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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,887 1,232 1,209
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 4.44% 3.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.83% 11.82% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 827 824
10th Percentile £407 £378 £405
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £609
Median % change year-on-year - -9.69% -0.57%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £768
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £34.82 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £43.62 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £81.25 £72.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £100.55 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +38.30% -4.55% -29.03%

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 15,946 10,424 11,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.57% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,641 7,046 7,788
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 257 182
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.14
90th Percentile £82.81 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -1 987 £575 -4.17% 1,540
North of England +5 407 £540 +10.20% 242
Yorkshire +3 259 £540 +13.68% 75
South East +5 186 £525 +1.55% 220
North West -7 135 £550 +10.00% 144
South West +17 126 £560 +6.67% 123
Midlands -56 66 £525 +13.51% 83
East of England +15 60 £550 +8.80% 49
West Midlands -49 48 £528 -0.47% 62
East Midlands -29 18 £500 +20.48% 21
North East -26 17 £481 -23.00% 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
1 116 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.97%) Apache
4 51 (2.70%) Confluence
5 17 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Maximo
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (64.86%) AWS
2 1,204 (63.80%) Azure
3 209 (11.08%) GitHub
4 164 (8.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 139 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (7.15%) Snowflake
7 98 (5.19%) dbt
8 96 (5.09%) SaaS
9 83 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 71 (3.76%) Power Platform
12 67 (3.55%) Serverless
13 65 (3.44%) Entra ID
14 55 (2.91%) Vertex AI
15 45 (2.38%) Cloud Run
16 44 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
17 37 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (1.91%) Amazon S3
19 35 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.98%) Network Security
2 93 (4.93%) Firewall
3 78 (4.13%) DNS
4 69 (3.66%) VPN
5 29 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.22%) BGP
6 23 (1.22%) WAN
7 22 (1.17%) DHCP
8 19 (1.01%) HTTP
8 19 (1.01%) Internet
9 18 (0.95%) VLAN
10 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.79%) SSL
12 14 (0.74%) OSPF
13 11 (0.58%) IPsec
13 11 (0.58%) VoIP
14 10 (0.53%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 8 (0.42%) DKIM
16 8 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (12.29%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (4.50%) Metadata
5 77 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 76 (4.03%) Relational Database
7 74 (3.92%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.60%) Big Data
9 64 (3.39%) Power BI
10 45 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (2.12%) Tableau
12 38 (2.01%) Looker
13 35 (1.85%) SQL Server
14 32 (1.70%) Flink
14 32 (1.70%) MongoDB
15 30 (1.59%) Redis
16 29 (1.54%) MySQL
17 21 (1.11%) Delta Lake
17 21 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.06%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 221 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 214 (11.34%) Git
3 148 (7.84%) GitLab
4 92 (4.88%) JIRA
5 41 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 37 (1.96%) JUnit
7 34 (1.80%) Maven
8 26 (1.38%) Selenium
9 22 (1.17%) JMeter
10 20 (1.06%) Gradle
11 18 (0.95%) Postman
12 17 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (0.85%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.85%) LoadRunner
14 15 (0.79%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.69%) Gatling
16 11 (0.58%) Snyk
17 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 518 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 464 (24.59%) Finance
3 185 (9.80%) Banking
4 174 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.76%) Retail
7 55 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.96%) Legal
10 36 (1.91%) Marketing
11 35 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.32%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.22%) Billing
16 21 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.06%) Publishing
18 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 403 (21.36%) Architect
2 257 (13.62%) Senior
3 211 (11.18%) Developer
4 180 (9.54%) Lead
5 166 (8.80%) Data Engineer
6 150 (7.95%) GCP Engineer
7 129 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 116 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (4.88%) Java Developer
11 85 (4.50%) Consultant
12 76 (4.03%) Security Engineer
13 69 (3.66%) Analyst
14 66 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
