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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 59 69
Rank change year-on-year +27 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 126 62 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.71% 3.56% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.94% 8.26% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 45
10th Percentile £427 £413 £455
25th Percentile £507 £472 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -7.29% -5.33%
75th Percentile £749 £700 £745
90th Percentile £829 £750 £829
Central London median daily rate £575 £556 £575
% change year-on-year +3.37% -3.26% -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 £100.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +106.19% -41.21%
75th Percentile £76.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £100.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -25.50% +106.19% -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 904 751 877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.94% 43.06% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 490 612
10th Percentile £350 £387 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £661
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £543 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.36% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £48.22 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.40% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%

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 10 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 6 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (61.90%) Azure
2 73 (57.94%) AWS
3 19 (15.08%) Power Platform
4 15 (11.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 13 (10.32%) GitHub
6 10 (7.94%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.35%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.35%) SaaS
8 6 (4.76%) dbt
8 6 (4.76%) Google Gemini
9 5 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.17%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (3.17%) iPaaS
10 4 (3.17%) Serverless
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.38%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) DNS
2 5 (3.97%) Network Security
3 3 (2.38%) Firewall
4 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.59%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) BGP
5 1 (0.79%) Internet
5 1 (0.79%) IPsec
5 1 (0.79%) OSPF
5 1 (0.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.32%) Power BI
2 12 (9.52%) BigQuery
2 12 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.94%) Tableau
4 8 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.56%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.76%) Big Data
7 5 (3.97%) Metadata
7 5 (3.97%) MySQL
7 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (3.17%) DB2
9 3 (2.38%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.38%) Redis
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.59%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.59%) OLAP
10 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.73%) Git
2 8 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.76%) GitLab
3 6 (4.76%) JIRA
4 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.59%) Gatling
5 1 (0.79%) ERwin
5 1 (0.79%) JUnit
5 1 (0.79%) Mockito
5 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 42 (33.33%) Finance
2 35 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.49%) Banking
5 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Front Office
7 5 (3.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.38%) Back Office
9 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.59%) Law
10 2 (1.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Military
11 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (20.63%) Architect
2 21 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 15 (11.90%) Developer
4 14 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Senior
6 11 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Lead
8 8 (6.35%) Data Scientist
9 7 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.97%) Consultant
10 5 (3.97%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) Kafka
2 8 (6.35%) React
3 7 (5.56%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.56%) Spring
3 7 (5.56%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.17%) Hugging Face
5 4 (3.17%) JSON
5 4 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.17%) REST
5 4 (3.17%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.38%) Backbone.js
6 3 (2.38%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.38%) Google JAX
6 3 (2.38%) JAX
6 3 (2.38%) jQuery
6 3 (2.38%) OAuth
6 3 (2.38%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.76%) Derivative
2 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.97%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.17%) Clustering
4 4 (3.17%) Equities
4 4 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.38%) Life Science
5 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.59%) CMDB
6 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Android
1 4 (3.17%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
1 4 (3.17%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) AI
2 41 (32.54%) CI/CD
3 34 (26.98%) Analytics
3 34 (26.98%) DevOps
4 29 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (20.63%) Agile
5 26 (20.63%) Machine Learning
6 21 (16.67%) Data Science
7 20 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (15.08%) Migration
9 18 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 17 (13.49%) ETL
10 17 (13.49%) Generative AI
11 16 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (12.70%) Cloud Security
11 16 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (11.90%) Data Engineering
12 15 (11.90%) Microservices
13 14 (11.11%) Containerisation
13 14 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.54%) Python
2 36 (28.57%) SQL
3 14 (11.11%) Java
4 4 (3.17%) Bash
4 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.38%) Scala
6 2 (1.59%) C++
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) Elixir
7 1 (0.79%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.79%) Perl
7 1 (0.79%) R
7 1 (0.79%) Ruby
7 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.32%) Degree
4 7 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.76%) CISSP
6 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.17%) CISM
8 3 (2.38%) PhD
8 3 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.59%) CCNP
9 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.59%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.79%) CCNA
10 1 (0.79%) CCSP
10 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.97%) GDPR
3 5 (3.97%) NCSC
3 5 (3.97%) NIST
4 4 (3.17%) GRC
5 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.38%) QA
5 3 (2.38%) SLA
6 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.59%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.59%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.59%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.59%) PSD2
6 2 (1.59%) SEPA
7 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.79%) PMO
7 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (17.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.05%) Terraform
3 7 (5.56%) Ansible
4 4 (3.17%) Argo
4 4 (3.17%) Grafana
4 4 (3.17%) Istio
4 4 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.79%) QRadar
5 1 (0.79%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (42.86%) Google
2 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.97%) Databricks
3 5 (3.97%) Splunk
4 4 (3.17%) IBM
4 4 (3.17%) Informatica
4 4 (3.17%) MuleSoft
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle
5 3 (2.38%) Confluent
6 2 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.59%) Planview
6 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.59%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.79%) Meraki
7 1 (0.79%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.79%) SAP
7 1 (0.79%) VMware