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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,883 1,182 1,229
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 4.29% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.86% 11.50% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 800 861
10th Percentile £413 £375 £411
25th Percentile £469 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -10.20% -
75th Percentile £659 £683 £775
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £27.56 £45.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +40.00% -51.61%
75th Percentile £79.13 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% +50.00% -53.18%

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 15,871 10,275 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.30% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,957 7,878
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 274 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
% change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -1 981 £575 -4.17% 309
North of England +11 406 £550 +10.00% 120
Yorkshire +6 253 £545 +16.95% 41
South East +3 190 £530 +2.87% 45
North West -5 139 £550 +4.51% 56
South West +14 124 £575 +9.52% 139
Midlands -55 70 £525 +19.32% 23
East of England +12 57 £555 +9.79% 16
West Midlands -50 52 £525 - 18
East Midlands -24 18 £500 +25.00% 5
North East -25 18 £463 -26.00% 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
1 115 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.72%) Apache
4 47 (2.50%) Confluence
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Cloudability
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Maximo
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (66.06%) AWS
2 1,211 (64.31%) Azure
3 213 (11.31%) GitHub
4 159 (8.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 143 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (7.17%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.15%) SaaS
8 90 (4.78%) dbt
9 84 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (4.09%) Power Platform
11 71 (3.77%) Serverless
12 58 (3.08%) Entra ID
13 52 (2.76%) Vertex AI
14 50 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (2.12%) Amazon S3
16 36 (1.91%) OpenShift
17 35 (1.86%) Cloud Run
17 35 (1.86%) Datadog
18 34 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.31%) Firewall
2 99 (5.26%) Network Security
3 98 (5.20%) DNS
4 82 (4.35%) VPN
5 37 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.38%) BGP
6 26 (1.38%) HTTP
6 26 (1.38%) WAN
7 22 (1.17%) DHCP
8 20 (1.06%) Internet
9 18 (0.96%) VLAN
10 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.80%) OSPF
12 13 (0.69%) SSL
13 11 (0.58%) IPsec
14 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.48%) MPLS
16 8 (0.42%) LAN
16 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (11.42%) BigQuery
2 170 (9.03%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.04%) Relational Database
6 75 (3.98%) Data Lake
6 75 (3.98%) Metadata
7 72 (3.82%) Big Data
8 69 (3.66%) Power BI
9 47 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (2.50%) Tableau
10 34 (1.81%) Looker
11 32 (1.70%) Flink
12 30 (1.59%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.59%) Redis
13 29 (1.54%) SQL Server
14 26 (1.38%) MySQL
15 20 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
16 19 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 226 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 199 (10.57%) Git
3 153 (8.13%) GitLab
4 90 (4.78%) JIRA
5 42 (2.23%) JUnit
6 38 (2.02%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.59%) Selenium
8 29 (1.54%) Maven
9 28 (1.49%) JMeter
10 18 (0.96%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.85%) Gradle
11 16 (0.85%) LoadRunner
12 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.80%) Postman
13 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.53%) WebDriver
16 9 (0.48%) NeoLoad
General
1 518 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 449 (23.84%) Finance
3 181 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (8.98%) Banking
5 156 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.56%) Retail
7 61 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.12%) Legal
10 38 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.91%) Marketing
12 31 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.22%) Billing
16 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
19 16 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 406 (21.56%) Architect
2 265 (14.07%) Senior
3 207 (10.99%) Developer
4 185 (9.82%) Lead
5 157 (8.34%) Data Engineer
6 148 (7.86%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 116 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.67%) Java Developer
11 82 (4.35%) Consultant
12 72 (3.82%) Security Engineer
13 66 (3.51%) Data Architect
13 66 (3.51%) Security Architect
14 64 (3.40%) Analyst
15 62 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
16 57 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 53 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
18 51 (2.71%) Software Engineer
19 41 (2.18%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 463 (24.59%) Terraform
2 194 (10.30%) Kafka
3 168 (8.92%) REST
4 106 (5.63%) Spring
5 103 (5.47%) React
6 96 (5.10%) OAuth
7 91 (4.83%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.25%) RESTful
9 79 (4.20%) Node.js
10 57 (3.03%) JSON
11 55 (2.92%) OpenID
12 52 (2.76%) SAML
13 51 (2.71%) OAuth2
14 50 (2.66%) LDAP
15 45 (2.39%) PySpark
16 43 (2.28%) LangChain
17 42 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
18 39 (2.07%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.07%) SOAP
19 37 (1.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 378 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 135 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (4.78%) AI Agents
4 69 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 62 (3.29%) Security Posture
6 59 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 55 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
9 46 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.39%) Data Centre
11 44 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 41 (2.18%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.96%) Data Structures
14 36 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.81%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.59%) PKI
17 27 (1.43%) CMDB
17 27 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 24 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.43%) Linux
2 88 (4.67%) Windows
3 32 (1.70%) Unix
4 29 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.053%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (44.50%) CI/CD
2 601 (31.92%) DevOps
3 476 (25.28%) Agile
4 458 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 441 (23.42%) AI
6 325 (17.26%) Microservices
7 310 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 300 (15.93%) Analytics
9 282 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (14.50%) Machine Learning
11 272 (14.45%) Observability
12 264 (14.02%) Containerisation
13 258 (13.70%) Software Engineering
14 228 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
15 227 (12.06%) Data Modelling
15 227 (12.06%) Roadmaps
16 217 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 214 (11.36%) Cloud Security
18 209 (11.10%) Migration
19 195 (10.36%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 717 (38.08%) Python
2 387 (20.55%) SQL
3 369 (19.60%) Java
4 158 (8.39%) Bash
5 147 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 141 (7.49%) PowerShell
7 88 (4.67%) Go
8 74 (3.93%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.44%) Scala
10 35 (1.86%) C#
10 35 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 32 (1.70%) Bicep
12 24 (1.27%) Groovy
13 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 18 (0.96%) R
13 18 (0.96%) Rust
14 11 (0.58%) C++
15 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.48%) Ruby
16 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 383 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 285 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.74%) Degree
4 108 (5.74%) CISSP
5 92 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (3.08%) CISM
11 41 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 33 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.27%) CCSP
14 22 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.01%) GIAC
16 17 (0.90%) CCNP
17 15 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 14 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
19 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.83%) GDPR
2 91 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 91 (4.83%) QA
3 89 (4.73%) NIST
4 30 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 30 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.22%) NCSC
6 19 (1.01%) GRC
7 14 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.42%) COBIT
10 8 (0.42%) WCAG
11 7 (0.37%) MiFID
11 7 (0.37%) SLA
12 6 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 344 (18.27%) Docker
2 83 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.64%) vSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.053%) zsh
Systems Management
1 585 (31.07%) Kubernetes
2 127 (6.74%) Grafana
3 126 (6.69%) Ansible
4 125 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.70%) Argo
7 30 (1.59%) Istio
8 25 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.12%) Puppet
10 15 (0.80%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.74%) Kubeflow
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 7 (0.37%) QRadar
14 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.27%) linkerd
14 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.21%) CASB
15 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 612 (32.50%) Google
2 200 (10.62%) Microsoft
3 114 (6.05%) Databricks
4 72 (3.82%) Splunk
5 67 (3.56%) Oracle
6 56 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 54 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 48 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.44%) CyberArk
9 46 (2.44%) VMware
10 39 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.96%) SAP
12 31 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.49%) Informatica
14 27 (1.43%) Red Hat
15 26 (1.38%) IBM
16 22 (1.17%) Cisco
17 21 (1.12%) MuleSoft
18 19 (1.01%) New Relic
18 19 (1.01%) Okta