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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 15 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.49% 2.67% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 10.27% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 19
10th Percentile £361 £282 £387
25th Percentile £393 £319 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% -28.80% -26.61%
75th Percentile £473 - £530
90th Percentile £539 £429 £544
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £55.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.75%

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 276 146 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.93% 25.98% 36.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 84 219
10th Percentile £193 £182 £205
25th Percentile £340 £318 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £535 £534
90th Percentile £613 £600 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 12
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.49 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.39 £16.85 £11.69
Median hourly rate £16.50 £29.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.10% +87.10% -
75th Percentile £24.03 £43.51 £19.57
90th Percentile £38.94 £50.40 £23.58
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -0.32%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -7 20 £442 +24.23% 4
Nottinghamshire -13 2 - - 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) Entra ID
4 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
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 GuardDuty
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) 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%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Data Scientist
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Identity Management Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Programme Director
5 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) Pandas
2 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (13.04%) scikit-learn
2 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
3 2 (8.70%) OAuth
3 2 (8.70%) OpenID
3 2 (8.70%) SAML
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) CrewAI
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.35%) RAML
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Mac OS
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.70%) Android
4 1 (4.35%) Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Analytics
1 9 (39.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (34.78%) Data Protection
2 8 (34.78%) Data Science
2 8 (34.78%) Zero Trust
3 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
3 7 (30.43%) Thought Leadership
3 7 (30.43%) User Experience
4 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
4 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (21.74%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (21.74%) Statistical Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Bash
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) R
4 2 (8.70%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (47.83%) GDPR
2 8 (34.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.35%) GRC
5 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (4.35%) NIST
5 1 (4.35%) QA
5 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
1 7 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (30.43%) SCCM
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Identity Manager
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%) Talend
5 1 (4.35%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.35%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk