GCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 108 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -54
Contract jobs citing GCP 29 37 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.10% 1.29% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 4.36% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 43
10th Percentile £363 £340 £453
25th Percentile £400 £349 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £438 £570
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% -23.25% +14.00%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £653
90th Percentile £594 £700 £735
South East median daily rate £463 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -15.91% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.40
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £18.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +89.19% -63.37% -20.47%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 734 849 1,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 29.66% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 615 850
10th Percentile £282 £313 £188
25th Percentile £413 £425 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.15 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.21% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.83 £58.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £26.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +25.00% -4.55%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -23 19 £425 - 10
Buckinghamshire +33 5 £575 -28.13% 10
Oxfordshire +11 5 £425 - 6
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 16 (55.17%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Run
4 1 (3.45%) Google App Engine
4 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
3 2 (6.90%) BGP
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (6.90%) DMVPN
3 2 (6.90%) EIGRP
3 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (6.90%) IPsec
3 2 (6.90%) MPLS
3 2 (6.90%) OSPF
3 2 (6.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.90%) Sourcefire
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) MySQL
1 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.90%) DB2
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Appium
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) MSTest
3 1 (3.45%) NUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.45%) Spinnaker
3 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Consultant
2 3 (10.34%) DBA
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Network Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Security Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (3.45%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) REST
1 3 (10.34%) XML
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.90%) Django
2 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.90%) GWT
2 2 (6.90%) HTML
2 2 (6.90%) Restlet
2 2 (6.90%) Spring
2 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) Express.js
3 1 (3.45%) gRPC
3 1 (3.45%) JAX-RS
3 1 (3.45%) MERN Stack
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Life Science
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
1 11 (37.93%) DevOps
2 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (24.14%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (24.14%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (24.14%) Time Management
4 7 (24.14%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (17.24%) Scrum
6 4 (13.79%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.34%) Database Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Re-Platforming
8 2 (6.90%) API Development
8 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (6.90%) SDLC
8 2 (6.90%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.79%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) CCNA
1 3 (10.34%) CCNP
1 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Istio
2 7 (24.14%) Rancher
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Google
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) Aruba
4 2 (6.90%) Blue Coat
4 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Juniper
4 2 (6.90%) McAfee
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) VMware