GCP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 67 63
Rank change year-on-year +24 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing GCP 478 457 934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.85% 3.00% 3.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.18% 8.30% 9.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 340 716
10th Percentile £350 £413 £444
25th Percentile £479 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.04% -
75th Percentile £738 £763 £738
90th Percentile £838 £888 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £22.85 £39.70 £62.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £46.75 £63.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.64% -31.25% +82.86%
75th Percentile £25.75 £58.75 £86.25
90th Percentile £53.80 £68.50 £95.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £51.75 £70.09
% change year-on-year -8.21% -26.16% +60.20%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,924 5,505 10,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.79% 36.16% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 3,965 7,414
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 88 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.60 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £45.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £65.31 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%

GCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing GCP over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing GCP over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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 65 (13.60%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (9.21%) Apache
3 13 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.21%) Luigi
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Mule
6 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Notion
2 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.42%) Unica
3 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.21%) Kondor
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 369 (77.20%) AWS
2 291 (60.88%) Azure
3 59 (12.34%) dbt
4 39 (8.16%) Snowflake
5 34 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (6.69%) SaaS
7 31 (6.49%) PaaS
8 29 (6.07%) IaaS
9 26 (5.44%) Dagster
10 24 (5.02%) GitHub
10 24 (5.02%) Power Platform
11 21 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (2.51%) Entra ID
16 11 (2.30%) Serverless
17 9 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.49%) DNS
2 30 (6.28%) Firewall
3 29 (6.07%) TCP/IP
4 28 (5.86%) HTTP
5 22 (4.60%) DHCP
5 22 (4.60%) HTTPS
6 20 (4.18%) BGP
7 19 (3.97%) OSPF
8 13 (2.72%) Network Security
9 8 (1.67%) VPN
10 6 (1.26%) SSL
11 2 (0.42%) DOCSIS
11 2 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.42%) NGFW
11 2 (0.42%) VLAN
11 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.21%) NAS
12 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (11.09%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (10.88%) Apache Iceberg
3 52 (10.88%) Dremio
4 44 (9.21%) Apache Arrow
5 43 (9.00%) BigQuery
5 43 (9.00%) Data Lake
6 40 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (5.65%) Apache Ignite
8 23 (4.81%) Looker
9 21 (4.39%) Big Data
10 20 (4.18%) Power BI
11 19 (3.97%) MongoDB
12 18 (3.77%) Relational Database
12 18 (3.77%) Tableau
13 17 (3.56%) MySQL
14 15 (3.14%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.72%) SQL Server
16 12 (2.51%) Metadata
16 12 (2.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 37 (7.74%) GitLab
3 26 (5.44%) Git
4 16 (3.35%) JIRA
5 10 (2.09%) MLflow
6 6 (1.26%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.05%) Postman
8 4 (0.84%) JUnit
8 4 (0.84%) Mockito
8 4 (0.84%) webpack
9 3 (0.63%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.63%) Gatling
9 3 (0.63%) Gradle
9 3 (0.63%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.63%) JMeter
9 3 (0.63%) Maven
9 3 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.63%) TestNG
10 2 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 151 (31.59%) Finance
2 104 (21.76%) Front Office
3 98 (20.50%) Social Skills
4 76 (15.90%) Banking
5 48 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (7.74%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.09%) Marketing
10 9 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.46%) Legal
12 6 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.84%) Advertising
13 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.84%) Retail
14 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.63%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.42%) Billing
15 2 (0.42%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (28.66%) Developer
2 113 (23.64%) Software Engineer
3 106 (22.18%) Architect
4 78 (16.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 50 (10.46%) AWS Engineer
6 45 (9.41%) Senior
7 44 (9.21%) AWS Software Engineer
8 42 (8.79%) Python Developer
