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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 75 82
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 61 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.70% 1.64% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.13% 5.87% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 12 11
10th Percentile £461 £458 £280
25th Percentile £501 £478 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.73% +34.80% -29.25%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £500
90th Percentile £625 £758 £563
England median daily rate £550 £550 £615
% change year-on-year - -10.57% +0.41%
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% -29.03%

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 503 358 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.30% 27.90% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 202 154
10th Percentile £190 £220 £213
25th Percentile £354 £407 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £504 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +18.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £552
90th Percentile £614 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 37 29
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.44 £22.56 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +38.40% -25.91%
75th Percentile £26.00 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £62.88 £67.00 £23.10
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%

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 6 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 6 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 +6 30 £553 +16.01% 2
Cambridgeshire +3 9 £600 +9.09% 16
Norfolk -5 9 £531 +6.25% 1
Hertfordshire -12 6 £537 -17.36% 16
Bedfordshire +4 4 £555 +15.03% 1
Suffolk - 4 £368 - 5
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 4 (6.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.82%) AWS
1 31 (50.82%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) GitHub
3 7 (11.48%) 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%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) Serverless
6 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.64%) Collibra
7 1 (1.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (32.79%) VPN
2 14 (22.95%) Firewall
3 3 (4.92%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (4.92%) RTCP
3 3 (4.92%) RTP
3 3 (4.92%) VoIP
4 2 (3.28%) Internet
4 2 (3.28%) Network Security
4 2 (3.28%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.64%) DNS
5 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.56%) Metadata
3 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Power BI
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) JUnit
2 9 (14.75%) SonarQube
3 7 (11.48%) IntelliJ
4 5 (8.20%) GitLab
5 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (47.54%) Finance
2 22 (36.07%) Banking
3 8 (13.11%) Manufacturing
4 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Automotive
6 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
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
1 23 (37.70%) Java Developer
2 15 (24.59%) Software Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Java Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Backend Developer
4 11 (18.03%) IAM Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Java Software Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Software Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Architect
6 7 (11.48%) Senior
7 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) GCP Developer
7 6 (9.84%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Java Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) Terraform
2 10 (16.39%) Spring
2 10 (16.39%) Spring Boot
3 9 (14.75%) OAuth
4 8 (13.11%) OpenID
5 4 (6.56%) Kafka
6 3 (4.92%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (4.92%) Node.js
6 3 (4.92%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) Servlets
7 2 (3.28%) WebRTC
8 1 (1.64%) .NET
8 1 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.64%) JSON
8 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.64%) RESTful
8 1 (1.64%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.64%) Spring Security
8 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
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
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) 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 37 (60.66%) CI/CD
2 33 (54.10%) DevOps
3 28 (45.90%) Software Engineering
4 19 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (29.51%) Identity Access Management
6 17 (27.87%) Agile
6 17 (27.87%) TDD
7 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (19.67%) Identity Management
8 12 (19.67%) Load Balancing
8 12 (19.67%) SDLC
9 10 (16.39%) AI
9 10 (16.39%) Microservices
9 10 (16.39%) Web Development
10 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) BDD
11 8 (13.11%) Customer Experience
11 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (11.48%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 35 (57.38%) Java
2 15 (24.59%) Python
3 6 (9.84%) Bash
4 4 (6.56%) SQL
5 3 (4.92%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.64%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) Perl
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) CCIE
5 1 (1.64%) CCNP
5 1 (1.64%) CCSP
5 1 (1.64%) CISM
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) CRISC
5 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.20%) 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%) 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 13 (21.31%) Ansible
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (8.20%) Argo
4 4 (6.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) Consul
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.64%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Google
2 9 (14.75%) Checkmarx
3 3 (4.92%) Informatica
3 3 (4.92%) NetApp
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.92%) Talend
3 3 (4.92%) VMware
4 2 (3.28%) Metaswitch
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Braze
5 1 (1.64%) mParticle
5 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Tealium
5 1 (1.64%) TOWER Software