GCP Contracts in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 122 104 135
Rank change year-on-year -18 +31 -10
Contract jobs citing GCP 19 54 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.64% 1.68% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 4.90% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 45 49
10th Percentile £489 £463 £384
25th Percentile £550 £480 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £800
90th Percentile £694 £740 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 1,103 1,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.59% 34.27% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 783 1,208
10th Percentile £198 £213 £198
25th Percentile £319 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 29
10th Percentile - £14.01 £13.13
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.05
Median hourly rate £21.23 £22.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% +16.88% +30.51%
75th Percentile £26.50 £26.48 £23.75
90th Percentile £32.00 £46.00 £26.08
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -10 17 £600 - 24
East Midlands -8 2 £675 +10.20% 15
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (15.79%) CMS
1 3 (15.79%) Drupal
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Apigee
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Impala
4 1 (5.26%) OLTP
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (5.26%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Database Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Power Apps Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior SQL Server Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.26%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
1 2 (10.53%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) Flask
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) gRPC
2 1 (5.26%) JMS
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (21.05%) ETL
3 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Epics
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) C++
3 1 (5.26%) HiveQL
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.26%) R
3 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
2 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Denodo
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Kenna
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Qualys
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Talend