GCP Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 45 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +45
Contract jobs citing GCP 21 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.44% 2.12% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.30% 8.09% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 23
10th Percentile £361 £319 £394
25th Percentile £378 £344 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.94% -28.80% -23.08%
75th Percentile £467 - £530
90th Percentile £527 £447 £586
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +5.75% -8.87% +77.14%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 253 173 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.45% 26.17% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 96 228
10th Percentile £206 £189 £221
25th Percentile £360 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.58% -9.16%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £531
90th Percentile £615 £629 £616
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 21
10th Percentile £15.44 £13.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +4.69% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.03 £39.68 £33.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

GCP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +4 20 £429 +20.51% 16
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.76%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Metadata
3 3 (14.29%) Big Data
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Data Scientist
1 4 (19.05%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (19.05%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Programme Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Programme Director
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Spring
2 5 (23.81%) Hibernate
2 5 (23.81%) LDAP
2 5 (23.81%) OAuth
2 5 (23.81%) OpenID
2 5 (23.81%) SAML
3 4 (19.05%) Kafka
4 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (9.52%) Pandas
5 2 (9.52%) scikit-learn
5 2 (9.52%) TensorFlow
6 1 (4.76%) CrewAI
6 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
6 1 (4.76%) RAML
6 1 (4.76%) REST
6 1 (4.76%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (4.76%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Mac OS
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (33.33%) Data Science
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Analytics
2 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
3 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning
3 5 (23.81%) RBAC
3 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
3 5 (23.81%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (23.81%) User Experience
3 5 (23.81%) Zero Trust
4 4 (19.05%) Budgeting
4 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) R
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (57.14%) GDPR
2 5 (23.81%) HIPAA
2 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (23.81%) SCCM
2 5 (23.81%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Citrix
2 5 (23.81%) IBM
2 5 (23.81%) Ping Identity
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Informatica
3 3 (14.29%) Talend
4 2 (9.52%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.76%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.76%) Google