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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +39
Contract jobs citing GCP 94 83 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.55% 3.92% 3.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.51% 9.85% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 82
10th Percentile £448 £419 £466
25th Percentile £500 £463 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £552 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% -15.04% -
75th Percentile £738 £678 £738
90th Percentile £841 £806 £870
Central London median daily rate £610 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +10.91% -15.38% -

All Cloud 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 696 843 1,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.11% 39.78% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 548 785
10th Percentile £338 £399 £353
25th Percentile £434 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £752 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 22 October 2025.

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 4 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) Luigi
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.26%) Azure
2 47 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (14.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (9.57%) Cloud Functions
4 9 (9.57%) GitHub
5 7 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.38%) Cloud Run
6 6 (6.38%) Snowflake
7 5 (5.32%) SaaS
8 4 (4.26%) Apigee
8 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.26%) IaaS
8 4 (4.26%) PaaS
8 4 (4.26%) Slack
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (3.19%) dbt
9 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.19%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.19%) OCI
9 3 (3.19%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) DNS
1 7 (7.45%) Firewall
2 2 (2.13%) Internet
2 2 (2.13%) Network Security
2 2 (2.13%) SSL
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.13%) VPN
3 1 (1.06%) BGP
3 1 (1.06%) DHCP
3 1 (1.06%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.06%) LAN
3 1 (1.06%) OSPF
3 1 (1.06%) WAN
3 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.15%) BigQuery
2 11 (11.70%) Big Data
3 7 (7.45%) Power BI
4 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.32%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.26%) Tableau
7 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.19%) Looker
7 3 (3.19%) Redis
8 2 (2.13%) Couchbase
8 2 (2.13%) MySQL
8 2 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.06%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.06%) Kdb+
9 1 (1.06%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) GitLab
2 7 (7.45%) Gradle
2 7 (7.45%) Maven
3 5 (5.32%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.26%) Git
4 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.26%) Selenium
5 3 (3.19%) MLflow
6 2 (2.13%) Snyk
7 1 (1.06%) Ant
7 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.06%) JIRA
7 1 (1.06%) JUnit
7 1 (1.06%) Postman
General
1 37 (39.36%) Finance
2 20 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.83%) Banking
4 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.32%) Marketing
6 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Front Office
7 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.13%) Back Office
8 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Architect
2 19 (20.21%) Senior
3 16 (17.02%) Developer
4 15 (15.96%) GCP Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Security Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Data Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Lead
8 7 (7.45%) Senior Architect
9 6 (6.38%) Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Data Architect
10 5 (5.32%) GCP Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Security Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Spring
1 9 (9.57%) Spring Boot
2 6 (6.38%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.32%) Kafka
3 5 (5.32%) React
4 4 (4.26%) Node.js
4 4 (4.26%) OAuth
4 4 (4.26%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.19%) JWT
5 3 (3.19%) Redux
5 3 (3.19%) RESTful
5 3 (3.19%) Zustand
6 2 (2.13%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.13%) LangGraph
6 2 (2.13%) Next.js
6 2 (2.13%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.13%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.13%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (2.13%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.26%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.19%) Derivative
6 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) IVR
6 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Equities
7 2 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.06%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.72%) CI/CD
1 27 (28.72%) DevOps
2 21 (22.34%) Agile
3 20 (21.28%) Analytics
4 18 (19.15%) AI
4 18 (19.15%) Machine Learning
5 17 (18.09%) Cloud Security
5 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
6 16 (17.02%) Migration
6 16 (17.02%) Roadmaps
7 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.83%) Data Modelling
8 13 (13.83%) Microservices
9 12 (12.77%) Data Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (10.64%) Business Strategy
12 9 (9.57%) LLM
12 9 (9.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.98%) Python
2 24 (25.53%) SQL
3 23 (24.47%) Java
4 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.26%) Scala
5 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.13%) Bicep
7 2 (2.13%) C++
7 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.13%) R
8 1 (1.06%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.06%) Go
8 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.06%) LookML
8 1 (1.06%) Perl
8 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.06%) Swift
8 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) CISSP
3 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.13%) CISM
6 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.06%) CEH
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.06%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.06%) GCFA
7 1 (1.06%) GCIA
7 1 (1.06%) GCIH
7 1 (1.06%) MCP
7 1 (1.06%) OSCP
7 1 (1.06%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) GDPR
2 9 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.32%) NIST
5 4 (4.26%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.19%) EU AI Act
7 2 (2.13%) NCSC
8 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.06%) MiFID
8 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 17 (18.09%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (26.60%) Terraform
2 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.38%) Ansible
4 5 (5.32%) Argo
5 3 (3.19%) Istio
5 3 (3.19%) Puppet
5 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.06%) Grafana
7 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.06%) vRealize
7 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (52.13%) Google
2 12 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.45%) Databricks
3 7 (7.45%) Oracle
3 7 (7.45%) Splunk
4 4 (4.26%) Adobe
4 4 (4.26%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.19%) Cisco
6 2 (2.13%) Citrix
6 2 (2.13%) Infoblox
6 2 (2.13%) New Relic
6 2 (2.13%) Rollbar
6 2 (2.13%) SAP
6 2 (2.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.06%) Okta
7 1 (1.06%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.06%) Zscaler