GCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 152 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 -22 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 275 373 616
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 1.62% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.24% 4.87% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 280 451
10th Percentile £349 £406 £413
25th Percentile £413 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% -5.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £708 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -3.23% +1.22% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £29.20 £32.00 £21.28
25th Percentile £31.38 £53.38 £24.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.84 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -48.41% +64.45% +65.00%
75th Percentile £61.50 £72.70 £60.77
90th Percentile £77.40 £77.08 £78.24
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £70.18 £43.75
% change year-on-year -26.26% +60.40% +58.43%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,251 7,652 9,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.91% 33.18% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,719 5,646 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £248 £208
25th Percentile £371 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 221 289
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £26.75 £64.50 £31.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +4 105 £520 -9.57% 97
Yorkshire +7 64 £507 -7.82% 37
South West +29 44 £550 -15.38% 60
South East -26 42 £463 -15.91% 68
North West +1 38 £513 -10.87% 52
Scotland +52 28 £463 -36.21% 35
East of England -4 24 £525 -12.24% 22
Midlands -1 23 £600 +14.29% 33
West Midlands -8 20 £600 +9.09% 17
Wales +10 3 £539 -4.65% 17
Northern Ireland +4 3 £675 +17.39% 20
East Midlands +1 3 £675 +0.93% 16
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
North East - 3 £600 - 8
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 26 (9.45%) Apache Spark
2 21 (7.64%) Confluence
3 12 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.27%) nginx
5 6 (2.18%) Apache
6 4 (1.45%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.45%) CMS
7 3 (1.09%) Drupal
7 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.73%) SAS
8 2 (0.73%) Traefik
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 177 (64.36%) AWS
2 166 (60.36%) Azure
3 28 (10.18%) GitHub
4 20 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (7.27%) Serverless
5 19 (6.91%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.73%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.64%) Apigee
8 9 (3.27%) Kong
9 8 (2.91%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.55%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 7 (2.55%) PaaS
10 7 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.18%) Google Analytics
11 6 (2.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.55%) VPN
2 25 (9.09%) DNS
3 23 (8.36%) TCP/IP
4 21 (7.64%) Firewall
5 13 (4.73%) HTTP
6 9 (3.27%) HTTPS
7 7 (2.55%) VLAN
8 6 (2.18%) Network Security
8 6 (2.18%) SSL
9 5 (1.82%) BGP
9 5 (1.82%) DHCP
9 5 (1.82%) OSPF
10 4 (1.45%) IPsec
10 4 (1.45%) MPLS
10 4 (1.45%) SAN
10 4 (1.45%) Value-Added Service
10 4 (1.45%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.09%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.09%) LAN
11 3 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.55%) BigQuery
2 25 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.36%) NoSQL
4 20 (7.27%) Big Data
4 20 (7.27%) Data Lake
4 20 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.82%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.82%) Power BI
6 15 (5.45%) Hadoop
6 15 (5.45%) MySQL
7 12 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (4.00%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.55%) Metadata
12 5 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.82%) DB2
12 5 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (16.00%) Git
2 43 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 31 (11.27%) JIRA
4 19 (6.91%) GitLab
5 11 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (3.27%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.27%) Travis CI
7 8 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.18%) Selenium
8 6 (2.18%) Spinnaker
9 4 (1.45%) Hudson
9 4 (1.45%) Subversion
10 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.09%) Maven
10 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.73%) Snyk
12 1 (0.36%) AppScan
12 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.36%) JMeter
12 1 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 74 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.36%) Finance
4 27 (9.82%) Banking
5 16 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.82%) Legal
6 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.45%) Retail
8 3 (1.09%) Marketing
9 2 (0.73%) Automotive
9 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.73%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (18.55%) Architect
1 51 (18.55%) Developer
2 27 (9.82%) Java Developer
3 26 (9.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (9.45%) Senior
4 21 (7.64%) Data Engineer
5 18 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.09%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.73%) Lead
8 11 (4.00%) Analyst
8 11 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.64%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) DBA
11 8 (2.91%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.55%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.55%) GCP Architect
12 7 (2.55%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.73%) Kafka
2 26 (9.45%) Spring
3 24 (8.73%) RESTful
3 24 (8.73%) Spring Boot
4 20 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (5.45%) JSON
6 14 (5.09%) REST
7 13 (4.73%) SAML
7 13 (4.73%) XML
7 13 (4.73%) YAML
8 9 (3.27%) GWT
8 9 (3.27%) Restlet
9 8 (2.91%) HTML
9 8 (2.91%) JAX-RS
9 8 (2.91%) OpenTracing
10 7 (2.55%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.55%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.18%) Node.js
11 6 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.18%) Public Cloud
2 23 (8.36%) Data Structures
3 22 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.18%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.18%) Replication
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.82%) PKI
8 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.45%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.45%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.09%) Clustering
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.09%) Linux
2 11 (4.00%) Unix
3 9 (3.27%) Windows
4 6 (2.18%) CentOS
5 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.45%) zOS
6 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.36%) DevOps
2 79 (28.73%) CI/CD
3 74 (26.91%) Agile
4 64 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (18.55%) Containerisation
6 47 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (13.09%) Migration
8 34 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (12.36%) Microservices
9 33 (12.00%) Data Modelling
10 30 (10.91%) ETL
11 28 (10.18%) Analytics
11 28 (10.18%) Software Engineering
11 28 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (9.45%) Computer Science
12 26 (9.45%) Roadmaps
13 25 (9.09%) SDLC
14 23 (8.36%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (8.36%) Scrum
14 23 (8.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (33.09%) Python
2 67 (24.36%) Java
3 49 (17.82%) SQL
4 33 (12.00%) Bash
5 27 (9.82%) JavaScript
6 25 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.55%) Scala
8 14 (5.09%) Go
9 13 (4.73%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.27%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.18%) Ruby
12 5 (1.82%) Groovy
12 5 (1.82%) PHP
13 3 (1.09%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.09%) C
13 3 (1.09%) C#
13 3 (1.09%) Perl
14 2 (0.73%) Bicep
15 1 (0.36%) CQL
15 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (10.55%) Degree
1 29 (10.55%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.73%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.91%) CCNP
6 4 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.45%) CCIE
6 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.45%) VCAP
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.09%) CCNA
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.36%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.36%) RHCE
9 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.27%) QA
2 9 (3.27%) GDPR
2 9 (3.27%) HIPAA
2 9 (3.27%) NIST
3 8 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.18%) NCSC
5 4 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (20.36%) Docker
2 16 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.45%) zsh
6 3 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.09%) HDFS
7 2 (0.73%) vSphere
8 1 (0.36%) ACF2
8 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.36%) IAG
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.36%) RACF
8 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 58 (21.09%) Terraform
3 37 (13.45%) Ansible
4 22 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.55%) Grafana
6 14 (5.09%) Istio
6 14 (5.09%) Puppet
7 12 (4.36%) Progress Chef
8 11 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (3.27%) Kibana
9 9 (3.27%) logstash
9 9 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.91%) Zipkin
11 7 (2.55%) Rancher
12 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.45%) OPNET
14 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.73%) Graphite
14 2 (0.73%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.73%) Nagios
Vendors
1 117 (42.55%) Google
2 26 (9.45%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.27%) VMware
4 19 (6.91%) Splunk
5 18 (6.55%) Oracle
6 8 (2.91%) Cisco
6 8 (2.91%) F5
7 7 (2.55%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.82%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.45%) Databricks
9 4 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.45%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.45%) Sophos
10 3 (1.09%) Citrix
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.09%) SAP
11 2 (0.73%) Brandwatch
11 2 (0.73%) Hootsuite