GCP Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 47 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 840 1,159 1,889
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.75% 4.61% 4.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.16% 11.76% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 916 1,429
10th Percentile £456 £450 £475
25th Percentile £525 £530 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £738
90th Percentile £888 £824 £800
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £48.48 £62.00 £36.01
25th Percentile £51.06 £64.50 £59.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.62
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +4.41% +5.69%
75th Percentile £59.88 £83.75 £79.69
90th Percentile £64.15 £90.00 £81.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £69.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +0.36% +29.58%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,910 9,859 15,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.09% 39.20% 40.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,088 7,257 11,933
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
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 £780 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 77 63
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.57 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +26.51% +23.88%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £56.50 £88.98 £81.75
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 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
Central London -3 77 £586 -9.81% 51
West London +20 18 £413 -36.54% 10
South London +11 4 £513 -6.82% 2
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
1 187 (22.26%) Apache Airflow
2 171 (20.36%) Apache
3 19 (2.26%) Confluence
4 18 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.19%) CMS
6 7 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.71%) nginx
8 5 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.12%) Magnolia
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.12%) Magento
2 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 577 (68.69%) AWS
2 416 (49.52%) Azure
3 110 (13.10%) dbt
4 82 (9.76%) Snowflake
5 43 (5.12%) GitHub
6 38 (4.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 29 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 20 (2.38%) Serverless
9 19 (2.26%) Vertex AI
10 18 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (1.90%) PaaS
11 16 (1.90%) SaaS
12 15 (1.79%) Google Compute Engine
13 14 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.55%) Cloud Run
14 13 (1.55%) Power Platform
15 12 (1.43%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.43%) IaaS
16 11 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.00%) HTTP
2 31 (3.69%) Firewall
3 16 (1.90%) DNS
4 15 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.43%) WAN
6 10 (1.19%) DHCP
6 10 (1.19%) Network Security
6 10 (1.19%) VPN
7 9 (1.07%) HTTPS
7 9 (1.07%) LAN
7 9 (1.07%) OSPF
7 9 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.07%) Wireless
8 8 (0.95%) BGP
8 8 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (0.83%) IPsec
9 7 (0.83%) NAS
9 7 (0.83%) SAN
9 7 (0.83%) VLAN
10 6 (0.71%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (19.29%) Apache Ignite
2 105 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (12.02%) Data Lake
4 96 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
5 94 (11.19%) Dremio
6 90 (10.71%) Apache Arrow
7 87 (10.36%) BigQuery
8 47 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (5.48%) Big Data
10 37 (4.40%) NoSQL
11 35 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 29 (3.45%) Relational Database
13 23 (2.74%) MongoDB
14 17 (2.02%) MySQL
15 15 (1.79%) Looker
16 13 (1.55%) Power BI
16 13 (1.55%) SQL Server
17 12 (1.43%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.43%) Tableau
18 8 (0.95%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 76 (9.05%) Jenkins
2 67 (7.98%) Git
3 55 (6.55%) Cypress.io
4 35 (4.17%) GitLab
5 24 (2.86%) JIRA
6 9 (1.07%) Maven
7 7 (0.83%) Postman
8 5 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.48%) MLflow
10 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.36%) Gradle
10 3 (0.36%) Mocha
10 3 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.36%) Subversion
11 2 (0.24%) JMeter
11 2 (0.24%) JUnit
11 2 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 351 (41.79%) Finance
2 223 (26.55%) Front Office
3 209 (24.88%) Banking
4 151 (17.98%) Social Skills
5 87 (10.36%) Investment Banking
6 62 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (4.17%) Retail
8 16 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.79%) Marketing
10 10 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.07%) Public Sector
12 7 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.71%) Advertising
13 6 (0.71%) Wearables
14 5 (0.60%) Legal
14 5 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.36%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 321 (38.21%) Developer
2 175 (20.83%) Architect
3 163 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 156 (18.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 131 (15.60%) Python Developer
6 108 (12.86%) Python Engineer
