GCP Contracts in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 94 84 119
Rank change year-on-year -10 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 17 45 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 2.03% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.50% 5.56% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 37 40
10th Percentile £478 £463 £408
25th Percentile £550 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% +19.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £753
90th Percentile £700 £763 £1,100
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 486 810 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.80% 36.60% 34.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 565 884
10th Percentile £203 £272 £213
25th Percentile £326 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £611 £610 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 14
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.54 £12.55
25th Percentile £15.56 £15.98 £15.31
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +6.53% +31.03%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £21.82
90th Percentile £33.19 £25.31 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +1 10 £600 -14.29% 14
Warwickshire -9 5 £675 +35.00% 3
Coventry +2 1 £550 +10.00% 3
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (17.65%) CMS
1 3 (17.65%) Drupal
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Apigee
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.88%) Impala
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) OLTP
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (5.88%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Artifactory
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Selenium
2 3 (17.65%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Database Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Power Apps Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior SQL Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior SQL Server Developer
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (5.88%) Flask
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) ETL
2 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
2 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) Epics
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Kanban
3 3 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (17.65%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) SDLC
3 3 (17.65%) Software Assurance
3 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) HiveQL
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Denodo
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Kenna
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Qualys
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Talend