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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 50 83
Rank change year-on-year -18 +33 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 35 37 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.23% 2.97% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.56% 13.07% 7.00%
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 £500
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -36.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £538
90th Percentile £645 £478 £600
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -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 £56.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +5.75% -8.87% +103.28%

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 366 283 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.34% 22.73% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 167 253
10th Percentile £208 £213 £190
25th Percentile £350 £303 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £575
90th Percentile £696 £671 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 35
10th Percentile £6.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.25 £55.00 £62.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -4 19 £413 +37.50% 11
Bedfordshire +2 8 £625 +95.31% 6
Hertfordshire -9 5 £750 +87.50% 3
Norfolk - 2 £500 - 2
Suffolk -5 1 - - 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 5 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 34 (97.14%) AWS
2 33 (94.29%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (17.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (14.29%) Azure AI
5 5 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.86%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) OCI
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 3 (8.57%) VPN
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.71%) DHCP
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) LAN
4 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.71%) WAN
4 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.86%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Power BI
2 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) GIS
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.86%) Tableau
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.86%) Agrochemical
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Military
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Solutions Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) QA Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Security Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Service Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) PyTorch
1 9 (25.71%) scikit-learn
1 9 (25.71%) TensorFlow
2 6 (17.14%) REST
3 3 (8.57%) pytest
4 1 (2.86%) eBPF
4 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.86%) Flask
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Private Cloud
1 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Grid Computing
3 4 (11.43%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.86%) IoT
6 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) CentOS
3 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) DevOps
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) Data Science
4 10 (28.57%) AI
4 10 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 9 (25.71%) Cloud Security
5 9 (25.71%) Incident Response
5 9 (25.71%) SIEM
6 8 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (20.00%) Agile
7 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (17.14%) API Development
8 6 (17.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 6 (17.14%) Data Analytics
8 6 (17.14%) Microservices
8 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
8 6 (17.14%) SOAR
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) Bash
4 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.43%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) C++
6 2 (5.71%) Perl
6 2 (5.71%) Ruby
7 1 (2.86%) R
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 2 (5.71%) CCIE
3 2 (5.71%) CCIE Security
3 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) GIAC
3 2 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CCSP
4 1 (2.86%) CISA
4 1 (2.86%) CISM
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (17.14%) NIST
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.71%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
4 1 (2.86%) IFRS
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) GPFS
2 5 (14.29%) Lustre
2 5 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Puppet
3 2 (5.71%) Salt
4 1 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Consul
4 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Google
3 6 (17.14%) Palo Alto
3 6 (17.14%) Splunk
4 5 (14.29%) Foundry
4 5 (14.29%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco
5 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.86%) Databricks
6 1 (2.86%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Thycotic
6 1 (2.86%) Vertica