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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 86 85
Rank change year-on-year +25 -1 +39
Contract jobs citing GCP 82 26 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.05% 1.38% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.34% 4.54% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 12 17
10th Percentile £408 £464 £350
25th Percentile £468 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -17.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £712
90th Percentile £800 - £770
England median daily rate £540 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.04% -2.00%

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 723 573 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.72% 30.35% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 377 495
10th Percentile £300 £238 £200
25th Percentile £413 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile £25.82 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £30.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +8.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £40.45 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +19 34 £500 +2.56% 9
Warwickshire +20 22 £600 +14.29% 7
Worcestershire - 6 £575 - 6
Solihull - 6 - - 1
Shropshire -35 5 £496 +3.98% 1
Coventry -10 4 £475 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
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 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.88%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.44%) Apache
2 2 (2.44%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) Drupal
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.22%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 64 (78.05%) AWS
2 50 (60.98%) Azure
3 23 (28.05%) Serverless
4 12 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (12.20%) Akamai
6 9 (10.98%) Apigee
6 9 (10.98%) Cloud Functions
7 7 (8.54%) GitHub
7 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.88%) AWS KMS
8 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (4.88%) Datadog
8 4 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.88%) npm
8 4 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.88%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.39%) Firewall
2 8 (9.76%) DNS
2 8 (9.76%) Wireshark
3 7 (8.54%) BGP
3 7 (8.54%) OSPF
4 6 (7.32%) DHCP
4 6 (7.32%) EIGRP
4 6 (7.32%) Network Security
4 6 (7.32%) VLAN
4 6 (7.32%) VPN
4 6 (7.32%) Wireless
5 5 (6.10%) IPv4
5 5 (6.10%) IPv6
5 5 (6.10%) LAN
5 5 (6.10%) MPLS
5 5 (6.10%) SD-WAN
5 5 (6.10%) VXLAN
5 5 (6.10%) WAN
5 5 (6.10%) WLAN
6 4 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (21.95%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.98%) MySQL
4 7 (8.54%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.88%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.66%) Big Data
6 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.44%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.44%) Parquet
8 1 (1.22%) Metadata
8 1 (1.22%) Pentaho
8 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Jenkins
2 21 (25.61%) GitLab
3 15 (18.29%) Git
4 10 (12.20%) Liquibase
5 6 (7.32%) SonarQube
5 6 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.88%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.88%) CircleCI
6 4 (4.88%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.88%) Gradle
6 4 (4.88%) JUnit
6 4 (4.88%) Maven
6 4 (4.88%) Postman
6 4 (4.88%) Selenium
6 4 (4.88%) Snyk
6 4 (4.88%) webpack
7 3 (3.66%) JIRA
7 3 (3.66%) MLflow
8 1 (1.22%) PyCharm
General
1 43 (52.44%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.93%) Finance
3 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.07%) Banking
5 10 (12.20%) Financial Institution
6 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.07%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Architect
2 12 (14.63%) GCP Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Senior
3 11 (13.41%) Developer
4 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) GCP Developer
5 9 (10.98%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Cloud Developer
6 7 (8.54%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Network Architect
8 5 (6.10%) SAP Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Engagement Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Product Owner
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) Elastic Stack
1 21 (25.61%) REST
2 18 (21.95%) RESTful
3 10 (12.20%) Node.js
4 6 (7.32%) JSON
5 4 (4.88%) YAML
6 3 (3.66%) Middleware
7 2 (2.44%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (2.44%) Drush
7 2 (2.44%) Flask
7 2 (2.44%) NumPy
7 2 (2.44%) OAuth
7 2 (2.44%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.44%) Pandas
7 2 (2.44%) SailPoint
7 2 (2.44%) Web Services
7 2 (2.44%) XML
8 1 (1.22%) .NET
8 1 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.61%) Cloud Native
2 15 (18.29%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (17.07%) Public Cloud
4 11 (13.41%) Security Posture
5 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.88%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.66%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.66%) SCADA
8 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.22%) Animation
9 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.05%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
2 1 (1.22%) VMS
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (54.88%) CI/CD
2 42 (51.22%) DevOps
3 34 (41.46%) Agile
4 30 (36.59%) Containerisation
5 25 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (28.05%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (24.39%) Computer Science
9 18 (21.95%) Cost Optimisation
9 18 (21.95%) Microservices
10 17 (20.73%) Change Management
11 15 (18.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (18.29%) Software Engineering
12 14 (17.07%) Cryptography
12 14 (17.07%) Test Automation
13 13 (15.85%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (15.85%) DevSecOps
14 12 (14.63%) Continuous Delivery
15 11 (13.41%) Application Security
15 11 (13.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.68%) Python
2 18 (21.95%) SQL
3 17 (20.73%) Go
4 6 (7.32%) VBA
5 5 (6.10%) Bash
5 5 (6.10%) Java
6 2 (2.44%) Groovy
6 2 (2.44%) PHP
6 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.44%) Ruby
6 2 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (24.39%) Degree
2 16 (19.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 13 (15.85%) Master's Degree
4 8 (9.76%) AWS Certification
5 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
6 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (4.88%) CCIE
8 4 (4.88%) CCNP
8 4 (4.88%) CCSP
8 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.88%) CISSP
9 3 (3.66%) CCIE Security
10 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) JNCIE
10 2 (2.44%) JNCIP
11 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) NIST
2 7 (8.54%) GDPR
3 6 (7.32%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.32%) QA
4 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 27 (32.93%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (35.37%) Kubernetes
2 27 (32.93%) Terraform
3 24 (29.27%) Ansible
4 19 (23.17%) Grafana
4 19 (23.17%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.76%) CSIRT
6 6 (7.32%) Puppet
7 5 (6.10%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.88%) Podman
9 2 (2.44%) Argo
9 2 (2.44%) Istio
9 2 (2.44%) Nagios
10 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 26 (31.71%) Google
1 26 (31.71%) Splunk
2 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.29%) F5
4 11 (13.41%) Cisco
5 7 (8.54%) SAP
6 6 (7.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (7.32%) SolarWinds
7 5 (6.10%) Fortinet
7 5 (6.10%) Meraki
7 5 (6.10%) Palo Alto
7 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.88%) Juniper
8 4 (4.88%) VMware
9 2 (2.44%) Ariba
9 2 (2.44%) Arista
9 2 (2.44%) Citrix
9 2 (2.44%) Cloudera
9 2 (2.44%) Forcepoint
9 2 (2.44%) MuleSoft