GCP Contracts in Birmingham

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 54 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 10 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.42% 2.20% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.03% 6.05% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 14
10th Percentile £466 £489 £433
25th Percentile £472 £552 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £653 £594
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +9.89% +16.65%
75th Percentile £497 £708 £643
90th Percentile £499 £738 £674
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -17.50% +1.69% +20.41%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 248 281 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 35.23% 36.45% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 206 316
10th Percentile £200 £294 £286
25th Percentile £350 £389 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +7.37%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £600
90th Percentile £713 £688 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £25.13 - £15.89
25th Percentile £30.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.25 £19.50 £28.83
Median % change year-on-year +111.54% -32.36% +100.56%
75th Percentile £50.94 £19.75 £36.92
90th Percentile £56.38 - £41.77
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.93 £18.50 £17.11
% change year-on-year +83.41% +8.12% +10.39%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Birmingham

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Birmingham

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) DB2
3 1 (10.00%) Looker
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) OLAP
3 1 (10.00%) OLTP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Express.js
2 3 (30.00%) Fastify
2 3 (30.00%) koa
2 3 (30.00%) NestJS
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) Socket.IO
2 3 (30.00%) WebSockets
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) API Development
3 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Kenna
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) VMware