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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 50 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing GCP 106 72 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.61% 4.10% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.87% 9.50% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 54 43
10th Percentile £450 £379 £370
25th Percentile £503 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £698 £756
90th Percentile £775 £747 £866
Central London median daily rate £563 £588 £588
% change year-on-year -4.26% - -9.62%
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 £71.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year +4.56% +46.91% -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 893 758 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.86% 43.14% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 484 603
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -8.86%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £666
90th Percentile £749 £750 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -72.99%

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 11 May 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 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (60.38%) Azure
2 61 (57.55%) AWS
3 14 (13.21%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 11 (10.38%) GitHub
6 9 (8.49%) Snowflake
7 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.60%) SaaS
8 6 (5.66%) dbt
9 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.77%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.77%) Serverless
9 4 (3.77%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.83%) Anthos
10 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.83%) Boomi
10 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) Network Security
2 4 (3.77%) DNS
3 3 (2.83%) Firewall
3 3 (2.83%) VPN
4 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) BGP
5 1 (0.94%) Internet
5 1 (0.94%) IPsec
5 1 (0.94%) OSPF
5 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.94%) SSL
5 1 (0.94%) VLAN
5 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (9.43%) Power BI
3 9 (8.49%) Tableau
4 7 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.66%) BigQuery
6 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.72%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.77%) Metadata
7 4 (3.77%) MySQL
7 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.83%) Big Data
8 3 (2.83%) DB2
8 3 (2.83%) Redis
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.89%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.89%) OLAP
9 2 (1.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.66%) JIRA
3 5 (4.72%) GitLab
4 2 (1.89%) Gatling
5 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) ERwin
5 1 (0.94%) JUnit
5 1 (0.94%) Mockito
5 1 (0.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (29.25%) Finance
2 28 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
3 16 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.83%) Back Office
7 3 (2.83%) Front Office
7 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (19.81%) Architect
2 17 (16.04%) GCP Engineer
3 14 (13.21%) Data Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Developer
5 10 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Lead
6 8 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (6.60%) Senior
8 5 (4.72%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.72%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) Kafka
2 9 (8.49%) React
2 9 (8.49%) Spring
3 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.66%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.66%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.77%) Hugging Face
5 4 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.77%) REST
6 3 (2.83%) Backbone.js
6 3 (2.83%) Bootstrap
6 3 (2.83%) Ember.js
6 3 (2.83%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.83%) jQuery
6 3 (2.83%) JSON
6 3 (2.83%) OAuth
6 3 (2.83%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.83%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.77%) Clustering
3 4 (3.77%) Derivative
3 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.83%) Equities
4 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.83%) Life Science
4 3 (2.83%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.89%) CMDB
5 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.94%) NHS
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.77%) Android
1 4 (3.77%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.77%) Windows
2 3 (2.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.91%) CI/CD
2 35 (33.02%) AI
3 31 (29.25%) Analytics
4 29 (27.36%) DevOps
5 27 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (20.75%) Agile
7 20 (18.87%) Machine Learning
8 17 (16.04%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (15.09%) Data Science
9 16 (15.09%) Migration
10 15 (14.15%) ETL
11 14 (13.21%) Data Engineering
11 14 (13.21%) Decision-Making
12 13 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (12.26%) Cloud Security
12 13 (12.26%) Containerisation
12 13 (12.26%) Microservices
12 13 (12.26%) Observability
13 12 (11.32%) Data Governance
13 12 (11.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.13%) Python
2 32 (30.19%) SQL
3 13 (12.26%) Java
4 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.83%) Bash
6 3 (2.83%) Scala
7 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.94%) C#
8 1 (0.94%) Elixir
8 1 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.94%) Perl
8 1 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.72%) CISSP
6 4 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.83%) CISM
7 3 (2.83%) PhD
7 3 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.89%) CCNP
8 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.89%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.94%) CCNA
9 1 (0.94%) CCSP
9 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) GDPR
2 5 (4.72%) NIST
3 4 (3.77%) GRC
4 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.83%) NCSC
4 3 (2.83%) QA
4 3 (2.83%) SLA
5 2 (1.89%) EMIR
5 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.89%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.89%) MiFID
5 2 (1.89%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.89%) PSD2
5 2 (1.89%) SEPA
6 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.94%) PMO
6 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (21.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.94%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 32 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.81%) Terraform
3 6 (5.66%) Ansible
4 4 (3.77%) Argo
4 4 (3.77%) Grafana
4 4 (3.77%) Istio
4 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.94%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.94%) Kibana
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.94%) QRadar
5 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 45 (42.45%) Google
2 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.77%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.83%) IBM
4 3 (2.83%) Informatica
4 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.89%) Confluent
5 2 (1.89%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle
5 2 (1.89%) Planview
5 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.89%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.94%) iManage
6 1 (0.94%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.94%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.94%) Zscaler