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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 53 55
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 109 78 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.50% 4.19% 3.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.53% 9.91% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 55 61
10th Percentile £413 £380 £400
25th Percentile £475 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £690
90th Percentile £749 £751 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
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 £51.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.83% +6.06% -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 945 787 892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.00% 42.29% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 511 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £662 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 16 July 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 8 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Camunda
3 1 (0.92%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.92%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.92%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.05%) AWS
2 59 (54.13%) Azure
3 14 (12.84%) Power Platform
4 13 (11.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 11 (10.09%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.34%) SaaS
7 7 (6.42%) dbt
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.59%) GitHub
8 5 (4.59%) Vertex AI
9 4 (3.67%) Boomi
9 4 (3.67%) IaaS
9 4 (3.67%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.67%) PaaS
10 3 (2.75%) Anthos
10 3 (2.75%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.75%) Google Gemini
10 3 (2.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) DNS
1 9 (8.26%) Firewall
1 9 (8.26%) VPN
2 8 (7.34%) Network Security
3 3 (2.75%) DHCP
3 3 (2.75%) SMTP
3 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.83%) X.509
5 1 (0.92%) BGP
5 1 (0.92%) Internet
5 1 (0.92%) IPsec
5 1 (0.92%) OSPF
5 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.92%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) VLAN
5 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (9.17%) BigQuery
2 10 (9.17%) Power BI
3 9 (8.26%) Tableau
4 7 (6.42%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.50%) Big Data
5 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Metadata
6 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.75%) Db2
8 3 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.75%) MySQL
8 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.83%) OLAP
9 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.92%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (5.50%) JIRA
2 5 (4.59%) Git
3 4 (3.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.92%) ERwin
4 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) MLflow
General
1 29 (26.61%) Finance
2 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.09%) Banking
5 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.83%) Back Office
7 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.83%) Front Office
7 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Legal
7 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) Architect
2 19 (17.43%) GCP Engineer
3 14 (12.84%) Data Engineer
4 12 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Senior
6 7 (6.42%) Developer
6 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 6 (5.50%) Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.59%) GCP Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Kafka
2 6 (5.50%) PyTorch
2 6 (5.50%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.59%) Hugging Face
3 5 (4.59%) React
3 5 (4.59%) REST
4 4 (3.67%) Spring
4 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.75%) Backbone.js
5 3 (2.75%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.75%) Ember.js
5 3 (2.75%) jQuery
5 3 (2.75%) Keras
5 3 (2.75%) Middleware
5 3 (2.75%) OAuth
5 3 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.75%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.83%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Clustering
4 6 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.67%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.75%) CMDB
7 3 (2.75%) PKI
8 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.83%) Derivative
8 2 (1.83%) Equities
8 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.92%) Anti-Spyware
9 1 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.92%) Genomics
9 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 6 (5.50%) Linux
3 5 (4.59%) Android
3 5 (4.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.78%) AI
2 35 (32.11%) CI/CD
3 34 (31.19%) Analytics
4 23 (21.10%) Machine Learning
5 20 (18.35%) DevOps
6 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (15.60%) Agile
7 17 (15.60%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (14.68%) ETL
9 15 (13.76%) Data Engineering
9 15 (13.76%) Data Governance
9 15 (13.76%) Data Modelling
9 15 (13.76%) Data Science
9 15 (13.76%) Migration
10 14 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (11.93%) Decision-Making
11 13 (11.93%) Microservices
11 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.09%) Observability
12 11 (10.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.52%) Python
2 28 (25.69%) SQL
3 8 (7.34%) Java
3 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.83%) Bash
5 2 (1.83%) Scala
5 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.92%) DAML
6 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.92%) Elixir
6 1 (0.92%) Go
6 1 (0.92%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.92%) Ruby
6 1 (0.92%) Rust
6 1 (0.92%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.69%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.51%) DV Cleared
4 11 (10.09%) Degree
5 5 (4.59%) CISSP
6 4 (3.67%) CISM
6 4 (3.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.75%) PhD
8 2 (1.83%) CCNP
8 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.83%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.92%) CCNA
9 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.92%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.42%) GDPR
2 7 (6.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.75%) GRC
4 3 (2.75%) NCSC
5 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.83%) EMIR
5 2 (1.83%) MiFID
5 2 (1.83%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.83%) QA
5 2 (1.83%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.92%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.92%) PMO
6 1 (0.92%) SLA
6 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (14.68%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) BitLocker
2 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (2.75%) Terminal Services
2 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.92%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 30 (27.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.76%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Istio
4 3 (2.75%) Nagios
4 3 (2.75%) Puppet
4 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.75%) vMotion
5 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.92%) QRadar
6 1 (0.92%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 47 (43.12%) Google
2 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.67%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.75%) Citrix
5 3 (2.75%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.75%) Databricks
5 3 (2.75%) HP
5 3 (2.75%) IBM
5 3 (2.75%) Informatica
5 3 (2.75%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.75%) Symantec
5 3 (2.75%) VMware
6 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle
6 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) Meraki
7 1 (0.92%) Workday