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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 69 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing GCP 61 23 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.57% 1.77% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.44% 6.52% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 12 14
10th Percentile £461 £458 £286
25th Percentile £503 £478 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £506 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% +18.94% -19.81%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £491
90th Percentile £642 £758 £544
England median daily rate £550 £550 £612
% change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £103.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.67% - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -26.42%

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 533 353 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.48% 27.11% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 197 165
10th Percentile £190 £220 £213
25th Percentile £339 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +20.00% -5.56%
75th Percentile £552 £580 £563
90th Percentile £617 £688 £633
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 30 25
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £30.03 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.72% +84.23% -20.49%
75th Percentile £32.38 £60.48 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.10 £67.00 £26.55
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 September 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 September 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
Essex +8 28 £558 +17.06% 6
Cambridgeshire +4 10 £600 +9.09% 27
Norfolk -3 7 £638 +27.50% 2
Hertfordshire -20 7 £549 -15.49% 21
Suffolk - 6 £368 - 9
Bedfordshire +5 4 £555 +15.03%
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 (8.20%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (55.74%) AWS
1 34 (55.74%) Azure
2 12 (19.67%) GitHub
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.92%) IaaS
5 3 (4.92%) PaaS
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) Serverless
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.64%) dbt
7 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.15%) VPN
2 13 (21.31%) Firewall
3 5 (8.20%) VoIP
4 4 (6.56%) Asterisk PBX
4 4 (6.56%) RTCP
4 4 (6.56%) RTP
5 3 (4.92%) Wireshark
6 2 (3.28%) Internet
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
7 1 (1.64%) BGP
7 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.92%) Metadata
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Looker
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) IntelliJ
2 6 (9.84%) JUnit
2 6 (9.84%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 27 (44.26%) Finance
2 23 (37.70%) Banking
3 8 (13.11%) Manufacturing
3 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.92%) Automotive
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.64%) Billing
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) German Language
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Developer
2 21 (34.43%) Java Developer
3 16 (26.23%) Software Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) IAM Developer
4 11 (18.03%) Java Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Backend Developer
5 9 (14.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) Software Developer
6 8 (13.11%) Java Software Developer
6 8 (13.11%) Senior
7 7 (11.48%) Architect
7 7 (11.48%) GCP Developer
8 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) Terraform
2 10 (16.39%) OAuth
3 9 (14.75%) OpenID
4 6 (9.84%) Spring
4 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.20%) Servlets
6 4 (6.56%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (4.92%) WebRTC
8 2 (3.28%) Kafka
8 2 (3.28%) Node.js
8 2 (3.28%) REST
9 1 (1.64%) .NET
9 1 (1.64%) JSON
9 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) CMDB
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.64%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Android
2 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) CI/CD
2 30 (49.18%) DevOps
2 30 (49.18%) Software Engineering
3 19 (31.15%) Agile
3 19 (31.15%) Identity Access Management
4 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (24.59%) TDD
6 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (21.31%) SDLC
7 12 (19.67%) AI
7 12 (19.67%) Identity Management
7 12 (19.67%) Load Balancing
8 11 (18.03%) Web Development
9 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (16.39%) Microservices
10 9 (14.75%) Customer Experience
10 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (11.48%) Open Source
13 6 (9.84%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) Java
2 14 (22.95%) Python
3 7 (11.48%) Bash
4 4 (6.56%) SQL
5 2 (3.28%) Go
5 2 (3.28%) Perl
5 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.64%) C++
6 1 (1.64%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.64%) CCSP
3 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.64%) CISM
3 1 (1.64%) CISSP
3 1 (1.64%) CRISC
3 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) GPFS
2 1 (1.64%) Lustre
2 1 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Ansible
2 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (14.75%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (8.20%) Argo
5 4 (6.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.64%) Consul
6 1 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Google
2 6 (9.84%) Checkmarx
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Metaswitch
4 3 (4.92%) NetApp
4 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.92%) VMware
5 2 (3.28%) Informatica
5 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.28%) Talend
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Remedy
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Tealium
6 1 (1.64%) TOWER Software