GCP Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 4.11% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £544 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £477 £575
% change year-on-year +8.91% -17.04% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 64 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 43.84% 30.77% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 15 16
10th Percentile £525 £136 £163
25th Percentile £563 £265 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £403
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -0.62% -19.50%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £588
90th Percentile £750 - £640
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.20% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.49% +4.40%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 5 (83.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (83.33%) Azure AKS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Datadog
2 5 (83.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 5 (83.33%) npm
2 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 5 (83.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) GitLab
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Artifactory
2 5 (83.33%) Bitbucket
2 5 (83.33%) CircleCI
2 5 (83.33%) Cypress.io
2 5 (83.33%) Git
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 5 (83.33%) Selenium
2 5 (83.33%) Snyk
2 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
2 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (83.33%) webpack
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (83.33%) JSON
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Software Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 6 (100.00%) Puppet
2 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 5 (83.33%) Podman
2 5 (83.33%) Prometheus
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Splunk