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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 51 83
Rank change year-on-year -17 +32 -5
Contract jobs citing GCP 34 37 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.20% 2.87% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.02% 12.80% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 21
10th Percentile £343 £292 £281
25th Percentile £406 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -28.89% -35.71%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £538
90th Percentile £645 £478 £600
England median daily rate £527 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.13% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £55.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +7.66% -10.48% +138.46%

All Cloud 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 377 289 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.45% 22.44% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 169 263
10th Percentile £211 £220 £186
25th Percentile £350 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -11.05% -5.38%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £670 £670
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 33
10th Percentile £6.00 £20.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.33 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £55.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -6 18 £413 +37.50% 12
Bedfordshire +1 8 £625 +95.31% 9
Hertfordshire -7 5 £750 +87.50% 1
Norfolk - 2 £500 -
Suffolk 0 1 - - 4
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 (14.71%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 33 (97.06%) AWS
2 32 (94.12%) Azure
3 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
4 5 (14.71%) Azure AI
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (14.71%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (14.71%) Copilot Studio
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.94%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) OCI
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.82%) Network Security
3 3 (8.82%) VPN
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.88%) DHCP
4 2 (5.88%) DNS
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.88%) WAN
4 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.94%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Power BI
2 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) GIS
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.94%) Agrochemical
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Security Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) CyberArk Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Data Scientist
6 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Programme Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) PyTorch
1 9 (26.47%) scikit-learn
1 9 (26.47%) TensorFlow
2 6 (17.65%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) pytest
4 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.94%) Flask
4 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.94%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Private Cloud
1 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 5 (14.71%) Grid Computing
3 4 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
5 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.94%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) CentOS
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) DevOps
2 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 11 (32.35%) Data Science
3 10 (29.41%) AI
3 10 (29.41%) Machine Learning
4 8 (23.53%) Cloud Security
4 8 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 8 (23.53%) SIEM
5 7 (20.59%) Agile
5 7 (20.59%) Analytics
5 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) API Development
6 6 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) Data Analytics
6 6 (17.65%) Microservices
6 6 (17.65%) MLOps
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) Bash
4 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) C++
6 2 (5.88%) Perl
6 2 (5.88%) Ruby
7 1 (2.94%) R
7 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) CISSP
3 2 (5.88%) CCIE
3 2 (5.88%) CCIE Security
3 2 (5.88%) CCNP
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) GIAC
3 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) CISA
4 1 (2.94%) CISM
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (14.71%) NIST
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) GRC
3 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.94%) IFRS
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) GPFS
2 5 (14.71%) Lustre
2 5 (14.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Puppet
3 2 (5.88%) Salt
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Consul
4 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Google
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Palo Alto
3 5 (14.71%) Foundry
3 5 (14.71%) OpenAI
3 5 (14.71%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.94%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Thycotic
5 1 (2.94%) Vertica