GCP Contracts in Berkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 79 95
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 -35
Contract jobs citing GCP 22 34 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.12% 1.91% 1.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.04% 6.65% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 28
10th Percentile £363 £340 £430
25th Percentile £381 £347 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -28.42% +3.26%
75th Percentile £489 £653 £659
90th Percentile £575 £700 £736
South East median daily rate £463 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -20.60% -2.92% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.40
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £18.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +89.19% -65.42% -15.75%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 545 511 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.83% 28.72% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 365 487
10th Percentile £338 £363 £217
25th Percentile £457 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £614 £650 £600
90th Percentile £676 £723 £654
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £20.49 £17.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.30 £23.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.21% +3.56% +6.89%
75th Percentile £61.39 £75.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Berkshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Reading -11 20 £425 -30.61% 8
Bracknell -9 2 £375 +10.29%
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) BGP
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (9.09%) DMVPN
1 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
1 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) IPsec
1 2 (9.09%) MPLS
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
1 2 (9.09%) OSPF
1 2 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 2 (9.09%) Sourcefire
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
1 2 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MySQL
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
2 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.09%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Appium
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) MSTest
3 1 (4.55%) NUnit
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Consultant
1 3 (13.64%) DBA
1 3 (13.64%) Developer
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Network Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security Consultant
2 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
1 3 (13.64%) XML
2 2 (9.09%) Django
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Express.js
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) MERN Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 7 (31.82%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (31.82%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (31.82%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (31.82%) Time Management
4 7 (31.82%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Scrum
7 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (13.64%) Database Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Re-Platforming
9 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 2 (9.09%) ITIL
9 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.09%) C++
6 2 (9.09%) Go
6 2 (9.09%) Groovy
6 2 (9.09%) Scala
7 1 (4.55%) C#
7 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCNA
1 2 (9.09%) CCNP
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 7 (31.82%) Istio
3 7 (31.82%) Rancher
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Google
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Aruba
3 2 (9.09%) Blue Coat
3 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) F5
3 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 2 (9.09%) Juniper
3 2 (9.09%) McAfee
3 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Zscaler
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft