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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 59 80
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing GCP 57 20 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.69% 2.13% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.41% 7.58% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 27
10th Percentile £406 £316 £385
25th Percentile £500 £319 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -0.40% -23.08%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £550
90th Percentile - £763 £662
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 £53.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year +12.74% +2.42% -26.26%

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 425 264 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.05% 28.12% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 162 174
10th Percentile £212 £200 £222
25th Percentile £400 £345 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £597 £574
90th Percentile £688 £675 £668
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 59
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.54 £15.22 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +15.46% -6.86%
75th Percentile £42.58 £27.33 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £59.72 £65.75
England median hourly rate £44.31 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +67.19% +27.59% -25.37%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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
Norfolk - 14 £373 - 3
Essex -5 13 £570 +78.17% 6
Cambridgeshire +12 12 £413 -36.29% 7
Bedfordshire - 10 £625 - 1
Hertfordshire -17 8 £549 -15.49% 3
Suffolk -5 1 £505 -32.76% 1
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 (7.02%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 33 (57.89%) AWS
1 33 (57.89%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) GitHub
3 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.04%) Azure AI
4 8 (14.04%) Copilot Studio
4 8 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (10.53%) Google Workspace
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (7.02%) SaaS
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.26%) IaaS
7 3 (5.26%) PaaS
7 3 (5.26%) Serverless
8 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.51%) Route 53
8 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) VPN
2 6 (10.53%) VoIP
3 4 (7.02%) Firewall
3 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.51%) Internet
4 2 (3.51%) Network Security
5 1 (1.75%) BGP
5 1 (1.75%) DNS
5 1 (1.75%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) Power BI
2 9 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.77%) Metadata
4 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) Big Data
5 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) JUnit
2 9 (15.79%) SonarQube
3 7 (12.28%) IntelliJ
4 5 (8.77%) GitLab
4 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Automotive
5 3 (5.26%) Military
5 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) German Language
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (12.28%) Analyst
1 7 (12.28%) Architect
1 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (10.53%) Senior
2 6 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (8.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Consultant
3 5 (8.77%) Developer
3 5 (8.77%) Service Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Java Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) REST
2 10 (17.54%) Spring
2 10 (17.54%) Spring Boot
3 8 (14.04%) PyTorch
3 8 (14.04%) scikit-learn
3 8 (14.04%) TensorFlow
4 5 (8.77%) Kafka
5 4 (7.02%) Node.js
6 2 (3.51%) .NET
6 2 (3.51%) React
7 1 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.75%) Blazor
7 1 (1.75%) eBPF
7 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.75%) JSON
7 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
7 1 (1.75%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.75%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 9 (15.79%) Private Cloud
3 6 (10.53%) Smartphone
4 5 (8.77%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.02%) Grid Computing
5 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.51%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.75%) CMDB
8 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Android
1 9 (15.79%) Apple iOS
1 9 (15.79%) Mac OS
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) DevOps
2 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (19.30%) AI
4 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (17.54%) Agile
5 10 (17.54%) Analytics
5 10 (17.54%) Microservices
6 9 (15.79%) API Development
6 9 (15.79%) B2B
6 9 (15.79%) B2C
6 9 (15.79%) Data Science
6 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 9 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 8 (14.04%) Code Quality
7 8 (14.04%) Feature Engineering
7 8 (14.04%) LLM
7 8 (14.04%) MLOps
7 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.04%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) SQL
3 12 (21.05%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Bash
5 3 (5.26%) Go
6 2 (3.51%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.51%) CCNP
6 2 (3.51%) CCSP
7 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.75%) CCIE
7 1 (1.75%) CISM
7 1 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.75%) PgMP
7 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.75%) PMP
7 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.26%) NIST
3 3 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.51%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.75%) PMO
5 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) GPFS
2 4 (7.02%) Lustre
2 4 (7.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.54%) Terraform
3 8 (14.04%) Ansible
4 5 (8.77%) Argo
5 2 (3.51%) Puppet
6 1 (1.75%) Consul
6 1 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Salt
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) Google
2 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.79%) Checkmarx
4 8 (14.04%) Foundry
4 8 (14.04%) OpenAI
5 4 (7.02%) Informatica
5 4 (7.02%) Talend
6 3 (5.26%) Splunk
6 3 (5.26%) VMware
7 2 (3.51%) Oracle
7 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.75%) Cadence
8 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.75%) TOWER Software