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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,667 930 985
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.30% 3.82% 2.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.79% 10.09% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 630 740
10th Percentile £380 £370 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £532 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.33% - -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 14,134 9,216 12,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.48% 37.82% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,736 6,497 8,664
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
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 427 181 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +60.38% +26.37% -20.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.52 £75.50 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 0 863 £600 - 382
North of England +26 336 £525 -4.55% 127
Yorkshire +13 193 £500 -6.98% 41
South East +26 181 £492 -14.43% 122
North West +19 129 £550 -4.35% 62
Midlands +1 112 £480 +1.05% 34
West Midlands +6 92 £502 +5.14% 23
South West +23 85 £550 -8.33% 51
East of England -5 45 £505 +8.02% 19
East Midlands -27 19 £437 +16.93% 11
North East -4 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 93 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 67 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (3.72%) Apache
4 36 (2.16%) Confluence
5 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.48%) SAS
8 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
9 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) Documentum
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) JBoss
11 1 (0.060%) nginx
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.42%) 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 (0.060%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) 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 (0.060%) Actimize
6 1 (0.060%) Maximo
6 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,165 (69.89%) AWS
2 1,163 (69.77%) Azure
3 182 (10.92%) GitHub
4 128 (7.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (7.38%) Power Platform
6 99 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (4.62%) Snowflake
9 76 (4.56%) Serverless
10 62 (3.72%) OpenShift
11 57 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (3.36%) Amazon S3
13 52 (3.12%) dbt
14 49 (2.94%) Entra ID
15 46 (2.76%) SaaS
16 40 (2.40%) Cloud Run
17 39 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 37 (2.22%) Vertex AI
19 35 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
20 28 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 113 (6.78%) Firewall
2 85 (5.10%) VPN
3 83 (4.98%) DNS
4 77 (4.62%) Network Security
5 26 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.56%) WAN
6 23 (1.38%) BGP
7 21 (1.26%) HTTP
8 18 (1.08%) LAN
9 17 (1.02%) OSPF
10 16 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.84%) VLAN
11 14 (0.84%) VoIP
12 13 (0.78%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.72%) DHCP
14 11 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.54%) Internet
16 9 (0.54%) IPv6
16 9 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (10.68%) BigQuery
2 124 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (6.24%) Power BI
5 95 (5.70%) NoSQL
6 67 (4.02%) Big Data
7 64 (3.84%) Metadata
8 60 (3.60%) Data Lake
9 57 (3.42%) Tableau
10 42 (2.52%) SQL Server
11 40 (2.40%) MongoDB
12 37 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 36 (2.16%) MySQL
14 26 (1.56%) Looker
15 23 (1.38%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.38%) OLAP
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.08%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 222 (13.32%) Jenkins
2 168 (10.08%) Git
3 150 (9.00%) GitLab
4 75 (4.50%) JIRA
5 43 (2.58%) Selenium
6 39 (2.34%) JUnit
7 30 (1.80%) JMeter
8 28 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.56%) Postman
10 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
11 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.84%) Liquibase
14 12 (0.72%) MLflow
15 11 (0.66%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.66%) Maven
16 10 (0.60%) Gatling
17 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
18 8 (0.48%) Mockito
General
1 515 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 372 (22.32%) Finance
3 188 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (9.72%) Banking
5 140 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.00%) Retail
8 43 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 36 (2.16%) Legal
10 33 (1.98%) Front Office
10 33 (1.98%) Marketing
11 30 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.02%) Electronics
17 16 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (0.78%) Military
19 12 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 346 (20.76%) Architect
2 186 (11.16%) Senior
3 174 (10.44%) Developer
4 170 (10.20%) Lead
5 167 (10.02%) GCP Engineer
6 138 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 104 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 94 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 87 (5.22%) Analyst
10 82 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
11 74 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 60 (3.60%) Consultant
13 54 (3.24%) Security Architect
14 51 (3.06%) Security Engineer
15 50 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
