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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing GCP 47 20 21
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.11% 1.95% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.15% 6.06% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 19
10th Percentile £462 £317 £338
25th Percentile £501 £321 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -6.19% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £594
90th Percentile £638 £759 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -21.43%

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 463 330 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.82% 32.23% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 192 162
10th Percentile £191 £213 £225
25th Percentile £385 £413 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £563
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 58
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £14.99 £14.22
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.31 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.61% +12.33% -24.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £22.40 £21.37
90th Percentile £73.50 £36.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -5 19 £510 +58.69% 2
Norfolk - 10 £425 -
Cambridgeshire +11 7 £475 -13.64% 7
Hertfordshire -12 6 £549 -15.49% 2
Bedfordshire - 5 £625 -
Suffolk -7 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 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
1 22 (46.81%) Azure
2 19 (40.43%) GitHub
3 8 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (12.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (6.38%) Azure AI
6 3 (6.38%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (6.38%) IaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (6.38%) PaaS
6 3 (6.38%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (4.26%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.26%) Route 53
7 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) VPN
2 8 (17.02%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) Internet
3 2 (4.26%) Network Security
3 2 (4.26%) VoIP
4 1 (2.13%) BGP
4 1 (2.13%) DNS
4 1 (2.13%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Metadata
1 5 (10.64%) Power BI
1 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Git
2 9 (19.15%) JUnit
2 9 (19.15%) SonarQube
3 7 (14.89%) IntelliJ
4 6 (12.77%) GitLab
5 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Automotive
4 4 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) German Language
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Software Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Architect
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Backend Developer
5 6 (12.77%) GCP Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Java Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Spring
1 10 (21.28%) Spring Boot
2 7 (14.89%) REST
3 5 (10.64%) Kafka
4 4 (8.51%) Node.js
5 3 (6.38%) PyTorch
5 3 (6.38%) scikit-learn
5 3 (6.38%) TensorFlow
6 2 (4.26%) .NET
6 2 (4.26%) React
7 1 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.13%) JSON
7 1 (2.13%) OAuth
7 1 (2.13%) OpenID
7 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.13%) RESTful
7 1 (2.13%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.13%) Spring Security
7 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.26%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Android
1 5 (10.64%) Apple iOS
1 5 (10.64%) Mac OS
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) CI/CD
2 28 (59.57%) DevOps
3 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.66%) Agile
6 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (19.15%) TDD
7 8 (17.02%) BDD
7 8 (17.02%) Code Quality
8 7 (14.89%) AI
8 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) Open Source
8 7 (14.89%) Security Testing
8 7 (14.89%) Static Application Security Testing
9 6 (12.77%) Application Security
9 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (12.77%) Secrets Management
9 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) Java
2 13 (27.66%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) SQL
4 5 (10.64%) Bash
5 3 (6.38%) Go
6 2 (4.26%) C#
7 1 (2.13%) C++
7 1 (2.13%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) CCNP
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.13%) CCIE
5 1 (2.13%) CCSP
5 1 (2.13%) CISM
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) PgMP
5 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PMP
5 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) PMO
4 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) GPFS
2 1 (2.13%) Lustre
2 1 (2.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (23.40%) Terraform
3 9 (19.15%) Ansible
4 5 (10.64%) Argo
5 3 (6.38%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) Consul
6 1 (2.13%) Grafana
6 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.13%) Salt
6 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Google
2 9 (19.15%) Checkmarx
3 4 (8.51%) Informatica
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Talend
4 3 (6.38%) Foundry
4 3 (6.38%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Cadence
6 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.13%) TOWER Software