GCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 160 129
Rank change year-on-year -1 -31 -6
Contract jobs citing GCP 281 358 640
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 1.57% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 4.77% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 269 476
10th Percentile £350 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £707 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £614 £613
% change year-on-year -2.24% +0.20% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - £32.00 £28.25
25th Percentile - £53.38 £37.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.84 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.41% +34.33% +92.38%
75th Percentile £61.50 £72.70 £71.80
90th Percentile £77.40 £77.08 £78.86
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £70.18 £53.50
% change year-on-year -30.89% +31.17% +21.18%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,316 7,509 10,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.80% 32.87% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,760 5,529 7,404
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 217 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.12 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +34.93% -1.88%
75th Percentile £34.20 £64.50 £31.69
90th Percentile £67.85 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.20
% change year-on-year -41.45% +64.41% -0.22%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
North of England +17 109 £516 -6.14% 112
Yorkshire +6 67 £509 -7.55% 38
South West +22 47 £550 -15.38% 40
South East -31 44 £463 -15.91% 66
North West +9 39 £513 -10.87% 65
Scotland +49 27 £450 -30.77% 33
East of England -10 23 £525 -12.24% 19
Midlands -16 19 £600 +14.29% 34
West Midlands -22 17 £600 +4.35% 20
Wales +7 6 £550 +0.46% 14
Northern Ireland +5 3 £675 +17.39% 19
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
North East - 3 £600 - 9
East Midlands -2 2 £675 +5.88% 14
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (8.90%) Apache Spark
2 23 (8.19%) Confluence
3 12 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.20%) nginx
5 7 (2.49%) Apache
6 4 (1.42%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.42%) CMS
7 3 (1.07%) Drupal
7 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.71%) SAS
8 2 (0.71%) Traefik
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 180 (64.06%) AWS
2 166 (59.07%) Azure
3 30 (10.68%) GitHub
4 21 (7.47%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (6.76%) Serverless
6 17 (6.05%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.98%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.56%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.20%) Apigee
9 9 (3.20%) Kong
10 8 (2.85%) PaaS
11 7 (2.49%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 7 (2.49%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.49%) Google Analytics
12 6 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.14%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.78%) CloudBees
13 5 (1.78%) OCI
13 5 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.03%) VPN
2 24 (8.54%) DNS
2 24 (8.54%) TCP/IP
3 22 (7.83%) Firewall
4 13 (4.63%) HTTP
5 9 (3.20%) HTTPS
6 8 (2.85%) Network Security
6 8 (2.85%) SSL
7 6 (2.14%) BGP
7 6 (2.14%) IPsec
7 6 (2.14%) MPLS
7 6 (2.14%) OSPF
7 6 (2.14%) VLAN
8 5 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 5 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.42%) DHCP
9 4 (1.42%) SAN
9 4 (1.42%) Value-Added Service
9 4 (1.42%) WAN
9 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.23%) BigQuery
2 23 (8.19%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.83%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.76%) Big Data
4 19 (6.76%) Data Lake
4 19 (6.76%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.34%) Hadoop
5 15 (5.34%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.98%) Power BI
7 13 (4.63%) MySQL
8 11 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.14%) Metadata
12 6 (2.14%) Tableau
13 5 (1.78%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 45 (16.01%) Git
2 44 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 34 (12.10%) JIRA
4 19 (6.76%) GitLab
5 11 (3.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (3.20%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.20%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.20%) Travis CI
7 6 (2.14%) Selenium
7 6 (2.14%) Spinnaker
8 4 (1.42%) Hudson
8 4 (1.42%) Subversion
9 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.07%) Maven
9 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.71%) Snyk
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.36%) Gradle
11 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 75 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.10%) Finance
4 27 (9.61%) Banking
5 17 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.78%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.42%) Marketing
8 4 (1.42%) Retail
8 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (18.15%) Developer
2 50 (17.79%) Architect
3 27 (9.61%) Java Developer
4 26 (9.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (9.25%) Senior
