 32.30% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 388 487
10th Percentile £304 £212 £200
25th Percentile £425 £372 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

GCP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Birmingham +17 35 £513 +28.13% 20
Warwickshire +16 29 £575 +15.00% 11
Shropshire -32 9 £496 +3.98% 19
Coventry -12 5 £431 - 20
Worcestershire - 5 £575 - 11
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 8
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.55%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Drupal
3 1 (1.14%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 68 (77.27%) AWS
2 55 (62.50%) Azure
3 24 (27.27%) Serverless
4 11 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (11.36%) Akamai
6 9 (10.23%) Apigee
6 9 (10.23%) Cloud Functions
7 7 (7.95%) GitHub
7 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.55%) AWS KMS
9 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (4.55%) Datadog
9 4 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (4.55%) npm
9 4 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.55%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.45%) Firewall
2 8 (9.09%) Wireshark
3 7 (7.95%) LAN
3 7 (7.95%) SD-WAN
3 7 (7.95%) WAN
3 7 (7.95%) WLAN
4 6 (6.82%) DNS
4 6 (6.82%) Network Security
4 6 (6.82%) VPN
5 5 (5.68%) BGP
5 5 (5.68%) IPv4
5 5 (5.68%) IPv6
5 5 (5.68%) MPLS
5 5 (5.68%) OSPF
5 5 (5.68%) VXLAN
6 4 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (4.55%) DHCP
6 4 (4.55%) EIGRP
6 4 (4.55%) VLAN
6 4 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (20.45%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.23%) MySQL
4 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.41%) Big Data
6 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.27%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.27%) Parquet
8 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.14%) Metadata
8 1 (1.14%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (22.73%) GitLab
3 16 (18.18%) Git
4 10 (11.36%) Liquibase
5 6 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 6 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.55%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.55%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.55%) Gradle
6 4 (4.55%) JUnit
6 4 (4.55%) Maven
6 4 (4.55%) Postman
6 4 (4.55%) Selenium
6 4 (4.55%) Snyk
6 4 (4.55%) webpack
7 3 (3.41%) JIRA
7 3 (3.41%) MLflow
8 1 (1.14%) PyCharm
General
1 45 (51.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Finance
3 18 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.05%) Banking
5 10 (11.36%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (15.91%) Architect
1 14 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
1 14 (15.91%) Senior
2 12 (13.64%) GCP Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Developer
4 9 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) GCP Developer
4 9 (10.23%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.95%) Cloud Developer
5 7 (7.95%) Data Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Engagement Manager
5 7 (7.95%) SAP Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) SAP Engagement Manager
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Network Architect
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.00%) REST
2 21 (23.86%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (20.45%) RESTful
4 10 (11.36%) Node.js
5 6 (6.82%) JSON
6 5 (5.68%) SailPoint
7 4 (4.55%) SAML
7 4 (4.55%) YAML
8 3 (3.41%) Flask
8 3 (3.41%) Middleware
8 3 (3.41%) NumPy
8 3 (3.41%) Pandas
9 2 (2.27%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (2.27%) Drush
9 2 (2.27%) OAuth
9 2 (2.27%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.27%) Web Services
9 2 (2.27%) XML
10 1 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.05%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (15.91%) Public Cloud
4 11 (12.50%) Security Posture
5 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.55%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.41%) Operational Technology
8 3 (3.41%) SCADA
9 2 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.14%) Animation
10 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (26.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) VMS
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) CI/CD
2 44 (50.00%) DevOps
3 34 (38.64%) Agile
4 30 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 27 (30.68%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (23.86%) Computer Science
6 21 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (21.59%) Change Management
7 19 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (20.45%) Microservices
9 17 (19.32%) Software Engineering
10 16 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
11 15 (17.05%) High Availability
11 15 (17.05%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (15.91%) Cryptography
12 14 (15.91%) Test Automation
13 13 (14.77%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (14.77%) DevSecOps
13 13 (14.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.91%) Python
2 17 (19.32%) Go
2 17 (19.32%) SQL
3 6 (6.82%) VBA
4 5 (5.68%) Bash
4 5 (5.68%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) Groovy
5 2 (2.27%) PHP
5 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.27%) Ruby
5 2 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) Degree
2 17 (19.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (19.32%) Security Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) Master's Degree
4 9 (10.23%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.23%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.82%) CCIE
5 6 (6.82%) CCNP
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.68%) CISSP
6 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (4.55%) CCSP
8 3 (3.41%) CCIE Security
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.27%) JNCIE
9 2 (2.27%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) GDPR
1 9 (10.23%) NIST
1 9 (10.23%) QA
2 7 (7.95%) PCI DSS
3 6 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 25 (28.41%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (31.82%) Terraform
2 27 (30.68%) Kubernetes
3 25 (28.41%) Ansible
4 18 (20.45%) Grafana
4 18 (20.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.09%) CSIRT
6 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.68%) Puppet
7 4 (4.55%) Podman
8 2 (2.27%) Argo
8 2 (2.27%) Istio
9 1 (1.14%) Kibana
9 1 (1.14%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Splunk
2 23 (26.14%) Google
3 15 (17.05%) F5
3 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
4 10 (11.36%) SAP
5 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 7 (7.95%) Cisco
6 7 (7.95%) Fortinet
6 7 (7.95%) Palo Alto
7 5 (5.68%) Meraki
7 5 (5.68%) Okta
7 5 (5.68%) VMware
8 4 (4.55%) Juniper
8 4 (4.55%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.27%) Ariba
9 2 (2.27%) Citrix
9 2 (2.27%) Cloudera
9 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.27%) Forcepoint
9 2 (2.27%) MuleSoft