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 citing GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 73 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 -18 +28
Contract jobs citing GCP 49 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.09% 1.90% 2.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 6.65% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 13 18
10th Percentile £400 £320 £294
25th Percentile £505 £400 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £483 £320
Median % change year-on-year +15.03% +50.78% -39.05%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £447
90th Percentile £731 £668 £530
England median daily rate £550 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 £103.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.67% - -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £57.97 £57.50
% change year-on-year +17.67% +0.82% -9.45%

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 citing cloud computing skills in the East of England.

6 months to
2 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 520 406 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 22.17% 28.63% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 223 166
10th Percentile £185 £213 £213
25th Percentile £263 £388 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +19.05% -11.58%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £563
90th Percentile £694 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 27 10
10th Percentile £14.85 £6.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.00 £20.37
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +74.74% +7.30%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -30.14% +11.46%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex - 25 £555 - 7
Cambridgeshire -9 7 £645 +56.36% 17
Hertfordshire -16 7 £620 -17.33% 18
Suffolk -12 5 £367 -
Bedfordshire -2 4 £555 +0.23% 3
Norfolk -1 1 - - 2
GCP
England

GCP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS57.1%28
1Azure57.1%28
3Power Platform8.2%4
4Google Workspace6.1%3
5Cloud Computing4.1%2
5Entra ID4.1%2
5IaaS4.1%2
5Microsoft 3654.1%2
5PaaS4.1%2
5Serverless4.1%2
11Amazon EventBridge2.0%1
11Amazon S32.0%1
11Amazon SQS2.0%1
11AWS Direct Connect2.0%1
11AWS Lambda2.0%1
11Azure ExpressRoute2.0%1
11Snowflake2.0%1