GCP Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 48 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 796 1,171 1,873
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.55% 4.50% 4.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.78% 11.55% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 908 1,438
10th Percentile £456 £461 £475
25th Percentile £516 £535 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £636 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +1.80% +5.04%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £725
90th Percentile £875 £825 £800
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 4
10th Percentile £49.05 £62.00 £36.01
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.88 £59.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.62
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +4.41% +12.09%
75th Percentile £58.75 £88.44 £79.69
90th Percentile £63.70 £91.25 £81.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.62% +7.96% +160.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,757 10,139 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.66% 38.97% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,439 12,131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 80 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Central London -7 70 £588 -9.62% 23
West London +17 20 £488 -22.00% 9
South London +12 7 £500 -9.09% 3
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
1 164 (20.60%) Apache Airflow
2 147 (18.47%) Apache
3 19 (2.39%) Confluence
4 14 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.13%) CMS
6 7 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.63%) nginx
8 4 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.13%) Drupal
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
11 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 533 (66.96%) AWS
2 404 (50.75%) Azure
3 89 (11.18%) dbt
4 61 (7.66%) Snowflake
5 40 (5.03%) GitHub
6 34 (4.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 26 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
8 23 (2.89%) Vertex AI
9 17 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.14%) PaaS
9 17 (2.14%) SaaS
9 17 (2.14%) Serverless
10 15 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (1.76%) Cloud Run
11 14 (1.76%) Google Compute Engine
12 13 (1.63%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.51%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.51%) IaaS
14 11 (1.38%) Nutanix
15 10 (1.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.77%) HTTP
2 37 (4.65%) Firewall
3 18 (2.26%) DNS
4 16 (2.01%) WAN
5 14 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.76%) VPN
6 13 (1.63%) LAN
6 13 (1.63%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.38%) DHCP
7 11 (1.38%) Network Security
7 11 (1.38%) OSPF
8 10 (1.26%) Wireless
9 9 (1.13%) BGP
9 9 (1.13%) HTTPS
9 9 (1.13%) MPLS
10 8 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (1.01%) IPsec
10 8 (1.01%) NAS
10 8 (1.01%) SAN
10 8 (1.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (17.46%) Apache Ignite
2 99 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (11.43%) BigQuery
4 78 (9.80%) Data Lake
5 72 (9.05%) Amazon Athena
6 70 (8.79%) Apache Arrow
6 70 (8.79%) Dremio
7 53 (6.66%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (5.90%) Big Data
9 36 (4.52%) NoSQL
10 32 (4.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 28 (3.52%) Relational Database
12 22 (2.76%) MongoDB
13 18 (2.26%) Looker
14 16 (2.01%) MySQL
15 14 (1.76%) Tableau
16 13 (1.63%) Power BI
16 13 (1.63%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.63%) SQL Server
17 8 (1.01%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 71 (8.92%) Jenkins
2 64 (8.04%) Git
3 52 (6.53%) Cypress.io
4 33 (4.15%) GitLab
5 24 (3.02%) JIRA
6 9 (1.13%) Postman
7 6 (0.75%) Maven
7 6 (0.75%) MLflow
7 6 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Subversion
9 2 (0.25%) Appium
9 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.25%) Mocha
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 323 (40.58%) Finance
2 206 (25.88%) Front Office
3 179 (22.49%) Banking
4 141 (17.71%) Social Skills
5 70 (8.79%) Investment Banking
6 62 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (4.27%) Retail
8 16 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.88%) Marketing
10 10 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.26%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.88%) Advertising
12 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.50%) Legal
13 4 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.38%) Publishing
14 3 (0.38%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 300 (37.69%) Developer
2 178 (22.36%) Architect
3 155 (19.47%) Software Engineer
4 149 (18.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 127 (15.95%) Python Developer
6 96 (12.06%) Python Engineer
6 96 (12.06%) Python Software Engineer
7 81 (10.18%) React Developer
7 81 (10.18%) Senior
