GCP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 63 59
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 446 955 1,839
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.90% 3.67% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.99% 9.30% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 733 1,328
10th Percentile £425 £438 £450
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £753 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £618
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.09% +12.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile £39.70 £62.00 £25.06
25th Percentile £46.75 £63.25 £32.66
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +82.86% +58.43%
75th Percentile £58.75 £86.25 £73.34
90th Percentile £68.50 £95.00 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £70.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year -30.89% +47.74% +71.29%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,579 10,264 18,475
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.28% 39.45% 41.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 7,537 13,792
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 127 174
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.45 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +91.30% -17.86%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £81.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

GCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP.

GCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GCP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

GCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP.

GCP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GCP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

GCP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 71 (15.92%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (11.66%) Apache
3 24 (5.38%) Confluence
4 12 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.12%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
5 5 (1.12%) CMS
6 4 (0.90%) nginx
6 4 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (2.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.22%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 302 (67.71%) AWS
2 217 (48.65%) Azure
3 58 (13.00%) dbt
4 34 (7.62%) Snowflake
5 26 (5.83%) GitHub
6 20 (4.48%) Power Platform
7 18 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (3.81%) Google Analytics
8 17 (3.81%) IaaS
8 17 (3.81%) SaaS
9 16 (3.59%) PaaS
10 13 (2.91%) Serverless
11 12 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (2.47%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.02%) Apigee
14 8 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.79%) Nutanix
15 7 (1.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.16%) Firewall
2 21 (4.71%) DNS
3 19 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.81%) HTTP
5 11 (2.47%) DHCP
6 9 (2.02%) VLAN
7 7 (1.57%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.57%) Kerberos
7 7 (1.57%) NAS
7 7 (1.57%) Network Security
7 7 (1.57%) SAN
7 7 (1.57%) WAN
8 6 (1.35%) LAN
8 6 (1.35%) VPN
9 5 (1.12%) IPsec
9 5 (1.12%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.67%) Internet
10 3 (0.67%) MPLS
10 3 (0.67%) Multicast
11 2 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.78%) BigQuery
2 46 (10.31%) Apache Ignite
3 44 (9.87%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (9.87%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (9.87%) Dremio
4 38 (8.52%) Data Lake
4 38 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.26%) Power BI
6 18 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.81%) Looker
8 13 (2.91%) Tableau
9 11 (2.47%) Big Data
9 11 (2.47%) MySQL
9 11 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.47%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.79%) Metadata
12 7 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.12%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (10.76%) Jenkins
2 44 (9.87%) Git
3 34 (7.62%) JIRA
4 26 (5.83%) GitLab
5 10 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.79%) Postman
7 7 (1.57%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.12%) Maven
10 4 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.67%) Storybook
11 3 (0.67%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.67%) Vite
12 2 (0.45%) Gradle
12 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.45%) rollup.js
12 2 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 147 (32.96%) Finance
2 93 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 82 (18.39%) Front Office
4 60 (13.45%) Banking
5 36 (8.07%) Investment Banking
6 26 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.59%) Retail
9 9 (2.02%) Marketing
10 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.12%) Advertising
12 5 (1.12%) Legal
13 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Billing
14 2 (0.45%) Czech Language
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (32.74%) Developer
2 95 (21.30%) Architect
3 64 (14.35%) Software Engineer