7 103 (12.26%) Python Software Engineer
8 89 (10.60%) Solutions Architect
9 88 (10.48%) Senior
10 83 (9.88%) React Developer
11 69 (8.21%) Lead
12 55 (6.55%) Java Developer
13 50 (5.95%) Consultant
13 50 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
14 47 (5.60%) Full Stack Developer
15 44 (5.24%) Full Stack Engineer
16 42 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
16 42 (5.00%) Lead Developer
17 41 (4.88%) Finance Manager
17 41 (4.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (20.71%) gRPC
2 171 (20.36%) Protocol Buffers
3 161 (19.17%) React
4 112 (13.33%) Redux
5 108 (12.86%) Pandas
6 96 (11.43%) NumPy
7 91 (10.83%) SciPy
8 77 (9.17%) Kafka
9 76 (9.05%) Material-UI
10 66 (7.86%) RESTful
11 62 (7.38%) Node.js
12 47 (5.60%) .NET
13 43 (5.12%) AngularJS
13 43 (5.12%) HTML
14 38 (4.52%) Akka
14 38 (4.52%) CSS
15 34 (4.05%) REST
16 25 (2.98%) .NET Core
17 24 (2.86%) Vue
18 22 (2.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 214 (25.48%) Fixed Income
2 174 (20.71%) Hedge funds
3 157 (18.69%) Equities
4 113 (13.45%) Derivative
5 109 (12.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 28 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 26 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.74%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.50%) Cloud Native
10 17 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.79%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.19%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.19%) Product Ownership
15 9 (1.07%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.19%) Linux
2 22 (2.62%) Windows
3 16 (1.90%) Unix
4 14 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (0.60%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (44.17%) Agile
2 267 (31.79%) Software Engineering
3 217 (25.83%) Asset Management
4 204 (24.29%) DevOps
5 175 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 161 (19.17%) Investment Management
7 156 (18.57%) CI/CD
8 132 (15.71%) Microservices
9 120 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
10 108 (12.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 104 (12.38%) Analytics
11 104 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 98 (11.67%) Computer Science
13 89 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 76 (9.05%) Containerisation
15 75 (8.93%) TDD
16 72 (8.57%) Migration
17 71 (8.45%) Line Management
18 65 (7.74%) Automated Trading
18 65 (7.74%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 384 (45.71%) Python
2 229 (27.26%) TypeScript
3 215 (25.60%) Java
4 207 (24.64%) JavaScript
5 125 (14.88%) SQL
6 63 (7.50%) Scala
7 48 (5.71%) Go
8 46 (5.48%) Bash
9 41 (4.88%) C#
10 36 (4.29%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.50%) Ruby
12 15 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.43%) R
14 6 (0.71%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) Perl
14 6 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.48%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Rust
16 3 (0.36%) Bicep
16 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (10.71%) Degree
2 68 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 45 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.62%) CISSP
6 21 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.31%) CISM
10 9 (1.07%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.95%) CCNP
11 8 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.71%) CISA
14 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.48%) CCNA
16 3 (0.36%) CRISC
16 3 (0.36%) SANS
17 2 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
17 2 (0.24%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.60%) QA
2 24 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.90%) GDPR
4 15 (1.79%) NIST
5 10 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.95%) WCAG
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.36%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 101 (12.02%) Docker
2 34 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.83%) ACF2
5 7 (0.83%) IAG
5 7 (0.83%) RACF
6 6 (0.71%) Firmware
6 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.48%) Shibboleth
8 2 (0.24%) KVM
8 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 191 (22.74%) Kubernetes
2 140 (16.67%) Terraform
3 49 (5.83%) Ansible
4 26 (3.10%) Grafana
5 25 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.62%) Puppet
7 15 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (0.60%) Istio
9 5 (0.60%) Netcool
9 5 (0.60%) Tivoli
9 5 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.48%) Argo
10 4 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.48%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Management
11 3 (0.36%) Kibana
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 316 (37.62%) Google
2 55 (6.55%) Microsoft
3 44 (5.24%) Oracle
4 28 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 22 (2.62%) Typelevel
6 21 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.26%) Bloomberg
7 19 (2.26%) Cisco
7 19 (2.26%) VMware
8 17 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
9 16 (1.90%) Databricks
10 14 (1.67%) Splunk
11 11 (1.31%) IBM
12 10 (1.19%) SAP
13 9 (1.07%) Adobe
13 9 (1.07%) F5
13 9 (1.07%) Okta
14 8 (0.95%) Reuters
15 7 (0.83%) Genesys
15 7 (0.83%) HP