GCP Contracts in Central London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
London > Central London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 61 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing GCP 78 129 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.26% 3.46% 3.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.11% 8.82% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 100 108
10th Percentile £385 £475 £504
25th Percentile £469 £535 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £644 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +9.57% +2.17%
75th Percentile £695 £739 £691
90th Percentile £829 £880 £800
London median daily rate £638 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 £81.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.21% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.62
% change year-on-year -31.25% +4.41% +8.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 962 1,463 1,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.15% 39.22% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 967 1,545
10th Percentile £356 £275 £363
25th Percentile £436 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +0.87% +7.48%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £773
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.73 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £38.13 £15.28
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +98.53% +47.99%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £51.88
90th Percentile £38.63 - £83.00
London median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -50.48% +26.51% +5.06%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Central London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +3 75 £588 -9.62% 17
West End of London +1 1 - -
GCP
London

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.28%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (53.85%) AWS
2 40 (51.28%) Azure
3 9 (11.54%) GitHub
4 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.13%) dbt
6 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.85%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.56%) Twilio
7 2 (2.56%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) CTI
1 4 (5.13%) VoIP
2 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.56%) DNS
3 2 (2.56%) Firewall
4 1 (1.28%) DHCP
4 1 (1.28%) FTP
4 1 (1.28%) HTTP
4 1 (1.28%) LAN
4 1 (1.28%) MPLS
4 1 (1.28%) Multicast
4 1 (1.28%) Network Security
4 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.28%) SSH
4 1 (1.28%) VLAN
4 1 (1.28%) WAN
4 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.97%) BigQuery
2 7 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.69%) MySQL
4 5 (6.41%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.56%) Parquet
7 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.56%) Redis
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.28%) Big Data
8 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.54%) Git
3 8 (10.26%) GitLab
4 4 (5.13%) JIRA
4 4 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.56%) Gradle
5 2 (2.56%) Mockito
5 2 (2.56%) Subversion
5 2 (2.56%) webpack
6 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.28%) Darcs
6 1 (1.28%) Deequ
6 1 (1.28%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.28%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (32.05%) Finance
2 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.95%) Banking
4 6 (7.69%) Retail
5 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.56%) Front Office
6 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Advertising
7 1 (1.28%) Back Office
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Games
7 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.28%) Publishing
7 1 (1.28%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Developer
2 12 (15.38%) Architect
3 11 (14.10%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) Consultant
4 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Lead
6 5 (6.41%) Security Consultant
6 5 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Consultant
8 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) GCP Consultant
8 3 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (3.85%) Information Security Consultant
9 2 (2.56%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (2.56%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.26%) Kafka
1 8 (10.26%) React
2 7 (8.97%) REST
2 7 (8.97%) RESTful
2 7 (8.97%) Spring
3 6 (7.69%) CSS
3 6 (7.69%) HTML
3 6 (7.69%) Node.js
3 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.13%) GWT
4 4 (5.13%) JAX-RS
4 4 (5.13%) Middleware
4 4 (5.13%) Restlet
4 4 (5.13%) SAML
5 3 (3.85%) .NET
6 2 (2.56%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.56%) JSON
6 2 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.41%) IVR
3 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.28%) CBDC
6 1 (1.28%) Clustering
6 1 (1.28%) Genomics
6 1 (1.28%) Life Science
6 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) PDA
6 1 (1.28%) PKI
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Linux
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) DevOps
2 18 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.51%) Agile
4 14 (17.95%) Containerisation
5 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.82%) Computer Science
7 10 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.54%) Migration
9 8 (10.26%) Analytics
9 8 (10.26%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (8.97%) ETL
10 7 (8.97%) Machine Learning
10 7 (8.97%) Microservices
10 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.69%) Information Security
11 6 (7.69%) Scrum
11 6 (7.69%) Test Automation
11 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.64%) Python
2 18 (23.08%) Java
3 9 (11.54%) SQL
4 6 (7.69%) Bash
4 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.13%) Go
5 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.85%) C#
7 2 (2.56%) C++
7 2 (2.56%) Scala
7 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.28%) C
8 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 9 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.13%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.85%) CISM
4 3 (3.85%) CISSP
4 3 (3.85%) CRISC
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.56%) OCP
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.56%) SANS
5 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.13%) NIST
3 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.85%) ISO 31000
3 3 (3.85%) NIST 800
3 3 (3.85%) QA
4 2 (2.56%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.56%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.56%) WCAG
5 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (17.95%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes
1 16 (20.51%) Terraform
2 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
3 6 (7.69%) Grafana
4 4 (5.13%) Ansible
4 4 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 4 (5.13%) Puppet
5 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.56%) Graylog
6 2 (2.56%) Nagios
7 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.28%) Kibana
7 1 (1.28%) logstash
7 1 (1.28%) Nessus
7 1 (1.28%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 34 (43.59%) Google
2 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.41%) Genesys
3 5 (6.41%) Oracle
4 3 (3.85%) Cisco
4 3 (3.85%) Databricks
4 3 (3.85%) Splunk
5 2 (2.56%) Avaya
5 2 (2.56%) IBM
5 2 (2.56%) Okta
5 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.28%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.28%) Confluent
6 1 (1.28%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.28%) F5
6 1 (1.28%) Informatica
6 1 (1.28%) New Relic
6 1 (1.28%) Symantec
6 1 (1.28%) Talend