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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 63
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,754 1,083 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 4.22% 3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.43% 11.22% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 729 877
10th Percentile £400 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -1.21%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £775
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £15.33 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.22 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.85% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.13 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,339 9,656 12,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.67% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,518 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 250 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -8 909 £575 -4.17% 525
North of England +13 378 £538 +2.38% 166
Yorkshire +1 231 £538 +7.50% 33
South East +6 169 £548 +1.39% 142
North West +13 129 £530 -1.85% 114
South West +31 117 £560 +6.67% 70
Midlands -30 87 £500 +8.99% 43
West Midlands -15 66 £494 -25.47% 29
East of England +2 47 £518 +5.08% 19
North East -14 21 £575 +5.75% 19
East Midlands -18 21 £500 +21.95% 14
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
1 111 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 75 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (3.42%) Apache
4 41 (2.34%) Confluence
5 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.23%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.057%) Luigi
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.057%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.29%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) Maximo
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.057%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.057%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.057%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,149 (65.51%) AWS
2 1,131 (64.48%) Azure
3 188 (10.72%) GitHub
4 174 (9.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (6.56%) Snowflake
7 96 (5.47%) Power Platform
8 81 (4.62%) SaaS
9 75 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 73 (4.16%) Serverless
11 69 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.42%) dbt
13 56 (3.19%) Entra ID
14 54 (3.08%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.51%) Cloud Run
16 42 (2.39%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.11%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (1.77%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.04%) Network Security
2 105 (5.99%) Firewall
3 98 (5.59%) DNS
4 88 (5.02%) VPN
5 31 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.71%) WAN
7 28 (1.60%) BGP
8 22 (1.25%) HTTP
9 19 (1.08%) OSPF
10 18 (1.03%) DHCP
11 17 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.80%) VLAN
13 13 (0.74%) SSL
14 12 (0.68%) Internet
14 12 (0.68%) LAN
15 11 (0.63%) IPsec
16 10 (0.57%) VoIP
16 10 (0.57%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.51%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (10.66%) BigQuery
2 133 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.45%) Data Lake
5 77 (4.39%) Power BI
6 74 (4.22%) NoSQL
7 73 (4.16%) Big Data
8 61 (3.48%) Metadata
9 54 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.85%) Tableau
11 42 (2.39%) SQL Server
12 33 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 31 (1.77%) MySQL
14 28 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.37%) Looker
15 24 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (1.31%) Hadoop
17 20 (1.14%) Flink
18 19 (1.08%) Redis
19 16 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 211 (12.03%) Jenkins
2 170 (9.69%) Git
3 131 (7.47%) GitLab
4 78 (4.45%) JIRA
5 47 (2.68%) JUnit
6 39 (2.22%) Selenium
7 32 (1.82%) JMeter
7 32 (1.82%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.08%) Maven
9 19 (1.08%) Postman
10 18 (1.03%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.74%) MLflow
11 13 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.57%) ERwin
13 10 (0.57%) Gradle
13 10 (0.57%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.51%) Gatling
15 8 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 457 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 426 (24.29%) Finance
3 162 (9.24%) Banking
4 161 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 144 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.16%) Retail
7 51 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 41 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 38 (2.17%) Legal
10 36 (2.05%) Front Office
10 36 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.48%) Marketing
13 24 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 23 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.14%) Billing
16 19 (1.08%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 368 (20.98%) Architect
2 223 (12.71%) Senior
3 202 (11.52%) Developer
4 169 (9.64%) Lead
5 158 (9.01%) GCP Engineer
6 145 (8.27%) Data Engineer
7 114 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 113 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 73 (4.16%) Java Developer
11 69 (3.93%) Consultant
12 64 (3.65%) Security Architect
12 64 (3.65%) Software Engineer
13 62 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
14 60 (3.42%) Security Engineer
15 56 (3.19%) Analyst
15 56 (3.19%) Data Architect
