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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 104 73 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.29% 4.22% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.21% 9.84% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 51 56
10th Percentile £450 £375 £380
25th Percentile £500 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -3.64% -12.19%
75th Percentile £678 £689 £675
90th Percentile £751 £763 £838
Central London median daily rate £559 £600 £556
% change year-on-year -6.88% +8.01% -14.54%
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 £51.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.83% +6.06% -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 928 742 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.28% 42.94% 40.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 481 617
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £455 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.68 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.18 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +71.38% +41.60% -66.67%

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 18 June 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 8 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Camunda
4 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 59 (56.73%) AWS
2 58 (55.77%) Azure
3 14 (13.46%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (8.65%) Snowflake
5 7 (6.73%) dbt
5 7 (6.73%) GitHub
5 7 (6.73%) SaaS
6 6 (5.77%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.85%) Boomi
8 4 (3.85%) IaaS
8 4 (3.85%) iPaaS
8 4 (3.85%) PaaS
8 4 (3.85%) Serverless
8 4 (3.85%) Vertex AI
9 3 (2.88%) Anthos
9 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.88%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Firewall
1 7 (6.73%) Network Security
2 6 (5.77%) DNS
2 6 (5.77%) VPN
3 3 (2.88%) DHCP
3 3 (2.88%) SMTP
4 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.96%) BGP
5 1 (0.96%) Internet
5 1 (0.96%) IPsec
5 1 (0.96%) OSPF
5 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.96%) SSL
5 1 (0.96%) VLAN
5 1 (0.96%) WAN
5 1 (0.96%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (9.62%) Power BI
3 9 (8.65%) BigQuery
3 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.65%) Tableau
4 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.81%) Big Data
5 5 (4.81%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.85%) Metadata
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.88%) Db2
7 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.88%) MySQL
7 3 (2.88%) Redis
7 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.92%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.92%) OLAP
8 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) JIRA
2 4 (3.85%) Git
3 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.92%) Gatling
4 2 (1.92%) GitLab
5 1 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.96%) ERwin
General
1 30 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Finance
3 16 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.54%) Banking
5 11 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.92%) Back Office
9 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.92%) Front Office
9 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.96%) Legal
10 1 (0.96%) Marketing
10 1 (0.96%) Military
10 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Architect
2 19 (18.27%) GCP Engineer
3 14 (13.46%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Developer
6 8 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Lead
7 7 (6.73%) Senior
8 6 (5.77%) Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.81%) GCP Data Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Security Architect
9 5 (4.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.62%) Kafka
2 6 (5.77%) React
2 6 (5.77%) Spring
2 6 (5.77%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.81%) PyTorch
3 5 (4.81%) TensorFlow
4 4 (3.85%) Hugging Face
4 4 (3.85%) JSON
4 4 (3.85%) OAuth
4 4 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 4 (3.85%) REST
5 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.88%) Backbone.js
5 3 (2.88%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.88%) Ember.js
5 3 (2.88%) jQuery
5 3 (2.88%) Keras
5 3 (2.88%) Middleware
5 3 (2.88%) Quarkus
5 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.73%) Clustering
4 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.88%) PKI
5 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.92%) Derivative
6 2 (1.92%) Equities
6 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.96%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.96%) Genomics
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.96%) NHS
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Windows
2 6 (5.77%) Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Android
3 4 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) AI
2 33 (31.73%) Analytics
3 32 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 25 (24.04%) DevOps
5 22 (21.15%) Agile
5 22 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (19.23%) Machine Learning
7 18 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (15.38%) ETL
9 15 (14.42%) Data Science
9 15 (14.42%) Migration
10 14 (13.46%) Decision-Making
11 13 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 13 (12.50%) Data Governance
11 13 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 13 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.54%) Microservices
12 12 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (10.58%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.85%) SQL
2 27 (25.96%) Python
3 10 (9.62%) Java
4 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.92%) Bash
5 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.92%) Scala
5 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.96%) Elixir
6 1 (0.96%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 11 (10.58%) Degree
5 4 (3.85%) CISSP
5 4 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.88%) CISM
6 3 (2.88%) PhD
7 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.92%) CCNP
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.96%) CCNA
8 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.96%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.81%) GDPR
3 4 (3.85%) NCSC
3 4 (3.85%) NIST
4 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.88%) QA
4 3 (2.88%) SLA
5 2 (1.92%) EMIR
5 2 (1.92%) GRC
5 2 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.92%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.92%) MiFID
5 2 (1.92%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.92%) PSD2
5 2 (1.92%) SEPA
6 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.96%) PMO
6 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.88%) BitLocker
2 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (2.88%) Terminal Services
2 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.96%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 30 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 16 (15.38%) Terraform
3 7 (6.73%) Ansible
4 3 (2.88%) Nagios
4 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.88%) Puppet
4 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.88%) vMotion
5 2 (1.92%) Argo
5 2 (1.92%) Grafana
5 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.96%) Istio
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.96%) QRadar
6 1 (0.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (41.35%) Google
2 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.85%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.88%) Citrix
5 3 (2.88%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.88%) HP
5 3 (2.88%) IBM
5 3 (2.88%) Informatica
5 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.88%) Symantec
5 3 (2.88%) VMware
6 2 (1.92%) Confluent
6 2 (1.92%) Databricks
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle
6 2 (1.92%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.96%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.96%) iManage
7 1 (0.96%) Workday
7 1 (0.96%) Zscaler