4 58 (13.00%) Senior
5 56 (12.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 48 (10.76%) Python Developer
7 44 (9.87%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (7.62%) Lead
9 33 (7.40%) Data Engineer
9 33 (7.40%) Java Developer
10 31 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (6.05%) Python Engineer
12 25 (5.61%) Software Developer
13 24 (5.38%) Consultant
13 24 (5.38%) Lead Developer
13 24 (5.38%) Python Software Engineer
14 21 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (4.48%) GCP Engineer
15 20 (4.48%) Senior Developer
16 19 (4.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (12.78%) gRPC
1 57 (12.78%) Protocol Buffers
2 51 (11.43%) Pandas
3 50 (11.21%) React
4 46 (10.31%) Node.js
5 43 (9.64%) NumPy
6 42 (9.42%) SciPy
7 27 (6.05%) AngularJS
8 26 (5.83%) CSS
9 25 (5.61%) HTML
9 25 (5.61%) RESTful
10 23 (5.16%) Redux
11 21 (4.71%) REST
12 17 (3.81%) Material-UI
12 17 (3.81%) Vue
13 16 (3.59%) JSON
13 16 (3.59%) Kafka
14 15 (3.36%) SAML
14 15 (3.36%) Spring
15 14 (3.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.04%) Fixed Income
2 56 (12.56%) Derivative
3 54 (12.11%) Equities
4 49 (10.99%) Hedge funds
5 37 (8.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (4.93%) Cloud Native
7 19 (4.26%) Public Cloud
8 14 (3.14%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.24%) IVR
10 10 (2.24%) Replication
11 9 (2.02%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.57%) Clustering
14 6 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.12%) Data Centre
15 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 5 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.50%) Linux
2 17 (3.81%) Unix
3 12 (2.69%) Windows
4 11 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.57%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.57%) Solaris
6 4 (0.90%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (38.34%) Agile
2 125 (28.03%) DevOps
3 111 (24.89%) Software Engineering
4 108 (24.22%) CI/CD
5 84 (18.83%) Asset Management
6 83 (18.61%) Analytics
7 65 (14.57%) Investment Management
8 60 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (12.56%) Migration
10 47 (10.54%) Computer Science
11 45 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (9.64%) Containerisation
13 41 (9.19%) Microservices
14 38 (8.52%) Machine Learning
15 37 (8.30%) Roadmaps
16 36 (8.07%) Data Science
17 35 (7.85%) ETL
18 31 (6.95%) Data Engineering
19 30 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
19 30 (6.73%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 200 (44.84%) Python
2 118 (26.46%) JavaScript
3 103 (23.09%) Java
4 97 (21.75%) TypeScript
5 74 (16.59%) SQL
6 31 (6.95%) Bash
7 28 (6.28%) Go
8 24 (5.38%) Scala
9 22 (4.93%) R
10 20 (4.48%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.36%) Ruby
12 14 (3.14%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.02%) C#
14 8 (1.79%) Perl
15 7 (1.57%) PHP
16 5 (1.12%) Bicep
17 3 (0.67%) Groovy
17 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
18 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (9.64%) Degree
2 36 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.67%) CCNP
8 3 (0.67%) CISSP
9 2 (0.45%) CCIE
9 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.45%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) CCSP
10 1 (0.22%) CISA
10 1 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.16%) QA
2 20 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.36%) NIST
4 12 (2.69%) GDPR
5 8 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.90%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.90%) NCSC
9 3 (0.67%) WCAG
10 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (12.56%) Docker
2 17 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.67%) zsh
6 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) ACF2
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) HDFS
7 1 (0.22%) IAG
7 1 (0.22%) RACF
7 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 95 (21.30%) Kubernetes
2 68 (15.25%) Terraform
3 37 (8.30%) Ansible
4 11 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.79%) Grafana
5 8 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.79%) Puppet
6 7 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (1.57%) Netcool
6 7 (1.57%) Tivoli
6 7 (1.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.90%) Kibana
8 4 (0.90%) logstash
9 2 (0.45%) Argo
9 2 (0.45%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.45%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.22%) CASB
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 151 (33.86%) Google
2 28 (6.28%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.16%) CyberArk
4 22 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.71%) Oracle
6 16 (3.59%) Bloomberg
7 15 (3.36%) Genesys
8 14 (3.14%) BeyondTrust
8 14 (3.14%) Splunk
9 13 (2.91%) Cisco
9 13 (2.91%) VMware
10 10 (2.24%) Databricks
11 9 (2.02%) IBM
12 8 (1.79%) HP
13 7 (1.57%) Dell
13 7 (1.57%) EMC
13 7 (1.57%) Isilon
13 7 (1.57%) Qualys
13 7 (1.57%) Serena
14 6 (1.35%) SAP