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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 38 63
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 22 15 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.01% 2.81% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.77% 10.27% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 2
10th Percentile £328 £271 £494
25th Percentile £403 £362 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £420 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -28.55% -16.07%
75th Percentile £475 £452 £647
90th Percentile £524 £488 £671
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
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 £54.75 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -26.75%

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 325 146 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.71% 27.34% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 109 149
10th Percentile £199 £247 £163
25th Percentile £358 £358 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £459 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +8.00% -4.49%
75th Percentile £543 £518 £525
90th Percentile £600 £553 £663
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 13
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.09 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -9.26% -11.82%
75th Percentile £20.14 £19.50 £27.50
90th Percentile £25.79 £21.60 £32.10
England median hourly rate £46.40 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +81.96% +22.77% -35.70%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 18 £438 +5.36% 7
Nottinghamshire -24 3 - - 10
Leicestershire -9 1 £540 +13.68% 5
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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Pig
2 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (72.73%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
1 3 (13.64%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Big Data
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Metadata
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) HBase
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Sqoop
4 1 (4.55%) VLDB
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Retail
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
1 5 (22.73%) Data Scientist
2 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (13.64%) OAuth
3 3 (13.64%) OAuth2
3 3 (13.64%) OpenID
3 3 (13.64%) Pandas
3 3 (13.64%) SAML
3 3 (13.64%) scikit-learn
3 3 (13.64%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Mobile Payment
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Android
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Analytics
1 8 (36.36%) Data Science
2 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 6 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (22.73%) Data Protection
3 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
3 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
3 5 (22.73%) Statistical Modelling
3 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
3 5 (22.73%) Zero Trust
4 4 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (18.18%) ETL
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Bicep
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) R
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Rust
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) GDPR
2 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (22.73%) PCI DSS
3 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
3 3 (13.64%) GRC
3 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (13.64%) NIST
3 3 (13.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Flume
2 1 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.09%) SCCM
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 3 (13.64%) Informatica
3 3 (13.64%) Splunk
3 3 (13.64%) Talend
4 2 (9.09%) Citrix
4 2 (9.09%) VMware
5 1 (4.55%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle