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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 39 68
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 -8
Contract jobs citing GCP 19 28 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.64% 3.77% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 12.28% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 1
10th Percentile £304 £324 -
25th Percentile £371 £367 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £405 £675
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -40.00% +35.00%
75th Percentile - £440 £688
90th Percentile £540 £488 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £13.29 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.72 £53.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +30.32% +3.38% -29.91%

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 336 228 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.94% 30.69% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 169 139
10th Percentile £200 £308 £179
25th Percentile £363 £367 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £447 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +0.45% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £563
90th Percentile £653 £541 £632
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 10 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 £13.95
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.89 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £15.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +36.76% -37.46%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £27.25
90th Percentile £24.58 £21.55 £29.94
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 July 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 18 July 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 -6 10 £474 +21.10%
Nottinghamshire -10 7 - - 2
Derbyshire -7 1 - -
Leicestershire -10 1 £540 +13.68% 3
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 (10.53%) Apache Pig
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MySQL
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) HBase
2 2 (10.53%) Sqoop
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) VLDB
General
1 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (31.58%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Developer
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Scala Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Information Assurance Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Rust Developer
6 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 4 (21.05%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.53%) OpenID
4 2 (10.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Mobile Payment
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Mobile Device Management
1 7 (36.84%) Service Delivery
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
3 4 (21.05%) Data Security
3 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
3 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
5 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (10.53%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Red Team
5 2 (10.53%) SBOM
5 2 (10.53%) SOAR
5 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) Bicep
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Scala
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Rust
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) CISM
1 1 (5.26%) CISSP
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GRC
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Flume
2 2 (10.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Google
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) NetApp
4 1 (5.26%) OneTrust
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow