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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 54 69
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing GCP 115 64 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.69% 3.54% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.69% 8.43% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 55 41
10th Percentile £420 £418 £463
25th Percentile £516 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £775
90th Percentile £852 £779 £831
Central London median daily rate £601 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.52% -12.50% -6.80%
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 840 759 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.54% 42.03% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 494 642
10th Percentile £342 £400 £357
25th Percentile £436 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £535 £557 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% +3.21% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -56.57%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%

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 9 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 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (62.61%) Azure
2 68 (59.13%) AWS
3 17 (14.78%) Power Platform
4 15 (13.04%) GitHub
5 14 (12.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (6.96%) Snowflake
7 7 (6.09%) SaaS
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.22%) Google Gemini
9 5 (4.35%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.48%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (3.48%) dbt
10 4 (3.48%) iPaaS
10 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.48%) Serverless
11 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.61%) Boomi
11 3 (2.61%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) DNS
2 4 (3.48%) Network Security
3 3 (2.61%) Firewall
4 2 (1.74%) Internet
4 2 (1.74%) SSL
4 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.87%) BGP
5 1 (0.87%) DHCP
5 1 (0.87%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.87%) IPsec
5 1 (0.87%) OSPF
5 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) BigQuery
2 11 (9.57%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.57%) Power BI
3 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.96%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.96%) Tableau
5 7 (6.09%) Big Data
6 6 (5.22%) MySQL
7 5 (4.35%) Metadata
8 4 (3.48%) DB2
8 4 (3.48%) Redis
8 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.74%) Couchbase
10 2 (1.74%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.74%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Git
2 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) GitLab
4 4 (3.48%) JIRA
5 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.74%) Gatling
6 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.87%) ERwin
6 1 (0.87%) JUnit
6 1 (0.87%) MLflow
6 1 (0.87%) Mockito
6 1 (0.87%) Snyk
6 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (33.04%) Finance
2 35 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.04%) Banking
5 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Front Office
7 5 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Back Office
9 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Law
9 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 2 (1.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (20.87%) Architect
2 17 (14.78%) GCP Engineer
3 16 (13.91%) Developer
4 13 (11.30%) Senior
5 11 (9.57%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) Consultant
7 7 (6.09%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Security Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) React
2 8 (6.96%) PyTorch
2 8 (6.96%) TensorFlow
3 7 (6.09%) Kafka
4 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.35%) Spring
6 4 (3.48%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.48%) JSON
6 4 (3.48%) OAuth
6 4 (3.48%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (3.48%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.48%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.61%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.61%) Ember.js
7 3 (2.61%) Google JAX
7 3 (2.61%) Hugging Face
7 3 (2.61%) JAX
7 3 (2.61%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.61%) LightGBM
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.22%) Derivative
3 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.48%) Life Science
3 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.61%) Equities
4 3 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.74%) Clustering
5 2 (1.74%) CMDB
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Android
2 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) AI
2 36 (31.30%) CI/CD
2 36 (31.30%) DevOps
3 30 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (25.22%) Agile
5 26 (22.61%) Analytics
6 24 (20.87%) Machine Learning
7 18 (15.65%) Decision-Making
8 16 (13.91%) Cloud Security
8 16 (13.91%) Data Science
8 16 (13.91%) Generative AI
9 15 (13.04%) Migration
9 15 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 14 (12.17%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (11.30%) ETL
11 13 (11.30%) Observability
11 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (10.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.91%) Python
2 33 (28.70%) SQL
3 13 (11.30%) Java
4 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.61%) Bash
5 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.74%) C++
6 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.74%) Scala
7 1 (0.87%) C#
7 1 (0.87%) Elixir
7 1 (0.87%) Go
7 1 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.87%) Perl
7 1 (0.87%) R
7 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) Degree
4 8 (6.96%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.35%) CISSP
7 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.61%) CISM
7 3 (2.61%) PhD
7 3 (2.61%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.87%) CCNP
9 1 (0.87%) CCSP
9 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.87%) CRISC
9 1 (0.87%) OSCP
9 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.22%) GDPR
4 5 (4.35%) NCSC
4 5 (4.35%) NIST
5 3 (2.61%) GRC
5 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.61%) QA
5 3 (2.61%) SLA
6 2 (1.74%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.74%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.74%) PSD2
6 2 (1.74%) SEPA
7 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.87%) MiFID
7 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (16.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (29.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.87%) Terraform
3 10 (8.70%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Argo
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
5 3 (2.61%) Istio
5 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.87%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.87%) Kibana
6 1 (0.87%) QRadar
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.87%) vRealize
6 1 (0.87%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 48 (41.74%) Google
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.96%) Databricks
4 6 (5.22%) Oracle
5 5 (4.35%) Splunk
6 3 (2.61%) Confluent
6 3 (2.61%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.74%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.74%) IBM
7 2 (1.74%) Informatica
7 2 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.74%) Planview
7 2 (1.74%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.74%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.74%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.74%) VMware