GCP Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 67 66 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,153 1,597 2,633
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.07% 3.40% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.61% 9.35% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 1,263 1,967
10th Percentile £413 £450 £463
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £763 £725 £725
90th Percentile £875 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £613
% change year-on-year -2.04% - +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 10
10th Percentile £34.25 £53.40 £21.36
25th Percentile £35.00 £62.00 £47.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £69.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +0.36% +29.58%
75th Percentile £67.00 £82.50 £78.39
90th Percentile £77.60 £88.75 £80.61
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £70.00 £59.25
% change year-on-year -30.71% +18.14% +29.30%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,003 17,073 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.30% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 12,521 19,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 282 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the England 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
London +5 846 £650 +4.00% 400
North of England +17 119 £525 -4.55% 114
Yorkshire +20 77 £515 -6.36% 38
South West +23 48 £550 -6.38% 39
South East -32 48 £463 -20.60% 57
North West +1 39 £525 -8.70% 70
East of England -17 22 £525 -8.70% 16
Midlands -18 19 £638 +21.43% 41
West Midlands -10 17 £600 - 25
North East +11 3 £600 +50.00% 6
East Midlands -8 2 £675 +10.20% 16
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 203 (17.61%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (15.26%) Apache
3 44 (3.82%) Confluence
4 38 (3.30%) Apache Spark
5 17 (1.47%) CMS
6 14 (1.21%) nginx
7 8 (0.69%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.35%) Drupal
10 4 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 4 (0.35%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.26%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.087%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Shopify
2 1 (0.087%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.087%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.087%) Magento
2 1 (0.087%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 772 (66.96%) AWS
2 599 (51.95%) Azure
3 112 (9.71%) dbt
4 88 (7.63%) Snowflake
5 76 (6.59%) GitHub
6 57 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
7 43 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 40 (3.47%) Serverless
9 26 (2.25%) PaaS
10 25 (2.17%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.08%) OpenShift
12 23 (1.99%) Apigee
12 23 (1.99%) Entra ID
12 23 (1.99%) Vertex AI
13 22 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 22 (1.91%) SaaS
14 21 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.73%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.03%) HTTP
2 54 (4.68%) Firewall
3 41 (3.56%) VPN
4 38 (3.30%) DNS
4 38 (3.30%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.82%) HTTPS
6 20 (1.73%) Network Security
7 18 (1.56%) WAN
8 15 (1.30%) OSPF
9 14 (1.21%) BGP
10 13 (1.13%) DHCP
10 13 (1.13%) IPsec
10 13 (1.13%) LAN
11 12 (1.04%) MPLS
11 12 (1.04%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.95%) SAN
12 11 (0.95%) VLAN
12 11 (0.95%) Wireless
13 9 (0.78%) NAS
14 8 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.05%) Apache Ignite
2 136 (11.80%) BigQuery
3 126 (10.93%) Data Lake
4 117 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (9.02%) Amazon Athena
6 94 (8.15%) Dremio
7 90 (7.81%) Apache Arrow
8 76 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
9 70 (6.07%) Big Data
10 62 (5.38%) NoSQL
11 43 (3.73%) Relational Database
12 40 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 38 (3.30%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.69%) MySQL
15 27 (2.34%) Hadoop
16 25 (2.17%) Power BI
17 24 (2.08%) SQL Server
18 17 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
18 17 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 121 (10.49%) Jenkins
2 112 (9.71%) Git
3 58 (5.03%) GitLab
4 56 (4.86%) Cypress.io
4 56 (4.86%) JIRA
5 16 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 14 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.13%) Maven
8 12 (1.04%) Travis CI
9 7 (0.61%) Postman
9 7 (0.61%) Selenium
9 7 (0.61%) Spinnaker
9 7 (0.61%) Subversion
10 6 (0.52%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.35%) Gradle
12 4 (0.35%) Hudson
12 4 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 388 (33.65%) Finance
2 234 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 229 (19.86%) Banking
4 222 (19.25%) Front Office
5 110 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (7.63%) Investment Banking
7 40 (3.47%) Retail
8 33 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 27 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.82%) Marketing
11 13 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.78%) Legal
14 7 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.52%) Advertising
15 6 (0.52%) Wearables
16 5 (0.43%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.26%) Law
17 3 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 363 (31.48%) Developer
2 238 (20.64%) Architect
3 177 (15.35%) Software Engineer
4 158 (13.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 133 (11.54%) Python Developer
6 119 (10.32%) Senior
7 110 (9.54%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (9.45%) Python Engineer
9 103 (8.93%) Python Software Engineer