9 38 (7.95%) Data Engineer
9 38 (7.95%) React Developer
10 37 (7.74%) Python Engineer
11 35 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (7.32%) Technical Architect
12 33 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
13 27 (5.65%) AWS Developer
13 27 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (5.65%) Python Software Engineer
14 24 (5.02%) Analyst
14 24 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
14 24 (5.02%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (20.29%) React
2 72 (15.06%) Node.js
3 63 (13.18%) Redux
4 58 (12.13%) AngularJS
5 57 (11.92%) Pandas
6 56 (11.72%) NumPy
7 52 (10.88%) SciPy
8 46 (9.62%) Vue
9 30 (6.28%) PySpark
10 28 (5.86%) Protocol Buffers
10 28 (5.86%) RESTful
11 27 (5.65%) gRPC
12 19 (3.97%) REST
13 17 (3.56%) .NET
13 17 (3.56%) Kafka
14 16 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (3.35%) OAuth
15 15 (3.14%) HTML
16 13 (2.72%) CSS
16 13 (2.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.29%) Fixed Income
2 47 (9.83%) Cloud Native
3 46 (9.62%) Equities
4 44 (9.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 33 (6.90%) Hedge funds
6 19 (3.97%) Derivative
7 14 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.26%) NHS
12 5 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.07%) Linux
2 12 (2.51%) Windows
3 9 (1.88%) Unix
4 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) AIX
6 2 (0.42%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (34.94%) Agile
2 155 (32.43%) Software Engineering
3 121 (25.31%) CI/CD
4 104 (21.76%) DevOps
5 100 (20.92%) Asset Management
6 90 (18.83%) Fintech
7 86 (17.99%) Investment Management
8 83 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (16.32%) Analytics
10 76 (15.90%) Containerisation
11 67 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 61 (12.76%) Microservices
13 60 (12.55%) Migration
14 53 (11.09%) User Experience
15 52 (10.88%) Test Automation
16 43 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (8.58%) Cloud Security
17 41 (8.58%) Machine Learning
18 40 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
19 36 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 247 (51.67%) Python
2 139 (29.08%) JavaScript
3 104 (21.76%) TypeScript
4 90 (18.83%) Java
5 71 (14.85%) SQL
6 35 (7.32%) Bash
7 29 (6.07%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.60%) Bicep
9 15 (3.14%) C#
10 9 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.67%) Go
12 6 (1.26%) R
13 4 (0.84%) C
13 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.84%) Ruby
13 4 (0.84%) Scala
14 3 (0.63%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.63%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (0.63%) C++
14 3 (0.63%) DAML
Qualifications
1 45 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.37%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.49%) AWS Certification
4 30 (6.28%) Azure Certification
5 29 (6.07%) Degree
6 26 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.77%) CISSP
8 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (2.30%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.67%) CISM
11 8 (1.67%) GIAC
11 8 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.46%) SANS
13 6 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.05%) CEH
15 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.63%) CITP
15 3 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.44%) QA
2 25 (5.23%) GDPR
3 19 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.97%) NIST
4 11 (2.30%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.63%) Basel III
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.42%) GRC
9 2 (0.42%) IFRS
9 2 (0.42%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.42%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.42%) WCAG
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 85 (17.78%) Docker
2 15 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (18.41%) Kubernetes
2 74 (15.48%) Terraform
3 30 (6.28%) Ansible
4 23 (4.81%) Grafana
5 20 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.67%) Puppet
7 6 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.84%) Argo
9 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.42%) Kibana
10 2 (0.42%) logstash
10 2 (0.42%) Nagios
10 2 (0.42%) QRadar
10 2 (0.42%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 1 (0.21%) Netcool
11 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 136 (28.45%) Google
2 53 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.44%) Palo Alto
4 24 (5.02%) Databricks
5 22 (4.60%) Cisco
6 18 (3.77%) CheckPoint
6 18 (3.77%) Fortinet
7 14 (2.93%) Oracle
7 14 (2.93%) Splunk
8 13 (2.72%) IBM
9 8 (1.67%) CyberArk
9 8 (1.67%) VMware
10 7 (1.46%) SAP
11 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.05%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.63%) Adobe
13 3 (0.63%) IBM Sterling
13 3 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.63%) Teradata