GCP Contracts in Wales

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 52 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 -30
Contract jobs citing GCP 6 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.53% 2.23% 2.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.58% 8.28% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 15
10th Percentile £381 £204 £438
25th Percentile £400 £240 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile - £638 £579
90th Percentile £634 £650 £618
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £613
% change year-on-year -2.04% - +6.52%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 131 157 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 33.50% 26.93% 26.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 130 180
10th Percentile £143 £156 £198
25th Percentile £317 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £466 £481
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -3.03% +13.13%
75th Percentile £536 £600 £575
90th Percentile £581 £663 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £12.94 £12.55 -
25th Percentile £13.98 £12.63 £11.15
Median hourly rate £15.84 £15.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% +7.14% -33.33%
75th Percentile £17.57 £16.67 £16.78
90th Percentile £18.53 £19.87 £19.12
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -43.53% +69.64% +1.82%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Wales

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Wales

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Wales

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
South Wales +11 6 £550 -1.12% 4
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) AppScan
2 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Beam
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Data Management
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) API Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 1 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) OWASP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SANS
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Graylog
1 1 (16.67%) HP Fortify
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Nessus
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode