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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 59 68
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 106 61 69
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.66% 3.24% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.71% 8.19% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 49 51
10th Percentile £421 £443 £463
25th Percentile £500 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -14.00% -0.56%
75th Percentile £766 £700 £706
90th Percentile £850 £792 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 773 745 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 39.52% 38.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 475 685
10th Percentile £342 £402 £363
25th Percentile £415 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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 23 January 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 5 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (62.26%) Azure
2 59 (55.66%) AWS
3 16 (15.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 15 (14.15%) GitHub
5 12 (11.32%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.49%) Snowflake
7 8 (7.55%) Cloud Run
7 8 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.60%) Google Gemini
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.77%) Apigee
9 4 (3.77%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.83%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.83%) IaaS
10 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.83%) PaaS
10 3 (2.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) DNS
2 5 (4.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) Internet
3 2 (1.89%) Network Security
3 2 (1.89%) SSL
3 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.94%) BGP
4 1 (0.94%) DHCP
4 1 (0.94%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.94%) LAN
4 1 (0.94%) OSPF
4 1 (0.94%) VPN
4 1 (0.94%) WAN
4 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) BigQuery
2 10 (9.43%) Power BI
3 8 (7.55%) Tableau
4 7 (6.60%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.66%) Big Data
5 6 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.66%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.72%) MySQL
7 4 (3.77%) Looker
7 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.77%) Redis
8 3 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.83%) Metadata
8 3 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.89%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.89%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Git
2 9 (8.49%) GitLab
2 9 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.83%) Gradle
3 3 (2.83%) JIRA
3 3 (2.83%) Maven
3 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.89%) Gatling
4 2 (1.89%) JUnit
4 2 (1.89%) Selenium
4 2 (1.89%) Snyk
5 1 (0.94%) Ant
5 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.94%) ERwin
5 1 (0.94%) MLflow
5 1 (0.94%) Mockito
5 1 (0.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (37.74%) Finance
2 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Banking
5 10 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Front Office
7 5 (4.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Back Office
9 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Law
9 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 2 (1.89%) Marketing
9 2 (1.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Senior
2 16 (15.09%) Architect
2 16 (15.09%) Developer
3 14 (13.21%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (11.32%) Lead
5 7 (6.60%) Consultant
5 7 (6.60%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 5 (4.72%) Security Architect
7 5 (4.72%) Senior Architect
7 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.77%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Lead Developer
9 3 (2.83%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) Spring
2 8 (7.55%) React
2 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.72%) FastAPI
3 5 (4.72%) Kafka
3 5 (4.72%) OAuth
3 5 (4.72%) OAuth2
4 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.77%) CSS
4 4 (3.77%) HTML
4 4 (3.77%) JSON
4 4 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.77%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.77%) REST
4 4 (3.77%) scikit-learn
4 4 (3.77%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.83%) Dask
5 3 (2.83%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.83%) RESTful
5 3 (2.83%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.60%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.66%) Derivative
4 5 (4.72%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.77%) Life Science
5 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.77%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.83%) Equities
6 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Windows
3 1 (0.94%) Unix
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.91%) DevOps
2 35 (33.02%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.47%) AI
3 27 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (23.58%) Agile
5 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.98%) Analytics
6 18 (16.98%) Machine Learning
7 17 (16.04%) Containerisation
7 17 (16.04%) Migration
8 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (13.21%) Cloud Security
9 14 (13.21%) Generative AI
10 13 (12.26%) Microservices
11 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
11 11 (10.38%) Observability
11 11 (10.38%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.38%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.43%) Data Modelling
12 10 (9.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.96%) Python
2 27 (25.47%) SQL
3 18 (16.98%) Java
4 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.83%) Bash
5 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.89%) C++
6 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (0.94%) C#
7 1 (0.94%) Go
7 1 (0.94%) LookML
7 1 (0.94%) Perl
7 1 (0.94%) R
7 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.43%) Degree
4 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.89%) CISSP
6 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) CCSP
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.94%) CISM
7 1 (0.94%) MCP
7 1 (0.94%) OSCP
7 1 (0.94%) SANS
7 1 (0.94%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) GDPR
2 8 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.72%) NCSC
4 4 (3.77%) NIST
5 3 (2.83%) EU AI Act
5 3 (2.83%) QA
6 2 (1.89%) GRC
6 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.89%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.89%) PSD2
6 2 (1.89%) SEPA
6 2 (1.89%) SLA
7 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.94%) MiFID
7 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.94%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (29.25%) Kubernetes
2 27 (25.47%) Terraform
3 10 (9.43%) Ansible
4 6 (5.66%) Argo
5 5 (4.72%) Grafana
6 4 (3.77%) Istio
6 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.94%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.94%) Kibana
8 1 (0.94%) Puppet
8 1 (0.94%) vRealize
8 1 (0.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 52 (49.06%) Google
2 11 (10.38%) Databricks
3 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.49%) Oracle
5 6 (5.66%) Splunk
6 4 (3.77%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.77%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.83%) Cisco
7 3 (2.83%) Confluent
7 3 (2.83%) SAP
7 3 (2.83%) VMware
8 2 (1.89%) Adobe
8 2 (1.89%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.89%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.89%) New Relic
8 2 (1.89%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.94%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.94%) Zerto