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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 34 52
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 19 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.29% 3.28% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.35% 11.66% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £378 £290 £363
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £356 £488
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% -26.97% -30.36%
75th Percentile £456 £391 £525
90th Percentile £489 £498 £533
England median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -6.54%
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 £54.50 £53.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +1.87% -6.96% -12.21%

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 313 163 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 31.21% 28.10% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 100 200
10th Percentile £190 £204 £187
25th Percentile £333 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% - -
75th Percentile £537 £514 £531
90th Percentile £606 £557 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 16
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.09 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.39 £13.34 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £14.50 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -1.69% -4.84%
75th Percentile £24.03 £27.47 £24.44
90th Percentile £27.09 £34.79 £27.00
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +40.15% +28.03% -14.08%

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 24 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 24 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 £442 +24.23% 4
Nottinghamshire -11 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 17 (73.91%) 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%) Google Workspace
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%) Hadoop
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Retail
5 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Data Scientist
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
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%) 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%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) 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%) Onboarding
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 7 (30.43%) Data Science
4 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
4 7 (30.43%) Thought Leadership
4 7 (30.43%) User Experience
5 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
6 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 5 (21.74%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (21.74%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (21.74%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
7 4 (17.39%) Business Transformation
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 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
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
6 1 (4.35%) PMO
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 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
2 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