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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 102 90 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.56% 5.16% 3.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.06% 12.82% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 62 56
10th Percentile £450 £444 £406
25th Percentile £477 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £700 £686 £691
90th Percentile £746 £786 £806
Central London median daily rate £575 £610 £566
% change year-on-year -5.74% +7.82% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £71.25 -
Central London median hourly rate - £51.44 -

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 922 702 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 40.23% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 497 557
10th Percentile £355 £337 £387
25th Percentile £456 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £754 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 25 September 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 10 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.98%) Camunda
5 1 (0.98%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.98%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.98%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 64 (62.75%) AWS
2 62 (60.78%) Azure
3 14 (13.73%) Snowflake
4 13 (12.75%) GitHub
5 12 (11.76%) dbt
6 11 (10.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.86%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.90%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (4.90%) SaaS
9 5 (4.90%) Serverless
10 4 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.92%) Google App Engine
10 4 (3.92%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (3.92%) IaaS
10 4 (3.92%) PaaS
10 4 (3.92%) Vertex AI
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.78%) DNS
2 10 (9.80%) Firewall
3 9 (8.82%) VPN
4 6 (5.88%) Internet
5 5 (4.90%) Network Security
6 4 (3.92%) DHCP
7 3 (2.94%) SMTP
8 2 (1.96%) BGP
8 2 (1.96%) Multicast
8 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.96%) VLAN
8 2 (1.96%) X.509
9 1 (0.98%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.98%) OSPF
9 1 (0.98%) RTCP
9 1 (0.98%) RTP
9 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.98%) VoIP
9 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 10 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.88%) Big Data
4 4 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.94%) Looker
5 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.96%) Chroma
6 2 (1.96%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.96%) Power BI
6 2 (1.96%) Tableau
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.98%) Flink
7 1 (0.98%) Metadata
7 1 (0.98%) Milvus
7 1 (0.98%) Power Query
7 1 (0.98%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
2 7 (6.86%) GitLab
2 7 (6.86%) JIRA
3 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.96%) Gatling
5 2 (1.96%) JMeter
5 2 (1.96%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.98%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.98%) JUnit
6 1 (0.98%) MLflow
6 1 (0.98%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.98%) Newman
6 1 (0.98%) Postman
6 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 32 (31.37%) Finance
2 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.76%) Banking
4 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.96%) Front Office
8 2 (1.96%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Marketing
8 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (23.53%) Architect
2 17 (16.67%) Senior
3 14 (13.73%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) Lead
7 7 (6.86%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.86%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Applications Support
9 4 (3.92%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.92%) GCP Data Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.55%) Terraform
2 11 (10.78%) REST
3 10 (9.80%) Kafka
4 7 (6.86%) Spring
5 6 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 6 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.90%) Middleware
7 4 (3.92%) SOAP
8 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.94%) JSON
8 3 (2.94%) LangGraph
8 3 (2.94%) OAuth
8 3 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.94%) RESTful
8 3 (2.94%) XML
9 2 (1.96%) Playwright
9 2 (1.96%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.82%) AI Agents
2 9 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Clustering
4 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.94%) CMDB
5 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.94%) PKI
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.96%) Genomics
6 2 (1.96%) Life Science
6 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.98%) BYOD
7 1 (0.98%) Derivative
7 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.86%) Linux
2 6 (5.88%) Windows
3 5 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.96%) Android
4 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (45.10%) CI/CD
2 33 (32.35%) AI
3 26 (25.49%) DevOps
4 22 (21.57%) Analytics
5 21 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (19.61%) Migration
7 18 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 18 (17.65%) Microservices
7 18 (17.65%) Observability
7 18 (17.65%) Software Engineering
8 16 (15.69%) Data Engineering
9 15 (14.71%) Machine Learning
9 15 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (12.75%) Agile
10 13 (12.75%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (11.76%) Data Governance
11 12 (11.76%) Data Modelling
12 11 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.41%) Python
2 23 (22.55%) SQL
3 13 (12.75%) Java
4 9 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.88%) Bash
5 6 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.94%) LookML
6 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.96%) C#
7 2 (1.96%) Korn
7 2 (1.96%) Scala
7 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.98%) Bicep
8 1 (0.98%) DAML
8 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.98%) Go
8 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.98%) Rust
8 1 (0.98%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 31 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.69%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.84%) Degree
5 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.96%) CCNP
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.96%) PMP
7 1 (0.98%) CCNA
7 1 (0.98%) CISA
7 1 (0.98%) CISM
7 1 (0.98%) CISSP
7 1 (0.98%) GSEC
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.98%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.88%) NIST
3 5 (4.90%) GDPR
4 4 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.94%) NCSC
5 3 (2.94%) QA
6 2 (1.96%) EMIR
6 2 (1.96%) GRC
6 2 (1.96%) MiFID
6 2 (1.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.98%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.98%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.98%) PMO
7 1 (0.98%) PSD2
7 1 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (20.59%) Docker
2 4 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.94%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (31.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.88%) Ansible
3 4 (3.92%) Grafana
3 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.94%) Istio
4 3 (2.94%) Nagios
4 3 (2.94%) Puppet
4 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.94%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.94%) vMotion
5 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.98%) Netcool
5 1 (0.98%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.98%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.98%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 47 (46.08%) Google
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.76%) Databricks
4 8 (7.84%) Oracle
5 6 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.88%) SAP
6 5 (4.90%) IBM
6 5 (4.90%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.92%) VMware
8 3 (2.94%) Cisco
8 3 (2.94%) Citrix
8 3 (2.94%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.94%) HP
8 3 (2.94%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.94%) Symantec
9 2 (1.96%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.96%) Splunk
9 2 (1.96%) Workday