15 65 (3.44%) Data Architect
16 62 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 62 (3.29%) Security Architect
17 52 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
18 50 (2.65%) Software Engineer
19 45 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (25.28%) Terraform
2 210 (11.13%) Kafka
3 180 (9.54%) REST
4 104 (5.51%) Spring
5 101 (5.35%) React
6 97 (5.14%) OAuth
7 96 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 81 (4.29%) RESTful
9 69 (3.66%) Node.js
10 58 (3.07%) JSON
10 58 (3.07%) OpenID
11 55 (2.91%) SAML
12 52 (2.76%) PySpark
13 50 (2.65%) LDAP
13 50 (2.65%) OAuth2
14 46 (2.44%) SOAP
15 44 (2.33%) LangChain
15 44 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (2.01%) GraphQL
17 37 (1.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 400 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (5.14%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 62 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 54 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 52 (2.76%) Public Cloud
10 48 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 43 (2.28%) Data Centre
13 40 (2.12%) Data Structures
14 39 (2.07%) Algorithms
15 38 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (2.01%) Management Information System
16 33 (1.75%) PKI
17 27 (1.43%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.27%) CMDB
19 23 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 151 (8.00%) Linux
2 94 (4.98%) Windows
3 39 (2.07%) Unix
4 29 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.17%) Android
7 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (45.47%) CI/CD
2 616 (32.64%) DevOps
3 474 (25.12%) Agile
4 473 (25.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 467 (24.75%) AI
6 332 (17.59%) Microservices
6 332 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 304 (16.11%) Analytics
8 281 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 273 (14.47%) Observability
10 271 (14.36%) Software Engineering
11 266 (14.10%) Machine Learning
12 265 (14.04%) Containerisation
13 238 (12.61%) Roadmaps
14 236 (12.51%) Data Pipeline
15 226 (11.98%) Data Modelling
16 223 (11.82%) Cloud Security
17 215 (11.39%) Migration
18 208 (11.02%) Event-Driven
19 205 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 727 (38.53%) Python
2 415 (21.99%) SQL
3 380 (20.14%) Java
4 153 (8.11%) Bash
5 139 (7.37%) PowerShell
6 135 (7.15%) JavaScript
7 90 (4.77%) Go
8 66 (3.50%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.33%) Scala
10 39 (2.07%) Shell Script
11 34 (1.80%) C#
12 31 (1.64%) Bicep
13 22 (1.17%) Groovy
14 21 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 16 (0.85%) R
17 10 (0.53%) Ruby
18 9 (0.48%) C++
18 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 383 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 279 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.05%) Degree
4 111 (5.88%) CISSP
5 97 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 81 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (3.29%) CISM
9 60 (3.18%) Azure Certification
10 59 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 33 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.59%) CCSP
14 25 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (0.95%) GIAC
16 15 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.69%) CCNP
19 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.03%) QA
3 92 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (4.66%) NIST
5 79 (4.19%) GDPR
6 31 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.22%) NCSC
9 20 (1.06%) GRC
10 15 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.74%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.58%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.42%) COBIT
13 8 (0.42%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.26%) SLA
17 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 342 (18.12%) Docker
2 83 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.53%) vSphere
7 6 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.16%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 602 (31.90%) Kubernetes
2 141 (7.47%) Ansible
3 114 (6.04%) Grafana
4 110 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.64%) Argo
7 28 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.32%) Istio
9 23 (1.22%) Puppet
10 18 (0.95%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 8 (0.42%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) CASB
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.32%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 634 (33.60%) Google
2 215 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 123 (6.52%) Databricks
4 77 (4.08%) Splunk
5 72 (3.82%) Oracle
6 57 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 45 (2.38%) CyberArk
9 45 (2.38%) VMware
10 40 (2.12%) SAP
11 39 (2.07%) OpenAI
12 30 (1.59%) IBM
12 30 (1.59%) Informatica
12 30 (1.59%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.48%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.32%) Cisco
15 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
16 20 (1.06%) Okta
17 18 (0.95%) New Relic