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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 39 49
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +34
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.38% 2.79% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.74% 10.46% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 13
10th Percentile £403 £286 £370
25th Percentile £430 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -28.80% -28.57%
75th Percentile £476 £365 £525
90th Percentile £551 £435 £530
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
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 £45.25 £41.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.04% -27.83% -14.18%

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 297 153 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.75% 26.66% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 94 213
10th Percentile £190 £214 £181
25th Percentile £338 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £530 £529 £530
90th Percentile £608 £580 £623
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 16
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.27 £11.39
25th Percentile £13.24 £26.30 £13.69
Median hourly rate £16.50 £39.68 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.42% +183.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £24.56 £47.34 £20.00
90th Percentile £27.25 £51.94 £26.50
England median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -10 20 £447 +25.56% 6
Nottinghamshire -12 3 - - 2
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 (17.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Azure
3 10 (43.48%) Entra ID
4 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Network Security
1 3 (13.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 4 (17.39%) Metadata
3 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Architect
1 5 (21.74%) Data Scientist
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (13.04%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Director
5 1 (4.35%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth2
1 3 (13.04%) OpenID
1 3 (13.04%) Pandas
1 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (13.04%) SAML
1 3 (13.04%) scikit-learn
1 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.35%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (4.35%) CrewAI
2 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
2 1 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile Payment
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Mac OS
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Android
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (43.48%) Data Protection
2 10 (43.48%) Zero Trust
3 9 (39.13%) Analytics
4 8 (34.78%) Data Science
5 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
5 7 (30.43%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (30.43%) User Experience
6 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
6 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
7 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
7 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
7 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (21.74%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (21.74%) Statistical Modelling
7 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Bash
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Bicep
3 3 (13.04%) R
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) GDPR
2 10 (43.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
4 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
5 3 (13.04%) GRC
5 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (13.04%) NIST
5 3 (13.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
1 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (30.43%) SCCM
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Citrix
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Google
4 3 (13.04%) Databricks
4 3 (13.04%) Informatica
4 3 (13.04%) Splunk
4 3 (13.04%) Talend
5 1 (4.35%) Ab Initio