10 84 (7.29%) React Developer
11 80 (6.94%) Lead
12 73 (6.33%) Java Developer
13 65 (5.64%) Data Engineer
14 64 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
15 60 (5.20%) Consultant
15 60 (5.20%) GCP Engineer
16 49 (4.25%) Full Stack Developer
17 46 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 46 (3.99%) Full Stack Engineer
18 45 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (15.78%) gRPC
2 172 (14.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 168 (14.57%) React
4 112 (9.71%) Redux
5 108 (9.37%) Pandas
6 103 (8.93%) Kafka
7 96 (8.33%) NumPy
8 91 (7.89%) SciPy
9 88 (7.63%) RESTful
10 77 (6.68%) Node.js
11 76 (6.59%) Material-UI
12 58 (5.03%) .NET
13 57 (4.94%) REST
14 54 (4.68%) AngularJS
15 53 (4.60%) HTML
16 45 (3.90%) CSS
17 43 (3.73%) Spring
18 39 (3.38%) Akka
19 37 (3.21%) Spring Boot
20 33 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (18.47%) Fixed Income
2 173 (15.00%) Hedge funds
3 156 (13.53%) Equities
4 112 (9.71%) Derivative
5 109 (9.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (5.12%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.82%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 26 (2.25%) Data Structures
11 24 (2.08%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.65%) Product Ownership
14 17 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.30%) Replication
15 15 (1.30%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (1.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.07%) Linux
2 33 (2.86%) Windows
3 29 (2.52%) Unix
4 17 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.52%) zOS
7 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.43%) CentOS
7 5 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.43%) Solaris
8 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.087%) Android
9 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (38.68%) Agile
2 312 (27.06%) DevOps
3 293 (25.41%) Software Engineering
4 253 (21.94%) CI/CD
5 216 (18.73%) Asset Management
6 203 (17.61%) Machine Learning
7 178 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (13.88%) Investment Management
9 159 (13.79%) Microservices
10 149 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 142 (12.32%) Analytics
12 136 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 136 (11.80%) Containerisation
13 131 (11.36%) Computer Science
14 129 (11.19%) Full Stack Development
15 120 (10.41%) Migration
16 94 (8.15%) ETL
17 91 (7.89%) TDD
18 88 (7.63%) Data Science
19 80 (6.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 504 (43.71%) Python
2 286 (24.80%) Java
3 247 (21.42%) TypeScript
4 240 (20.82%) JavaScript
5 187 (16.22%) SQL
6 85 (7.37%) Bash
7 74 (6.42%) Scala
8 72 (6.24%) PowerShell
9 63 (5.46%) Go
10 52 (4.51%) C#
11 26 (2.25%) Ruby
12 15 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.04%) Groovy
13 12 (1.04%) R
14 8 (0.69%) Perl
15 7 (0.61%) C++
16 6 (0.52%) C
16 6 (0.52%) PHP
16 6 (0.52%) Rust
16 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (10.93%) Degree
2 93 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (7.11%) Security Cleared
4 75 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 27 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.17%) CISSP
6 25 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.56%) CCNP
9 14 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.04%) CISM
10 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.87%) CCNA
12 7 (0.61%) CISA
13 6 (0.52%) CCIE
14 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.35%) VCAP
15 3 (0.26%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.90%) QA
2 33 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.43%) GDPR
4 24 (2.08%) NIST
5 17 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.30%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.78%) WCAG
9 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.61%) SLA
11 6 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.43%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.26%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.17%) GRC
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 158 (13.70%) Docker
2 38 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.69%) ACF2
6 8 (0.69%) IAG
6 8 (0.69%) RACF
6 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.61%) Firmware
8 4 (0.35%) HDFS
8 4 (0.35%) Shibboleth
9 3 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.26%) vSphere
10 2 (0.17%) KVM
10 2 (0.17%) zsh
11 1 (0.087%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.087%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 272 (23.59%) Kubernetes
2 215 (18.65%) Terraform
3 91 (7.89%) Ansible
4 43 (3.73%) Grafana
5 40 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 36 (3.12%) Puppet
7 27 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.91%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.65%) Istio
10 14 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.04%) Kibana
12 11 (0.95%) logstash
13 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.61%) Rancher
15 6 (0.52%) Argo
15 6 (0.52%) OPNET
15 6 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
16 5 (0.43%) Nagios
16 5 (0.43%) Netcool
Vendors
1 459 (39.81%) Google
2 89 (7.72%) Microsoft
3 64 (5.55%) Oracle
4 39 (3.38%) VMware
5 35 (3.04%) Splunk
6 34 (2.95%) Cisco
7 29 (2.52%) CyberArk
8 26 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 23 (1.99%) Typelevel
10 21 (1.82%) Databricks
11 20 (1.73%) F5
12 18 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
12 18 (1.56%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.39%) SAP
14 12 (1.04%) Genesys
14 12 (1.04%) IBM
15 11 (0.95%) Salesforce
16 10 (0.87%) Adobe
17 9 (0.78%) Atlassian
17 9 (0.78%) HP