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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 88 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +34
Contract jobs citing GCP 56 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.06% 0.95% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.48% 3.32% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 7 19
10th Percentile £405 £515 £463
25th Percentile £463 £581 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £612 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -9.33% +13.92%
75th Percentile £600 - £725
90th Percentile £800 £667 £800
England median daily rate £550 £612 £615
% change year-on-year -10.13% -0.49% -1.60%

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 591 542 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.30% 28.53% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 364 527
10th Percentile £273 £213 £209
25th Percentile £413 £352 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +9 19 £488 -20.41% 12
Warwickshire +12 17 £625 - 7
Solihull - 6 - -
Shropshire - 5 £496 - 4
Worcestershire - 4 £563 - 4
Coventry -7 1 £388 -29.55% 6
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
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 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.57%) Confluence
1 2 (3.57%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) AWS
2 40 (71.43%) Azure
3 9 (16.07%) Akamai
3 9 (16.07%) Serverless
4 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.71%) GitHub
5 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.93%) Apigee
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.36%) Lucidchart
8 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.57%) Matillion
9 2 (3.57%) npm
9 2 (3.57%) Nutanix
9 2 (3.57%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.79%) Firewall
2 10 (17.86%) Network Security
3 7 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 4 (7.14%) DNS
5 3 (5.36%) SSL
6 2 (3.57%) BGP
6 2 (3.57%) DHCP
6 2 (3.57%) EIGRP
6 2 (3.57%) HTTP
6 2 (3.57%) IPsec
6 2 (3.57%) OSPF
6 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.57%) SSH
6 2 (3.57%) TACACS
6 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.57%) VLAN
6 2 (3.57%) VPN
6 2 (3.57%) Wireless
7 1 (1.79%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.57%) Big Data
4 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.57%) Parquet
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.79%) Metadata
5 1 (1.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.50%) GitLab
3 6 (10.71%) Git
4 4 (7.14%) Liquibase
4 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 4 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.36%) MLflow
6 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.57%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.57%) Gradle
6 2 (3.57%) JUnit
6 2 (3.57%) Maven
6 2 (3.57%) Postman
6 2 (3.57%) Selenium
6 2 (3.57%) Snyk
6 2 (3.57%) webpack
7 1 (1.79%) JIRA
7 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Architect
2 8 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Security Architect
3 6 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.93%) Developer
4 5 (8.93%) GCP Developer
4 5 (8.93%) SAP Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Engagement Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Product Owner
5 4 (7.14%) SAP Engagement Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (5.36%) IT Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (14.29%) REST
3 6 (10.71%) RESTful
4 4 (7.14%) JSON
5 3 (5.36%) Middleware
5 3 (5.36%) Node.js
6 2 (3.57%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.57%) Flask
6 2 (3.57%) NumPy
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.57%) Pandas
6 2 (3.57%) XML
6 2 (3.57%) YAML
7 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.79%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.93%) Operational Technology
3 5 (8.93%) SCADA
4 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Animation
6 1 (1.79%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) VMS
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 24 (42.86%) DevOps
3 22 (39.29%) Agile
4 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 13 (23.21%) Application Security
8 12 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 12 (21.43%) OWASP
9 11 (19.64%) Change Management
9 11 (19.64%) DevSecOps
10 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
12 8 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 8 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 7 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
13 7 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
13 7 (12.50%) Microservices
13 7 (12.50%) Project Management
13 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) Bash
4 6 (10.71%) Go
5 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) Groovy
6 2 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) CEH
7 1 (1.79%) CISA
7 1 (1.79%) CISM
7 1 (1.79%) CISSP
7 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) NIST
2 6 (10.71%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.79%) NCSC
5 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 9 (16.07%) Terraform
4 8 (14.29%) Grafana
4 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 7 (12.50%) CSIRT
6 4 (7.14%) Puppet
7 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.57%) Argo
8 2 (3.57%) Istio
8 2 (3.57%) Nagios
8 2 (3.57%) Podman
9 1 (1.79%) Kibana
9 1 (1.79%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.79%) logstash
9 1 (1.79%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Splunk
3 12 (21.43%) Google
4 9 (16.07%) F5
5 7 (12.50%) SAP
6 6 (10.71%) Cisco
6 6 (10.71%) Salesforce
7 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.57%) Arista
8 2 (3.57%) Citrix
8 2 (3.57%) Cloudera
8 2 (3.57%) Juniper
8 2 (3.57%) MuleSoft
8 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.79%) Ariba
9 1 (1.79%) Databricks
9 1 (1.79%) IBM
9 1 (1.79%) Informatica
9 1 (1.79%) Okta
9 1 (1.79%) Red Hat