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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,966 1,296 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.22% 4.64% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.25% 12.11% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 880 793
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £665 £672 £750
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £543 £600
% change year-on-year +1.29% -9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.53 £35.38
25th Percentile £17.70 £38.25 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.44 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +49.69% +11.22% -32.48%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.88 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.38 £85.40 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.44 £46.25
% change year-on-year +41.15% +11.22% -35.76%

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 16,054 10,705 11,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 38.30% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,690 7,236 7,464
10th Percentile £321 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.86%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 255 161
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +6.06%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +1 1,012 £583 -2.92% 2,205
North of England +6 438 £536 +7.25% 439
Yorkshire +1 280 £538 +12.92% 129
South East -7 187 £525 +5.79% 359
North West +7 142 £530 +6.00% 258
South West +22 135 £550 - 173
Midlands -58 76 £528 +11.05% 154
East of England +11 62 £558 -4.09% 100
West Midlands -54 58 £540 +2.86% 115
North East -21 22 £600 +21.21% 54
East Midlands -29 18 £500 +20.48% 39
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
1 114 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 111 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.92%) Apache
4 52 (2.64%) Confluence
5 18 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.36%) SAS
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.051%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.051%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.20%) Trello
5 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.051%) Houdini
7 1 (0.051%) NUKE
7 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Cloudability
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.25%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.051%) Maximo
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.051%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.051%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,290 (65.62%) AWS
2 1,252 (63.68%) Azure
3 225 (11.44%) GitHub
4 173 (8.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 149 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 104 (5.29%) dbt
8 99 (5.04%) SaaS
9 94 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.92%) Entra ID
12 76 (3.87%) Power Platform
13 66 (3.36%) Serverless
14 55 (2.80%) Cloud Run
15 54 (2.75%) Vertex AI
16 52 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
18 39 (1.98%) Datadog
19 38 (1.93%) Amazon S3
19 38 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.19%) Firewall
2 100 (5.09%) Network Security
3 72 (3.66%) DNS
4 65 (3.31%) VPN
5 31 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.42%) BGP
7 26 (1.32%) DHCP
8 25 (1.27%) WAN
9 21 (1.07%) HTTP
10 20 (1.02%) Internet
11 19 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.92%) VLAN
13 15 (0.76%) OSPF
14 14 (0.71%) SSL
15 12 (0.61%) VoIP
16 11 (0.56%) IPsec
16 11 (0.56%) LAN
17 10 (0.51%) MPLS
18 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
18 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (12.67%) BigQuery
2 169 (8.60%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (4.53%) Metadata
5 86 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 74 (3.76%) Data Lake
8 67 (3.41%) Power BI
9 57 (2.90%) Big Data
10 51 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.44%) Looker
12 44 (2.24%) MySQL
13 41 (2.09%) MongoDB
14 40 (2.03%) SQL Server
15 37 (1.88%) Tableau
16 33 (1.68%) Redis
17 28 (1.42%) Flink
18 27 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
19 23 (1.17%) Delta Lake
20 22 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 242 (12.31%) Git
2 237 (12.05%) Jenkins
3 155 (7.88%) GitLab
4 105 (5.34%) JIRA
5 37 (1.88%) SonarQube
6 36 (1.83%) JUnit
6 36 (1.83%) Maven
7 25 (1.27%) Gradle
8 24 (1.22%) Bitbucket
9 23 (1.17%) JMeter
10 22 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 20 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.02%) Selenium
12 17 (0.86%) Gatling
12 17 (0.86%) LoadRunner
13 16 (0.81%) Postman
14 14 (0.71%) Claude Code
15 13 (0.66%) Snyk
16 11 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 541 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 490 (24.92%) Finance
3 208 (10.58%) Banking
4 198 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 159 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.61%) Retail
7 54 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.78%) Legal
11 31 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.53%) Billing
12 30 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.37%) Marketing
15 26 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 404 (20.55%) Architect
2 272 (13.84%) Senior
3 229 (11.65%) Developer
4 184 (9.36%) Data Engineer
5 176 (8.95%) Lead
6 154 (7.83%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 119 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.53%) Java Developer
11 88 (4.48%) Security Engineer
12 87 (4.43%) Consultant
13 77 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 68 (3.46%) Analyst
