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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 100 85
Rank change year-on-year +22 -15 +37
Contract jobs citing GCP 27 16 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.82% 0.78% 2.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 3.31% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 38
10th Percentile £477 £501 £463
25th Percentile £538 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £638 £613
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +4.08% +2.94%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £700
90th Percentile - £706 £763
England median daily rate £575 £600 £621
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.42% +3.46%

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 463 484 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.14% 23.60% 36.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 358 574
10th Percentile £204 £202 £263
25th Percentile £388 £329 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +0.20%
75th Percentile £597 £611 £609
90th Percentile £674 £688 £700
England median daily rate £516 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 4
10th Percentile £15.27 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.74 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £34.98 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £45.70 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.46 £34.90
% change year-on-year +16.52% -38.51% +62.31%

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 17 June 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 June 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 +7 9 £525 -12.50% 141
Warwickshire +2 7 £800 +18.52% 32
Solihull - 6 - -
Worcestershire - 3 £700 - 83
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Shropshire - 1 - - 161
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 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (96.30%) Azure
2 23 (85.19%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.70%) Alation
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (3.70%) Collibra
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Network Security
2 7 (25.93%) Firewall
3 2 (7.41%) BGP
3 2 (7.41%) DHCP
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) EIGRP
3 2 (7.41%) HTTP
3 2 (7.41%) IPsec
3 2 (7.41%) OSPF
3 2 (7.41%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (7.41%) SSL
3 2 (7.41%) TACACS
3 2 (7.41%) VLAN
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 2 (7.41%) Wireless
4 1 (3.70%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Big Data
2 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.41%) Metadata
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Product Owner
3 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) IT Architect
4 3 (11.11%) IT Security Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.41%) DBA
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (7.41%) JSON
2 2 (7.41%) Node.js
2 2 (7.41%) React
2 2 (7.41%) REST
2 2 (7.41%) XML
3 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Security Posture
2 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (18.52%) Operational Technology
3 5 (18.52%) SCADA
4 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.70%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Security
2 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Application Security
4 6 (22.22%) Coaching
4 6 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 6 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 6 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 6 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (18.52%) OWASP
5 5 (18.52%) Scrum
5 5 (18.52%) SDLC
6 4 (14.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.81%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Bash
2 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Go
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CEH
3 1 (3.70%) CISA
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) NIST
2 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (7.41%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Nagios
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Kibana
4 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.70%) logstash
4 1 (3.70%) Puppet
4 1 (3.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Google
3 6 (22.22%) Cisco
3 6 (22.22%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.41%) Arista
4 2 (7.41%) Citrix
4 2 (7.41%) Juniper
4 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.70%) Alibaba
5 1 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) Informatica
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk