GCP Contract Job Trends in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,645 930 984
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.25% 3.82% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.70% 10.09% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 630 739
10th Percentile £376 £370 £425
25th Percentile £451 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £529 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.86% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £39.01
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.50 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +6.75% -27.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.56 £62.88
90th Percentile £73.00 £78.34 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £54.50 £49.78
% change year-on-year +17.43% +9.49% -28.89%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,062 9,221 11,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.37% 37.83% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,696 6,498 8,621
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 182 321
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.48 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.23% +27.47% -21.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

GCP job vacancy trend in England

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing GCP

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 6 April 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
London 0 851 £600 - 382
North of England +24 330 £523 -5.00% 127
Yorkshire +9 188 £500 -6.98% 41
South East +26 181 £492 -14.43% 122
North West +18 128 £550 -4.35% 62
Midlands 0 109 £475 - 34
West Midlands +5 90 £500 +4.82% 23
South West +25 85 £550 -8.33% 51
East of England -6 44 £500 +6.95% 19
East Midlands -27 19 £437 +16.93% 11
North East -5 14 £550 +61.76% 24
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 91 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (3.77%) Apache
4 36 (2.19%) Confluence
5 10 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.49%) SAS
8 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
9 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.12%) Documentum
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.061%) nginx
12 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.24%) Weka
5 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) Actimize
6 1 (0.061%) Maximo
6 1 (0.061%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,154 (70.15%) Azure
2 1,150 (69.91%) AWS
3 177 (10.76%) GitHub
4 127 (7.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (7.48%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (4.68%) Snowflake
9 71 (4.32%) Serverless
10 60 (3.65%) OpenShift
11 56 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.34%) Amazon S3
13 52 (3.16%) dbt
14 48 (2.92%) Entra ID
15 46 (2.80%) SaaS
16 39 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 36 (2.19%) Cloud Run
17 36 (2.19%) Vertex AI
18 34 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
19 28 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.81%) Firewall
2 85 (5.17%) VPN
3 84 (5.11%) DNS
4 76 (4.62%) Network Security
5 26 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.58%) WAN
6 23 (1.40%) BGP
7 21 (1.28%) HTTP
8 18 (1.09%) LAN
9 17 (1.03%) OSPF
10 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.85%) VLAN
11 14 (0.85%) VoIP
12 13 (0.79%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.73%) DHCP
14 11 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.55%) Internet
16 9 (0.55%) IPv6
16 9 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (10.58%) BigQuery
2 119 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (6.32%) Power BI
4 91 (5.53%) NoSQL
5 67 (4.07%) Big Data
6 64 (3.89%) Metadata
7 60 (3.65%) Data Lake
8 57 (3.47%) Tableau
9 41 (2.49%) SQL Server
10 40 (2.43%) MongoDB
11 37 (2.25%) Relational Database
12 36 (2.19%) MySQL
13 26 (1.58%) Looker
14 23 (1.40%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.40%) OLAP
15 19 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
16 18 (1.09%) Mixpanel
16 18 (1.09%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 215 (13.07%) Jenkins
2 160 (9.73%) Git
3 142 (8.63%) GitLab
4 74 (4.50%) JIRA
5 42 (2.55%) Selenium
6 38 (2.31%) JUnit
7 29 (1.76%) JMeter
8 28 (1.70%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.52%) Postman
10 18 (1.09%) REST Assured
11 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
12 14 (0.85%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.73%) MLflow
14 11 (0.67%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.61%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.61%) Maven
16 9 (0.55%) Gatling
16 9 (0.55%) LoadRunner
17 8 (0.49%) Mockito
18 7 (0.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 509 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 365 (22.19%) Finance
3 186 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (9.54%) Banking
5 138 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (2.98%) Retail
8 42 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 37 (2.25%) Legal
10 33 (2.01%) Front Office
11 32 (1.95%) Marketing
12 30 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.97%) Electronics
16 16 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.79%) Military
18 12 (0.73%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 343 (20.85%) Architect
2 183 (11.12%) Senior
3 173 (10.52%) Developer
4 170 (10.33%) Lead
5 164 (9.97%) GCP Engineer
6 135 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 93 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 86 (5.23%) Analyst
10 81 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
