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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +23 +15 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 111 64 62
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.77% 3.50% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.86% 8.56% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 43
10th Percentile £413 £451 £453
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -10.57% -5.38%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £706
90th Percentile £851 £798 £830
Central London median daily rate £600 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +12.94% -11.46% -6.80%
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 801 748 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.63% 40.94% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 469 660
10th Percentile £327 £400 £363
25th Percentile £418 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -24.00%

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 13 February 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 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.90%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (67.57%) Azure
2 67 (60.36%) AWS
3 17 (15.32%) GitHub
4 15 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 13 (11.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 8 (7.21%) Cloud Run
7 8 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.21%) Google Gemini
8 6 (5.41%) SaaS
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.60%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (3.60%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.70%) Apigee
10 3 (2.70%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.70%) dbt
10 3 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.70%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) DNS
2 5 (4.50%) Firewall
2 5 (4.50%) Network Security
3 3 (2.70%) SSL
3 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.80%) BGP
4 2 (1.80%) Internet
4 2 (1.80%) OSPF
4 2 (1.80%) VPN
5 1 (0.90%) DHCP
5 1 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.90%) IPsec
5 1 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.71%) BigQuery
2 11 (9.91%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.91%) Power BI
3 9 (8.11%) Tableau
4 8 (7.21%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.31%) Big Data
5 7 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.50%) MySQL
6 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.60%) DB2
7 4 (3.60%) Looker
7 4 (3.60%) Metadata
7 4 (3.60%) Redis
8 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.80%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.80%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) GitLab
4 3 (2.70%) JIRA
5 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.80%) Gatling
5 2 (1.80%) Snyk
6 1 (0.90%) Ant
6 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.90%) ERwin
6 1 (0.90%) JUnit
6 1 (0.90%) MLflow
6 1 (0.90%) Mockito
6 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (38.74%) Finance
2 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Banking
5 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.50%) Front Office
7 5 (4.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.80%) Back Office
10 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.80%) Law
10 2 (1.80%) Legal
10 2 (1.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (19.82%) Architect
2 15 (13.51%) Developer
2 15 (13.51%) Senior
3 13 (11.71%) GCP Engineer
4 11 (9.91%) Lead
5 7 (6.31%) Consultant
5 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.41%) Data Scientist
6 6 (5.41%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 5 (4.50%) Security Architect
7 5 (4.50%) Senior Architect
7 5 (4.50%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Analyst
8 4 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.91%) React
2 7 (6.31%) PyTorch
2 7 (6.31%) Spring
2 7 (6.31%) TensorFlow
3 6 (5.41%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.41%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.50%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.50%) Kafka
4 5 (4.50%) OAuth
4 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.60%) CSS
5 4 (3.60%) HTML
5 4 (3.60%) Hugging Face
5 4 (3.60%) JSON
5 4 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (3.60%) REST
6 3 (2.70%) Backbone.js
6 3 (2.70%) jQuery
6 3 (2.70%) OpenID
6 3 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Derivative
3 5 (4.50%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.60%) Life Science
4 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.70%) Equities
5 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.80%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.90%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Android
2 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.53%) AI
1 35 (31.53%) CI/CD
1 35 (31.53%) DevOps
2 28 (25.23%) Agile
2 28 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (20.72%) Analytics
3 23 (20.72%) Machine Learning
4 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.32%) Generative AI
6 16 (14.41%) Cloud Security
7 14 (12.61%) Containerisation
7 14 (12.61%) Migration
8 13 (11.71%) Computer Science
8 13 (11.71%) Data Governance
8 13 (11.71%) Data Modelling
8 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
8 13 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (10.81%) Microservices
9 12 (10.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.04%) Python
2 31 (27.93%) SQL
3 15 (13.51%) Java
4 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.70%) Bash
6 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.80%) C++
7 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) C#
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.90%) LookML
8 1 (0.90%) Perl
8 1 (0.90%) R
8 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.51%) Degree
4 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.60%) CISSP
7 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.70%) PhD
7 3 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.80%) CISM
8 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.90%) CCNP
9 1 (0.90%) CCSP
9 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.90%) OSCP
9 1 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) GDPR
2 9 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.50%) NCSC
3 5 (4.50%) NIST
4 3 (2.70%) EU AI Act
4 3 (2.70%) GRC
4 3 (2.70%) QA
5 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.80%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.80%) PSD2
5 2 (1.80%) SEPA
5 2 (1.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.90%) MiFID
6 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (28.83%) Kubernetes
2 26 (23.42%) Terraform
3 10 (9.01%) Ansible
4 5 (4.50%) Grafana
5 4 (3.60%) Argo
5 4 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.70%) Istio
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.90%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.90%) Kibana
8 1 (0.90%) QRadar
8 1 (0.90%) vRealize
8 1 (0.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 50 (45.05%) Google
2 12 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.91%) Databricks
4 6 (5.41%) Oracle
4 6 (5.41%) Splunk
5 5 (4.50%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.60%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.70%) Confluent
7 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.70%) SAP
8 2 (1.80%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco
8 2 (1.80%) IBM
8 2 (1.80%) Informatica
8 2 (1.80%) New Relic
8 2 (1.80%) Rollbar
8 2 (1.80%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.80%) VMware
9 1 (0.90%) StreamSets