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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 63 52
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 +22
Contract jobs citing GCP 109 64 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.05% 3.07% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.49% 7.84% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 45 63
10th Percentile £446 £451 £463
25th Percentile £508 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £718
90th Percentile £852 £793 £830
Central London median daily rate £625 £531 £630
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.67% -3.08%

All Cloud 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 752 816 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.71% 39.17% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 516 750
10th Percentile £328 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £32.25 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £34.19 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.43% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £46.11 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £52.13 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 17 December 2025.

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 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (61.47%) Azure
2 58 (53.21%) AWS
3 17 (15.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (11.01%) GitHub
5 11 (10.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.26%) Snowflake
7 7 (6.42%) Cloud Run
8 6 (5.50%) Google Gemini
8 6 (5.50%) SaaS
9 5 (4.59%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.59%) IaaS
9 5 (4.59%) PaaS
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.67%) Apigee
10 4 (3.67%) OCI
10 4 (3.67%) Slack
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.75%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.34%) DNS
2 6 (5.50%) Firewall
3 2 (1.83%) Internet
3 2 (1.83%) Network Security
3 2 (1.83%) SSL
3 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.92%) BGP
4 1 (0.92%) DHCP
4 1 (0.92%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.92%) LAN
4 1 (0.92%) OSPF
4 1 (0.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) BigQuery
2 9 (8.26%) Power BI
3 8 (7.34%) Big Data
3 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.42%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.50%) Tableau
6 4 (3.67%) MySQL
6 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.75%) Looker
8 2 (1.83%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.83%) Metadata
8 2 (1.83%) Redis
8 2 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.92%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Git
1 10 (9.17%) GitLab
2 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.59%) Gradle
3 5 (4.59%) Maven
3 5 (4.59%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.67%) Selenium
5 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.83%) JIRA
5 2 (1.83%) JUnit
5 2 (1.83%) MLflow
5 2 (1.83%) Snyk
6 1 (0.92%) Ant
6 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.92%) Mockito
6 1 (0.92%) Postman
6 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (39.45%) Finance
2 24 (22.02%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Banking
5 6 (5.50%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Front Office
6 5 (4.59%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.75%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.83%) Law
9 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (17.43%) Senior
2 17 (15.60%) Architect
2 17 (15.60%) Developer
3 16 (14.68%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (11.01%) Security Engineer
5 11 (10.09%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Consultant
8 6 (5.50%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.59%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Spring
2 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.42%) React
4 5 (4.59%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.67%) CSS
5 4 (3.67%) GraphQL
5 4 (3.67%) HTML
5 4 (3.67%) Kafka
5 4 (3.67%) OAuth
5 4 (3.67%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.67%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.67%) REST
5 4 (3.67%) RESTful
5 4 (3.67%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.67%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.75%) Dask
6 3 (2.75%) JSON
6 3 (2.75%) Redux
6 3 (2.75%) XGBoost
6 3 (2.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.50%) Derivative
3 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.59%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.67%) Life Science
5 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.75%) Equities
6 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.92%) Android
3 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.94%) CI/CD
1 37 (33.94%) DevOps
2 23 (21.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (20.18%) AI
4 21 (19.27%) Agile
5 20 (18.35%) Analytics
5 20 (18.35%) Machine Learning
6 18 (16.51%) Cloud Security
6 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
6 18 (16.51%) Migration
7 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (11.93%) Generative AI
9 13 (11.93%) Microservices
9 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
10 11 (10.09%) Data Engineering
10 11 (10.09%) Data Science
10 11 (10.09%) Risk Management
10 11 (10.09%) SDLC
10 11 (10.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.78%) Python
2 29 (26.61%) SQL
3 22 (20.18%) Java
4 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.75%) Bash
6 3 (2.75%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.75%) Scala
7 2 (1.83%) Bicep
7 2 (1.83%) C++
7 2 (1.83%) R
8 1 (0.92%) C#
8 1 (0.92%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.92%) LookML
8 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.92%) Perl
8 1 (0.92%) Swift
8 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.09%) Degree
2 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.50%) CISSP
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) CCSP
7 1 (0.92%) CISM
7 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.92%) GCFA
7 1 (0.92%) GCIA
7 1 (0.92%) GCIH
7 1 (0.92%) MCP
7 1 (0.92%) SANS
7 1 (0.92%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) GDPR
2 10 (9.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.42%) Data Quality
4 6 (5.50%) NIST
5 4 (3.67%) NCSC
5 4 (3.67%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.75%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.83%) GRC
7 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.92%) MiFID
8 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (28.44%) Terraform
2 27 (24.77%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.42%) Ansible
4 5 (4.59%) Argo
5 3 (2.75%) Grafana
5 3 (2.75%) Istio
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.92%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.92%) Kibana
7 1 (0.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.92%) vRealize
7 1 (0.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 53 (48.62%) Google
2 11 (10.09%) Databricks
3 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.17%) Oracle
4 6 (5.50%) Splunk
5 4 (3.67%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.67%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.75%) Cisco
6 3 (2.75%) SAP
6 3 (2.75%) VMware
7 2 (1.83%) Adobe
7 2 (1.83%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.83%) Infoblox
7 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.83%) New Relic
7 2 (1.83%) Rollbar
7 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.92%) Kony
8 1 (0.92%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.92%) Zerto