5 23 (8.19%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.34%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.63%) Lead
9 12 (4.27%) Analyst
10 10 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) DBA
11 9 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (2.85%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.85%) Network Engineer
13 7 (2.49%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (2.49%) Consultant
13 7 (2.49%) GCP Architect
13 7 (2.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.17%) Kafka
2 26 (9.25%) Spring
3 24 (8.54%) Spring Boot
4 23 (8.19%) RESTful
5 20 (7.12%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (5.34%) JSON
7 14 (4.98%) REST
8 13 (4.63%) SAML
8 13 (4.63%) XML
8 13 (4.63%) YAML
9 9 (3.20%) GWT
9 9 (3.20%) Restlet
10 8 (2.85%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.85%) HTML
10 8 (2.85%) JAX-RS
10 8 (2.85%) Node.js
10 8 (2.85%) OpenTracing
10 8 (2.85%) React
11 7 (2.49%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.14%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.96%) Public Cloud
2 22 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.83%) Data Structures
3 16 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.85%) Replication
5 7 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.14%) PKI
6 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.78%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.42%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.07%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.81%) Linux
2 11 (3.91%) Unix
3 9 (3.20%) Windows
4 6 (2.14%) CentOS
5 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.42%) zOS
6 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.67%) DevOps
2 82 (29.18%) CI/CD
3 79 (28.11%) Agile
4 65 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (18.15%) Containerisation
6 47 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (13.88%) Migration
8 36 (12.81%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (12.10%) Microservices
10 31 (11.03%) Data Modelling
10 31 (11.03%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.32%) Analytics
12 28 (9.96%) ETL
13 27 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (9.25%) Scrum
14 26 (9.25%) SDLC
15 25 (8.90%) Computer Science
16 24 (8.54%) Roadmaps
16 24 (8.54%) Test Automation
17 22 (7.83%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 93 (33.10%) Python
2 67 (23.84%) Java
3 47 (16.73%) SQL
4 34 (12.10%) Bash
5 27 (9.61%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.61%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.05%) Scala
7 15 (5.34%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.63%) Go
9 9 (3.20%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.78%) Groovy
10 5 (1.78%) PHP
10 5 (1.78%) Ruby
11 4 (1.42%) C
12 3 (1.07%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.07%) C#
13 2 (0.71%) Bicep
13 2 (0.71%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.96%) Degree
3 24 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.20%) CCNP
7 5 (1.78%) CCNA
7 5 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.42%) CCIE
8 4 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.42%) VCAP
9 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.36%) RHCE
11 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.12%) QA
2 9 (3.20%) GDPR
2 9 (3.20%) HIPAA
2 9 (3.20%) NIST
3 7 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.14%) NCSC
5 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.42%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (20.64%) Docker
2 14 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.49%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.78%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.42%) zsh
6 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.07%) HDFS
7 2 (0.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.36%) ACF2
8 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.36%) Firmware
8 1 (0.36%) IAG
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.36%) RACF
8 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (28.47%) Kubernetes
2 59 (21.00%) Terraform
3 37 (13.17%) Ansible
4 22 (7.83%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.41%) Grafana
6 14 (4.98%) Istio
7 13 (4.63%) Puppet
8 11 (3.91%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (3.91%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.20%) Kibana
9 9 (3.20%) logstash
9 9 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.85%) Zipkin
11 7 (2.49%) Rancher
12 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.78%) OPNET
13 3 (1.07%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.71%) Argo
14 2 (0.71%) Consul
14 2 (0.71%) linkerd
Vendors
1 123 (43.77%) Google
2 27 (9.61%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.12%) Splunk
4 18 (6.41%) VMware
5 17 (6.05%) Oracle
6 10 (3.56%) Cisco
7 9 (3.20%) F5
8 8 (2.85%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.49%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.42%) Databricks
11 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.42%) Sophos
12 3 (1.07%) Aruba
12 3 (1.07%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.07%) Citrix
12 3 (1.07%) Facebook
12 3 (1.07%) Twitter