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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,808 1,150 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 4.23% 3.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.56% 11.33% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 780 898
10th Percentile £403 £373 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -
75th Percentile £656 £688 £779
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £32.90 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.72 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.80% +1.45% -29.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.48 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +26.19% +22.09% -41.76%

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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -2 956 £565 -5.83% 430
North of England +10 381 £538 +7.50% 116
Yorkshire -1 238 £533 +12.75% 19
South East +5 170 £538 -0.19% 151
North West 0 126 £538 -2.27% 82
South West +28 118 £560 +6.67% 46
Midlands -36 86 £500 +10.50% 38
West Midlands -23 67 £500 -16.67% 33
East of England +7 52 £535 +7.00% 20
North East -20 21 £550 +1.15% 16
East Midlands -19 19 £500 +21.95% 5
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
1 113 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 80 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.71%) Apache
4 48 (2.65%) Confluence
5 13 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Camunda
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.055%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Predix
Applications
1 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.055%) Trello
7 1 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.055%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.055%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.055%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.055%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.055%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.055%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,183 (65.43%) AWS
2 1,160 (64.16%) Azure
3 190 (10.51%) GitHub
4 169 (9.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
6 118 (6.53%) Snowflake
7 92 (5.09%) Power Platform
8 85 (4.70%) SaaS
9 77 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 72 (3.98%) Serverless
12 67 (3.71%) dbt
13 54 (2.99%) Entra ID
14 52 (2.88%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.38%) Cloud Run
16 41 (2.27%) Amazon S3
17 35 (1.94%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.71%) Google Workspace
19 31 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.08%) Firewall
2 102 (5.64%) Network Security
3 99 (5.48%) DNS
4 90 (4.98%) VPN
5 33 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.71%) WAN
7 29 (1.60%) BGP
8 23 (1.27%) HTTP
9 20 (1.11%) OSPF
10 18 (1.00%) DHCP
11 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.83%) VLAN
13 14 (0.77%) Internet
14 13 (0.72%) LAN
14 13 (0.72%) SSL
15 11 (0.61%) IPsec
16 10 (0.55%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.50%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.50%) MPLS
18 8 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (11.01%) BigQuery
2 146 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (4.20%) Big Data
4 76 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 75 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 74 (4.09%) Power BI
7 64 (3.54%) Metadata
8 63 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.60%) Tableau
10 36 (1.99%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.77%) MySQL
12 30 (1.66%) MongoDB
13 29 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 27 (1.49%) Looker
15 24 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 22 (1.22%) Flink
16 22 (1.22%) Hadoop
17 21 (1.16%) Redis
18 14 (0.77%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 209 (11.56%) Jenkins
2 183 (10.12%) Git
3 132 (7.30%) GitLab
4 81 (4.48%) JIRA
5 48 (2.65%) JUnit
6 37 (2.05%) Selenium
7 32 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.66%) JMeter
9 28 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.27%) Maven
11 18 (1.00%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.83%) Postman
13 14 (0.77%) Gradle
14 12 (0.66%) MLflow
15 11 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.50%) ERwin
17 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 469 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 439 (24.28%) Finance
3 170 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.13%) Banking
5 147 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 70 (3.87%) Retail
7 53 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.32%) Legal
10 36 (1.99%) Front Office
10 36 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.71%) Marketing
12 28 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.27%) Billing
14 23 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.72%) Military
16 13 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 363 (20.08%) Architect
2 225 (12.44%) Senior
3 222 (12.28%) Developer
4 175 (9.68%) Lead
5 161 (8.90%) GCP Engineer
6 148 (8.19%) Data Engineer
7 122 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 119 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 98 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
10 84 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 69 (3.82%) Consultant
11 69 (3.82%) Software Engineer
12 65 (3.60%) Analyst
13 61 (3.37%) Security Architect
13 61 (3.37%) Security Engineer
14 56 (3.10%) Data Architect
15 54 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
16 52 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 51 (2.82%) GCP DevOps
