GCP Developer Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Developer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Developer daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 657 799
Rank change year-on-year +88 +142 -121
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Developer 18 32 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.057% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.060% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 40
10th Percentile £449 £427 £423
25th Percentile £506 £550 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% - +14.04%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £754 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -3.00% -23.08% +30.00%

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 39,794 53,311 84,183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,730 37,248 59,348
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,844 1,473 1,970
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.37
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

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 3 June 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 3 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
England +79 18 £613 -5.77% 4
London +89 16 £613 -5.77%
Work from Home +123 14 £619 +3.13% 5
UK excluding London +44 1 £485 -3.00% 4
East of England - 1 £485 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 15 (83.33%) GCP
2 12 (66.67%) Google
3 10 (55.56%) Java
4 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
6 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
8 4 (22.22%) SQL
8 4 (22.22%) Python
8 4 (22.22%) TDD
8 4 (22.22%) AWS
8 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
8 4 (22.22%) BigQuery
8 4 (22.22%) Microservices
8 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
9 3 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
9 3 (16.67%) React
9 3 (16.67%) GitLab
9 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 3 (16.67%) Scala
9 3 (16.67%) Azure
9 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 3 (16.67%) HTTP
10 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 2 (11.11%) C#
10 2 (11.11%) HTML
10 2 (11.11%) .NET
10 2 (11.11%) CSS

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 15 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) Apigee
4 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) React
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) Django
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) OAuth
2 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 2 (11.11%) OpenID
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) SOAP
2 2 (11.11%) Swagger
2 2 (11.11%) YAML
3 1 (5.56%) Akka
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) TDD
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) API Design
5 2 (11.11%) API Management
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Clean Code
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Data Science
5 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Non-Blocking Code
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Scala
5 2 (11.11%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Typelevel