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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,952 1,277 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.19% 4.57% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.15% 11.97% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 868 797
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 £664 £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 25 8 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £15.93 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -40.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -38.13%

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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +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 1 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 1 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 1 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 0 998 £575 -4.17% 2,223
North of England +4 436 £538 +7.50% 395
Yorkshire -1 283 £538 +13.04% 105
South East -1 189 £525 +5.00% 302
North West -3 138 £530 +6.00% 256
South West +30 137 £550 -4.35% 190
Midlands -65 74 £530 +11.58% 122
East of England +14 64 £555 +0.91% 63
West Midlands -46 56 £551 +5.00% 103
North East -20 21 £588 +14.08% 36
East Midlands -28 18 £500 +20.48% 19
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
1 112 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (3.79%) Apache
4 53 (2.72%) Confluence
5 19 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.20%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Houdini
8 1 (0.051%) NUKE
8 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Cloudability
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) 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 1,272 (65.16%) AWS
2 1,238 (63.42%) Azure
3 221 (11.32%) GitHub
4 174 (8.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 145 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (6.86%) Snowflake
7 104 (5.33%) dbt
8 101 (5.17%) SaaS
9 92 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.94%) Power Platform
12 76 (3.89%) Entra ID
13 67 (3.43%) Serverless
14 58 (2.97%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.82%) Cloud Run
16 49 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
18 41 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
19 39 (2.00%) Datadog
20 38 (1.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.07%) Firewall
2 97 (4.97%) Network Security
3 74 (3.79%) DNS
4 65 (3.33%) VPN
5 29 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.38%) BGP
7 26 (1.33%) DHCP
8 24 (1.23%) WAN
9 19 (0.97%) HTTP
9 19 (0.97%) Internet
10 18 (0.92%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.92%) VLAN
11 15 (0.77%) OSPF
12 14 (0.72%) SSL
13 13 (0.67%) VoIP
14 11 (0.56%) IPsec
14 11 (0.56%) LAN
15 10 (0.51%) MPLS
16 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (12.91%) BigQuery
2 172 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (4.46%) Metadata
5 83 (4.25%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.84%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.48%) Power BI
9 59 (3.02%) Big Data
10 49 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.46%) Looker
12 39 (2.00%) Tableau
13 37 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 37 (1.90%) SQL Server
14 36 (1.84%) MySQL
15 33 (1.69%) Redis
16 28 (1.43%) Flink
17 24 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
18 20 (1.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 231 (11.83%) Git
2 227 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 151 (7.74%) GitLab
4 104 (5.33%) JIRA
5 37 (1.90%) JUnit
5 37 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.69%) Maven
7 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.18%) JMeter
9 22 (1.13%) Selenium
9 22 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.08%) Gradle
11 18 (0.92%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.87%) Gatling
12 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
12 17 (0.87%) Postman
13 13 (0.67%) Snyk
14 12 (0.61%) Claude Code
14 12 (0.61%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.46%) NeoLoad
General
1 535 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 492 (25.20%) Finance
3 206 (10.55%) Banking
4 196 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 73 (3.74%) Retail
7 54 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 47 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.84%) Legal
9 36 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 32 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 29 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.43%) Billing
13 28 (1.43%) Marketing
14 26 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 402 (20.59%) Architect
2 270 (13.83%) Senior
3 226 (11.58%) Developer
4 178 (9.12%) Data Engineer
5 175 (8.97%) Lead
6 151 (7.74%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.56%) Security Engineer
11 88 (4.51%) Java Developer
12 86 (4.41%) Consultant
13 75 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 70 (3.59%) Analyst
15 64 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
16 62 (3.18%) Data Architect
17 60 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
18 54 (2.77%) Software Engineer
19 52 (2.66%) Security Architect
20 48 (2.46%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (26.49%) Terraform
2 218 (11.17%) Kafka
3 197 (10.09%) REST
4 110 (5.64%) React
5 104 (5.33%) OAuth
6 91 (4.66%) RESTful
6 91 (4.66%) Spring
7 84 (4.30%) Spring Boot
8 69 (3.53%) Node.js
9 64 (3.28%) JSON
9 64 (3.28%) OpenID
10 58 (2.97%) SAML
10 58 (2.97%) SOAP
11 51 (2.61%) OAuth2
12 48 (2.46%) PySpark
13 47 (2.41%) LangChain
13 47 (2.41%) LDAP
14 43 (2.20%) JWT
14 43 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (2.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 423 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.53%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 80 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 69 (3.53%) Security Posture
6 67 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 55 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 52 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
10 48 (2.46%) Data Structures
11 46 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
12 44 (2.25%) Management Information System
13 42 (2.15%) Algorithms
13 42 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
14 36 (1.84%) PKI
15 29 (1.49%) CMDB
15 29 (1.49%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 174 (8.91%) Linux
2 108 (5.53%) Windows
3 52 (2.66%) Unix
4 35 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.23%) Android
7 17 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.67%) 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
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Solaris
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 634 (32.48%) DevOps
3 503 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 491 (25.15%) Agile
5 484 (24.80%) AI
6 358 (18.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 334 (17.11%) Microservices
8 313 (16.03%) Analytics
9 294 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
10 287 (14.70%) Software Engineering
11 281 (14.40%) Observability
12 275 (14.09%) Containerisation
13 260 (13.32%) Machine Learning
14 253 (12.96%) Roadmaps
15 247 (12.65%) Data Modelling
16 243 (12.45%) Cloud Security
17 234 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
18 229 (11.73%) Event-Driven
19 228 (11.68%) Migration
20 221 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 766 (39.24%) Python
2 446 (22.85%) SQL
3 375 (19.21%) Java
4 158 (8.09%) Bash
5 150 (7.68%) PowerShell
6 149 (7.63%) JavaScript
7 104 (5.33%) Go
8 70 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 48 (2.46%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.15%) Scala
11 40 (2.05%) C#
12 33 (1.69%) Bicep
13 23 (1.18%) Groovy
14 22 (1.13%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.97%) R
16 18 (0.92%) Rust
17 13 (0.67%) C++
18 12 (0.61%) ABAP
19 10 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 9 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 390 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 283 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 146 (7.48%) Degree
4 109 (5.58%) CISSP
5 104 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 99 (5.07%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 65 (3.33%) CISM
9 58 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 32 (1.64%) CCSP
14 20 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.87%) CISA
16 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.67%) GIAC
17 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.23%) QA
3 99 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 93 (4.76%) NIST
5 68 (3.48%) GDPR
6 33 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.49%) GRC
9 24 (1.23%) NCSC
10 20 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) 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 (0.26%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 342 (17.52%) Docker
2 86 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) 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 (0.26%) ISA Server
9 5 (0.26%) 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
1 616 (31.56%) Kubernetes
2 160 (8.20%) Ansible
3 120 (6.15%) Grafana
4 112 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.69%) Argo
7 31 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.38%) Puppet
9 26 (1.33%) Istio
10 18 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.51%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.20%) Kibana
17 4 (0.20%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 692 (35.45%) Google
2 245 (12.55%) Microsoft
3 121 (6.20%) Databricks
4 91 (4.66%) Splunk
5 72 (3.69%) Oracle
6 63 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.07%) Dynatrace
8 51 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 49 (2.51%) VMware
10 48 (2.46%) CyberArk
11 47 (2.41%) SAP
12 42 (2.15%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.84%) IBM
14 34 (1.74%) Palo Alto
15 30 (1.54%) Cisco
16 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
17 27 (1.38%) Informatica
18 25 (1.28%) Okta
19 21 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
20 19 (0.97%) MuleSoft