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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 48 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +45
Contract jobs citing GCP 24 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.70% 2.00% 3.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.34% 7.65% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 23
10th Percentile £363 £319 £394
25th Percentile £368 £344 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.38% -28.80% -23.81%
75th Percentile £450 - £530
90th Percentile £490 £447 £586
England median daily rate £526 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.29% - -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% +138.46%

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 257 183 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.94% 26.14% 37.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 99 239
10th Percentile £263 £187 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £530
90th Percentile £625 £638 £615
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 22
10th Percentile £17.13 £13.16 £12.08
25th Percentile £18.30 £13.52 £13.04
Median hourly rate £20.50 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +11.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £45.38 £39.68 £32.13
90th Percentile £60.15 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +3 23 £427 +19.94%
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 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Metadata
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 3 (12.50%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Programme Director
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) LDAP
1 9 (37.50%) Spring
2 8 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 8 (33.33%) OAuth
2 8 (33.33%) OpenID
2 8 (33.33%) SAML
3 4 (16.67%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (8.33%) REST
6 1 (4.17%) CrewAI
6 1 (4.17%) LangGraph
6 1 (4.17%) Pandas
6 1 (4.17%) RAML
6 1 (4.17%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
6 1 (4.17%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.17%) Swagger
6 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (33.33%) RBAC
3 7 (29.17%) DevSecOps
4 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (25.00%) Data Science
4 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
5 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.83%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (20.83%) User Experience
5 5 (20.83%) Zero Trust
6 4 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (20.83%) Bash
4 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) R
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) GDPR
2 8 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
5 2 (8.33%) QA
6 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (20.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) IBM
3 7 (29.17%) Ping Identity
4 5 (20.83%) Citrix
4 5 (20.83%) VMware
5 3 (12.50%) Informatica
5 3 (12.50%) Talend
6 1 (4.17%) Ab Initio
6 1 (4.17%) Checkmarx
6 1 (4.17%) Databricks
6 1 (4.17%) Google