GCP Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 10.00% - 6.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.69% - 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 3
10th Percentile £183 - -
25th Percentile £313 - £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 - £825
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.32%
75th Percentile £500 - £906
90th Percentile £521 - £933
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £480 £600
% change year-on-year +2.55% -20.00% +13.74%

All Cloud Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 130 37 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 56.52% 34.26% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 23 10
10th Percentile £219 £355 £450
25th Percentile £393 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -28.57% +268.42%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £863
90th Percentile £675 - £950
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +4.76%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

GCP job vacancy trend in Wokingham

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Wokingham over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Wokingham

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) NAS
1 4 (17.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
1 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
General
1 19 (82.61%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Support
4 1 (4.35%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) NumPy
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (39.13%) Change Management
2 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (39.13%) ITSM
2 9 (39.13%) Performance Metrics
2 9 (39.13%) Service Management
3 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) ITIL
4 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps
6 4 (17.39%) High Availability
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (17.39%) Release Management
6 4 (17.39%) SIEM
6 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Storage Management
7 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Go
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (78.26%) SC Cleared
1 18 (78.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) CISM
2 4 (17.39%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) GDPR
1 8 (34.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (17.39%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) BeyondTrust
2 4 (17.39%) CyberArk
2 4 (17.39%) EMC
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
2 4 (17.39%) Pure Storage
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft