GCP Contracts in the South East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 152 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 -30
Contract jobs citing GCP 48 96 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 1.70% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 5.81% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 70 110
10th Percentile £325 £350 £406
25th Percentile £381 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.60% -2.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £563 £663 £663
90th Percentile £588 £760 £751
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £47.35
25th Percentile - £17.75 £49.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.19% -65.42% -15.75%
75th Percentile - £19.25 £67.83
90th Percentile - - £75.37
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £69.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +0.36% +29.58%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,338 1,652 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.26% 29.17% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,195 1,805
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £408 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £614
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 47 54
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.83 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £23.56
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.43
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the South East

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +3 32 £482 -3.60% 22
Berkshire -21 22 £425 - 10
Hampshire -18 11 £400 -33.33% 11
Buckinghamshire +28 5 £575 -28.13% 8
Oxfordshire +6 5 £425 - 4
West Sussex 0 4 £463 -24.49% 3
Surrey -1 1 £500 -9.09% 5
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 26 (54.17%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.25%) Google App Engine
6 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.08%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) AppsFlyer
7 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.08%) dbt
7 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
7 1 (2.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Network Security
2 4 (8.33%) Firewall
3 3 (6.25%) SAN
3 3 (6.25%) VPN
3 3 (6.25%) WAN
4 2 (4.17%) BGP
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (4.17%) DMVPN
4 2 (4.17%) EIGRP
4 2 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (4.17%) HTTP
4 2 (4.17%) IPsec
4 2 (4.17%) MPLS
4 2 (4.17%) NAS
4 2 (4.17%) OSPF
4 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.17%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.42%) MySQL
3 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.33%) Metadata
5 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.17%) Big Data
6 2 (4.17%) DB2
6 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.17%) Power BI
7 1 (2.08%) Looker
7 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Appium
3 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) MSTest
3 1 (2.08%) NUnit
3 1 (2.08%) Selenium
3 1 (2.08%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.08%) Spinnaker
3 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Finance
3 1 (2.08%) Marketing
3 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Data Engineer
1 7 (14.58%) Developer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) DBA
5 3 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Network Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) HTML
1 4 (8.33%) Kafka
1 4 (8.33%) Node.js
1 4 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (6.25%) .NET
2 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.25%) CSS
2 3 (6.25%) RESTful
2 3 (6.25%) Spring
2 3 (6.25%) XML
3 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.17%) CSS3
3 2 (4.17%) Django
3 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.17%) Express.js
3 2 (4.17%) GWT
3 2 (4.17%) HTML5
3 2 (4.17%) Restlet
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.08%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Life Science
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
2 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (29.17%) DevOps
4 11 (22.92%) Containerisation
5 8 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 7 (14.58%) Agile
6 7 (14.58%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (14.58%) Time Management
6 7 (14.58%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (10.42%) Scrum
9 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (8.33%) Data Munging
9 4 (8.33%) Migration
9 4 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) Java
2 11 (22.92%) SQL
3 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.50%) Bash
5 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) C++
6 2 (4.17%) Go
6 2 (4.17%) Groovy
6 2 (4.17%) Scala
6 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) CCNA
4 3 (6.25%) CCNP
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.08%) IBM Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 6 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.17%) vSphere
5 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Terraform
2 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Istio
3 7 (14.58%) Rancher
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
5 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.08%) Nagios
6 1 (2.08%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.08%) SCCM
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Google
2 6 (12.50%) Oracle
2 6 (12.50%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Cisco
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 3 (6.25%) Aruba
5 3 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.17%) Blue Coat
6 2 (4.17%) F5
6 2 (4.17%) Juniper
6 2 (4.17%) McAfee
6 2 (4.17%) SAP
6 2 (4.17%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.08%) IBM
7 1 (2.08%) Isilon
7 1 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.08%) Splunk
7 1 (2.08%) Veeam