GCP Contracts

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 65 69 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,336 1,799 3,395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 3.24% 3.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.44% 8.88% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 1,370 2,476
10th Percentile £405 £438 £463
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% - +6.52%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.82% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 12
10th Percentile £31.25 £53.40 £23.35
25th Percentile £33.13 £62.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £70.00 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +18.14% +29.30%
75th Percentile £62.25 £82.50 £77.68
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.75 £80.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £65.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -46.56% +22.43% +103.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 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
England -1 1,153 £600 -4.00% 669
London +5 846 £650 +4.00% 385
Work from Home +4 507 £613 -2.00% 386
UK excluding London 0 294 £507 -7.82% 301
North of England +17 119 £525 -4.55% 112
Yorkshire +20 77 £515 -6.36% 37
South West +23 48 £550 -6.38% 39
South East -32 48 £463 -20.60% 57
North West +1 39 £525 -8.70% 70
Scotland +60 26 £450 -18.18% 22
East of England -17 22 £525 -8.70% 17
Midlands -18 19 £638 +21.43% 40
West Midlands -10 17 £600 - 24
Wales +14 6 £550 -2.65% 8
North East +11 3 £600 +50.00% 5
Northern Ireland -3 3 £675 +12.50% 13
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -8 2 £675 +10.20% 16

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 212 (15.87%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (13.47%) Apache
3 53 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 47 (3.52%) Confluence
5 24 (1.80%) CMS
6 14 (1.05%) nginx
7 9 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
8 8 (0.60%) Apache Solr
8 8 (0.60%) Drupal
9 7 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.37%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.37%) WordPress
12 4 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.22%) SAS
14 2 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.075%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Trello
5 1 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Magento
2 3 (0.22%) Shopify
3 2 (0.15%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.075%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.075%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 898 (67.22%) AWS
2 717 (53.67%) Azure
3 115 (8.61%) dbt
4 96 (7.19%) GitHub
5 94 (7.04%) Snowflake
6 69 (5.16%) Cloud Computing
7 50 (3.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 46 (3.44%) Serverless
9 41 (3.07%) Power Platform
10 32 (2.40%) OpenShift
11 30 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.25%) PaaS
12 26 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (1.87%) Apigee
13 25 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (1.87%) SaaS
14 24 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (1.80%) Google Analytics
14 24 (1.80%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.64%) HTTP
2 59 (4.42%) Firewall
3 42 (3.14%) VPN
4 40 (2.99%) DNS
5 39 (2.92%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.80%) Network Security
7 21 (1.57%) HTTPS
7 21 (1.57%) WAN
8 16 (1.20%) LAN
9 15 (1.12%) OSPF
9 15 (1.12%) SD-WAN
10 14 (1.05%) BGP
11 13 (0.97%) CTI
11 13 (0.97%) DHCP
11 13 (0.97%) IPsec
11 13 (0.97%) VoIP
12 12 (0.90%) MPLS
12 12 (0.90%) Wireless
13 11 (0.82%) SAN
13 11 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.13%) Apache Ignite
2 157 (11.75%) BigQuery
3 130 (9.73%) Data Lake
4 128 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
5 105 (7.86%) Amazon Athena
6 94 (7.04%) Dremio
7 90 (6.74%) Apache Arrow
8 89 (6.66%) Data Warehouse
9 76 (5.69%) Big Data
10 63 (4.72%) NoSQL
11 52 (3.89%) Relational Database
12 43 (3.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 39 (2.92%) MongoDB
14 37 (2.77%) Power BI
15 33 (2.47%) MySQL
16 31 (2.32%) Hadoop
17 27 (2.02%) SQL Server
18 23 (1.72%) Tableau
19 21 (1.57%) Looker
20 20 (1.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 136 (10.18%) Jenkins
2 132 (9.88%) Git
3 74 (5.54%) GitLab
4 68 (5.09%) JIRA
5 57 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 20 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 17 (1.27%) CircleCI
7 17 (1.27%) Maven
8 16 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 13 (0.97%) Selenium
10 12 (0.90%) Travis CI
11 9 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.60%) Subversion
13 7 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.52%) Postman
13 7 (0.52%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.45%) Gradle
14 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.37%) Hudson
15 5 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 415 (31.06%) Finance
2 288 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 249 (18.64%) Banking
4 222 (16.62%) Front Office
5 126 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (6.74%) Investment Banking
7 49 (3.67%) Retail
8 47 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 36 (2.69%) Telecoms
10 27 (2.02%) Marketing
11 18 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.67%) Legal
14 9 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.60%) Wearables
16 6 (0.45%) Advertising
17 5 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.37%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 410 (30.69%) Developer
2 276 (20.66%) Architect
3 180 (13.47%) Software Engineer
4 158 (11.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 143 (10.70%) Python Developer
6 138 (10.33%) Solutions Architect
7 134 (10.03%) Senior
8 109 (8.16%) Python Engineer
9 103 (7.71%) Python Software Engineer
10 91 (6.81%) Java Developer