11 69 (4.19%) Software Engineer
12 59 (3.59%) Consultant
13 54 (3.28%) Security Architect
14 51 (3.10%) Security Engineer
15 50 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
16 47 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
17 46 (2.80%) Java Developer
18 42 (2.55%) GCP DevOps
19 39 (2.37%) Data Architect
19 39 (2.37%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (10.76%) REST
2 152 (9.24%) Kafka
3 116 (7.05%) Spring
4 106 (6.44%) React
5 97 (5.90%) Node.js
6 88 (5.35%) RESTful
7 87 (5.29%) Spring Boot
8 86 (5.23%) LDAP
9 61 (3.71%) PyTorch
9 61 (3.71%) TensorFlow
10 58 (3.53%) OAuth
11 55 (3.34%) SOAP
12 50 (3.04%) AngularJS
13 48 (2.92%) OpenID
14 45 (2.74%) .NET
15 44 (2.67%) scikit-learn
16 36 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
16 36 (2.19%) Middleware
17 35 (2.13%) Pandas
18 34 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 265 (16.11%) Cloud Native
2 90 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.35%) Public Cloud
4 66 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.01%) Security Posture
5 58 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 31 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 31 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 28 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.46%) Derivative
13 21 (1.28%) Clustering
13 21 (1.28%) Equities
14 20 (1.22%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.09%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.38%) Linux
2 64 (3.89%) Windows
3 23 (1.40%) VMS
4 18 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 17 (1.03%) Android
6 14 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.79%) Unix
8 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.061%) Rocky
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (43.22%) CI/CD
2 564 (34.29%) DevOps
3 361 (21.95%) Agile
4 341 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 334 (20.30%) AI
6 326 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (18.12%) Analytics
8 284 (17.26%) Containerisation
9 259 (15.74%) Microservices
10 239 (14.53%) Machine Learning
11 215 (13.07%) Observability
12 187 (11.37%) Migration
13 186 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
14 180 (10.94%) Data Modelling
15 177 (10.76%) Software Engineering
15 177 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 163 (9.91%) Data Engineering
17 161 (9.79%) ETL
18 149 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 147 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 685 (41.64%) Python
2 319 (19.39%) SQL
3 268 (16.29%) Java
4 133 (8.09%) PowerShell
5 120 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 103 (6.26%) Bash
7 73 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 72 (4.38%) Go
9 50 (3.04%) C#
10 32 (1.95%) Scala
11 19 (1.16%) Groovy
12 18 (1.09%) Bicep
12 18 (1.09%) R
13 14 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.61%) Ruby
15 9 (0.55%) PHP
15 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.43%) C++
18 5 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 371 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 303 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.63%) Degree
4 87 (5.29%) CISSP
5 73 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 55 (3.34%) Azure Certification
8 53 (3.22%) CISM
9 49 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (2.61%) DV Cleared
11 34 (2.07%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 25 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (1.46%) CCNP
15 19 (1.16%) CCSP
16 17 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.79%) CCIE
19 12 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
20 11 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (9.42%) GDPR
2 125 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 102 (6.20%) NIST
4 100 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (4.32%) QA
6 45 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.28%) NCSC
8 17 (1.03%) SLA
9 15 (0.91%) GRC
9 15 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.73%) PSD2
12 11 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.43%) PERC
15 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.36%) WCAG
16 5 (0.30%) COBIT
16 5 (0.30%) HL7
System Software
1 356 (21.64%) Docker
2 96 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.79%) vSphere
7 8 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) GPFS
9 5 (0.30%) Lustre
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.061%) iptables
12 1 (0.061%) UAG
12 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 511 (31.06%) Kubernetes
2 398 (24.19%) Terraform
3 127 (7.72%) Ansible
4 117 (7.11%) Grafana
5 106 (6.44%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.07%) Istio
7 24 (1.46%) Argo
8 17 (1.03%) Kubeflow
9 16 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.73%) Puppet
11 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.61%) SCCM
13 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.49%) Fluentd
14 8 (0.49%) Nessus
15 6 (0.36%) Kibana
15 6 (0.36%) Rancher
16 5 (0.30%) linkerd
16 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 531 (32.28%) Google
2 137 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 105 (6.38%) Splunk
4 83 (5.05%) Databricks
5 74 (4.50%) CyberArk
6 60 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.59%) BeyondTrust
8 43 (2.61%) Oracle
9 42 (2.55%) VMware
10 37 (2.25%) OpenAI
11 36 (2.19%) Centrify
11 36 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.95%) Cisco
13 30 (1.82%) SAP
14 24 (1.46%) Informatica
15 22 (1.34%) Foundry
15 22 (1.34%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.34%) Salesforce
16 21 (1.28%) Dynatrace
17 16 (0.97%) Talend