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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,818 1,149 1,231
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 4.22% 3.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.61% 11.31% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 782 897
10th Percentile £403 £370 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -0.41%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £780
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £34.63
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.72 £53.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.32% +3.38% -29.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.48 £101.10 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £53.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +23.83% +24.42% -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 15,658 10,159 11,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.34% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,871 8,501
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 267 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -5 959 £563 -6.25% 431
North of England +10 381 £538 +7.50% 110
Yorkshire +1 239 £527 +11.43% 23
South East +6 172 £538 -0.19% 142
North West +1 125 £539 -0.23% 73
South West +16 120 £560 +6.67% 39
Midlands -29 89 £500 +10.50% 34
West Midlands -22 70 £500 -16.67% 29
East of England +7 52 £535 +7.00% 18
North East -19 21 £550 +1.15% 15
East Midlands -22 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
1 114 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 81 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.80%) Apache
4 48 (2.64%) 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%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.055%) Luigi
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
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.11%) Trello
7 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
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 1,193 (65.62%) AWS
2 1,166 (64.14%) Azure
3 189 (10.40%) GitHub
4 167 (9.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 124 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 119 (6.55%) Snowflake
7 91 (5.01%) Power Platform
8 87 (4.79%) SaaS
9 77 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 72 (3.96%) Serverless
12 68 (3.74%) dbt
13 54 (2.97%) Entra ID
14 53 (2.92%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.37%) Cloud Run
16 41 (2.26%) Amazon S3
17 35 (1.93%) OpenShift
18 34 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.71%) Google Workspace
19 31 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.00%) Firewall
2 101 (5.56%) Network Security
3 99 (5.45%) DNS
4 89 (4.90%) VPN
5 33 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.65%) WAN
7 29 (1.60%) BGP
8 24 (1.32%) HTTP
9 20 (1.10%) OSPF
10 18 (0.99%) DHCP
11 16 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.83%) VLAN
13 14 (0.77%) Internet
14 13 (0.72%) LAN
15 12 (0.66%) SSL
16 11 (0.61%) IPsec
17 10 (0.55%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.50%) DNSSEC
18 9 (0.50%) MPLS
19 8 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (11.06%) BigQuery
2 148 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 76 (4.18%) Big Data
6 75 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 73 (4.02%) Power BI
8 65 (3.58%) Metadata
9 63 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.53%) Tableau
11 35 (1.93%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.71%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.71%) MySQL
13 29 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 28 (1.54%) Looker
15 24 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (1.27%) Flink
17 22 (1.21%) Hadoop
17 22 (1.21%) Redis
18 14 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 207 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 184 (10.12%) Git
3 133 (7.32%) GitLab
4 81 (4.46%) JIRA
5 48 (2.64%) JUnit
6 36 (1.98%) Selenium
7 32 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.65%) JMeter
9 27 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.27%) Maven
11 18 (0.99%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.83%) Postman
13 14 (0.77%) Gradle
14 12 (0.66%) MLflow
15 11 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.55%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
17 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
18 8 (0.44%) ERwin
18 8 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 470 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 437 (24.04%) Finance
3 171 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.08%) Banking
5 148 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.80%) Retail
7 55 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.31%) Legal
10 36 (1.98%) Front Office
10 36 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.71%) Marketing
12 28 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.27%) Billing
14 23 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.72%) Military
16 13 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 366 (20.13%) Architect
2 228 (12.54%) Senior
3 225 (12.38%) Developer
4 175 (9.63%) Lead
5 159 (8.75%) GCP Engineer
6 150 (8.25%) Data Engineer
7 122 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 118 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 102 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
