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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 35 55
Rank change year-on-year -30 +20 +25
Contract jobs citing GCP 19 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.90% 2.10% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.29% 7.48% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile £366 £298 £385
25th Percentile £408 £356 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £391 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -21.80% -28.57%
75th Percentile £447 £488 £525
90th Percentile £450 £518 £555
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.95 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £13.08 - £30.50
75th Percentile £13.20 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £54.50 £54.28
% change year-on-year +9.63% +0.41% -24.09%

All Cloud Computing 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 302 147 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.17% 28.05% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 102 170
10th Percentile £190 £189 £172
25th Percentile £325 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £540 £510 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.49 £14.80 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -26.41% +29.71%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.44 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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 18 March 2026.

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 18 March 2026. 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 -8 15 £436 +16.73% 1
Nottinghamshire -16 3 - - 3
Leicestershire -6 1 £540 +13.68% 4
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 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
1 3 (15.79%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (21.05%) Big Data
2 4 (21.05%) Metadata
2 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.26%) VLDB
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Retail
5 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Data Scientist
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
1 3 (15.79%) OAuth
1 3 (15.79%) OAuth2
1 3 (15.79%) OpenID
1 3 (15.79%) Pandas
1 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (15.79%) SAML
1 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Mobile Payment
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Android
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Analytics
2 7 (36.84%) Data Science
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (26.32%) Data Protection
4 5 (26.32%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
4 5 (26.32%) Machine Learning
4 5 (26.32%) Statistical Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
4 5 (26.32%) Zero Trust
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (21.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Bicep
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) R
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) GDPR
2 5 (26.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (26.32%) PCI DSS
3 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
4 3 (15.79%) GRC
4 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (15.79%) NIST
4 3 (15.79%) SOC 2
5 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 3 (15.79%) Informatica
3 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 3 (15.79%) Talend
4 2 (10.53%) Citrix
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Ab Initio
5 1 (5.26%) NetApp
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle