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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 59 67
Rank change year-on-year +25 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing GCP 117 61 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.68% 3.39% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.67% 8.06% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 53 41
10th Percentile £420 £415 £463
25th Percentile £508 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £745
90th Percentile £845 £751 £831
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -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 856 757 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.53% 42.06% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 496 635
10th Percentile £338 £397 £363
25th Percentile £436 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +111.11% -66.67%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -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 March 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 6 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (62.39%) Azure
2 70 (59.83%) AWS
3 19 (16.24%) Power Platform
4 14 (11.97%) GitHub
4 14 (11.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 7 (5.98%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.98%) SaaS
7 5 (4.27%) dbt
7 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.27%) Google Gemini
8 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.42%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (3.42%) Cloud Run
8 4 (3.42%) iPaaS
8 4 (3.42%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.42%) Serverless
9 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.56%) Boomi
9 3 (2.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) Network Security
3 3 (2.56%) Firewall
4 2 (1.71%) Internet
4 2 (1.71%) SSL
4 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.85%) BGP
5 1 (0.85%) DHCP
5 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.85%) IPsec
5 1 (0.85%) OSPF
5 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 13 (11.11%) Power BI
2 11 (9.40%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.55%) Tableau
4 9 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.84%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.98%) Big Data
7 6 (5.13%) MySQL
8 5 (4.27%) Metadata
9 4 (3.42%) DB2
9 4 (3.42%) Redis
9 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.56%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.71%) Couchbase
11 2 (1.71%) Hazelcast
11 2 (1.71%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) Git
2 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.98%) GitLab
4 4 (3.42%) JIRA
5 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.71%) Gatling
6 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.85%) ERwin
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Mockito
6 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (33.33%) Finance
2 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.82%) Banking
5 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.13%) Front Office
8 5 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.56%) Back Office
10 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.71%) Law
11 2 (1.71%) Legal
11 2 (1.71%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (20.51%) Architect
2 18 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
3 16 (13.68%) Developer
4 13 (11.11%) Senior
5 12 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Lead
7 8 (6.84%) Data Scientist
8 7 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Consultant
9 6 (5.13%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Analyst
11 4 (3.42%) Backend Developer
11 4 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) React
2 8 (6.84%) Kafka
3 7 (5.98%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.98%) TensorFlow
4 6 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.27%) Spring
6 4 (3.42%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.42%) JSON
6 4 (3.42%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.42%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.42%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.56%) Backbone.js
7 3 (2.56%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.56%) Ember.js
7 3 (2.56%) Google JAX
7 3 (2.56%) Hugging Face
7 3 (2.56%) JAX
7 3 (2.56%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.56%) LightGBM
7 3 (2.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.98%) Derivative
3 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.42%) Equities
5 4 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.42%) Life Science
5 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.56%) Clustering
6 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.71%) CMDB
7 2 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Linux
2 3 (2.56%) Android
2 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.62%) DevOps
2 36 (30.77%) AI
2 36 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 31 (26.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (23.93%) Agile
5 27 (23.08%) Analytics
6 23 (19.66%) Machine Learning
7 19 (16.24%) Decision-Making
8 17 (14.53%) Cloud Security
9 16 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (13.68%) Data Science
10 15 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (12.82%) Generative AI
10 15 (12.82%) Migration
10 15 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.82%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.97%) ETL
12 13 (11.11%) Data Engineering
12 13 (11.11%) Data Modelling
12 13 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.04%) Python
2 35 (29.91%) SQL
3 13 (11.11%) Java
4 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.56%) Bash
5 3 (2.56%) Scala
6 2 (1.71%) C++
6 2 (1.71%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) C#
7 1 (0.85%) Elixir
7 1 (0.85%) Go
7 1 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.85%) Perl
7 1 (0.85%) R
7 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.82%) Degree
4 8 (6.84%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.13%) CISSP
5 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.42%) CISM
7 3 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.56%) PhD
7 3 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.85%) CCNP
9 1 (0.85%) CCSP
9 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.85%) CRISC
9 1 (0.85%) OSCP
9 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.13%) GDPR
2 6 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.27%) NCSC
3 5 (4.27%) NIST
4 3 (2.56%) GRC
4 3 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.56%) QA
4 3 (2.56%) SLA
5 2 (1.71%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.71%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.71%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.71%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.71%) PSD2
5 2 (1.71%) SEPA
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (29.06%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.37%) Terraform
3 10 (8.55%) Ansible
4 4 (3.42%) Argo
4 4 (3.42%) Grafana
5 3 (2.56%) Istio
5 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.85%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.85%) QRadar
6 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.85%) vRealize
6 1 (0.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (41.88%) Google
2 11 (9.40%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) Databricks
4 6 (5.13%) Oracle
5 5 (4.27%) Splunk
6 3 (2.56%) Confluent
6 3 (2.56%) Informatica
6 3 (2.56%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.71%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.71%) IBM
7 2 (1.71%) New Relic
7 2 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.71%) Planview
7 2 (1.71%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) SAP
7 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.71%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.71%) VMware
8 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor