GCP Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 53 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing GCP 769 1,150 1,864
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.36% 4.38% 4.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.33% 11.25% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 884 1,434
10th Percentile £463 £458 £475
25th Percentile £514 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% +6.38%
75th Percentile £778 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
England median daily rate £600 £625 £608
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.88% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile £49.05 £62.00 £41.31
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.88 £73.15
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £77.18
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +3.65% +12.90%
75th Percentile £58.75 £88.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £63.70 £91.25 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.62% +7.96% +160.00%

All Cloud Skills
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 London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,788 10,226 15,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.47% 38.99% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,992 7,490 11,971
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £445 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £769
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 83 85
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £25.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +29.63% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Central London -10 62 £588 -9.62% 26
West London +16 20 £488 -25.00% 10
South London +14 7 £500 -9.09% 1
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 146 (18.99%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (16.78%) Apache
3 19 (2.47%) Confluence
4 13 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.78%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) nginx
8 3 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 516 (67.10%) AWS
2 399 (51.89%) Azure
3 80 (10.40%) dbt
4 53 (6.89%) Snowflake
5 36 (4.68%) GitHub
6 33 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 26 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (2.99%) Vertex AI
9 19 (2.47%) PaaS
10 18 (2.34%) SaaS
10 18 (2.34%) Serverless
11 14 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.82%) Entra ID
11 14 (1.82%) Google Compute Engine
11 14 (1.82%) IaaS
12 13 (1.69%) Cloud Run
12 13 (1.69%) Nutanix
12 13 (1.69%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.56%) Google Analytics
14 10 (1.30%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.07%) Firewall
2 35 (4.55%) HTTP
3 20 (2.60%) DNS
4 16 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.08%) WAN
5 14 (1.82%) VPN
6 13 (1.69%) DHCP
6 13 (1.69%) LAN
6 13 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.43%) Network Security
7 11 (1.43%) OSPF
8 10 (1.30%) NAS
8 10 (1.30%) SAN
8 10 (1.30%) VLAN
8 10 (1.30%) Wireless
9 9 (1.17%) BGP
9 9 (1.17%) HTTPS
9 9 (1.17%) Kerberos
9 9 (1.17%) MPLS
10 8 (1.04%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (15.73%) Apache Ignite
2 91 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (11.44%) BigQuery
4 72 (9.36%) Data Lake
5 63 (8.19%) Amazon Athena
6 61 (7.93%) Apache Arrow
6 61 (7.93%) Dremio
7 52 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (5.85%) Big Data
9 36 (4.68%) NoSQL
10 31 (4.03%) Apache Cassandra
11 30 (3.90%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.73%) MongoDB
13 18 (2.34%) Looker
14 15 (1.95%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.82%) SQL Server
16 13 (1.69%) MySQL
16 13 (1.69%) Power BI
16 13 (1.69%) Tableau
17 9 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 68 (8.84%) Jenkins
2 61 (7.93%) Git
3 44 (5.72%) Cypress.io
4 29 (3.77%) GitLab
5 24 (3.12%) JIRA
6 8 (1.04%) Postman
6 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.78%) Maven
7 6 (0.78%) MLflow
8 3 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) Subversion
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.26%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.26%) Mocha
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Deequ
10 1 (0.13%) Gradle
General
1 304 (39.53%) Finance
2 189 (24.58%) Front Office
3 157 (20.42%) Banking
4 136 (17.69%) Social Skills
5 62 (8.06%) Investment Banking
6 61 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (4.42%) Retail
8 15 (1.95%) Marketing
8 15 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.43%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.91%) Advertising
13 4 (0.52%) Legal
13 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.39%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 282 (36.67%) Developer
2 171 (22.24%) Architect
3 144 (18.73%) Software Engineer
