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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 49 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +8
Contract jobs citing GCP 38 37 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.37% 3.35% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.59% 13.75% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 22
10th Percentile £311 £300 £400
25th Percentile £403 £311 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £319 £500
Median % change year-on-year +91.87% -36.16% -28.57%
75th Percentile £638 £425 £538
90th Percentile - £454 £600
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%

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 328 269 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.46% 24.34% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 158 199
10th Percentile £213 £213 £185
25th Percentile £356 £316 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £550
90th Percentile £710 £679 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 32
10th Percentile £6.00 £16.28 -
25th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +12.95% +22.58%
75th Percentile £35.04 £55.00 £56.06
90th Percentile £43.72 £66.00 £76.88
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £24.02
% change year-on-year +6.36% +17.42% +6.14%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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
Cambridgeshire +1 16 £413 +37.50% 27
Bedfordshire +3 10 £625 +95.31% 20
Norfolk - 6 £308 - 21
Hertfordshire -12 5 £750 +87.50% 24
Suffolk -1 1 - - 20
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 (13.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 32 (84.21%) AWS
1 32 (84.21%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 9 (23.68%) Azure AI
3 9 (23.68%) Copilot Studio
3 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (15.79%) Google Workspace
5 5 (13.16%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (7.89%) Serverless
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub
8 1 (2.63%) SaaS
8 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) VoIP
2 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.89%) Firewall
4 2 (5.26%) Network Security
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) DNS
5 1 (2.63%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.63%) LAN
5 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.63%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
5 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Power BI
2 9 (23.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) GIS
3 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Military
4 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.63%) Agrochemical
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Consultant
4 5 (13.16%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Solutions Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Data Scientist
7 1 (2.63%) Developer
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Network Security Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) PyTorch
1 13 (34.21%) scikit-learn
1 13 (34.21%) TensorFlow
2 11 (28.95%) REST
3 3 (7.89%) pytest
4 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.63%) Blazor
4 1 (2.63%) eBPF
4 1 (2.63%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.63%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.63%) Flask
4 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.63%) gRPC
4 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Private Cloud
1 6 (15.79%) Public Cloud
1 6 (15.79%) Smartphone
2 5 (13.16%) Grid Computing
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) IoT
5 1 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Android
2 6 (15.79%) Apple iOS
2 6 (15.79%) Mac OS
3 5 (13.16%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) DevOps
2 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
2 15 (39.47%) Data Science
3 14 (36.84%) AI
3 14 (36.84%) Machine Learning
4 10 (26.32%) Analytics
4 10 (26.32%) API Development
4 10 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (26.32%) Microservices
4 10 (26.32%) MLOps
5 9 (23.68%) B2B
5 9 (23.68%) B2C
5 9 (23.68%) Data Analytics
5 9 (23.68%) Feature Engineering
5 9 (23.68%) LLM
5 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.68%) Prompt Engineering
5 9 (23.68%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 8 (21.05%) Agile
6 8 (21.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.26%) C++
5 2 (5.26%) Perl
5 2 (5.26%) Ruby
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) R
6 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
1 7 (18.42%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE Security
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) CCSP
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) GIAC
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.53%) NIST
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) GRC
4 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) GPFS
2 5 (13.16%) Lustre
2 5 (13.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Consul
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Google
2 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
3 9 (23.68%) Foundry
3 9 (23.68%) OpenAI
4 4 (10.53%) Splunk
5 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle
7 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.63%) Cisco
7 1 (2.63%) Databricks
7 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.63%) SAP
7 1 (2.63%) Zscaler