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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 53 62
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 108 70 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.72% 4.03% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.08% 9.30% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 54 44
10th Percentile £442 £379 £374
25th Percentile £507 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £747 £698 £751
90th Percentile £788 £747 £862
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £594
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.05% -6.86%
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 894 753 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.07% 43.38% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 481 601
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £667
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
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% -72.73%

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 8 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 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (6.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (62.96%) Azure
2 65 (60.19%) AWS
3 15 (13.89%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 12 (11.11%) GitHub
6 9 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 7 (6.48%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.48%) SaaS
8 6 (5.56%) dbt
9 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.70%) iPaaS
10 4 (3.70%) Serverless
10 4 (3.70%) Vertex AI
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.78%) Anthos
11 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.78%) Boomi
11 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) Network Security
2 4 (3.70%) DNS
3 3 (2.78%) VPN
4 2 (1.85%) Firewall
4 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.93%) BGP
5 1 (0.93%) Internet
5 1 (0.93%) IPsec
5 1 (0.93%) OSPF
5 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.93%) VLAN
5 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.19%) Power BI
3 10 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.33%) Tableau
5 8 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.63%) Big Data
7 5 (4.63%) Metadata
7 5 (4.63%) MySQL
7 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.78%) DB2
8 3 (2.78%) Redis
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.85%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.85%) OLAP
9 2 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Git
2 7 (6.48%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.56%) JIRA
4 5 (4.63%) GitLab
5 2 (1.85%) Gatling
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) ERwin
6 1 (0.93%) JUnit
6 1 (0.93%) Mockito
6 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 33 (30.56%) Finance
2 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.81%) Banking
4 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Front Office
7 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.78%) Back Office
8 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Retail
9 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (19.44%) Architect
2 17 (15.74%) GCP Engineer
3 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.04%) Developer
5 10 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.26%) Lead
6 8 (7.41%) Senior
7 7 (6.48%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.19%) Kafka
2 9 (8.33%) React
2 9 (8.33%) Spring
3 8 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.48%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.48%) TensorFlow
5 6 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.70%) Hugging Face
6 4 (3.70%) JSON
6 4 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.70%) REST
6 4 (3.70%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.78%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.78%) Google JAX
7 3 (2.78%) JAX
7 3 (2.78%) jQuery
7 3 (2.78%) OAuth
7 3 (2.78%) OpenID
7 3 (2.78%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.63%) Derivative
2 5 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.70%) Clustering
3 4 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) Equities
4 3 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.78%) Life Science
4 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.85%) CMDB
5 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) NHS
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Android
1 4 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.70%) Windows
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.19%) CI/CD
2 35 (32.41%) AI
3 34 (31.48%) Analytics
4 30 (27.78%) DevOps
5 27 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (21.30%) Agile
7 22 (20.37%) Machine Learning
8 18 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (15.74%) Decision-Making
9 17 (15.74%) Migration
10 16 (14.81%) Data Engineering
10 16 (14.81%) Data Science
11 15 (13.89%) ETL
11 15 (13.89%) Microservices
12 14 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
13 13 (12.04%) Data Governance
13 13 (12.04%) Observability
13 13 (12.04%) Software Engineering
14 12 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.41%) Python
2 34 (31.48%) SQL
3 14 (12.96%) Java
4 5 (4.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.78%) Bash
6 3 (2.78%) Scala
7 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) Elixir
8 1 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) R
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) Degree
4 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.63%) CISSP
6 4 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.78%) CISM
7 3 (2.78%) PhD
7 3 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.85%) CCNP
8 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.85%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CCNA
9 1 (0.93%) CCSP
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.63%) GDPR
2 5 (4.63%) NIST
3 4 (3.70%) GRC
4 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.78%) NCSC
4 3 (2.78%) QA
4 3 (2.78%) SLA
5 2 (1.85%) EMIR
5 2 (1.85%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.85%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.85%) MiFID
5 2 (1.85%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.85%) PSD2
5 2 (1.85%) SEPA
6 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) PMO
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 34 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.37%) Terraform
3 6 (5.56%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) Argo
4 4 (3.70%) Grafana
4 4 (3.70%) Istio
4 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.93%) Kibana
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.93%) QRadar
5 1 (0.93%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (39.81%) Google
2 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.70%) Databricks
3 4 (3.70%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.78%) IBM
4 3 (2.78%) Informatica
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle
4 3 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.85%) Confluent
5 2 (1.85%) Planview
5 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.85%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.93%) iManage
6 1 (0.93%) Meraki
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.93%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.93%) Zerto