16 49 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 49 (2.79%) GCP DevOps
17 46 (2.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (9.46%) Kafka
2 139 (7.92%) REST
3 120 (6.84%) Spring
4 110 (6.27%) React
5 100 (5.70%) Spring Boot
6 92 (5.25%) Node.js
7 80 (4.56%) OAuth
8 62 (3.53%) RESTful
9 52 (2.96%) OpenID
10 50 (2.85%) LDAP
11 47 (2.68%) OAuth2
11 47 (2.68%) PyTorch
12 45 (2.57%) SAML
12 45 (2.57%) TensorFlow
13 38 (2.17%) GraphQL
13 38 (2.17%) LangChain
14 37 (2.11%) .NET
14 37 (2.11%) AngularJS
15 33 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (1.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 335 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.71%) Public Cloud
4 61 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 55 (3.14%) Security Posture
6 54 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 54 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 49 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (2.05%) Fixed Income
12 33 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 31 (1.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 30 (1.71%) Derivative
14 30 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.54%) Clustering
15 27 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
15 27 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
16 25 (1.43%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.27%) Linux
2 82 (4.68%) Windows
3 28 (1.60%) Android
4 25 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.37%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.80%) VMS
8 6 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.17%) AIX
10 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.057%) Rocky
12 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (45.27%) CI/CD
2 563 (32.10%) DevOps
3 423 (24.12%) Agile
4 421 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 394 (22.46%) AI
6 299 (17.05%) Microservices
7 289 (16.48%) Analytics
8 259 (14.77%) Observability
9 257 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
10 252 (14.37%) Containerisation
11 249 (14.20%) Machine Learning
12 214 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
12 214 (12.20%) Software Engineering
13 208 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 203 (11.57%) Data Modelling
15 196 (11.17%) Migration
16 195 (11.12%) Cloud Security
17 186 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 182 (10.38%) Data Engineering
18 182 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 692 (39.45%) Python
2 349 (19.90%) SQL
3 331 (18.87%) Java
4 129 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 128 (7.30%) Bash
5 128 (7.30%) PowerShell
6 96 (5.47%) Go
7 92 (5.25%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.39%) Scala
9 41 (2.34%) C#
10 23 (1.31%) Bicep
10 23 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 21 (1.20%) Groovy
12 17 (0.97%) Rust
13 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.74%) R
15 12 (0.68%) Ruby
16 9 (0.51%) C++
16 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 344 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 272 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 110 (6.27%) Degree
4 109 (6.21%) CISSP
5 80 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 69 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.36%) CISM
9 58 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (2.85%) Azure Certification
11 43 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.65%) CCSP
13 26 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.48%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.08%) GIAC
16 18 (1.03%) CCNP
17 12 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.04%) GDPR
3 92 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (5.19%) NIST
5 67 (3.82%) QA
6 37 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.60%) NCSC
8 25 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.08%) GRC
10 14 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.74%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.63%) SLA
13 9 (0.51%) COBIT
13 9 (0.51%) PSD2
13 9 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.51%) WCAG
14 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 328 (18.70%) Docker
2 69 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.80%) vSphere
7 13 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 531 (30.27%) Kubernetes
2 468 (26.68%) Terraform
3 119 (6.78%) Grafana
4 118 (6.73%) Prometheus
5 110 (6.27%) Ansible
6 37 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.77%) Istio
8 30 (1.71%) Argo
9 20 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 19 (1.08%) Puppet
11 13 (0.74%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.63%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.46%) Podman
16 7 (0.40%) linkerd
17 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
17 5 (0.29%) Nessus
17 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
17 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 547 (31.19%) Google
2 160 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 89 (5.07%) Databricks
4 60 (3.42%) Splunk
5 55 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 43 (2.45%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.34%) VMware
9 39 (2.22%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.11%) Oracle
11 32 (1.82%) Dynatrace
12 31 (1.77%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.37%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.25%) Okta
15 21 (1.20%) Informatica
16 20 (1.14%) SAP
17 19 (1.08%) Cisco
18 18 (1.03%) BeyondTrust
19 16 (0.91%) MuleSoft
20 14 (0.80%) Rapid7