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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 44 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 103 91 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.51% 5.07% 3.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.97% 12.60% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 62 54
10th Percentile £450 £384 £416
25th Percentile £485 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.35% -8.72%
75th Percentile £688 £671 £698
90th Percentile £750 £748 £821
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% -9.69%
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 939 722 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.13% 40.25% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 490 566
10th Percentile £361 £332 £400
25th Percentile £456 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.31%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £753 £757 £771
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +15.70%

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 11 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 11 (10.68%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.83%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.94%) Apache
5 1 (0.97%) Camunda
5 1 (0.97%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.97%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.97%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.22%) AWS
2 59 (57.28%) Azure
3 13 (12.62%) dbt
3 13 (12.62%) Snowflake
4 12 (11.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (8.74%) GitHub
6 7 (6.80%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.85%) Cloud Functions
7 5 (4.85%) SaaS
8 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.88%) Google App Engine
8 4 (3.88%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (3.88%) IaaS
8 4 (3.88%) PaaS
8 4 (3.88%) Vertex AI
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) DNS
2 10 (9.71%) Firewall
3 9 (8.74%) VPN
4 6 (5.83%) Internet
4 6 (5.83%) Network Security
5 4 (3.88%) DHCP
6 3 (2.91%) SMTP
7 2 (1.94%) BGP
7 2 (1.94%) Multicast
7 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.94%) VLAN
7 2 (1.94%) X.509
8 1 (0.97%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.97%) OSPF
8 1 (0.97%) RTCP
8 1 (0.97%) RTP
8 1 (0.97%) VoIP
8 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.97%) WAN
8 1 (0.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) BigQuery
2 11 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.83%) Big Data
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.91%) Looker
6 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.91%) Power BI
7 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.94%) Chroma
7 2 (1.94%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.94%) Tableau
8 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.97%) Metadata
8 1 (0.97%) Milvus
8 1 (0.97%) Power Query
8 1 (0.97%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.97%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (7.77%) Git
1 8 (7.77%) JIRA
2 6 (5.83%) GitLab
3 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.97%) Gatling
5 1 (0.97%) JMeter
5 1 (0.97%) JUnit
5 1 (0.97%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.97%) MLflow
5 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.97%) Newman
5 1 (0.97%) Postman
5 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 31 (30.10%) Finance
2 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.68%) Banking
3 11 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.94%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Legal
7 2 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
7 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Front Office
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Architect
2 16 (15.53%) Senior
3 15 (14.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (14.56%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Data Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Lead
6 7 (6.80%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.83%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.85%) Developer
9 4 (3.88%) Applications Support
9 4 (3.88%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Senior Architect
10 3 (2.91%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.39%) Terraform
2 10 (9.71%) Kafka
3 8 (7.77%) REST
4 6 (5.83%) Spring
4 6 (5.83%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.85%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.88%) SOAP
7 3 (2.91%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.91%) OAuth
7 3 (2.91%) RESTful
8 2 (1.94%) .NET
8 2 (1.94%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.94%) JSON
8 2 (1.94%) JWT
8 2 (1.94%) LangChain
8 2 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.94%) Playwright
8 2 (1.94%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.94%) XML
8 2 (1.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.21%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.77%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.85%) Clustering
5 4 (3.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.91%) CMDB
6 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.91%) PKI
6 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.94%) Genomics
7 2 (1.94%) Life Science
7 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.97%) BYOD
8 1 (0.97%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.83%) Linux
1 6 (5.83%) Windows
2 5 (4.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.94%) Android
3 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.97%) Unix
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (43.69%) CI/CD
2 35 (33.98%) AI
3 27 (26.21%) Analytics
3 27 (26.21%) DevOps
4 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (19.42%) Migration
5 19 (18.45%) Microservices
6 18 (17.48%) Machine Learning
6 18 (17.48%) Software Engineering
7 17 (16.50%) Containerisation
7 17 (16.50%) Data Engineering
7 17 (16.50%) Observability
8 15 (14.56%) Agile
9 13 (12.62%) Data Governance
9 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (11.65%) Cloud Security
10 12 (11.65%) Data Modelling
10 12 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (28.16%) Python
2 22 (21.36%) SQL
3 13 (12.62%) Java
4 8 (7.77%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.85%) Bash
6 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.91%) LookML
7 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.94%) C#
8 2 (1.94%) Scala
9 1 (0.97%) Bicep
9 1 (0.97%) DAML
9 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.97%) Go
9 1 (0.97%) Korn
9 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.97%) Rust
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.97%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 32 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.77%) Degree
5 4 (3.88%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) CCNP
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.94%) CISM
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.94%) PMP
6 2 (1.94%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CCIE
7 1 (0.97%) CCNA
7 1 (0.97%) GPEN
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.83%) GDPR
2 6 (5.83%) NIST
3 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.88%) QA
4 3 (2.91%) NCSC
5 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.94%) EMIR
5 2 (1.94%) GRC
5 2 (1.94%) MiFID
5 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.97%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.97%) PMO
6 1 (0.97%) PSD2
6 1 (0.97%) SEPA
6 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.91%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.91%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.97%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) Ansible
3 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.91%) Grafana
4 3 (2.91%) Istio
4 3 (2.91%) Nagios
4 3 (2.91%) Puppet
4 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.91%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.91%) vMotion
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.97%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (48.54%) Google
2 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.74%) Databricks
4 8 (7.77%) Oracle
5 6 (5.83%) SAP
6 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.88%) VMware
7 3 (2.91%) Cisco
7 3 (2.91%) Citrix
7 3 (2.91%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.91%) HP
7 3 (2.91%) IBM
7 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.91%) Symantec
8 2 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.94%) Workday
9 1 (0.97%) Metaswitch