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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing GCP 103 82 77
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.41% 4.47% 3.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.00% 10.86% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 58 55
10th Percentile £450 £384 £425
25th Percentile £481 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.82% -14.38%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £683
90th Percentile £750 £722 £808
Central London median daily rate £555 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -7.50% +8.01% -14.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £47.13 -
25th Percentile £72.25 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £85.94 -
90th Percentile - £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £51.44 -
% change year-on-year +44.83% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 936 755 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.07% 41.19% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 501 573
10th Percentile £370 £340 £383
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £756 £762
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £84.11 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -10.74%

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 21 August 2026.

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 9 (8.74%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.97%) Camunda
4 1 (0.97%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.97%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 60 (58.25%) AWS
2 58 (56.31%) Azure
3 12 (11.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 11 (10.68%) Snowflake
5 9 (8.74%) dbt
6 7 (6.80%) GitHub
6 7 (6.80%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.83%) Cloud Functions
7 6 (5.83%) SaaS
8 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.85%) Google App Engine
9 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.88%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (3.88%) IaaS
9 4 (3.88%) PaaS
9 4 (3.88%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.91%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) DNS
2 10 (9.71%) Firewall
3 9 (8.74%) VPN
4 6 (5.83%) Internet
4 6 (5.83%) Network Security
5 4 (3.88%) DHCP
6 3 (2.91%) SMTP
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) Multicast
7 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.94%) VLAN
7 2 (1.94%) X.509
8 1 (0.97%) OSPF
8 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (8.74%) BigQuery
3 6 (5.83%) Power BI
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.85%) Big Data
4 5 (4.85%) Tableau
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.94%) Metadata
7 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.94%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.94%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.97%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.97%) Power Query
8 1 (0.97%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.97%) Redis
8 1 (0.97%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Git
1 7 (6.80%) GitLab
1 7 (6.80%) JIRA
2 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.97%) Gatling
4 1 (0.97%) JMeter
4 1 (0.97%) JUnit
4 1 (0.97%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.97%) MLflow
4 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.97%) Newman
4 1 (0.97%) Postman
4 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 29 (28.16%) Finance
2 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.68%) Banking
5 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.94%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Legal
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Back Office
9 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.97%) Front Office
9 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) Architect
2 15 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (14.56%) GCP Engineer
2 15 (14.56%) Senior
3 11 (10.68%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.74%) Lead
5 7 (6.80%) Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (5.83%) Security Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.88%) Applications Support Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.45%) Terraform
2 11 (10.68%) Kafka
3 7 (6.80%) REST
4 5 (4.85%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.85%) Spring
4 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.88%) OAuth
5 4 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.88%) RESTful
6 3 (2.91%) JSON
6 3 (2.91%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.91%) Middleware
6 3 (2.91%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.91%) SOAP
6 3 (2.91%) XML
7 2 (1.94%) JWT
7 2 (1.94%) LangChain
7 2 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.94%) Playwright
7 2 (1.94%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.24%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.77%) AI Agents
4 7 (6.80%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.85%) Clustering
6 4 (3.88%) CMDB
6 4 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.91%) PKI
8 2 (1.94%) Genomics
8 2 (1.94%) Life Science
8 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Linux
1 6 (5.83%) Windows
2 5 (4.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.94%) Android
3 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.78%) CI/CD
2 34 (33.01%) AI
3 27 (26.21%) DevOps
4 26 (25.24%) Analytics
5 21 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (18.45%) Machine Learning
6 19 (18.45%) Migration
7 18 (17.48%) Microservices
8 17 (16.50%) Data Engineering
9 16 (15.53%) Software Engineering
10 15 (14.56%) Agile
10 15 (14.56%) Containerisation
10 15 (14.56%) Observability
11 12 (11.65%) Cloud Security
11 12 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (10.68%) Data Modelling
12 11 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (10.68%) ETL
12 11 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.10%) Python
2 22 (21.36%) SQL
3 11 (10.68%) Java
4 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.88%) Bash
7 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.94%) C#
8 2 (1.94%) Scala
9 1 (0.97%) Bicep
9 1 (0.97%) DAML
9 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.97%) Elixir
9 1 (0.97%) Go
9 1 (0.97%) Korn
9 1 (0.97%) Ruby
9 1 (0.97%) Rust
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.97%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 35 (33.98%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) SnowPro
5 3 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) CCNP
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.94%) CISM
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) CCIE
7 1 (0.97%) CCNA
7 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.97%) GPEN
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.97%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.83%) GDPR
2 6 (5.83%) NIST
3 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.88%) QA
4 3 (2.91%) NCSC
5 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.94%) EMIR
5 2 (1.94%) GRC
5 2 (1.94%) MiFID
5 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.97%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.97%) PMO
6 1 (0.97%) SLA
6 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.91%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.91%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.97%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) Ansible
3 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.91%) Grafana
4 3 (2.91%) Istio
4 3 (2.91%) Nagios
4 3 (2.91%) Puppet
4 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.91%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.91%) vMotion
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.97%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 49 (47.57%) Google
2 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.83%) Databricks
3 6 (5.83%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) SAP
4 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.88%) VMware
6 3 (2.91%) Cisco
6 3 (2.91%) Citrix
6 3 (2.91%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.91%) HP
6 3 (2.91%) IBM
6 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.91%) Symantec
7 2 (1.94%) Informatica
7 2 (1.94%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.94%) Workday