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 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 22 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 114 | 60 | 93 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -54 | +33 | -6 |
| Contract jobs citing GCP | 60 | 78 | 21 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands | 1.68% | 3.97% | 1.12% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 5.19% | 11.73% | 3.73% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 39 | 54 | 8 |
| 10th Percentile | £450 | £408 | £471 |
| 25th Percentile | £489 | £468 | £494 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £540 | £525 | £594 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +2.86% | -11.54% | -1.08% |
| 75th Percentile | £632 | £588 | £612 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £800 | - |
| England median daily rate | £550 | £543 | £600 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.29% | -9.50% | -2.24% |
All Cloud Computing 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.
| 6 months to 22 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 1,157 | 665 | 563 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands | 32.41% | 33.81% | 29.90% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 782 | 465 | 369 |
| 10th Percentile | £320 | £300 | £228 |
| 25th Percentile | £406 | £420 | £363 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £513 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -7.32% | +2.50% | +5.26% |
| 75th Percentile | £606 | £600 | £612 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £700 | £688 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £530 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -5.66% | -1.40% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 53 | 9 | 11 |
| 10th Percentile | £17.48 | £25.82 | £16.00 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.75 | £27.21 | £25.84 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.50 | £30.00 | £33.93 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -28.33% | -11.58% | +83.41% |
| 75th Percentile | £49.50 | £34.98 | £35.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £75.00 | £40.45 | - |
| England median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -28.14% | +27.27% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands
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 22 October 2026.
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 22 October 2026. 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 | -15 | 20 | £613 | +22.50% | 47 |
| Warwickshire | -16 | 14 | £500 | -18.37% | 5 |
| Shropshire | -33 | 13 | £598 | +20.46% | 2 |
| Worcestershire | +4 | 3 | £575 | - | 2 |
| Coventry | -19 | 3 | £569 | +46.77% | 4 |
| Solihull | -17 | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Staffordshire | - | 2 | £725 | - | 14 |
| West Bromwich | - | 1 | £525 | - | |
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GCP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 83.3% | 50 |
| 2 | Azure | 71.7% | 43 |
| 3 | Power Platform | 13.3% | 8 |
| 4 | GitHub | 8.3% | 5 |
| 4 | GitHub Actions | 8.3% | 5 |
| 6 | AWS CloudFormation | 5.0% | 3 |
| 6 | Entra ID | 5.0% | 3 |
| 6 | Google Analytics | 5.0% | 3 |
| 6 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 5.0% | 3 |
| 6 | Google Tag Manager | 5.0% | 3 |
| 6 | OCI | 5.0% | 3 |
| 12 | Amazon EKS | 3.3% | 2 |
| 12 | Azure DevOps | 3.3% | 2 |
| 12 | Cloud Computing | 3.3% | 2 |
| 12 | Google Workspace | 3.3% | 2 |
| 12 | Microsoft 365 | 3.3% | 2 |
| 12 | Microsoft Purview | 3.3% | 2 |
| 12 | Serverless | 3.3% | 2 |
| 19 | Amazon CloudWatch | 1.7% | 1 |
| 19 | Amazon EC2 | 1.7% | 1 |