18 48 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.68%) Kafka
2 148 (8.19%) REST
3 123 (6.80%) Spring
4 117 (6.47%) React
5 102 (5.64%) Spring Boot
6 92 (5.09%) Node.js
7 80 (4.42%) OAuth
8 65 (3.60%) RESTful
9 46 (2.54%) OpenID
10 44 (2.43%) PyTorch
11 43 (2.38%) OAuth2
12 42 (2.32%) SAML
13 41 (2.27%) GraphQL
13 41 (2.27%) LangChain
13 41 (2.27%) TensorFlow
14 40 (2.21%) AngularJS
14 40 (2.21%) LDAP
15 35 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
16 32 (1.77%) JSON
16 32 (1.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 330 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 123 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (3.87%) AI Agents
4 62 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 56 (3.10%) Public Cloud
6 53 (2.93%) Security Posture
7 51 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 47 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 45 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 35 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 31 (1.71%) Management Information System
14 30 (1.66%) Derivative
14 30 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
15 27 (1.49%) Clustering
15 27 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
16 25 (1.38%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.31%) Linux
2 83 (4.59%) Windows
3 26 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.38%) Android
5 23 (1.27%) Unix
6 19 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.66%) VMS
9 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.17%) AIX
11 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Rocky
13 1 (0.055%) Solaris
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (44.52%) CI/CD
2 577 (31.91%) DevOps
3 468 (25.88%) Agile
4 420 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 412 (22.79%) AI
6 319 (17.64%) Microservices
7 296 (16.37%) Analytics
8 265 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
9 264 (14.60%) Observability
10 262 (14.49%) Machine Learning
11 255 (14.10%) Containerisation
12 242 (13.38%) Software Engineering
13 230 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 224 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
15 220 (12.17%) Data Modelling
16 206 (11.39%) Migration
17 197 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 196 (10.84%) Cloud Security
19 190 (10.51%) Roadmaps
20 188 (10.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 691 (38.22%) Python
2 373 (20.63%) SQL
3 343 (18.97%) Java
4 140 (7.74%) JavaScript
5 134 (7.41%) Bash
6 128 (7.08%) PowerShell
7 97 (5.37%) Go
8 93 (5.14%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.21%) Scala
10 38 (2.10%) C#
11 25 (1.38%) Bicep
12 24 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.22%) Groovy
14 18 (1.00%) Rust
14 18 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.77%) R
16 12 (0.66%) Ruby
17 10 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
18 9 (0.50%) C++
18 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 345 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 273 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 112 (6.19%) Degree
4 106 (5.86%) CISSP
5 84 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 79 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.15%) Azure Certification
9 57 (3.15%) CISM
10 42 (2.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 30 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.60%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.49%) CCSP
14 22 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.05%) CCNP
15 19 (1.05%) GIAC
16 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.53%) GDPR
3 86 (4.76%) NIST
4 85 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (4.37%) QA
6 33 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.27%) NCSC
9 20 (1.11%) GRC
10 12 (0.66%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.50%) COBIT
13 9 (0.50%) SLA
14 8 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.44%) WCAG
15 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.39%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.33%) MiFID
16 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 334 (18.47%) Docker
2 67 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) vSphere
7 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) NFS
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) Lustre
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 540 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 458 (25.33%) Terraform
3 126 (6.97%) Grafana
4 123 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 106 (5.86%) Ansible
6 39 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.66%) Istio
8 29 (1.60%) Argo
9 21 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.00%) Puppet
11 13 (0.72%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.66%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.44%) Podman
15 7 (0.39%) linkerd
16 6 (0.33%) QRadar
17 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
17 5 (0.28%) SnapMirror
17 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 566 (31.31%) Google
2 172 (9.51%) Microsoft
3 93 (5.14%) Databricks
4 66 (3.65%) Splunk
5 50 (2.77%) Salesforce
5 50 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.27%) Oracle
7 38 (2.10%) CyberArk
8 37 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 37 (2.05%) VMware
9 32 (1.77%) Dynatrace
9 32 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.38%) SAP
11 24 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.16%) Informatica
13 20 (1.11%) Cisco
13 20 (1.11%) Okta
14 18 (1.00%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.77%) Tenable
16 13 (0.72%) Foundry