GCP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 58 72
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 43 27 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.23% 2.73% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.67% 10.23% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 32
10th Percentile £312 - £400
25th Percentile £406 £315 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £318 £513
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -37.86% -26.79%
75th Percentile £638 £330 £591
90th Percentile - £800 £648
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £59.75 £54.50 £54.28
% change year-on-year +9.63% +0.41% -24.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 403 264 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.94% 26.69% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 161 189
10th Percentile £204 £200 £187
25th Percentile £363 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 52
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.95 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +19.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £41.56 £30.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £60.00 £71.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

GCP job vacancy trend in the East of England

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the East of England

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Cambridgeshire +13 16 £413 -51.47% 5
Bedfordshire +2 11 £625 +95.31%
Norfolk - 8 £320 - 9
Essex -11 4 £510 +60.38% 13
Hertfordshire -23 3 - - 3
Suffolk -4 1 - - 6
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (11.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 33 (76.74%) AWS
2 32 (74.42%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
4 9 (20.93%) Azure AI
4 9 (20.93%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (16.28%) GitHub
6 6 (13.95%) Google Workspace
7 5 (11.63%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (6.98%) Serverless
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.65%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.33%) Route 53
10 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) VoIP
2 5 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (9.30%) Firewall
4 3 (6.98%) VPN
5 2 (4.65%) DNS
5 2 (4.65%) Network Security
6 1 (2.33%) BGP
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.33%) DHCP
6 1 (2.33%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.33%) LAN
6 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.33%) WAN
6 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
1 10 (23.26%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.65%) Metadata
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.98%) JUnit
1 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Military
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Automotive
4 2 (4.65%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Consultant
4 5 (11.63%) Service Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) PyTorch
1 13 (30.23%) REST
1 13 (30.23%) scikit-learn
1 13 (30.23%) TensorFlow
2 4 (9.30%) Spring
2 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.98%) Kafka
3 3 (6.98%) pytest
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) React
5 1 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.33%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.33%) Flask
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) gRPC
5 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.33%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) Spring MVC
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Smartphone
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Grid Computing
2 5 (11.63%) Private Cloud
2 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Android
1 6 (13.95%) Apple iOS
1 6 (13.95%) Mac OS
1 6 (13.95%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) DevOps
2 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
3 14 (32.56%) AI
3 14 (32.56%) Data Science
3 14 (32.56%) Machine Learning
4 12 (27.91%) Microservices
5 11 (25.58%) API Development
6 10 (23.26%) Analytics
6 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (23.26%) MLOps
6 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.93%) B2B
7 9 (20.93%) B2C
7 9 (20.93%) Data Analytics
7 9 (20.93%) Feature Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) LLM
7 9 (20.93%) Prompt Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 8 (18.60%) Agile
9 7 (16.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) C#
5 2 (4.65%) C++
5 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 2 (4.65%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (11.63%) Degree
5 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.98%) CCNP
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.65%) CCIE
7 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.33%) CCIE Security
8 1 (2.33%) CCSP
8 1 (2.33%) CISSP
8 1 (2.33%) GIAC
8 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.33%) PgMP
8 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.33%) PMP
8 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.30%) NIST
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (41.86%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) GPFS
2 5 (11.63%) Lustre
2 5 (11.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (48.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Consul
3 1 (2.33%) Puppet
3 1 (2.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Google
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (20.93%) Foundry
3 9 (20.93%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.98%) Checkmarx
4 3 (6.98%) Splunk
5 2 (4.65%) Informatica
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.65%) Talend
6 1 (2.33%) Cadence
6 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.33%) Zscaler