11 88 (6.59%) Lead
12 85 (6.36%) Data Engineer
13 84 (6.29%) React Developer
14 78 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
15 73 (5.46%) GCP Engineer
16 70 (5.24%) Consultant
17 53 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
18 50 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
19 47 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
19 47 (3.52%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (13.62%) gRPC
2 176 (13.17%) React
3 172 (12.87%) Protocol Buffers
4 125 (9.36%) Kafka
5 114 (8.53%) Pandas
6 112 (8.38%) Redux
7 102 (7.63%) RESTful
8 98 (7.34%) NumPy
9 92 (6.89%) SciPy
10 86 (6.44%) Node.js
11 76 (5.69%) Material-UI
12 64 (4.79%) REST
13 62 (4.64%) HTML
14 60 (4.49%) Spring
15 59 (4.42%) .NET
15 59 (4.42%) AngularJS
16 55 (4.12%) Spring Boot
17 51 (3.82%) CSS
18 41 (3.07%) Akka
18 41 (3.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (15.94%) Fixed Income
2 173 (12.95%) Hedge funds
3 156 (11.68%) Equities
4 112 (8.38%) Derivative
5 109 (8.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 66 (4.94%) Public Cloud
7 57 (4.27%) Cloud Native
8 43 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
9 39 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 31 (2.32%) Management Information System
11 30 (2.25%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.65%) Product Ownership
14 19 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.35%) Data Centre
16 17 (1.27%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.27%) Replication
16 17 (1.27%) Security Posture
17 16 (1.20%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.49%) Linux
2 36 (2.69%) Unix
3 35 (2.62%) Windows
4 19 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.45%) zOS
7 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.37%) CentOS
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.075%) Android
9 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (36.68%) Agile
2 377 (28.22%) DevOps
3 310 (23.20%) Software Engineering
4 300 (22.46%) CI/CD
5 217 (16.24%) Machine Learning
6 216 (16.17%) Asset Management
7 212 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 181 (13.55%) Microservices
9 167 (12.50%) Analytics
10 160 (11.98%) Computer Science
10 160 (11.98%) Investment Management
11 159 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 156 (11.68%) Containerisation
13 150 (11.23%) Artificial Intelligence
14 139 (10.40%) Migration
15 131 (9.81%) Full Stack Development
16 114 (8.53%) ETL
17 101 (7.56%) Data Science
18 95 (7.11%) TDD
19 91 (6.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 550 (41.17%) Python
2 318 (23.80%) Java
3 257 (19.24%) TypeScript
4 253 (18.94%) JavaScript
5 224 (16.77%) SQL
6 97 (7.26%) Bash
7 88 (6.59%) Scala
8 76 (5.69%) Go
9 75 (5.61%) PowerShell
10 54 (4.04%) C#
11 31 (2.32%) Ruby
12 24 (1.80%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.27%) Perl
14 15 (1.12%) R
15 12 (0.90%) Groovy
16 7 (0.52%) C++
16 7 (0.52%) PHP
17 6 (0.45%) C
17 6 (0.45%) Rust
17 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 156 (11.68%) Degree
2 120 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 90 (6.74%) SC Cleared
5 37 (2.77%) AWS Certification
6 35 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 28 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.10%) CISSP
8 23 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.50%) CCNP
11 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.90%) CISM
14 10 (0.75%) CCNA
15 8 (0.60%) CCIE
16 7 (0.52%) CISA
17 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
18 4 (0.30%) SANS
18 4 (0.30%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.91%) QA
2 38 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.47%) GDPR
4 25 (1.87%) NIST
5 21 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 20 (1.50%) HIPAA
7 18 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.82%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.82%) WCAG
9 8 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.52%) SLA
11 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 4 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 187 (14.00%) Docker
2 43 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.97%) ACF2
4 13 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.97%) IAG
4 13 (0.97%) RACF
5 10 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.52%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) HDFS
8 4 (0.30%) Shibboleth
9 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.22%) vSphere
10 2 (0.15%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) zsh
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.075%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.075%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 320 (23.95%) Kubernetes
2 243 (18.19%) Terraform
3 101 (7.56%) Ansible
4 50 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 49 (3.67%) Grafana
6 42 (3.14%) Puppet
7 34 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (2.10%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.42%) Istio
10 16 (1.20%) Kibana
11 15 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
12 11 (0.82%) logstash
13 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.60%) Zipkin
14 7 (0.52%) Rancher
15 6 (0.45%) Argo
15 6 (0.45%) Nagios
15 6 (0.45%) OPNET
15 6 (0.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 5 (0.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 523 (39.15%) Google
2 115 (8.61%) Microsoft
3 68 (5.09%) Oracle
4 45 (3.37%) CyberArk
5 43 (3.22%) Cisco
5 43 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.99%) VMware
7 39 (2.92%) Splunk
8 33 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
9 23 (1.72%) Databricks
9 23 (1.72%) F5
9 23 (1.72%) Typelevel
10 21 (1.57%) SAP
11 18 (1.35%) Bloomberg
11 18 (1.35%) Genesys
12 16 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.90%) IBM
14 11 (0.82%) Avaya
15 10 (0.75%) Adobe
16 9 (0.67%) HP