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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 55 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.49% 1.65% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.46% 5.79% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 11
10th Percentile £463 £458 £280
25th Percentile £503 £478 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £506 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +34.80% -29.25%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £500
90th Percentile £625 £758 £563
England median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +0.05% -10.20% -
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 £72.50 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +38.10% +40.00% -51.61%

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 480 363 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.74% 28.47% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 202 155
10th Percentile £193 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £407 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £503 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +19.64% -6.67%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £550
90th Percentile £613 £673 £638
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 42 39
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +30.55% -25.91%
75th Percentile £40.18 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £62.88 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 26 £543 +13.91% 1
Cambridgeshire +3 10 £600 +9.09% 10
Norfolk -4 9 £531 +6.25%
Hertfordshire -10 6 £537 -17.36% 3
Bedfordshire +4 4 £555 +15.03%
Suffolk - 1 £505 - 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 (7.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) AWS
2 26 (47.27%) Azure
3 18 (32.73%) GitHub
4 8 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (5.45%) IaaS
6 3 (5.45%) PaaS
6 3 (5.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.64%) Route 53
7 2 (3.64%) Serverless
7 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.82%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 19 (34.55%) VPN
2 13 (23.64%) Firewall
3 2 (3.64%) Internet
3 2 (3.64%) Network Security
4 1 (1.82%) BGP
4 1 (1.82%) DNS
4 1 (1.82%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.27%) Metadata
3 3 (5.45%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.64%) Power BI
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
2 9 (16.36%) JUnit
2 9 (16.36%) SonarQube
3 7 (12.73%) IntelliJ
4 6 (10.91%) GitLab
5 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (45.45%) Finance
2 18 (32.73%) Banking
3 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.09%) Automotive
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Billing
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.82%) German Language
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Developer
1 17 (30.91%) Java Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Software Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (16.36%) Backend Developer
4 9 (16.36%) IAM Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Architect
5 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Senior
6 6 (10.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Java Software Developer
6 6 (10.91%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) GCP Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Terraform
2 10 (18.18%) Spring
2 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 7 (12.73%) OAuth
4 6 (10.91%) OpenID
5 4 (7.27%) Kafka
6 3 (5.45%) Node.js
6 3 (5.45%) REST
7 1 (1.82%) .NET
7 1 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.82%) JSON
7 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.82%) RESTful
7 1 (1.82%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.82%) Spring Security
7 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.91%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) CMDB
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.82%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.82%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Android
2 3 (5.45%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
2 3 (5.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 31 (56.36%) DevOps
3 24 (43.64%) Software Engineering
4 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (27.27%) Agile
5 15 (27.27%) TDD
6 14 (25.45%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (18.18%) Identity Management
8 10 (18.18%) Load Balancing
8 10 (18.18%) SDLC
9 9 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (14.55%) BDD
10 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (14.55%) Microservices
10 8 (14.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (14.55%) Web Development
11 7 (12.73%) AI
11 7 (12.73%) Open Source
11 7 (12.73%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Java
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) Bash
4 4 (7.27%) SQL
5 3 (5.45%) Go
6 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.82%) C++
7 1 (1.82%) Perl
7 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.64%) CCNP
4 1 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.82%) CCIE
4 1 (1.82%) CCSP
4 1 (1.82%) CISM
4 1 (1.82%) CISSP
4 1 (1.82%) CRISC
4 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) GPFS
2 1 (1.82%) Lustre
2 1 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Ansible
2 12 (21.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (9.09%) Argo
5 4 (7.27%) Puppet
6 1 (1.82%) Consul
6 1 (1.82%) Grafana
6 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) Google
2 9 (16.36%) Checkmarx
3 3 (5.45%) Informatica
3 3 (5.45%) NetApp
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.45%) Talend
3 3 (5.45%) VMware
4 1 (1.82%) Braze
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) mParticle
4 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Tealium
4 1 (1.82%) TOWER Software