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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 57 68
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing GCP 125 61 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.87% 3.53% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.20% 8.20% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 43
10th Percentile £432 £413 £463
25th Percentile £510 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -14.58% -4.53%
75th Percentile £749 £700 £760
90th Percentile £844 £751 £830
Central London median daily rate £575 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +10.84% -13.54% -4.00%
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 880 744 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.33% 43.01% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 487 639
10th Percentile £350 £391 £361
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £657
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £31.88 - £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £132.00 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%

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 27 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 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
2 1 (0.80%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (62.40%) Azure
2 74 (59.20%) AWS
3 20 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 15 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 14 (11.20%) GitHub
6 10 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.40%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.60%) SaaS
9 6 (4.80%) dbt
10 5 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.00%) Google Gemini
11 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.20%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (3.20%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.20%) iPaaS
11 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.20%) Serverless
12 3 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.40%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) DNS
2 5 (4.00%) Network Security
3 3 (2.40%) Firewall
4 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.60%) VPN
5 1 (0.80%) BGP
5 1 (0.80%) Internet
5 1 (0.80%) IPsec
5 1 (0.80%) OSPF
5 1 (0.80%) SSL
5 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.20%) Power BI
2 12 (9.60%) BigQuery
3 11 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
3 11 (8.80%) Tableau
4 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.60%) Big Data
5 7 (5.60%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.00%) Metadata
6 5 (4.00%) MySQL
6 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.20%) DB2
8 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.60%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.60%) OLAP
9 2 (1.60%) Redis
9 2 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
2 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.80%) GitLab
3 6 (4.80%) JIRA
4 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.60%) Gatling
5 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.80%) ERwin
5 1 (0.80%) JUnit
5 1 (0.80%) Mockito
5 1 (0.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 42 (33.60%) Finance
2 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Banking
5 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.00%) Front Office
9 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.40%) Back Office
10 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Legal
11 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.80%) Military
12 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (19.20%) Architect
2 21 (16.80%) GCP Engineer
3 16 (12.80%) Developer
4 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.60%) Senior
6 11 (8.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Lead
7 8 (6.40%) Data Scientist
8 7 (5.60%) Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (3.20%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.20%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.00%) Kafka
2 9 (7.20%) React
3 7 (5.60%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.60%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.80%) Spring
5 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.20%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.20%) JSON
6 4 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.20%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.40%) Google JAX
7 3 (2.40%) Hugging Face
7 3 (2.40%) JAX
7 3 (2.40%) jQuery
7 3 (2.40%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.40%) LightGBM
7 3 (2.40%) OAuth
7 3 (2.40%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) Derivative
3 6 (4.80%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.20%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.20%) Clustering
5 4 (3.20%) Equities
5 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.20%) Life Science
5 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.60%) CMDB
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Android
2 3 (2.40%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.60%) AI
2 39 (31.20%) CI/CD
3 36 (28.80%) DevOps
4 33 (26.40%) Analytics
5 31 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (22.40%) Agile
7 27 (21.60%) Machine Learning
8 19 (15.20%) Data Science
8 19 (15.20%) Decision-Making
9 18 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (14.40%) Migration
10 17 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (12.00%) Cloud Security
11 15 (12.00%) Data Engineering
11 15 (12.00%) ETL
11 15 (12.00%) Generative AI
11 15 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (11.20%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.20%) Microservices
13 13 (10.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (35.20%) Python
2 38 (30.40%) SQL
3 14 (11.20%) Java
4 4 (3.20%) Bash
4 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.40%) Scala
6 2 (1.60%) C++
6 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.80%) Elixir
7 1 (0.80%) Go
7 1 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.80%) Perl
7 1 (0.80%) R
7 1 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.20%) Degree
4 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.80%) CISSP
6 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.20%) CISM
8 3 (2.40%) PhD
8 3 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.60%) CCNP
9 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.60%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.80%) CCNA
10 1 (0.80%) CCSP
10 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.00%) GDPR
3 5 (4.00%) NCSC
3 5 (4.00%) NIST
4 3 (2.40%) GRC
4 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.40%) QA
4 3 (2.40%) SLA
5 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.60%) PSD2
5 2 (1.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.80%) MiFID
6 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.80%) PMO
6 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (16.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.80%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.20%) Terraform
3 9 (7.20%) Ansible
4 4 (3.20%) Argo
4 4 (3.20%) Grafana
5 3 (2.40%) Istio
5 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.80%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.80%) Kibana
6 1 (0.80%) QRadar
6 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.80%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.80%) vRealize
6 1 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 53 (42.40%) Google
2 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.80%) Databricks
4 5 (4.00%) Splunk
5 4 (3.20%) IBM
5 4 (3.20%) Informatica
5 4 (3.20%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) Confluent
7 2 (1.60%) Planview
7 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.60%) SAP
7 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.60%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.60%) VMware
8 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.80%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.80%) Yardi
8 1 (0.80%) Zerto