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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 60 69
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 116 66 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.13% 3.72% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.82% 8.72% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 54 43
10th Percentile £417 £404 £453
25th Percentile £500 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £756
90th Percentile £788 £747 £866
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £47.13 -
25th Percentile £72.25 £55.94 £46.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 £71.25 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +46.91% -41.21%
75th Percentile £76.75 £85.94 £50.25
90th Percentile - £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £71.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +4.56% +46.91% -41.21%

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 905 757 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.01% 42.70% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 489 608
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £35.13 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £42.89 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -66.67%

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 24 April 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 7 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (62.93%) Azure
2 68 (58.62%) AWS
3 18 (15.52%) Power Platform
4 15 (12.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 12 (10.34%) GitHub
6 10 (8.62%) Snowflake
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.03%) SaaS
8 6 (5.17%) dbt
8 6 (5.17%) Google Gemini
9 5 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.45%) iPaaS
10 4 (3.45%) Serverless
10 4 (3.45%) Vertex AI
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.59%) Boomi
11 3 (2.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) DNS
1 4 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (1.72%) Firewall
2 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.86%) BGP
3 1 (0.86%) Internet
3 1 (0.86%) IPsec
3 1 (0.86%) OSPF
3 1 (0.86%) SSL
3 1 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.34%) NoSQL
1 12 (10.34%) Power BI
2 11 (9.48%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.62%) Tableau
4 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.03%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.31%) Big Data
7 5 (4.31%) Metadata
7 5 (4.31%) MySQL
7 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.59%) DB2
8 3 (2.59%) Redis
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.72%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.72%) OLAP
9 2 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.17%) JIRA
4 5 (4.31%) GitLab
5 2 (1.72%) Gatling
6 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.86%) ERwin
6 1 (0.86%) JUnit
6 1 (0.86%) Mockito
6 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 33 (28.45%) Finance
1 33 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (13.79%) Banking
3 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.45%) Front Office
5 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Back Office
6 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Retail
7 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.97%) Architect
2 19 (16.38%) GCP Engineer
3 15 (12.93%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Developer
5 11 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Lead
7 9 (7.76%) Senior
8 8 (6.90%) Data Scientist
9 7 (6.03%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Analyst
11 4 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.62%) Kafka
2 9 (7.76%) React
3 8 (6.90%) Spring
4 7 (6.03%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.03%) TensorFlow
5 6 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.45%) Hugging Face
6 4 (3.45%) JSON
6 4 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.45%) REST
6 4 (3.45%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.59%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.59%) Google JAX
7 3 (2.59%) JAX
7 3 (2.59%) jQuery
7 3 (2.59%) OAuth
7 3 (2.59%) OpenID
7 3 (2.59%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.31%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.31%) Derivative
2 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.45%) Clustering
3 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) Equities
4 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.59%) Life Science
4 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.72%) CMDB
5 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.86%) NHS
6 1 (0.86%) PKI
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.45%) Android
1 4 (3.45%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.45%) Linux
1 4 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.34%) CI/CD
2 39 (33.62%) AI
3 33 (28.45%) Analytics
4 31 (26.72%) DevOps
5 29 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (22.41%) Agile
7 22 (18.97%) Machine Learning
8 21 (18.10%) Data Science
9 20 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (16.38%) Migration
11 17 (14.66%) Decision-Making
11 17 (14.66%) ETL
12 16 (13.79%) Data Engineering
13 15 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (12.93%) Microservices
13 15 (12.93%) Software Engineering
14 14 (12.07%) Containerisation
14 14 (12.07%) Data Governance
14 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (11.21%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.62%) Python
2 35 (30.17%) SQL
3 13 (11.21%) Java
4 4 (3.45%) Bash
4 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.59%) Scala
6 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.86%) C#
7 1 (0.86%) C++
7 1 (0.86%) Elixir
7 1 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.86%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) R
7 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.55%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) CISSP
6 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.59%) CISM
7 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.59%) PhD
7 3 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.72%) CCNP
8 2 (1.72%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.86%) CCNA
9 1 (0.86%) CCSP
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.31%) GDPR
2 5 (4.31%) NIST
3 4 (3.45%) GRC
3 4 (3.45%) NCSC
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.59%) QA
4 3 (2.59%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.72%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.72%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.72%) PSD2
5 2 (1.72%) SEPA
6 1 (0.86%) EMIR
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) MiFID
6 1 (0.86%) PMO
6 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (19.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.69%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) Ansible
4 4 (3.45%) Argo
4 4 (3.45%) Grafana
4 4 (3.45%) Istio
4 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.86%) Kibana
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.86%) QRadar
5 1 (0.86%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 49 (42.24%) Google
2 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.31%) Databricks
4 4 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.59%) IBM
5 3 (2.59%) Informatica
5 3 (2.59%) Oracle
5 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.72%) Confluent
6 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.72%) Planview
6 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.72%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.86%) iManage
7 1 (0.86%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) Zerto