GCP Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire 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 38 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing GCP 17 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.92% 0.80% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.29% 4.00% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 4
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £644 - £647
90th Percentile £699 - £664
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 73 125 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.82% 19.94% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 85 184
10th Percentile £203 £180 £215
25th Percentile £325 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £588 £551 £652
90th Percentile £675 £638 £725
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -73.04% +100.00% +60.92%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Wiltshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Wiltshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Wiltshire 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
Swindon - 9 £360 - 1
Corsham +21 6 £606 +10.23%
GCP
South West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SAP BW
1 3 (17.65%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) Appium
4 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Aerospace
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Build Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) SAP Technical Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Product Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Financial Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) DevSecOps
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Zero Trust
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Application Packaging
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.76%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) OWASP
6 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Bash
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
4 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 2 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) CEH
6 1 (5.88%) CISM
6 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
6 1 (5.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
2 3 (17.65%) Basel III
2 3 (17.65%) IFRS
2 3 (17.65%) IFRS 17
2 3 (17.65%) IFRS 9
3 2 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (5.88%) NCSC
4 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Google