GCP Contracts in the City of London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 60 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -16
Contract jobs citing GCP 74 124 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.44% 3.56% 2.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.60% 9.18% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 97 99
10th Percentile £380 £475 £498
25th Percentile £463 £535 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £585
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +11.11% +1.74%
75th Percentile £700 £744 £681
90th Percentile £830 £895 £795
Central London median daily rate £585 £644 £588
% change year-on-year -9.13% +9.57% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 £81.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.21% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -41.21% - -

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 860 1,351 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.02% 38.73% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 883 1,416
10th Percentile £363 £313 £381
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -7.76% +0.87% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £12.75 £30.45 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £47.50 £14.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +211.32% +17.78%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £53.75
90th Percentile £38.63 - £91.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +98.53% +47.99%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (51.35%) AWS
2 36 (48.65%) Azure
3 9 (12.16%) GitHub
4 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.41%) dbt
6 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.05%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.70%) Twilio
7 2 (2.70%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.35%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) CTI
1 4 (5.41%) VoIP
2 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) FTP
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
4 1 (1.35%) LAN
4 1 (1.35%) MPLS
4 1 (1.35%) Multicast
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.35%) SSH
4 1 (1.35%) VLAN
4 1 (1.35%) WAN
4 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) BigQuery
1 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.11%) MySQL
3 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.70%) Redis
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.35%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.35%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.35%) Parquet
6 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.16%) Git
3 8 (10.81%) GitLab
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
4 4 (5.41%) Maven
5 2 (2.70%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.70%) Gradle
5 2 (2.70%) Mockito
5 2 (2.70%) Subversion
5 2 (2.70%) webpack
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.35%) Darcs
6 1 (1.35%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.35%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.35%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (33.78%) Finance
2 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.92%) Banking
4 6 (8.11%) Retail
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (1.35%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.35%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Developer
2 12 (16.22%) Architect
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
4 9 (12.16%) Consultant
5 7 (9.46%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.11%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) Security Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Cloud Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Full Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) GCP Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Information Security Consultant
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (2.70%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) React
2 7 (9.46%) Kafka
2 7 (9.46%) REST
2 7 (9.46%) RESTful
2 7 (9.46%) Spring
3 6 (8.11%) CSS
3 6 (8.11%) HTML
3 6 (8.11%) Node.js
3 6 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.41%) GWT
4 4 (5.41%) JAX-RS
4 4 (5.41%) Restlet
4 4 (5.41%) SAML
5 3 (4.05%) .NET
5 3 (4.05%) Middleware
6 2 (2.70%) CSS3
6 2 (2.70%) Vue
6 2 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.76%) IVR
3 4 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.35%) CBDC
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.35%) Genomics
6 1 (1.35%) Life Science
6 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) PDA
6 1 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 3 (4.05%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) DevOps
2 17 (22.97%) CI/CD
3 15 (20.27%) Agile
4 14 (18.92%) Containerisation
5 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (13.51%) Computer Science
8 9 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
10 7 (9.46%) Analytics
10 7 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
10 7 (9.46%) Microservices
10 7 (9.46%) Migration
11 6 (8.11%) ETL
11 6 (8.11%) Full Stack Development
11 6 (8.11%) Information Security
11 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (8.11%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.68%) Python
2 16 (21.62%) Java
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
4 6 (8.11%) Bash
4 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.41%) Go
5 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.05%) C#
7 2 (2.70%) C++
8 1 (1.35%) C
8 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.35%) Rust
8 1 (1.35%) Scala
8 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.05%) CISM
4 3 (4.05%) CISSP
4 3 (4.05%) CRISC
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.70%) OCP
5 2 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.70%) SANS
5 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.41%) NIST
3 3 (4.05%) ISO 31000
3 3 (4.05%) NIST 800
3 3 (4.05%) QA
4 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.70%) WCAG
5 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 15 (20.27%) Terraform
3 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.11%) Grafana
5 4 (5.41%) Ansible
5 4 (5.41%) Progress Chef
5 4 (5.41%) Puppet
6 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.70%) Graylog
7 2 (2.70%) Nagios
8 1 (1.35%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.35%) Kibana
8 1 (1.35%) logstash
8 1 (1.35%) Nessus
8 1 (1.35%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 32 (43.24%) Google
2 10 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.76%) Genesys
3 5 (6.76%) Oracle
4 3 (4.05%) Cisco
4 3 (4.05%) Splunk
5 2 (2.70%) Avaya
5 2 (2.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.70%) IBM
5 2 (2.70%) Okta
5 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.35%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.35%) Confluent
6 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.35%) Informatica
6 1 (1.35%) New Relic
6 1 (1.35%) Varonis
6 1 (1.35%) Veracode