8 77 (9.67%) Solutions Architect
9 57 (7.16%) Lead
10 50 (6.28%) Full Stack Developer
11 48 (6.03%) Java Developer
12 47 (5.90%) Finance Manager
12 47 (5.90%) Full Stack Engineer
12 47 (5.90%) GCP Engineer
13 46 (5.78%) Cloud Architect
14 41 (5.15%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 38 (4.77%) Consultant
16 37 (4.65%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (19.22%) React
2 150 (18.84%) gRPC
3 148 (18.59%) Protocol Buffers
4 112 (14.07%) Redux
5 87 (10.93%) Pandas
6 79 (9.92%) Material-UI
7 74 (9.30%) NumPy
8 67 (8.42%) SciPy
9 60 (7.54%) Kafka
10 54 (6.78%) Node.js
11 53 (6.66%) RESTful
12 47 (5.90%) .NET
13 39 (4.90%) HTML
14 38 (4.77%) AngularJS
15 34 (4.27%) CSS
16 33 (4.15%) REST
17 32 (4.02%) Akka
18 25 (3.14%) .NET Core
19 24 (3.02%) Vue
20 22 (2.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 197 (24.75%) Fixed Income
2 159 (19.97%) Hedge funds
3 143 (17.96%) Equities
4 99 (12.44%) Derivative
5 92 (11.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.64%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 20 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.76%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.63%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.38%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 10 (1.26%) Clustering
14 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.13%) PKI
15 9 (1.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.16%) Linux
2 24 (3.02%) Windows
3 16 (2.01%) Unix
3 16 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (0.75%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (44.10%) Agile
2 246 (30.90%) Software Engineering
3 199 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 193 (24.25%) DevOps
5 172 (21.61%) Machine Learning
6 160 (20.10%) Investment Management
7 145 (18.22%) CI/CD
8 123 (15.45%) Full Stack Development
9 117 (14.70%) Microservices
10 108 (13.57%) Analytics
11 106 (13.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 93 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (11.18%) Computer Science
14 84 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 71 (8.92%) Containerisation
16 68 (8.54%) TDD
17 66 (8.29%) ETL
18 65 (8.17%) Automated Trading
19 63 (7.91%) Data Science
20 58 (7.29%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 364 (45.73%) Python
2 205 (25.75%) TypeScript
3 188 (23.62%) JavaScript
4 181 (22.74%) Java
5 124 (15.58%) SQL
6 55 (6.91%) Scala
7 45 (5.65%) Go
8 44 (5.53%) Bash
9 42 (5.28%) C#
10 37 (4.65%) PowerShell
11 21 (2.64%) Ruby
12 17 (2.14%) R
13 14 (1.76%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.75%) Perl
14 6 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.63%) Groovy
16 4 (0.50%) Bicep
16 4 (0.50%) Rust
17 3 (0.38%) C++
17 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (10.43%) Degree
2 61 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 47 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.64%) AWS Certification
5 21 (2.64%) CISSP
6 14 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.26%) CISM
9 9 (1.13%) CCNP
9 9 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.75%) CISA
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.63%) CCNA
14 3 (0.38%) CRISC
15 2 (0.25%) OCP
15 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.16%) QA
2 27 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.14%) NIST
4 15 (1.88%) GDPR
5 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.01%) WCAG
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.38%) ISO 31000
8 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 95 (11.93%) Docker
2 35 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.88%) ACF2
4 7 (0.88%) IAG
4 7 (0.88%) RACF
4 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.75%) Firmware
5 6 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.50%) Shibboleth
7 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 166 (20.85%) Kubernetes
2 134 (16.83%) Terraform
3 47 (5.90%) Ansible
4 22 (2.76%) Puppet
5 21 (2.64%) Grafana
6 18 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.38%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.75%) Kubeflow
9 6 (0.75%) Netcool
9 6 (0.75%) Tivoli
9 6 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.50%) Nessus
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle Identity Management
11 3 (0.38%) Kibana
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.38%) Nagios
12 2 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 305 (38.32%) Google
2 56 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.40%) Oracle
4 30 (3.77%) CyberArk
5 23 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.76%) Cisco
7 20 (2.51%) Typelevel
8 18 (2.26%) BeyondTrust
9 17 (2.14%) VMware
10 15 (1.88%) Databricks
10 15 (1.88%) IBM
10 15 (1.88%) Splunk
11 14 (1.76%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.51%) Okta
13 11 (1.38%) F5
14 10 (1.26%) SAP
15 9 (1.13%) Adobe
16 8 (1.01%) Genesys
16 8 (1.01%) HP
17 7 (0.88%) Dell