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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 44 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 -6
Contract jobs citing GCP 101 77 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.39% 4.41% 2.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.30% 10.14% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 45
10th Percentile £447 £380 £378
25th Percentile £501 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £728 £695 £738
90th Percentile £775 £746 £829
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -7.69%
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 894 759 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.84% 43.45% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 480 601
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -8.86%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.73%

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 18 May 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 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (59.41%) Azure
2 57 (56.44%) AWS
3 14 (13.86%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (8.91%) GitHub
5 9 (8.91%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.94%) dbt
6 6 (5.94%) SaaS
7 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.96%) iPaaS
7 4 (3.96%) Serverless
7 4 (3.96%) Vertex AI
8 3 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.97%) Anthos
8 3 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.97%) Boomi
8 3 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.94%) Network Security
2 4 (3.96%) DNS
3 3 (2.97%) Firewall
3 3 (2.97%) VPN
4 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.99%) BGP
5 1 (0.99%) Internet
5 1 (0.99%) IPsec
5 1 (0.99%) OSPF
5 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.99%) SSL
5 1 (0.99%) VLAN
5 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (9.90%) NoSQL
1 10 (9.90%) Power BI
1 10 (9.90%) Tableau
2 7 (6.93%) BigQuery
3 6 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (3.96%) Metadata
6 3 (2.97%) Big Data
6 3 (2.97%) DB2
6 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.97%) MySQL
6 3 (2.97%) Redis
6 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.98%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.98%) OLAP
7 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
1 6 (5.94%) JIRA
2 4 (3.96%) Git
2 4 (3.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) Gatling
4 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.99%) ERwin
4 1 (0.99%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (27.72%) Finance
2 27 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.84%) Public Sector
4 15 (14.85%) Banking
5 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Back Office
8 3 (2.97%) Front Office
8 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (21.78%) Architect
2 17 (16.83%) GCP Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Developer
5 9 (8.91%) Lead
6 8 (7.92%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Senior
8 5 (4.95%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.95%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Consultant
9 4 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.90%) Kafka
2 8 (7.92%) React
3 7 (6.93%) Spring
3 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.94%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.94%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.96%) Hugging Face
6 4 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (2.97%) Backbone.js
7 3 (2.97%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.97%) Ember.js
7 3 (2.97%) jQuery
7 3 (2.97%) JSON
7 3 (2.97%) OAuth
7 3 (2.97%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.97%) Quarkus
7 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.97%) REST
7 3 (2.97%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.96%) Clustering
3 4 (3.96%) Derivative
3 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Equities
4 3 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.98%) CMDB
5 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Life Science
5 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.99%) Genomics
6 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Android
1 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.67%) CI/CD
2 32 (31.68%) AI
3 31 (30.69%) Analytics
4 27 (26.73%) DevOps
5 24 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (20.79%) Agile
7 19 (18.81%) Machine Learning
8 16 (15.84%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (15.84%) Migration
9 15 (14.85%) Data Science
9 15 (14.85%) Decision-Making
9 15 (14.85%) ETL
10 14 (13.86%) Data Engineering
11 13 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (11.88%) Cloud Security
12 12 (11.88%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.88%) Data Governance
12 12 (11.88%) Observability
13 11 (10.89%) Microservices
13 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.70%) SQL
2 29 (28.71%) Python
3 10 (9.90%) Java
4 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.97%) Scala
6 2 (1.98%) Bash
6 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.99%) Elixir
7 1 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) Degree
4 7 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.96%) CISSP
6 3 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.97%) CISM
6 3 (2.97%) PhD
6 3 (2.97%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.98%) CCNP
7 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.98%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.99%) CCNA
8 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.99%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
2 4 (3.96%) NIST
3 3 (2.97%) GRC
3 3 (2.97%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) SLA
4 2 (1.98%) EMIR
4 2 (1.98%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.98%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.98%) MiFID
4 2 (1.98%) NCSC
4 2 (1.98%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.98%) PSD2
4 2 (1.98%) SEPA
5 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) PMO
5 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (19.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.81%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Ansible
4 4 (3.96%) Argo
5 3 (2.97%) Grafana
5 3 (2.97%) Istio
5 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.99%) Kibana
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.99%) QRadar
6 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.99%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (41.58%) Google
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) MuleSoft
3 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.97%) IBM
4 3 (2.97%) Informatica
4 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.98%) Confluent
5 2 (1.98%) Databricks
5 2 (1.98%) Planview
5 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.98%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.98%) Splunk
6 1 (0.99%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.99%) iManage
6 1 (0.99%) Meraki
6 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.99%) Zerto
6 1 (0.99%) Zscaler