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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -30 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing GCP 18 31 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.32% 3.75% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.83% 12.81% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 4
10th Percentile £304 £348 £310
25th Percentile £425 £368 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £348
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% +19.25% -30.40%
75th Percentile £675 £473 £356
90th Percentile £713 £492 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -35.76%

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 373 242 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.37% 29.26% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 183 113
10th Percentile £229 £334 £192
25th Percentile £381 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -0.22% -3.74%
75th Percentile £549 £500 £550
90th Percentile £656 £600 £619
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 7 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £17.64 £14.91
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -26.24% +87.10%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £43.51
90th Percentile £26.05 - £50.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the East Midlands

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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 3 October 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
Nottinghamshire -4 9 £659 +64.63% 17
Northamptonshire -3 7 £500 +20.48% 7
Derbyshire -9 1 - - 5
Lincolnshire - 1 £800 - 8
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 (11.11%) Apache Pig
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) AWS
2 11 (61.11%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MySQL
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) HBase
2 2 (11.11%) Sqoop
3 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
General
1 9 (50.00%) Retail
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Information Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Rust Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) MACH
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 6 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 6 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 5 (27.78%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Data Science
5 2 (11.11%) Data Security
5 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Scala
3 1 (5.56%) Rust
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CISM
1 1 (5.56%) CISSP
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Flume
2 2 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) OneTrust
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow