GCP Developer Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Developer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Developer daily rate in the UK is £619 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 657 801
Rank change year-on-year +98 +144 -169
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Developer 17 27 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.047% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.050% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 35
10th Percentile £493 £406 £430
25th Percentile £513 £528 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £681 £663
90th Percentile £738 £726 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +8.50% -23.08% +31.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

GCP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GCP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Developer in the UK

GCP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Developer in the UK

GCP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Developer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Developer in the UK

GCP Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +106 17 £619 +3.13% 2
Work from Home +126 15 £625 +8.70% 1
London +97 14 £625 - 1
UK excluding London +52 2 £543 +8.50% 1
East of England - 2 £543 -

GCP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, GCP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring GCP Developer in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) GCP
2 11 (64.71%) Google
3 8 (47.06%) Java
4 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
5 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
6 5 (29.41%) SQL
6 5 (29.41%) Python
6 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
6 5 (29.41%) React
7 4 (23.53%) GitLab
7 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
7 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 3 (17.65%) Azure
8 3 (17.65%) AWS
8 3 (17.65%) Django
8 3 (17.65%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
8 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
8 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
8 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
8 3 (17.65%) HTML
8 3 (17.65%) CSS
8 3 (17.65%) Technology Transformation
8 3 (17.65%) Data Science

GCP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (82.35%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Apigee
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) React
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 3 (17.65%) Django
2 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
3 2 (11.76%) Node.js
3 2 (11.76%) OAuth
3 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
3 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
3 2 (11.76%) OpenID
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) SOAP
3 2 (11.76%) Swagger
3 2 (11.76%) YAML
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
1 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Data Science
4 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (11.76%) API Management
5 2 (11.76%) B2B
5 2 (11.76%) B2C
5 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.76%) Functional Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Non-Blocking Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
1 2 (11.76%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Google