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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 90
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing GCP 53 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.32% 2.21% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.62% 7.22% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 18 18
10th Percentile £463 £317 £332
25th Percentile £504 £354 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -3.90% -3.30%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £597
90th Percentile £630 £756 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £612
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.08% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £103.00 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year - +17.05% +25.40%
England median hourly rate £69.44 £52.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +32.27% +1.45% -26.16%

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 499 374 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.88% 30.58% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 205 167
10th Percentile £191 £200 £220
25th Percentile £385 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £570
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 45 55
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.56 £14.48
Median hourly rate £27.00 £19.27 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +40.11% +18.22% -25.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £51.45
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +1 26 £545 +69.58% 2
Cambridgeshire +10 10 £538 -2.27% 10
Norfolk -10 8 £531 +6.25% 1
Hertfordshire -14 6 £537 -17.36% 1
Bedfordshire -3 3 £625 +29.53%
Suffolk -7 1 £505 -32.76% 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 3 (5.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
1 26 (49.06%) Azure
2 18 (33.96%) GitHub
3 8 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (11.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (5.66%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (5.66%) IaaS
5 3 (5.66%) PaaS
5 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.77%) Route 53
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.89%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (33.96%) VPN
2 12 (22.64%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) Internet
3 2 (3.77%) Network Security
4 1 (1.89%) BGP
4 1 (1.89%) DNS
4 1 (1.89%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.43%) Metadata
3 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.66%) Power BI
4 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) MySQL
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Git
2 9 (16.98%) JUnit
2 9 (16.98%) SonarQube
3 7 (13.21%) IntelliJ
4 6 (11.32%) GitLab
5 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (45.28%) Finance
2 15 (28.30%) Banking
3 6 (11.32%) Manufacturing
3 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Automotive
5 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Billing
6 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.89%) German Language
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Developer
1 15 (28.30%) Java Developer
2 12 (22.64%) Software Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Backend Developer
3 9 (16.98%) Java Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Architect
4 8 (15.09%) IAM Developer
5 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Java Software Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Senior
6 6 (11.32%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Java Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) Spring
1 10 (18.87%) Spring Boot
2 5 (9.43%) Kafka
2 5 (9.43%) OAuth
3 4 (7.55%) Node.js
3 4 (7.55%) OpenID
3 4 (7.55%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) .NET
5 1 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) React
5 1 (1.89%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.89%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Private Cloud
3 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.77%) CMDB
5 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.89%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Android
2 3 (5.66%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.66%) Mac OS
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 30 (56.60%) DevOps
3 22 (41.51%) Software Engineering
4 19 (35.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (30.19%) Agile
6 12 (22.64%) TDD
7 11 (20.75%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.98%) Identity Management
8 9 (16.98%) Load Balancing
9 8 (15.09%) AI
9 8 (15.09%) BDD
9 8 (15.09%) Code Quality
9 8 (15.09%) Microservices
9 8 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (15.09%) SDLC
9 8 (15.09%) Web Development
10 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Java
2 13 (24.53%) Python
3 6 (11.32%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.77%) CCNP
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) CCIE
5 1 (1.89%) CCSP
5 1 (1.89%) CISM
5 1 (1.89%) CISSP
5 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) PgMP
5 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PMP
5 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) GDPR
4 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.89%) NIST
5 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.89%) PMO
5 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) GPFS
2 1 (1.89%) Lustre
2 1 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
1 13 (24.53%) Terraform
2 11 (20.75%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Argo
4 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (5.66%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) Consul
6 1 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Google
2 9 (16.98%) Checkmarx
3 4 (7.55%) Informatica
3 4 (7.55%) Talend
4 3 (5.66%) VMware
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.77%) NetApp
5 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.89%) Cadence
6 1 (1.89%) Foundry
6 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) TOWER Software