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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 50 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.23% 2.07% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.85% 6.35% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 21
10th Percentile £455 £317 £363
25th Percentile £500 £321 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -6.19% -12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £600
90th Percentile £638 £759 £675
England median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.71% -4.55% -21.53%

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 461 315 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.60% 32.54% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 186 159
10th Percentile £194 £208 £220
25th Percentile £400 £413 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £501 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +10.77% +0.56%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £573
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 37 60
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.61 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.72 £17.80 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.99% +9.20% -24.73%
75th Percentile £55.25 £22.56 £21.37
90th Percentile £72.00 £37.46 £65.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.94%

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 31 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 31 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
Essex -4 17 £510 +58.69% 2
Norfolk - 13 £373 -
Cambridgeshire +6 8 £475 -13.64% 1
Hertfordshire -19 6 £549 -15.49% 1
Bedfordshire - 6 £625 -
Suffolk -6 1 £505 -32.76% 2
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 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
1 23 (46.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) GitHub
3 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.00%) Google Workspace
6 4 (8.00%) Azure AI
6 4 (8.00%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (6.00%) IaaS
7 3 (6.00%) PaaS
7 3 (6.00%) SaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.00%) Route 53
8 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) VPN
2 7 (14.00%) Firewall
3 5 (10.00%) VoIP
4 2 (4.00%) Internet
4 2 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.00%) BGP
5 1 (2.00%) DNS
5 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Power BI
2 5 (10.00%) Metadata
2 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.00%) Big Data
5 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) JUnit
2 9 (18.00%) SonarQube
3 7 (14.00%) IntelliJ
4 6 (12.00%) GitLab
5 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Automotive
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Military
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) German Language
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Backend Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Service Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Spring
1 10 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (16.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) Kafka
4 4 (8.00%) Node.js
4 4 (8.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (8.00%) scikit-learn
4 4 (8.00%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.00%) .NET
5 2 (4.00%) React
6 1 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.00%) Blazor
6 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) Spring MVC
6 1 (2.00%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.00%) Private Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) Smartphone
4 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.00%) CMDB
6 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Android
1 8 (16.00%) Apple iOS
1 8 (16.00%) Mac OS
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) CI/CD
2 29 (58.00%) DevOps
3 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.00%) Agile
6 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.00%) AI
7 8 (16.00%) BDD
7 8 (16.00%) Code Quality
7 8 (16.00%) TDD
8 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.00%) Open Source
8 7 (14.00%) Security Testing
8 7 (14.00%) Static Application Security Testing
9 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Secrets Management
9 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Java
2 14 (28.00%) Python
3 9 (18.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) CCNP
4 2 (4.00%) CCSP
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) CCIE
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) PgMP
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) GPFS
2 1 (2.00%) Lustre
2 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.00%) Terraform
3 9 (18.00%) Ansible
4 5 (10.00%) Argo
5 3 (6.00%) Puppet
6 1 (2.00%) Consul
6 1 (2.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Google
2 9 (18.00%) Checkmarx
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Foundry
4 4 (8.00%) Informatica
4 4 (8.00%) OpenAI
4 4 (8.00%) Talend
5 3 (6.00%) VMware
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.00%) Cadence
7 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.00%) TOWER Software