GCP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing GCP 100 79 108
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.70% 3.72% 3.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.62% 9.50% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 57 76
10th Percentile £448 £425 £463
25th Percentile £500 £463 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -12.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £724
90th Percentile £843 £805 £825
Central London median daily rate £616 £544 £625
% change year-on-year +13.29% -13.00% -1.38%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 734 832 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.85% 39.19% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 540 787
10th Percentile £342 £400 £350
25th Percentile £429 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £675
90th Percentile £757 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £23.68 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £30.69 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.46% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GCP job vacancy trend in the City of London

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the City of London

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.00%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 62 (62.00%) Azure
2 52 (52.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 11 (11.00%) GitHub
5 10 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (7.00%) Cloud Run
8 6 (6.00%) Google Gemini
9 5 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.00%) SaaS
10 4 (4.00%) Apigee
10 4 (4.00%) IaaS
10 4 (4.00%) PaaS
10 4 (4.00%) Slack
11 3 (3.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (3.00%) Cloudflare
11 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.00%) Firebase
11 3 (3.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) DNS
1 7 (7.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) SSL
2 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.00%) BGP
3 1 (1.00%) DHCP
3 1 (1.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.00%) Internet
3 1 (1.00%) LAN
3 1 (1.00%) OSPF
3 1 (1.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) WAN
3 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 8 (8.00%) Big Data
2 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.00%) Power BI
2 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.00%) Tableau
5 4 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.00%) MySQL
6 3 (3.00%) Looker
6 3 (3.00%) Redis
7 2 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.00%) Couchbase
7 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.00%) Metadata
7 2 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.00%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) GitLab
2 9 (9.00%) Git
3 6 (6.00%) Gradle
3 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.00%) Maven
4 5 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.00%) Selenium
6 3 (3.00%) MLflow
7 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.00%) JUnit
7 2 (2.00%) Snyk
8 1 (1.00%) Ant
8 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.00%) ER Studio
8 1 (1.00%) JIRA
8 1 (1.00%) Mockito
8 1 (1.00%) Postman
General
1 40 (40.00%) Finance
2 24 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.00%) Front Office
6 4 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Back Office
8 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.00%) Law
8 2 (2.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.00%) Marketing
8 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Senior
2 18 (18.00%) Architect
3 17 (17.00%) Developer
4 14 (14.00%) GCP Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Security Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Lead
6 9 (9.00%) Senior Architect
7 8 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.00%) Data Scientist
9 6 (6.00%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 5 (5.00%) Consultant
10 5 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Analyst
11 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Project Manager
11 4 (4.00%) Security Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) Spring
1 8 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.00%) React
3 5 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.00%) Kafka
4 4 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.00%) OAuth
4 4 (4.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (4.00%) RESTful
5 3 (3.00%) CSS
5 3 (3.00%) HTML
5 3 (3.00%) JSON
5 3 (3.00%) JWT
5 3 (3.00%) Node.js
5 3 (3.00%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.00%) Redux
5 3 (3.00%) REST
5 3 (3.00%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.00%) Derivative
6 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.00%) Life Science
6 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Equities
7 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Android
3 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (31.00%) DevOps
3 21 (21.00%) Agile
3 21 (21.00%) AI
4 19 (19.00%) Analytics
4 19 (19.00%) Machine Learning
5 18 (18.00%) Migration
6 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.00%) Cloud Security
8 13 (13.00%) Microservices
8 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
8 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (12.00%) Data Modelling
9 12 (12.00%) Data Science
9 12 (12.00%) Generative AI
10 11 (11.00%) Data Engineering
10 11 (11.00%) SDLC
11 10 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.00%) Python
2 27 (27.00%) SQL
3 21 (21.00%) Java
4 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.00%) Bash
5 4 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.00%) Scala
7 2 (2.00%) Bicep
7 2 (2.00%) C++
7 2 (2.00%) R
8 1 (1.00%) C#
8 1 (1.00%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.00%) Go
8 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.00%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.00%) Perl
8 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) CISSP
3 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.00%) CISM
7 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.00%) GCFA
7 1 (1.00%) GCIA
7 1 (1.00%) GCIH
7 1 (1.00%) MCP
7 1 (1.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) GDPR
2 9 (9.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.00%) NIST
5 4 (4.00%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.00%) EU AI Act
6 3 (3.00%) NCSC
7 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.00%) MiFID
7 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 19 (19.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (26.00%) Terraform
2 23 (23.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.00%) Argo
5 3 (3.00%) Istio
5 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.00%) Grafana
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (1.00%) vRealize
7 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (49.00%) Google
2 11 (11.00%) Databricks
3 10 (10.00%) Oracle
4 9 (9.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (6.00%) Splunk
6 4 (4.00%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.00%) Cisco
7 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.00%) Adobe
8 2 (2.00%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.00%) New Relic
8 2 (2.00%) Rollbar
8 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.00%) SAP
8 2 (2.00%) VMware
9 1 (1.00%) Confluent
9 1 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.00%) StreamSets
9 1 (1.00%) Zscaler