GCP Contracts in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 75 86 97
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing GCP 22 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.64% 1.28% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 5.33% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 35
10th Percentile £363 £466 £463
25th Percentile £405 £500 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £681 £650 £700
90th Percentile £791 £688 £741
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%

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 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 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 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
Birmingham +17 11 £438 -27.08% 30
Warwickshire +4 6 £575 -14.81% 7
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 5
Walsall - 2 £375 - 2
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Shropshire - 1 - - 6
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 18 (81.82%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Power Automate
3 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 4 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
2 1 (4.55%) DSL
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) Looker
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Junior
3 4 (18.18%) Junior Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Junior Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Flutter Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Analytics Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Information Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Middleware
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (9.09%) Flutter
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) WebAssembly
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) SCADA
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
5 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
5 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
6 4 (18.18%) B2B
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Data Extraction
6 4 (18.18%) DevSecOps
6 4 (18.18%) ERP
6 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (18.18%) Interface Catalogue
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CEH
4 1 (4.55%) CISA
4 1 (4.55%) CISM
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) NIST
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.55%) GDPR
4 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.55%) NCSC
4 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Kibana
3 1 (4.55%) logstash
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Alibaba
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk