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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 53 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,930 1,237 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.51% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.11% 11.92% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 831 805
10th Percentile £405 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £39.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% -5.51% -26.42%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.65 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +39.71% -5.51% -23.61%

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 15,934 10,377 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 37.85% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,619 7,014 7,631
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 244 172
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.33 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.18 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -7.14%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +3 1,009 £575 -4.17% 1,765
North of England +6 412 £530 +8.61% 375
Yorkshire +3 270 £533 +12.16% 102
South East +6 188 £525 +5.00% 270
South West +27 134 £550 +4.76% 146
North West -2 128 £530 +6.00% 237
Midlands -66 68 £525 +10.53% 120
East of England +8 62 £555 +0.91% 48
West Midlands -58 50 £525 - 99
North East -21 18 £500 -2.91% 37
East Midlands -28 18 £500 +20.48% 21
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
1 118 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 104 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.78%) Apache
4 53 (2.75%) Confluence
5 18 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) IIS
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.16%) Camunda
11 3 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.052%) Predix
Applications
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.052%) Houdini
7 1 (0.052%) NUKE
7 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (64.92%) AWS
2 1,223 (63.37%) Azure
3 215 (11.14%) GitHub
4 171 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 141 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (6.94%) Snowflake
7 101 (5.23%) dbt
8 96 (4.97%) SaaS
9 89 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (3.89%) Entra ID
12 72 (3.73%) Power Platform
13 67 (3.47%) Serverless
14 58 (3.01%) Vertex AI
15 53 (2.75%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
18 39 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.92%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.87%) Firewall
1 94 (4.87%) Network Security
2 76 (3.94%) DNS
3 67 (3.47%) VPN
4 29 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.40%) BGP
6 26 (1.35%) WAN
7 24 (1.24%) DHCP
8 19 (0.98%) HTTP
8 19 (0.98%) Internet
8 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.93%) VLAN
10 16 (0.83%) SSL
11 15 (0.78%) OSPF
12 13 (0.67%) VoIP
13 12 (0.62%) IPsec
14 10 (0.52%) LAN
14 10 (0.52%) MPLS
15 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
16 8 (0.41%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (12.80%) BigQuery
2 169 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (4.66%) Metadata
5 81 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.99%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.78%) Data Lake
8 67 (3.47%) Big Data
9 64 (3.32%) Power BI
10 45 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (2.12%) Looker
12 40 (2.07%) Tableau
13 37 (1.92%) SQL Server
14 34 (1.76%) MongoDB
15 32 (1.66%) Flink
16 31 (1.61%) MySQL
17 30 (1.55%) Redis
18 23 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (1.04%) Delta Lake
19 20 (1.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 223 (11.55%) Git
2 221 (11.45%) Jenkins
3 149 (7.72%) GitLab
4 97 (5.03%) JIRA
5 40 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 37 (1.92%) JUnit
7 35 (1.81%) Maven
8 24 (1.24%) Selenium
9 23 (1.19%) JMeter
10 21 (1.09%) Gradle
11 20 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 19 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (0.93%) Postman
14 17 (0.88%) LoadRunner
15 16 (0.83%) Cucumber
15 16 (0.83%) Gatling
16 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
17 12 (0.62%) Snyk
18 11 (0.57%) Claude Code
19 9 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 528 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 483 (25.03%) Finance
3 194 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
3 194 (10.05%) Banking
4 152 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 74 (3.83%) Retail
6 57 (2.95%) Telecoms
7 45 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (1.92%) Legal
8 37 (1.92%) Marketing
9 33 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.66%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 26 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.24%) Billing
15 22 (1.14%) Aerospace
16 20 (1.04%) Publishing
17 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 405 (20.98%) Architect
2 261 (13.52%) Senior
3 222 (11.50%) Developer
4 178 (9.22%) Lead
5 171 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 152 (7.88%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 112 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.72%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.35%) Consultant
12 83 (4.30%) Security Engineer
13 70 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 67 (3.47%) Analyst
15 66 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
15 66 (3.42%) Data Architect
16 58 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
17 57 (2.95%) Security Architect
18 52 (2.69%) Software Engineer
19 45 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 504 (26.11%) Terraform
2 217 (11.24%) Kafka
3 186 (9.64%) REST
4 110 (5.70%) React
5 105 (5.44%) OAuth
6 100 (5.18%) Spring
7 93 (4.82%) Spring Boot
8 87 (4.51%) RESTful
9 76 (3.94%) Node.js
10 66 (3.42%) OpenID
11 61 (3.16%) JSON
11 61 (3.16%) SAML
12 55 (2.85%) OAuth2
13 52 (2.69%) SOAP
14 50 (2.59%) LDAP
15 48 (2.49%) PySpark
16 47 (2.44%) LangChain
17 45 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
18 44 (2.28%) JWT
19 40 (2.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 410 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 141 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.60%) AI Agents
4 77 (3.99%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.58%) Security Posture
6 68 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 63 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 61 (3.16%) Public Cloud
9 53 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 51 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
11 47 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.33%) Data Structures
13 42 (2.18%) Algorithms
13 42 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (2.18%) Management Information System
14 35 (1.81%) PKI
15 29 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 26 (1.35%) CMDB
17 23 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.29%) Linux
2 101 (5.23%) Windows
3 45 (2.33%) Unix
4 33 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.19%) Android
6 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (45.60%) CI/CD
2 623 (32.28%) DevOps
3 492 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 484 (25.08%) AI
5 481 (24.92%) Agile
6 344 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 334 (17.31%) Microservices
8 310 (16.06%) Analytics
9 289 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
10 281 (14.56%) Observability
11 280 (14.51%) Software Engineering
12 274 (14.20%) Containerisation
13 269 (13.94%) Machine Learning
14 241 (12.49%) Roadmaps
15 239 (12.38%) Data Modelling
16 238 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
17 236 (12.23%) Cloud Security
18 224 (11.61%) Event-Driven
19 223 (11.55%) Migration
20 215 (11.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 754 (39.07%) Python
2 435 (22.54%) SQL
3 385 (19.95%) Java
4 154 (7.98%) Bash
5 143 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 143 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 103 (5.34%) Go
7 69 (3.58%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.33%) Scala
9 44 (2.28%) Shell Script
10 36 (1.87%) C#
11 32 (1.66%) Bicep
12 24 (1.24%) Groovy
13 21 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.93%) Rust
15 17 (0.88%) R
16 10 (0.52%) C++
16 10 (0.52%) Ruby
17 9 (0.47%) ABAP
17 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 382 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 279 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 146 (7.56%) Degree
4 111 (5.75%) CISSP
5 100 (5.18%) DV Cleared
6 93 (4.82%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 67 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.26%) CISM
9 61 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 36 (1.87%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.66%) CCSP
13 30 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.83%) GIAC
16 15 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.67%) PMP
18 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.17%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.13%) QA
3 94 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (4.51%) NIST
5 75 (3.89%) GDPR
6 33 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.24%) GRC
9 23 (1.19%) NCSC
10 19 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.36%) MiFID
13 7 (0.36%) SLA
14 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.31%) COBIT
14 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.31%) WCAG
15 5 (0.26%) Basel III
15 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 343 (17.77%) Docker
2 85 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 613 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 153 (7.93%) Ansible
3 115 (5.96%) Grafana
4 109 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.61%) Argo
7 29 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.30%) Puppet
9 24 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 8 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.41%) CASB
13 8 (0.41%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.36%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 667 (34.56%) Google
2 230 (11.92%) Microsoft
3 128 (6.63%) Databricks
4 81 (4.20%) Splunk
5 75 (3.89%) Oracle
6 57 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 57 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.80%) Dynatrace
8 48 (2.49%) VMware
9 47 (2.44%) CyberArk
10 43 (2.23%) SAP
11 41 (2.12%) OpenAI
12 36 (1.87%) IBM
13 31 (1.61%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.50%) Informatica
14 29 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.45%) Cisco
16 24 (1.24%) Okta
17 22 (1.14%) MuleSoft
18 20 (1.04%) New Relic