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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 51 78
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -15
Contract jobs citing GCP 27 36 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.89% 2.75% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.63% 12.90% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 29
10th Percentile £320 £294 £376
25th Percentile £400 £303 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £320 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.78% -36.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £638 £447 £600
90th Percentile £668 £530 £639
England median daily rate £540 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.04% -2.00%
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 £57.97 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.82% -11.54% +150.00%

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 407 279 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.56% 21.30% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 163 284
10th Percentile £213 £214 £186
25th Percentile £364 £303 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -8.39%
75th Percentile £582 £565 £575
90th Percentile £684 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 29
10th Percentile £6.00 £19.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 - £15.33
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 15 £413 +37.50% 15
Bedfordshire -5 5 £554 +20.38% 5
Hertfordshire -8 5 £750 +87.50% 6
Suffolk -2 1 - - 3
Norfolk - 1 £500 - 3
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 3 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (96.30%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.41%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) OCI
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) Network Security
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (7.41%) DHCP
3 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (7.41%) LAN
3 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.41%) WAN
3 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.70%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) GIS
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.70%) Agrochemical
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Architect
1 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (14.81%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (14.81%) Security Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Solutions Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Data Scientist
4 1 (3.70%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Programme Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (3.70%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) PyTorch
1 6 (22.22%) scikit-learn
1 6 (22.22%) TensorFlow
2 3 (11.11%) pytest
2 3 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.70%) Flask
3 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.70%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
1 4 (14.81%) Private Cloud
1 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Grid Computing
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) CentOS
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) DevOps
2 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (29.63%) Data Science
3 7 (25.93%) AI
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Cloud Security
3 7 (25.93%) Incident Response
3 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
3 7 (25.93%) SIEM
4 6 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 6 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
4 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Bash
4 4 (14.81%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) C++
5 2 (7.41%) Perl
5 2 (7.41%) Ruby
6 1 (3.70%) R
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) CISSP
3 2 (7.41%) CCIE
3 2 (7.41%) CCIE Security
3 2 (7.41%) CCNP
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) GIAC
4 1 (3.70%) CISA
4 1 (3.70%) CISM
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) PhD
4 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) SLA
4 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
4 1 (3.70%) IFRS
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) GPFS
2 3 (11.11%) Lustre
2 3 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Puppet
3 2 (7.41%) Salt
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Consul
4 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Google
2 6 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 4 (14.81%) Splunk
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco
4 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.41%) Foundry
4 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Thycotic
5 1 (3.70%) Vertica