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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 58 41
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 +38
Contract jobs citing GCP 32 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.06% 1.26% 3.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.97% 4.76% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 5 24
10th Percentile £308 £314 £395
25th Percentile £367 £340 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.57% -28.80% -24.53%
75th Percentile £472 - £532
90th Percentile £492 £555 £684
England median daily rate £550 £609 £614
% change year-on-year -9.69% -0.77% -1.80%

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 229 210 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.02% 26.45% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 121 232
10th Percentile £334 £189 £213
25th Percentile £375 £356 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -0.92% +0.93%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £530
90th Percentile £573 £645 £624
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GCP 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 September 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 18 September 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 +8 26 £415 +19.25% 6
Derbyshire - 2 £381 - 5
Leicestershire - 2 £475 - 5
Nottinghamshire -4 1 £400 -40.74% 10
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Mule
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) AWS
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.13%) Google Gemini
7 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Power Query
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Identity Management Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Business Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) LDAP
2 14 (43.75%) Spring
3 13 (40.63%) Hibernate
3 13 (40.63%) OAuth
3 13 (40.63%) OpenID
3 13 (40.63%) SAML
4 4 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) CrewAI
5 1 (3.13%) Kafka
5 1 (3.13%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.13%) Next.js
5 1 (3.13%) RAML
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) Swagger
5 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 11 (34.38%) RBAC
6 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 9 (28.13%) DevSecOps
8 6 (18.75%) Biometrics
8 6 (18.75%) Digital Identity
8 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
8 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
9 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (15.63%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (15.63%) User Experience
9 5 (15.63%) Zero Trust
10 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
10 4 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.75%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.13%) R
4 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (56.25%) GDPR
2 11 (34.38%) HIPAA
3 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (15.63%) QA
4 2 (6.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (6.25%) NIST
5 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
3 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
1 13 (40.63%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (15.63%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) Podman
4 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (40.63%) IBM
3 12 (37.50%) Ping Identity
4 6 (18.75%) VMware
5 5 (15.63%) Citrix
5 5 (15.63%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx