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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 72 79
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing GCP 20 25 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.53% 1.65% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 8.71% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 28
10th Percentile £457 £286 £373
25th Percentile £500 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £533
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -20.19% -18.08%
75th Percentile £675 £491 £617
90th Percentile £769 £544 £658
England median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - £70.09
Median hourly rate £103.00 - £70.18
75th Percentile £105.50 - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.97 £46.25 £74.75
% change year-on-year +12.37% -38.13% +187.50%

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 356 287 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.15% 18.93% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 164 308
10th Percentile £224 £213 £190
25th Percentile £408 £286 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £563 £596
90th Percentile £688 £634 £700
England median daily rate £501 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 30
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.72% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £60.48 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £30.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -3 11 £550 +83.33% 13
Hertfordshire +8 5 £650 +62.50% 13
Bedfordshire -8 2 £483 -12.27% 6
Essex -2 1 £465 +3.33% 5
Norfolk - 1 £500 - 2
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (95.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Tableau
2 2 (10.00%) Big Data
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) GIS
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Agriculture
2 1 (5.00%) Agrochemical
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Gen AI Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (5.00%) QA Manager
4 1 (5.00%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (10.00%) NumPy
1 2 (10.00%) Pandas
1 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (10.00%) Seaborn
1 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.00%) JSR 170
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) OSGi
2 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) CentOS
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) SIEM
2 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 5 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
4 4 (20.00%) Data Science
4 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
4 3 (15.00%) Perl
4 3 (15.00%) R
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CISSP
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) GIAC
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
1 2 (10.00%) QA
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Google
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) IBM
3 4 (20.00%) Splunk
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.00%) Adobe
6 1 (5.00%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco
6 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.00%) Databricks
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (5.00%) SAP
6 1 (5.00%) Thycotic
6 1 (5.00%) Vertica
6 1 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) Zscaler