GCP Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 67 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,131 1,593 2,633
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.04% 3.38% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.51% 9.33% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,255 1,967
10th Percentile £415 £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 £850 £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 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,895 17,073 26,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.98% 36.27% 38.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 12,525 20,003
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 £744 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 281 315
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.02 £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 £43.44 £70.00 £44.40
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +4 829 £636 +1.80% 351
North of England +22 116 £525 -4.55% 111
Yorkshire +15 74 £515 -6.36% 35
South West +34 48 £550 -8.33% 39
South East -34 46 £463 -20.60% 57
North West -1 39 £525 -8.70% 70
East of England -18 22 £525 -11.02% 16
Midlands -13 18 £638 +21.43% 38
West Midlands -15 16 £600 +4.35% 23
North East +15 3 £600 +50.00% 6
East Midlands -3 2 £675 +10.20% 15
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
1 193 (17.06%) Apache Airflow
2 167 (14.77%) Apache
3 44 (3.89%) Confluence
4 31 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.41%) CMS
6 14 (1.24%) nginx
7 8 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.53%) 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 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.27%) SAS
12 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.088%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.088%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.088%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.088%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.088%) Magento
2 1 (0.088%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 752 (66.49%) AWS
2 587 (51.90%) Azure
3 106 (9.37%) dbt
4 79 (6.98%) Snowflake
5 76 (6.72%) GitHub
6 56 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
7 43 (3.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 39 (3.45%) Serverless
9 26 (2.30%) PaaS
10 24 (2.12%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.03%) OpenShift
11 23 (2.03%) Vertex AI
12 22 (1.95%) Apigee
12 22 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (1.95%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.95%) SaaS
13 21 (1.86%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.77%) Google Analytics
15 19 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.04%) HTTP
2 54 (4.77%) Firewall
3 41 (3.63%) VPN
4 38 (3.36%) DNS
5 37 (3.27%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.77%) HTTPS
6 20 (1.77%) Network Security
7 18 (1.59%) WAN
8 15 (1.33%) OSPF
9 14 (1.24%) BGP
10 13 (1.15%) DHCP
10 13 (1.15%) IPsec
10 13 (1.15%) LAN
11 12 (1.06%) MPLS
11 12 (1.06%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.97%) SAN
12 11 (0.97%) VLAN
12 11 (0.97%) Wireless
13 9 (0.80%) NAS
14 8 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (13.62%) Apache Ignite
2 140 (12.38%) BigQuery
3 116 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 114 (10.08%) Data Lake
5 96 (8.49%) Amazon Athena
6 85 (7.52%) Dremio
7 82 (7.25%) Apache Arrow
8 76 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
9 65 (5.75%) Big Data
10 59 (5.22%) NoSQL
11 42 (3.71%) Relational Database
12 40 (3.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 39 (3.45%) MongoDB
14 31 (2.74%) MySQL
15 24 (2.12%) Power BI
15 24 (2.12%) SQL Server
16 21 (1.86%) Hadoop
17 17 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 122 (10.79%) Jenkins
2 111 (9.81%) Git
3 58 (5.13%) GitLab
4 56 (4.95%) Cypress.io
4 56 (4.95%) JIRA
5 16 (1.41%) CircleCI
6 14 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.06%) Maven
7 12 (1.06%) Travis CI
8 7 (0.62%) Postman
8 7 (0.62%) Selenium
8 7 (0.62%) Spinnaker
8 7 (0.62%) Subversion
9 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.35%) Gradle
10 4 (0.35%) Hudson
10 4 (0.35%) MLflow
10 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.27%) Appium
General
1 374 (33.07%) Finance
2 223 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 218 (19.27%) Banking
4 215 (19.01%) Front Office
5 105 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (6.98%) Investment Banking
7 40 (3.54%) Retail
8 32 (2.83%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.86%) Marketing
11 15 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.88%) Legal
14 6 (0.53%) Advertising
14 6 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.53%) Wearables
15 5 (0.44%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.27%) Law
16 3 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 358 (31.65%) Developer
2 236 (20.87%) Architect
3 174 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 155 (13.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 131 (11.58%) Python Developer
6 117 (10.34%) Senior
7 108 (9.55%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (9.37%) Python Engineer
9 101 (8.93%) Python Software Engineer
10 83 (7.34%) React Developer
11 75 (6.63%) Lead
12 71 (6.28%) Java Developer
