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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 48 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 106 85 79
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.50% 4.56% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.29% 11.01% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 60 59
10th Percentile £450 £386 £425
25th Percentile £475 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £695
90th Percentile £750 £729 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £47.13 -
25th Percentile £72.25 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £85.94 -
90th Percentile - £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £51.44 -
% change year-on-year +44.83% - -

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 939 772 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.84% 41.37% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 513 587
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £456 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -26.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -26.03%

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 13 August 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 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.83%) Confluence
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Camunda
4 1 (0.94%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.94%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 58 (54.72%) AWS
2 57 (53.77%) Azure
3 13 (12.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (8.49%) Snowflake
5 8 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.66%) Cloud Functions
7 6 (5.66%) dbt
7 6 (5.66%) GitHub
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.72%) Google App Engine
8 5 (4.72%) SaaS
9 4 (3.77%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (3.77%) IaaS
9 4 (3.77%) PaaS
9 4 (3.77%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.83%) Boomi
10 3 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) DNS
2 10 (9.43%) Firewall
3 9 (8.49%) VPN
4 5 (4.72%) Internet
4 5 (4.72%) Network Security
5 4 (3.77%) DHCP
6 3 (2.83%) SMTP
7 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.89%) VLAN
7 2 (1.89%) X.509
8 1 (0.94%) BGP
8 1 (0.94%) Multicast
8 1 (0.94%) OSPF
8 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.94%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (7.55%) BigQuery
3 6 (5.66%) Power BI
4 5 (4.72%) Big Data
4 5 (4.72%) Tableau
5 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) Metadata
7 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.89%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.89%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.94%) Power Query
8 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Git
1 7 (6.60%) GitLab
2 6 (5.66%) JIRA
3 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.94%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.94%) Gatling
5 1 (0.94%) JMeter
5 1 (0.94%) JUnit
5 1 (0.94%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.94%) MLflow
5 1 (0.94%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.94%) Newman
5 1 (0.94%) Postman
5 1 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 27 (25.47%) Finance
2 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.43%) Banking
5 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.89%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.89%) Legal
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Front Office
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Architect
2 18 (16.98%) GCP Engineer
3 15 (14.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) Senior
5 12 (11.32%) Data Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Lead
7 7 (6.60%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (5.66%) Security Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) GCP Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Applications Support
10 4 (3.77%) Applications Support Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) Kafka
2 7 (6.60%) REST
3 5 (4.72%) FastAPI
3 5 (4.72%) Spring
3 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.77%) OAuth
4 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.77%) RESTful
5 3 (2.83%) JSON
5 3 (2.83%) LangGraph
5 3 (2.83%) Middleware
5 3 (2.83%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.83%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.83%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.83%) SOAP
5 3 (2.83%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.83%) XML
6 2 (1.89%) JWT
6 2 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.89%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.55%) AI Agents
4 7 (6.60%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.66%) Clustering
6 4 (3.77%) CMDB
6 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.83%) PKI
8 2 (1.89%) Genomics
8 2 (1.89%) Life Science
8 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.94%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Linux
1 6 (5.66%) Windows
2 5 (4.72%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Android
3 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) CI/CD
2 34 (32.08%) AI
3 28 (26.42%) Analytics
4 26 (24.53%) DevOps
5 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (17.92%) Machine Learning
6 18 (16.98%) Microservices
7 17 (16.04%) Migration
8 15 (14.15%) Containerisation
8 15 (14.15%) Data Engineering
8 15 (14.15%) Observability
9 14 (13.21%) Agile
9 14 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (13.21%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.32%) Data Science
10 12 (11.32%) ETL
10 12 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (10.38%) Cloud Security
11 11 (10.38%) Data Modelling
11 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.36%) Python
2 21 (19.81%) SQL
3 10 (9.43%) Java
4 9 (8.49%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) Bash
7 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.89%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) Bicep
9 1 (0.94%) DAML
9 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.94%) Elixir
9 1 (0.94%) Go
9 1 (0.94%) Korn
9 1 (0.94%) Ruby
9 1 (0.94%) Rust
9 1 (0.94%) Scala
9 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.94%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 36 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.98%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.60%) Degree
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.83%) CISM
5 3 (2.83%) CISSP
5 3 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.89%) CCNP
6 2 (1.89%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.94%) CCIE
7 1 (0.94%) CCNA
7 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.94%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.94%) CRISC
7 1 (0.94%) GPEN
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.60%) NIST
3 6 (5.66%) GDPR
4 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.77%) QA
5 3 (2.83%) NCSC
6 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.89%) EMIR
6 2 (1.89%) GRC
6 2 (1.89%) MiFID
6 2 (1.89%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.94%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.94%) PMO
7 1 (0.94%) SLA
7 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (19.81%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.83%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.83%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.83%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.94%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.98%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) Ansible
4 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.83%) Grafana
5 3 (2.83%) Istio
5 3 (2.83%) Nagios
5 3 (2.83%) Puppet
5 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.83%) vCenter Server
5 3 (2.83%) vMotion
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (49.06%) Google
2 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.72%) Oracle
3 5 (4.72%) SAP
3 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.77%) VMware
5 3 (2.83%) Citrix
5 3 (2.83%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.83%) Databricks
5 3 (2.83%) HP
5 3 (2.83%) IBM
5 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.83%) Symantec
6 2 (1.89%) Cisco
6 2 (1.89%) Informatica
6 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.89%) Workday