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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 39 51
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 98 88 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.45% 5.06% 3.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.79% 12.54% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 62 56
10th Percentile £450 £424 £406
25th Percentile £480 £496 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £709
90th Percentile £738 £775 £819
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.05% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £71.25 -
Central London median hourly rate - £51.44 -

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 908 702 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 40.34% 39.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 499 542
10th Percentile £350 £332 £388
25th Percentile £456 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.67%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £761 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%

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 2 October 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 10 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.12%) Confluence
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.04%) Apache
5 1 (1.02%) Ethereum
5 1 (1.02%) Hyperledger
5 1 (1.02%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 60 (61.22%) AWS
2 58 (59.18%) Azure
3 14 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 13 (13.27%) GitHub
5 12 (12.24%) dbt
5 12 (12.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.10%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (5.10%) SaaS
8 5 (5.10%) Serverless
9 4 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.08%) Google App Engine
9 4 (4.08%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (4.08%) IaaS
9 4 (4.08%) PaaS
9 4 (4.08%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) DNS
2 9 (9.18%) Firewall
3 8 (8.16%) VPN
4 6 (6.12%) Internet
5 5 (5.10%) Network Security
6 4 (4.08%) DHCP
7 3 (3.06%) SMTP
8 2 (2.04%) BGP
8 2 (2.04%) Multicast
8 2 (2.04%) X.509
9 1 (1.02%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (1.02%) OSPF
9 1 (1.02%) RTCP
9 1 (1.02%) RTP
9 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.02%) VLAN
9 1 (1.02%) VoIP
9 1 (1.02%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) BigQuery
2 9 (9.18%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.12%) Big Data
4 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.06%) Looker
5 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.04%) Chroma
6 2 (2.04%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.04%) Power BI
6 2 (2.04%) Tableau
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.02%) Flink
7 1 (1.02%) Metadata
7 1 (1.02%) Milvus
7 1 (1.02%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
2 7 (7.14%) GitLab
2 7 (7.14%) JIRA
3 6 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.04%) Gatling
5 2 (2.04%) JMeter
5 2 (2.04%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.02%) JUnit
6 1 (1.02%) MLflow
6 1 (1.02%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.02%) Newman
6 1 (1.02%) Postman
6 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 28 (28.57%) Finance
2 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.06%) Front Office
7 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Back Office
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Architect
2 17 (17.35%) Senior
3 14 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Lead
7 7 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.08%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Developer
9 4 (4.08%) GCP Data Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Security Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.49%) Terraform
2 10 (10.20%) REST
3 9 (9.18%) Kafka
4 6 (6.12%) FastAPI
4 6 (6.12%) Spring
5 5 (5.10%) Middleware
5 5 (5.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.08%) SOAP
7 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.06%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.06%) JSON
7 3 (3.06%) LangGraph
7 3 (3.06%) OAuth
7 3 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.06%) RESTful
7 3 (3.06%) XML
8 2 (2.04%) JWT
8 2 (2.04%) Playwright
8 2 (2.04%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.04%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.18%) AI Agents
2 9 (9.18%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Clustering
4 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.06%) CMDB
5 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) PKI
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.04%) Genomics
6 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.04%) Life Science
6 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Linux
2 6 (6.12%) Windows
3 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.04%) Android
4 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.04%) Unix
5 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 31 (31.63%) AI
3 26 (26.53%) DevOps
4 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (19.39%) Analytics
6 17 (17.35%) Containerisation
6 17 (17.35%) Migration
6 17 (17.35%) Observability
7 16 (16.33%) Microservices
7 16 (16.33%) Software Engineering
8 15 (15.31%) Data Engineering
9 14 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (12.24%) Agile
11 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security
11 12 (12.24%) Data Governance
11 12 (12.24%) Data Modelling
12 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.57%) Python
2 23 (23.47%) SQL
3 12 (12.24%) Java
4 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.10%) Bash
7 3 (3.06%) LookML
7 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (2.04%) Korn
8 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.04%) Scala
8 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.02%) Bicep
9 1 (1.02%) DAML
9 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.02%) Go
9 1 (1.02%) Rust
9 1 (1.02%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.33%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.16%) Degree
5 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.04%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) CCIE
7 1 (1.02%) CCNP
7 1 (1.02%) CISA
7 1 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) GSEC
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) NIST
3 5 (5.10%) GDPR
4 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.08%) NCSC
5 3 (3.06%) QA
6 2 (2.04%) EMIR
6 2 (2.04%) GRC
6 2 (2.04%) MiFID
6 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.02%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.02%) PSD2
7 1 (1.02%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (19.39%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.06%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.06%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (31.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.12%) Ansible
3 4 (4.08%) Grafana
3 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.06%) Istio
4 3 (3.06%) Nagios
4 3 (3.06%) Puppet
4 3 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.06%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.06%) vMotion
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.02%) Netcool
5 1 (1.02%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (1.02%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.02%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 47 (47.96%) Google
2 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.24%) Databricks
4 8 (8.16%) Oracle
5 6 (6.12%) Dynatrace
5 6 (6.12%) SAP
6 5 (5.10%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.08%) IBM
7 4 (4.08%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.08%) VMware
8 3 (3.06%) Cisco
8 3 (3.06%) Citrix
8 3 (3.06%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.06%) HP
8 3 (3.06%) OpenAI
8 3 (3.06%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.06%) Symantec
9 2 (2.04%) Splunk
9 2 (2.04%) Workday
10 1 (1.02%) New Relic