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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 54 87
Rank change year-on-year -6 +33 +13
Contract jobs citing GCP 53 22 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.39% 2.34% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.18% 8.30% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 24
10th Percentile £407 £317 £374
25th Percentile £500 £321 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -1.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £569
90th Percentile - £759 £668
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 £54.75 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.26% -13.64% -26.75%

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 435 265 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.58% 28.19% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 162 168
10th Percentile £211 £200 £216
25th Percentile £400 £353 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £659
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 36 64
10th Percentile £14.13 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.36 £18.31 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.64% +12.33% -14.21%
75th Percentile £42.58 £22.61 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £38.91 £56.53
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.56% +25.06% -31.90%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -
Essex -7 13 £570 +77.36% 6
Cambridgeshire +11 11 £444 -19.32% 10
Bedfordshire - 9 £625 - 1
Hertfordshire -19 6 £549 -15.49% 2
Suffolk -4 1 £505 -32.76% 3
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 3 (5.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 29 (54.72%) AWS
1 29 (54.72%) Azure
2 19 (35.85%) GitHub
3 9 (16.98%) Power Platform
4 8 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (13.21%) Azure AI
5 7 (13.21%) Copilot Studio
5 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (11.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (11.32%) Google Workspace
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.66%) IaaS
7 3 (5.66%) PaaS
7 3 (5.66%) SaaS
7 3 (5.66%) Serverless
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.77%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) VPN
2 6 (11.32%) VoIP
3 3 (5.66%) Firewall
3 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.77%) Internet
4 2 (3.77%) Network Security
5 1 (1.89%) BGP
5 1 (1.89%) DNS
5 1 (1.89%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Power BI
2 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.43%) Metadata
4 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) MySQL
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Git
2 9 (16.98%) JUnit
2 9 (16.98%) SonarQube
3 7 (13.21%) IntelliJ
4 6 (11.32%) GitLab
5 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (35.85%) Finance
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Automotive
5 3 (5.66%) Military
5 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) German Language
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (13.21%) Analyst
1 7 (13.21%) Architect
1 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Senior
2 6 (11.32%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Developer
3 5 (9.43%) Service Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Java Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) REST
2 10 (18.87%) Spring
2 10 (18.87%) Spring Boot
3 7 (13.21%) PyTorch
3 7 (13.21%) scikit-learn
3 7 (13.21%) TensorFlow
4 5 (9.43%) Kafka
5 4 (7.55%) Node.js
6 2 (3.77%) .NET
6 2 (3.77%) React
7 1 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.89%) Blazor
7 1 (1.89%) eBPF
7 1 (1.89%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.89%) JSON
7 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.89%) RESTful
7 1 (1.89%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.89%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.09%) Private Cloud
3 6 (11.32%) Smartphone
4 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Grid Computing
5 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.77%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.89%) CMDB
7 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) Android
1 9 (16.98%) Apple iOS
1 9 (16.98%) Mac OS
1 9 (16.98%) Windows
2 5 (9.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
1 31 (58.49%) DevOps
2 19 (35.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (20.75%) AI
4 10 (18.87%) Agile
4 10 (18.87%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (16.98%) Analytics
5 9 (16.98%) Microservices
5 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
6 8 (15.09%) API Development
6 8 (15.09%) B2B
6 8 (15.09%) B2C
6 8 (15.09%) BDD
6 8 (15.09%) Code Quality
6 8 (15.09%) Data Science
6 8 (15.09%) Machine Learning
6 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.09%) TDD
7 7 (13.21%) LLM
7 7 (13.21%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) Python
2 12 (22.64%) Java
2 12 (22.64%) SQL
3 7 (13.21%) Bash
4 3 (5.66%) Go
5 2 (3.77%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) Degree
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.77%) CCNP
5 2 (3.77%) CCSP
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.89%) CCIE
6 1 (1.89%) CISM
6 1 (1.89%) CISSP
6 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.89%) PgMP
6 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.89%) PMP
6 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.66%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) NIST
3 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.77%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.89%) PMO
5 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) GPFS
2 3 (5.66%) Lustre
2 3 (5.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (41.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (20.75%) Terraform
3 9 (16.98%) Ansible
4 5 (9.43%) Argo
5 3 (5.66%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) Consul
6 1 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (52.83%) Google
2 9 (16.98%) Checkmarx
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.21%) Foundry
3 7 (13.21%) OpenAI
4 4 (7.55%) Informatica
4 4 (7.55%) Talend
5 3 (5.66%) VMware
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.77%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Cadence
7 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.89%) TOWER Software