16 47 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
17 46 (2.76%) Java Developer
18 42 (2.52%) GCP DevOps
19 39 (2.34%) Data Architect
19 39 (2.34%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (11.10%) REST
2 153 (9.18%) Kafka
3 116 (6.96%) Spring
4 111 (6.66%) React
5 97 (5.82%) Node.js
6 92 (5.52%) RESTful
7 87 (5.22%) Spring Boot
8 86 (5.16%) LDAP
9 61 (3.66%) PyTorch
9 61 (3.66%) TensorFlow
10 58 (3.48%) OAuth
11 56 (3.36%) SOAP
12 51 (3.06%) AngularJS
13 48 (2.88%) OpenID
14 45 (2.70%) .NET
15 44 (2.64%) scikit-learn
16 41 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
17 37 (2.22%) Middleware
18 35 (2.10%) Pandas
19 34 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 272 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 95 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (5.52%) Public Cloud
4 66 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.96%) Security Posture
5 58 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 33 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 31 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.80%) Fixed Income
12 28 (1.68%) Algorithms
13 24 (1.44%) Derivative
14 21 (1.26%) Clustering
14 21 (1.26%) Equities
15 20 (1.20%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.08%) Management Information System
18 17 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.60%) Linux
2 64 (3.84%) Windows
3 23 (1.38%) VMS
4 18 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 17 (1.02%) Android
6 14 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.78%) 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 (0.060%) Rocky
12 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (43.43%) CI/CD
2 579 (34.73%) DevOps
3 373 (22.38%) Agile
4 349 (20.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (20.58%) AI
6 326 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (17.94%) Analytics
8 297 (17.82%) Containerisation
9 265 (15.90%) Microservices
10 248 (14.88%) Machine Learning
11 216 (12.96%) Observability
12 190 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
13 187 (11.22%) Migration
14 185 (11.10%) Software Engineering
15 181 (10.86%) Data Modelling
16 178 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 166 (9.96%) Data Engineering
18 162 (9.72%) ETL
19 150 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
20 147 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 701 (42.05%) Python
2 322 (19.32%) SQL
3 270 (16.20%) Java
4 134 (8.04%) PowerShell
5 124 (7.44%) JavaScript
6 105 (6.30%) Bash
7 77 (4.62%) Go
8 76 (4.56%) TypeScript
9 50 (3.00%) C#
10 33 (1.98%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
12 18 (1.08%) Bicep
12 18 (1.08%) R
13 14 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.60%) Ruby
15 9 (0.54%) PHP
15 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) C++
18 5 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 372 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 303 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 118 (7.08%) Degree
4 88 (5.28%) CISSP
5 78 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 55 (3.30%) Azure Certification
8 54 (3.24%) CISM
9 49 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.64%) DV Cleared
11 39 (2.34%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 25 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 24 (1.44%) CCNP
15 19 (1.14%) CCSP
16 17 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.78%) CCIE
19 12 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
20 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (9.36%) GDPR
2 125 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 103 (6.18%) NIST
4 101 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (4.32%) QA
6 46 (2.76%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.26%) NCSC
8 17 (1.02%) SLA
9 16 (0.96%) GRC
10 15 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 15 (0.90%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.72%) PSD2
12 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) 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
1 370 (22.20%) Docker
2 97 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 8 (0.48%) 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 2 (0.12%) Snort
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
13 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 520 (31.19%) Kubernetes
2 405 (24.30%) Terraform
3 133 (7.98%) Ansible
4 122 (7.32%) Grafana
5 111 (6.66%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.04%) Istio
7 25 (1.50%) Argo
8 17 (1.02%) Kubeflow
9 16 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.78%) Puppet
11 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.60%) SCCM
12 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.54%) Nessus
13 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) Rancher
15 5 (0.30%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 541 (32.45%) Google
2 139 (8.34%) Microsoft
3 111 (6.66%) Splunk
4 83 (4.98%) Databricks
5 74 (4.44%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.54%) BeyondTrust
8 45 (2.70%) Oracle
9 42 (2.52%) VMware
10 37 (2.22%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.22%) Palo Alto
11 36 (2.16%) Centrify
12 32 (1.92%) Cisco
12 32 (1.92%) SAP
13 24 (1.44%) Informatica
14 22 (1.32%) Foundry
14 22 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.32%) Salesforce
15 21 (1.26%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.96%) Okta