10 85 (4.68%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.91%) Consultant
12 70 (3.85%) Software Engineer
13 65 (3.58%) Analyst
14 61 (3.36%) Security Architect
15 60 (3.30%) Security Engineer
16 57 (3.14%) Data Architect
17 56 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
18 53 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 51 (2.81%) GCP DevOps
20 48 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.63%) Kafka
2 149 (8.20%) REST
3 124 (6.82%) Spring
4 119 (6.55%) React
5 102 (5.61%) Spring Boot
6 94 (5.17%) Node.js
7 80 (4.40%) OAuth
8 66 (3.63%) RESTful
9 45 (2.48%) OpenID
10 44 (2.42%) PyTorch
11 43 (2.37%) OAuth2
12 42 (2.31%) SAML
13 41 (2.26%) AngularJS
13 41 (2.26%) GraphQL
13 41 (2.26%) TensorFlow
14 40 (2.20%) LangChain
14 40 (2.20%) LDAP
15 35 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
16 33 (1.82%) JSON
16 33 (1.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 331 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 123 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.80%) AI Agents
4 63 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 54 (2.97%) Security Posture
7 51 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 48 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 31 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
13 30 (1.65%) Derivative
13 30 (1.65%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.49%) Clustering
14 27 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
15 26 (1.43%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.27%) Linux
2 83 (4.57%) Windows
3 26 (1.43%) Android
3 26 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (1.27%) Unix
5 19 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.66%) VMS
8 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.17%) AIX
10 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.055%) Rocky
12 1 (0.055%) Solaris
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (44.50%) CI/CD
2 577 (31.74%) DevOps
3 471 (25.91%) Agile
4 419 (23.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 417 (22.94%) AI
6 321 (17.66%) Microservices
7 298 (16.39%) Analytics
8 267 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (14.63%) Observability
10 264 (14.52%) Machine Learning
11 257 (14.14%) Containerisation
12 246 (13.53%) Software Engineering
13 235 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 226 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
15 222 (12.21%) Data Modelling
16 206 (11.33%) Migration
17 199 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
18 194 (10.67%) Cloud Security
19 192 (10.56%) Roadmaps
20 189 (10.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 690 (37.95%) Python
2 374 (20.57%) SQL
3 347 (19.09%) Java
4 142 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 133 (7.32%) Bash
6 127 (6.99%) PowerShell
7 97 (5.34%) Go
8 93 (5.12%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.26%) Scala
10 39 (2.15%) C#
11 25 (1.38%) Bicep
11 25 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 22 (1.21%) Groovy
13 19 (1.05%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.99%) Rust
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
1 349 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 275 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 111 (6.11%) Degree
4 106 (5.83%) CISSP
5 87 (4.79%) DV Cleared
6 79 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.14%) Azure Certification
9 57 (3.14%) CISM
10 42 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.60%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.49%) CCSP
13 22 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (1.05%) CCNP
14 19 (1.05%) GIAC
15 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 103 (5.67%) GDPR
3 87 (4.79%) NIST
4 86 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (4.35%) QA
6 34 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.27%) NCSC
9 21 (1.16%) GRC
10 13 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.66%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 340 (18.70%) Docker
2 68 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.88%) 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%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 544 (29.92%) Kubernetes
2 457 (25.14%) Terraform
3 126 (6.93%) Grafana
4 125 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 107 (5.89%) Ansible
6 39 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.60%) Argo
8 28 (1.54%) Istio
9 21 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.99%) Puppet
11 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.72%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.66%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.44%) Podman
16 7 (0.39%) linkerd
17 6 (0.33%) QRadar
18 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
18 5 (0.28%) SnapMirror
18 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 567 (31.19%) Google
2 174 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 94 (5.17%) Databricks
4 67 (3.69%) Splunk
5 50 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 50 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.20%) Oracle
7 39 (2.15%) CyberArk
8 37 (2.04%) VMware
9 36 (1.98%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.71%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.38%) SAP
13 22 (1.21%) Informatica
14 20 (1.10%) Cisco
14 20 (1.10%) Okta
15 18 (0.99%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.77%) Tenable
17 13 (0.72%) Foundry