GCP Contracts in the South West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 132 117
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -25
Contract jobs citing GCP 48 27 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.45% 0.80% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.80% 2.45% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 43
10th Percentile £300 £350 £432
25th Percentile £450 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% - +13.53%
75th Percentile £611 £706 £681
90th Percentile £688 £762 £775
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £69.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +0.36% +29.58%

All Cloud Skills
South West

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 828 1,102 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.10% 32.53% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 875 860
10th Percentile £213 £288 £255
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £621
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 61 21
10th Percentile £13.52 £14.61 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £53.35 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% +148.14% -55.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South West.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the South West

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol +18 32 £488 -11.36% 17
Wiltshire -1 8 £650 - 1
Dorset - 4 - - 3
Gloucestershire +2 2 £500 -20.00% 13
Somerset -2 1 £550 +62.96% 3
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (20.83%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) Apache Solr
2 4 (8.33%) nginx
3 2 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.08%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) AWS
2 18 (37.50%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) PaaS
4 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 5 (10.42%) OCI
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.08%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.08%) Google Container Engine
8 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) VPN
2 5 (10.42%) DNS
2 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.33%) HTTPS
3 4 (8.33%) IPsec
4 1 (2.08%) 5G
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) Firewall
4 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.08%) LTE
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (2.08%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.33%) Couchbase
2 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) JIRA
2 6 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 5 (10.42%) Spinnaker
4 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.25%) Maven
6 2 (4.17%) GitLab
6 2 (4.17%) Snyk
6 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Legal
3 2 (4.17%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Architect
2 11 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Automation Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (6.25%) IT Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Office Automation Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Architect
8 1 (2.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) SAML
2 9 (18.75%) Spring
2 9 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 8 (16.67%) REST
4 7 (14.58%) GWT
4 7 (14.58%) JAX-RS
4 7 (14.58%) Restlet
5 6 (12.50%) ModSecurity
6 4 (8.33%) .NET
6 4 (8.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.33%) JSON
6 4 (8.33%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (8.33%) OpenID
6 4 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (8.33%) YAML
7 3 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.08%) Django
8 1 (2.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Public Cloud
2 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 7 (14.58%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.33%) Blockchain
4 4 (8.33%) Insider Threat
4 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.33%) PKI
4 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) DevOps
2 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 13 (27.08%) Agile
4 11 (22.92%) ArchiMate
4 11 (22.92%) Microservices
5 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (20.83%) Migration
6 9 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 8 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (12.50%) Business Strategy
8 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (12.50%) IT Strategy
8 6 (12.50%) NsoIT
8 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) Java
1 9 (18.75%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.33%) PHP
3 4 (8.33%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.17%) Bicep
5 2 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) CCSP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) CISSP
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 5 (10.42%) GDPR
2 5 (10.42%) HIPAA
2 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.42%) NIST
3 4 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (8.33%) NCSC
4 1 (2.08%) GRC
4 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
2 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.17%) Terraform
3 11 (22.92%) Ansible
4 8 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (12.50%) OPNET
6 5 (10.42%) Istio
7 4 (8.33%) PowerCLI
8 2 (4.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) Google
2 9 (18.75%) VMware
3 6 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 5 (10.42%) Oracle
5 4 (8.33%) Cisco
5 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.17%) Salesforce