4 138 (17.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 117 (15.21%) Python Developer
6 85 (11.05%) Python Engineer
6 85 (11.05%) Python Software Engineer
7 81 (10.53%) Senior
8 74 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
9 73 (9.49%) React Developer
10 49 (6.37%) Finance Manager
10 49 (6.37%) Lead
11 47 (6.11%) GCP Engineer
12 46 (5.98%) Cloud Architect
12 46 (5.98%) Full Stack Developer
13 45 (5.85%) Java Developer
14 42 (5.46%) Full Stack Engineer
15 40 (5.20%) Data Engineer
16 38 (4.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 36 (4.68%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (18.60%) React
2 132 (17.17%) gRPC
3 130 (16.91%) Protocol Buffers
4 105 (13.65%) Redux
5 79 (10.27%) Pandas
6 72 (9.36%) Material-UI
7 65 (8.45%) NumPy
8 58 (7.54%) SciPy
9 56 (7.28%) Kafka
10 51 (6.63%) Node.js
11 49 (6.37%) RESTful
12 48 (6.24%) .NET
13 37 (4.81%) AngularJS
14 35 (4.55%) HTML
15 33 (4.29%) REST
16 30 (3.90%) CSS
17 29 (3.77%) Akka
18 25 (3.25%) .NET Core
18 25 (3.25%) Vue
19 21 (2.73%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 184 (23.93%) Fixed Income
2 147 (19.12%) Hedge funds
3 129 (16.78%) Equities
4 95 (12.35%) Derivative
5 86 (11.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.73%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.69%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.30%) Clustering
14 10 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.30%) PKI
14 10 (1.30%) Replication
15 9 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.54%) Linux
2 25 (3.25%) Windows
3 19 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.95%) Unix
5 9 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.04%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (43.17%) Agile
2 226 (29.39%) Software Engineering
3 194 (25.23%) DevOps
4 186 (24.19%) Asset Management
5 160 (20.81%) Machine Learning
6 155 (20.16%) Investment Management
7 137 (17.82%) CI/CD
8 114 (14.82%) Full Stack Development
8 114 (14.82%) Microservices
9 107 (13.91%) Analytics
10 99 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 93 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (11.18%) Computer Science
13 84 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (9.10%) Containerisation
15 69 (8.97%) TDD
16 64 (8.32%) ETL
17 60 (7.80%) Data Science
17 60 (7.80%) Fintech
18 57 (7.41%) Automated Trading
Programming Languages
1 350 (45.51%) Python
2 189 (24.58%) TypeScript
3 179 (23.28%) JavaScript
4 171 (22.24%) Java
5 123 (15.99%) SQL
6 52 (6.76%) Scala
7 46 (5.98%) Bash
8 45 (5.85%) C#
9 43 (5.59%) Go
10 39 (5.07%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.60%) Ruby
12 19 (2.47%) R
13 13 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.78%) Perl
14 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.65%) Bicep
15 5 (0.65%) Groovy
16 3 (0.39%) C++
16 3 (0.39%) Rust
16 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (10.53%) Degree
2 60 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (6.63%) Security Cleared
4 49 (6.37%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.34%) CISSP
7 14 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.17%) CCNP
11 8 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.91%) CISM
12 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.65%) CCNA
15 3 (0.39%) CRISC
16 2 (0.26%) CCIE
16 2 (0.26%) CISA
16 2 (0.26%) PhD
16 2 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.98%) QA
2 27 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.34%) NIST
4 17 (2.21%) GDPR
5 11 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.91%) SLA
9 6 (0.78%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 96 (12.48%) Docker
2 34 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.91%) ACF2
4 7 (0.91%) IAG
4 7 (0.91%) RACF
4 7 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) Firmware
5 6 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.52%) Shibboleth
7 2 (0.26%) KVM
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 162 (21.07%) Kubernetes
2 133 (17.30%) Terraform
3 49 (6.37%) Ansible
4 23 (2.99%) Puppet
5 20 (2.60%) Grafana
6 17 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
9 8 (1.04%) Netcool
9 8 (1.04%) Tivoli
9 8 (1.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (0.78%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.52%) Nessus
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle Identity Management
12 3 (0.39%) Argo
12 3 (0.39%) Kibana
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 292 (37.97%) Google
2 57 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 45 (5.85%) Oracle
4 31 (4.03%) CyberArk
5 24 (3.12%) Cisco
5 24 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.47%) Typelevel
6 19 (2.47%) VMware
7 18 (2.34%) BeyondTrust
7 18 (2.34%) Splunk
8 17 (2.21%) IBM
9 14 (1.82%) Bloomberg
9 14 (1.82%) Databricks
10 12 (1.56%) Okta
11 11 (1.43%) F5
12 10 (1.30%) HP
12 10 (1.30%) SAP
13 9 (1.17%) Adobe
13 9 (1.17%) Dell
14 8 (1.04%) EMC