13 62 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 61 (5.39%) Data Engineer
15 59 (5.22%) Consultant
15 59 (5.22%) GCP Engineer
16 48 (4.24%) Full Stack Developer
17 46 (4.07%) Full Stack Engineer
18 45 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
18 45 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (15.38%) gRPC
2 168 (14.85%) React
3 164 (14.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 113 (9.99%) Redux
5 101 (8.93%) Kafka
6 99 (8.75%) Pandas
7 87 (7.69%) NumPy
8 86 (7.60%) RESTful
9 82 (7.25%) SciPy
10 76 (6.72%) Material-UI
10 76 (6.72%) Node.js
11 57 (5.04%) .NET
11 57 (5.04%) REST
12 55 (4.86%) AngularJS
13 52 (4.60%) HTML
14 44 (3.89%) CSS
15 43 (3.80%) Spring
16 39 (3.45%) Akka
17 37 (3.27%) Spring Boot
18 33 (2.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 207 (18.30%) Fixed Income
2 167 (14.77%) Hedge funds
3 150 (13.26%) Equities
4 106 (9.37%) Derivative
5 102 (9.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 59 (5.22%) Public Cloud
7 44 (3.89%) Cloud Native
8 34 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.68%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.33%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.33%) Replication
14 15 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 14 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.22%) Linux
2 33 (2.92%) Windows
3 29 (2.56%) Unix
4 17 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.53%) zOS
7 5 (0.44%) CentOS
7 5 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.44%) Solaris
8 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (38.64%) Agile
2 313 (27.67%) DevOps
3 286 (25.29%) Software Engineering
4 249 (22.02%) CI/CD
5 209 (18.48%) Asset Management
6 198 (17.51%) Machine Learning
7 171 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (14.24%) Investment Management
9 158 (13.97%) Microservices
10 146 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 136 (12.02%) Analytics
11 136 (12.02%) Containerisation
12 133 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 126 (11.14%) Computer Science
13 126 (11.14%) Full Stack Development
14 116 (10.26%) Migration
15 93 (8.22%) ETL
15 93 (8.22%) TDD
16 80 (7.07%) Data Science
17 77 (6.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 485 (42.88%) Python
2 274 (24.23%) Java
3 240 (21.22%) TypeScript
4 232 (20.51%) JavaScript
5 175 (15.47%) SQL
6 84 (7.43%) Bash
7 72 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 71 (6.28%) Scala
9 63 (5.57%) Go
10 50 (4.42%) C#
11 25 (2.21%) Ruby
12 15 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.15%) R
14 12 (1.06%) Groovy
15 8 (0.71%) Perl
16 7 (0.62%) C++
17 6 (0.53%) C
17 6 (0.53%) PHP
17 6 (0.53%) Rust
17 6 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (10.70%) Degree
2 88 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (7.16%) Security Cleared
4 74 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 27 (2.39%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.21%) CISSP
7 23 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.59%) CCNP
10 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.06%) CISM
11 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.88%) CCNA
13 7 (0.62%) CISA
14 6 (0.53%) CCIE
15 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.35%) VCAP
16 3 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.01%) QA
2 34 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 29 (2.56%) GDPR
4 24 (2.12%) NIST
5 17 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.33%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.80%) WCAG
9 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.62%) SLA
11 6 (0.53%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.53%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.18%) GRC
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 154 (13.62%) Docker
2 37 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.71%) ACF2
6 8 (0.71%) IAG
6 8 (0.71%) RACF
6 8 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.62%) Firmware
8 4 (0.35%) Shibboleth
9 3 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.27%) HDFS
9 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
9 3 (0.27%) zsh
10 2 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.088%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 267 (23.61%) Kubernetes
2 212 (18.74%) Terraform
3 90 (7.96%) Ansible
4 41 (3.63%) Grafana
5 39 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 35 (3.09%) Puppet
7 27 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.68%) Istio
10 14 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.06%) Kibana
12 11 (0.97%) logstash
13 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.62%) Rancher
15 6 (0.53%) Argo
15 6 (0.53%) OPNET
15 6 (0.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (0.44%) Nagios
16 5 (0.44%) Netcool
16 5 (0.44%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 456 (40.32%) Google
2 86 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 63 (5.57%) Oracle
4 38 (3.36%) VMware
5 35 (3.09%) Splunk
6 33 (2.92%) Cisco
7 32 (2.83%) CyberArk
8 29 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 23 (2.03%) Typelevel
10 21 (1.86%) BeyondTrust
11 20 (1.77%) Databricks
11 20 (1.77%) F5
12 16 (1.41%) SAP
13 15 (1.33%) Bloomberg
14 12 (1.06%) Genesys
14 12 (1.06%) IBM
15 11 (0.97%) Salesforce
16 10 (0.88%) Adobe
17 9 (0.80%) Atlassian
17 9 (0.80%) HP