15 64 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
16 60 (3.05%) Data Architect
16 60 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
17 54 (2.75%) Software Engineer
18 53 (2.70%) Security Architect
19 49 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (26.40%) Terraform
2 224 (11.39%) Kafka
3 203 (10.33%) REST
4 113 (5.75%) React
5 100 (5.09%) OAuth
6 93 (4.73%) Spring
7 91 (4.63%) RESTful
8 86 (4.37%) Spring Boot
9 70 (3.56%) Node.js
10 65 (3.31%) JSON
11 62 (3.15%) OpenID
12 58 (2.95%) SOAP
13 56 (2.85%) SAML
14 52 (2.64%) PySpark
15 51 (2.59%) LangChain
16 50 (2.54%) OAuth2
17 46 (2.34%) LDAP
18 45 (2.29%) GraphQL
18 45 (2.29%) HTML
19 42 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 436 (22.18%) Cloud Native
2 142 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.60%) AI Agents
4 84 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 81 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 75 (3.81%) Public Cloud
7 68 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 67 (3.41%) Security Posture
9 65 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 57 (2.90%) Data Centre
11 54 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (2.49%) Data Structures
13 46 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (2.24%) Algorithms
14 44 (2.24%) Management Information System
15 43 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (1.98%) PKI
17 29 (1.48%) CMDB
17 29 (1.48%) Private Cloud
18 25 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 181 (9.21%) Linux
2 109 (5.54%) Windows
3 52 (2.64%) Unix
4 35 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.22%) Android
7 16 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.36%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.15%) CentOS
11 3 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.051%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.051%) Solaris
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (46.64%) CI/CD
2 653 (33.21%) DevOps
3 507 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 505 (25.69%) Agile
5 490 (24.92%) AI
6 365 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 339 (17.24%) Microservices
8 317 (16.12%) Analytics
9 298 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (14.70%) Observability
10 289 (14.70%) Software Engineering
11 277 (14.09%) Containerisation
12 271 (13.78%) Machine Learning
13 252 (12.82%) Roadmaps
14 249 (12.67%) Cloud Security
15 246 (12.51%) Data Modelling
16 237 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
17 232 (11.80%) Event-Driven
18 231 (11.75%) Migration
19 224 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 779 (39.62%) Python
2 455 (23.14%) SQL
3 371 (18.87%) Java
4 166 (8.44%) Bash
5 155 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 153 (7.78%) JavaScript
7 103 (5.24%) Go
8 75 (3.81%) TypeScript
9 50 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.14%) C#
11 40 (2.03%) Scala
12 34 (1.73%) Bicep
13 25 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.17%) Groovy
15 19 (0.97%) R
16 18 (0.92%) Rust
17 14 (0.71%) C++
18 12 (0.61%) ABAP
19 11 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 396 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 289 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.48%) Degree
4 110 (5.60%) CISSP
5 108 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 101 (5.14%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 66 (3.36%) CISM
9 57 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.88%) Master's Degree
12 36 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (1.58%) CCSP
14 21 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.86%) CISA
16 15 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.71%) GIAC
18 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 101 (5.14%) QA
3 97 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.53%) NIST
5 67 (3.41%) GDPR
6 34 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.48%) GRC
9 27 (1.37%) NCSC
10 21 (1.07%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.71%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.51%) COBIT
14 9 (0.46%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.25%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 354 (18.01%) Docker
2 86 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.66%) vSphere
6 12 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.25%) ISA Server
9 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.051%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 627 (31.89%) Kubernetes
2 164 (8.34%) Ansible
3 121 (6.15%) Grafana
4 113 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (1.73%) Argo
7 32 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 28 (1.42%) Puppet
9 26 (1.32%) Istio
10 18 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 15 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.56%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.25%) Control-M
16 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.25%) Kibana
16 5 (0.25%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 700 (35.61%) Google
2 250 (12.72%) Microsoft
3 125 (6.36%) Databricks
4 91 (4.63%) Splunk
5 76 (3.87%) Oracle
6 63 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.05%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.54%) Salesforce
9 49 (2.49%) SAP
9 49 (2.49%) VMware
10 46 (2.34%) CyberArk
11 43 (2.19%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.88%) IBM
13 35 (1.78%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.48%) Cisco
14 29 (1.48%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.42%) Informatica
16 24 (1.22%) Okta
17 21 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (0.97%) MuleSoft