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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 104 89 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.63% 5.08% 3.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.21% 12.61% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 60 57
10th Percentile £450 £423 £408
25th Percentile £478 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% -9.79%
75th Percentile £681 £676 £700
90th Percentile £738 £766 £818
Central London median daily rate £575 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -11.33%
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 928 706 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 40.27% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 489 563
10th Percentile £363 £332 £377
25th Percentile £456 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £557
% change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +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 18 September 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 11 (10.58%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.77%) Confluence
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.92%) Apache
5 1 (0.96%) Camunda
5 1 (0.96%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.96%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.96%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 61 (58.65%) AWS
2 59 (56.73%) Azure
3 13 (12.50%) dbt
3 13 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 12 (11.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 11 (10.58%) GitHub
6 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.81%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (4.81%) SaaS
9 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.85%) Google App Engine
9 4 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (3.85%) IaaS
9 4 (3.85%) PaaS
9 4 (3.85%) Vertex AI
10 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.88%) OCI
10 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.58%) DNS
2 10 (9.62%) Firewall
3 9 (8.65%) VPN
4 6 (5.77%) Internet
5 5 (4.81%) Network Security
6 4 (3.85%) DHCP
7 3 (2.88%) SMTP
8 2 (1.92%) BGP
8 2 (1.92%) Multicast
8 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.92%) VLAN
8 2 (1.92%) X.509
9 1 (0.96%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.96%) OSPF
9 1 (0.96%) RTCP
9 1 (0.96%) RTP
9 1 (0.96%) VoIP
9 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.96%) WAN
9 1 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) BigQuery
1 12 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.77%) Big Data
3 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.88%) Looker
4 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Power BI
4 3 (2.88%) Tableau
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.92%) Chroma
5 2 (1.92%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.96%) Metadata
6 1 (0.96%) Milvus
6 1 (0.96%) Power Query
6 1 (0.96%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.96%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
2 7 (6.73%) GitLab
2 7 (6.73%) JIRA
3 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.92%) Gatling
5 2 (1.92%) JMeter
5 2 (1.92%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.96%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.96%) JUnit
6 1 (0.96%) MLflow
6 1 (0.96%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.96%) Newman
6 1 (0.96%) Postman
6 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 32 (30.77%) Finance
2 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Banking
4 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.92%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Marketing
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Architect
2 16 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
2 16 (15.38%) Senior
3 15 (14.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Lead
6 7 (6.73%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Applications Support
9 4 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) GCP Data Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Senior Architect
10 3 (2.88%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.15%) Terraform
2 11 (10.58%) Kafka
3 9 (8.65%) REST
4 7 (6.73%) Spring
5 6 (5.77%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.81%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.85%) SOAP
8 3 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.88%) LangGraph
8 3 (2.88%) Middleware
8 3 (2.88%) OAuth
8 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.88%) RESTful
9 2 (1.92%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.92%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.92%) JWT
9 2 (1.92%) LangChain
9 2 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.92%) Playwright
9 2 (1.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.81%) Clustering
5 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.88%) CMDB
6 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.88%) PKI
6 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.92%) Genomics
7 2 (1.92%) Life Science
7 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.96%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.96%) BYOD
8 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Linux
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.92%) Android
3 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.96%) Unix
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (45.19%) CI/CD
2 34 (32.69%) AI
3 26 (25.00%) DevOps
4 25 (24.04%) Analytics
5 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (19.23%) Migration
7 19 (18.27%) Containerisation
7 19 (18.27%) Microservices
8 18 (17.31%) Observability
8 18 (17.31%) Software Engineering
9 17 (16.35%) Data Engineering
9 17 (16.35%) Machine Learning
10 15 (14.42%) Agile
11 13 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 13 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.54%) Data Governance
12 12 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (10.58%) Cloud Security
13 11 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.85%) Python
2 23 (22.12%) SQL
3 14 (13.46%) Java
4 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.81%) Bash
5 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.88%) LookML
6 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.92%) C#
7 2 (1.92%) Scala
8 1 (0.96%) Bicep
8 1 (0.96%) DAML
8 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.96%) Go
8 1 (0.96%) Korn
8 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.96%) Rust
8 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.96%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) Degree
5 4 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.92%) CCNP
7 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.92%) PMP
7 2 (1.92%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.96%) CCIE
8 1 (0.96%) CCNA
8 1 (0.96%) CISSP
8 1 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) NIST
3 5 (4.81%) GDPR
4 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.85%) QA
5 3 (2.88%) NCSC
6 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.92%) EMIR
6 2 (1.92%) GRC
6 2 (1.92%) MiFID
6 2 (1.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.96%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.96%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.96%) PMO
7 1 (0.96%) PSD2
7 1 (0.96%) SEPA
7 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (20.19%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.88%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.96%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (29.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.77%) Ansible
3 4 (3.85%) Grafana
3 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.88%) Istio
4 3 (2.88%) Nagios
4 3 (2.88%) Puppet
4 3 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.88%) vMotion
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (50.00%) Google
2 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.62%) Databricks
4 8 (7.69%) Oracle
5 6 (5.77%) SAP
6 5 (4.81%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.85%) IBM
7 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.85%) VMware
8 3 (2.88%) Cisco
8 3 (2.88%) Citrix
8 3 (2.88%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.88%) HP
8 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.88%) Symantec
9 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.92%) Splunk
9 2 (1.92%) Workday