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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 56 78
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 115 68 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.91% 3.72% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.41% 8.98% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 57 42
10th Percentile £417 £420 £451
25th Percentile £501 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £768
90th Percentile £851 £794 £831
Central London median daily rate £600 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +12.94% -11.46% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -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 798 757 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.99% 41.43% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 482 640
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £746
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £30.04 £57.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.34 £75.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £111.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.45% +485.53% -55.81%
75th Percentile £51.00 £152.81 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.94 £173.63 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%

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 23 February 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 6 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (65.22%) Azure
2 68 (59.13%) AWS
3 16 (13.91%) GitHub
3 16 (13.91%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (7.83%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.09%) Cloud Run
6 7 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.09%) Google Gemini
7 6 (5.22%) SaaS
8 4 (3.48%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.48%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.61%) Cloudflare
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.61%) iPaaS
9 3 (2.61%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) DNS
2 5 (4.35%) Network Security
3 4 (3.48%) Firewall
4 3 (2.61%) SSL
4 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.74%) BGP
5 2 (1.74%) Internet
5 2 (1.74%) OSPF
5 2 (1.74%) VPN
6 1 (0.87%) DHCP
6 1 (0.87%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.87%) IPsec
6 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) BigQuery
2 11 (9.57%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.57%) Power BI
3 9 (7.83%) Tableau
4 8 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.96%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.09%) Big Data
6 5 (4.35%) MySQL
6 5 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.48%) DB2
7 4 (3.48%) Looker
7 4 (3.48%) Metadata
7 4 (3.48%) Redis
7 4 (3.48%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.74%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.74%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Git
2 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.22%) GitLab
4 3 (2.61%) JIRA
5 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.74%) Gatling
5 2 (1.74%) Snyk
6 1 (0.87%) Ant
6 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.87%) ERwin
6 1 (0.87%) JUnit
6 1 (0.87%) MLflow
6 1 (0.87%) Mockito
6 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (35.65%) Finance
2 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.30%) Banking
5 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Front Office
7 5 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) Back Office
10 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.74%) Law
10 2 (1.74%) Legal
10 2 (1.74%) Retail
11 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (19.13%) Architect
2 17 (14.78%) GCP Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Developer
4 14 (12.17%) Senior
5 11 (9.57%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Lead
7 8 (6.96%) Consultant
8 7 (6.09%) Data Scientist
8 7 (6.09%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Security Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Analyst
11 4 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) React
2 8 (6.96%) PyTorch
2 8 (6.96%) TensorFlow
3 7 (6.09%) Spring
4 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.22%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.48%) CSS
5 4 (3.48%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.48%) HTML
5 4 (3.48%) Hugging Face
5 4 (3.48%) Kafka
5 4 (3.48%) OAuth
5 4 (3.48%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.48%) REST
5 4 (3.48%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.61%) jQuery
6 3 (2.61%) JSON
6 3 (2.61%) LightGBM
6 3 (2.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.22%) Derivative
3 5 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.48%) Life Science
4 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.61%) Equities
5 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.74%) Clustering
6 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Android
2 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.04%) AI
2 36 (31.30%) CI/CD
3 35 (30.43%) DevOps
4 29 (25.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (24.35%) Agile
5 28 (24.35%) Analytics
6 24 (20.87%) Machine Learning
7 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.78%) Generative AI
9 16 (13.91%) Cloud Security
9 16 (13.91%) Data Science
9 16 (13.91%) Decision-Making
10 13 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (11.30%) Computer Science
10 13 (11.30%) Containerisation
10 13 (11.30%) Data Governance
10 13 (11.30%) Data Modelling
10 13 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (11.30%) Migration
10 13 (11.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.78%) Python
2 33 (28.70%) SQL
3 14 (12.17%) Java
4 6 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.61%) Bash
6 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.74%) C++
7 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.74%) Scala
8 1 (0.87%) C#
8 1 (0.87%) Go
8 1 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.87%) LookML
8 1 (0.87%) Perl
8 1 (0.87%) R
8 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.91%) Degree
4 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) CISSP
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.61%) CISM
6 3 (2.61%) PhD
6 3 (2.61%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CCNP
8 1 (0.87%) CCSP
8 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.87%) CRISC
8 1 (0.87%) OSCP
8 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) Data Quality
1 9 (7.83%) GDPR
2 8 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.35%) NCSC
3 5 (4.35%) NIST
4 3 (2.61%) GRC
4 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.61%) QA
5 2 (1.74%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.74%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.74%) PSD2
5 2 (1.74%) SEPA
5 2 (1.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.87%) MiFID
6 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (16.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (28.70%) Kubernetes
2 26 (22.61%) Terraform
3 10 (8.70%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Argo
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
5 3 (2.61%) Istio
5 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.87%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.87%) Kibana
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.87%) QRadar
7 1 (0.87%) vRealize
7 1 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 50 (43.48%) Google
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.70%) Databricks
4 6 (5.22%) Oracle
4 6 (5.22%) Splunk
5 4 (3.48%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.61%) Confluent
6 3 (2.61%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.61%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.74%) IBM
7 2 (1.74%) Informatica
7 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.74%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.74%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.74%) VMware
8 1 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.87%) StreamSets