GCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 99 103
Rank change year-on-year +35 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 41 34 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.73% 1.27% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.51% 4.63% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 31
10th Percentile £312 £363 £340
25th Percentile £358 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +6.89% -21.05%
75th Percentile £591 £578 £675
90th Percentile £600 £589 £850
South East median daily rate £550 £463 £590
% change year-on-year +18.92% -21.61% -1.67%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 546 734 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.40% 27.52% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 489 616
10th Percentile £263 £311 £320
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £589 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £664 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 36 21
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £20.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £50.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.22% +101.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.72 £56.50
90th Percentile £75.50 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the Thames Valley

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Berkshire +34 31 £550 +29.41% 52
Buckinghamshire +18 10 £350 -39.13% 14
Oxfordshire 0 2 £355 -16.47% 14
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (14.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) Apache
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.88%) Confluence
4 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (85.37%) AWS
2 32 (78.05%) Azure
3 10 (24.39%) Snowflake
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.32%) dbt
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.88%) IaaS
6 2 (4.88%) Miro
6 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Network Security
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) HTTP
3 2 (4.88%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) 5G
4 1 (2.44%) BGP
4 1 (2.44%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (2.44%) DNS
4 1 (2.44%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) MPLS
4 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.44%) SSL
4 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) VoIP
4 1 (2.44%) VoLTE
4 1 (2.44%) VoWiFi
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (19.51%) Big Data
3 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.20%) MySQL
5 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.76%) Tableau
6 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
6 3 (7.32%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database
6 3 (7.32%) Power BI
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) GitLab
2 6 (14.63%) Git
3 4 (9.76%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) DBeaver
4 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) ERwin
5 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (29.27%) Telecoms
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Finance
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Architect
2 7 (17.07%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Python Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.32%) DBA
5 3 (7.32%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) FastAPI
1 5 (12.20%) RESTful
2 4 (9.76%) Kafka
3 3 (7.32%) Django
3 3 (7.32%) Flask
4 2 (4.88%) CSS
4 2 (4.88%) HTML
4 2 (4.88%) NumPy
4 2 (4.88%) Pandas
4 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (4.88%) Web Services
5 1 (2.44%) .NET
5 1 (2.44%) ADO
5 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.44%) Jinja
5 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.44%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.32%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.88%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
3 12 (29.27%) Migration
4 10 (24.39%) DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (19.51%) Data Integration
5 8 (19.51%) Data Migration
5 8 (19.51%) ETL
6 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (17.07%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (14.63%) Analytics
7 6 (14.63%) Data Management
7 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
7 6 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (14.63%) Data Security
7 6 (14.63%) Machine Learning
7 6 (14.63%) RBAC
8 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 14 (34.15%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) Bash
4 2 (4.88%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) Korn
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) CISSP
3 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) CCNP
4 3 (7.32%) CISM
4 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CCSP
5 2 (4.88%) CEH
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) SANS
6 1 (2.44%) CCNA
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) GIAC
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.44%) OSCP
6 1 (2.44%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) GDPR
2 6 (14.63%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) CASB
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
4 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Google
2 5 (12.20%) Databricks
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.44%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.44%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
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