GCP Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 62 66
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,124 1,215 1,667
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.23% 3.26% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.25% 9.99% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 886 1,311
10th Percentile £367 £413 £438
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £623
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -1.61% -0.40%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £738
90th Percentile £838 £888 £823
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 16
10th Percentile £25.48 £34.63 £56.63
25th Percentile £37.81 £35.31 £63.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 £51.75 £70.09
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -26.16% +7.83%
75th Percentile £74.05 £64.63 £80.63
90th Percentile £97.87 £76.30 £86.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £70.09
% change year-on-year +22.09% -38.65% +31.00%

All Cloud 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 9,988 12,162 17,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.61% 32.68% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,733 8,677 12,840
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 327 302
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in England.

Daily rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +3 732 £600 -7.69% 1,245
North of England +16 162 £500 -4.76% 314
Yorkshire +13 100 £475 -6.31% 107
South East +58 73 £540 +15.20% 205
North West +23 59 £540 -1.82% 184
Midlands +53 58 £455 -32.59% 89
South West +35 38 £525 -6.67% 94
West Midlands +21 30 £625 -1.96% 58
East Midlands +26 27 £410 -39.26% 29
East of England +31 25 £493 -3.90% 73
North East 0 3 £544 -7.45% 23
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 90 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (6.05%) Apache Spark
3 47 (4.18%) Apache
4 37 (3.29%) Confluence
5 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.36%) CMS
9 4 (0.36%) Luigi
9 4 (0.36%) nginx
9 4 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.27%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.089%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.089%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.089%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.18%) Maple
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (0.80%) Shopify
2 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.44%) Kondor
4 3 (0.27%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) assyst
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.089%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.089%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 808 (71.89%) AWS
2 716 (63.70%) Azure
3 94 (8.36%) GitHub
4 89 (7.92%) dbt
5 71 (6.32%) Snowflake
6 69 (6.14%) SaaS
7 58 (5.16%) Power Platform
8 53 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 51 (4.54%) PaaS
10 48 (4.27%) IaaS
11 45 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
12 41 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (3.47%) Entra ID
15 35 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
16 32 (2.85%) OpenShift
17 29 (2.58%) Serverless
18 28 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
19 26 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
20 23 (2.05%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 88 (7.83%) Firewall
2 53 (4.72%) VPN
3 45 (4.00%) Network Security
4 41 (3.65%) DNS
5 23 (2.05%) DHCP
6 20 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.60%) HTTP
8 15 (1.33%) VLAN
9 14 (1.25%) SMTP
10 12 (1.07%) BGP
11 11 (0.98%) OSPF
12 10 (0.89%) WAN
13 9 (0.80%) Kerberos
13 9 (0.80%) SAN
14 8 (0.71%) MPLS
15 7 (0.62%) LAN
15 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.53%) HTTPS
16 6 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
17 5 (0.44%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (12.37%) BigQuery
2 118 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (5.69%) Big Data
5 61 (5.43%) Data Lake
6 56 (4.98%) NoSQL
7 54 (4.80%) Power BI
8 49 (4.36%) Tableau
9 47 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
10 43 (3.83%) Apache Iceberg
10 43 (3.83%) Dremio
11 40 (3.56%) MongoDB
12 39 (3.47%) Apache Arrow
13 38 (3.38%) Looker
14 30 (2.67%) Hadoop
15 29 (2.58%) Relational Database
16 27 (2.40%) Metadata
17 25 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (2.14%) Flink
19 23 (2.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 111 (9.88%) Jenkins
2 83 (7.38%) Git
3 80 (7.12%) JIRA
4 78 (6.94%) GitLab
5 25 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 14 (1.25%) Burp Suite
7 14 (1.25%) Metasploit
8 12 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.07%) ERwin
8 12 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 11 (0.98%) Maven
9 11 (0.98%) MLflow
10 10 (0.89%) Postman
11 9 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.80%) ER Studio
11 9 (0.80%) Liquibase
12 8 (0.71%) SoapUI
13 6 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.53%) Gradle
General
1 331 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 291 (25.89%) Finance
3 163 (14.50%) Banking
4 134 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (9.52%) Front Office
6 78 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 41 (3.65%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.47%) Marketing
9 36 (3.20%) Retail
10 24 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.25%) Legal
14 12 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.89%) Advertising
16 10 (0.89%) Electronics
17 9 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 266 (23.67%) Architect
2 210 (18.68%) Developer
3 125 (11.12%) Software Engineer
4 124 (11.03%) Senior
5 95 (8.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 79 (7.03%) Data Engineer
7 72 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
8 70 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 69 (6.14%) Analyst
10 58 (5.16%) Data Architect
11 53 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
11 53 (4.72%) GCP Architect
11 53 (4.72%) Lead
12 48 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
12 48 (4.27%) Security Architect
13 46 (4.09%) Python Developer
13 46 (4.09%) React Developer
14 41 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
15 40 (3.56%) Security Engineer
16 39 (3.47%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.37%) React
2 92 (8.19%) Node.js
3 82 (7.30%) Kafka
4 79 (7.03%) AngularJS
5 64 (5.69%) Redux
6 60 (5.34%) Vue
7 57 (5.07%) Pandas
8 54 (4.80%) NumPy
9 47 (4.18%) REST
10 46 (4.09%) Spring
11 45 (4.00%) RESTful
12 43 (3.83%) SciPy
13 36 (3.20%) OAuth
14 32 (2.85%) .NET
15 29 (2.58%) HTML
16 28 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
16 28 (2.49%) Spring Boot
17 27 (2.40%) LDAP
17 27 (2.40%) PySpark
18 26 (2.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (9.25%) Fixed Income
2 102 (9.07%) Cloud Native
3 63 (5.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 61 (5.43%) Equities
5 42 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 35 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 32 (2.85%) Hedge funds
9 28 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 26 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (2.22%) Algorithms
11 25 (2.22%) Product Ownership
12 23 (2.05%) Data Centre
13 22 (1.96%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.78%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (1.42%) PKI
18 15 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.52%) Linux
2 61 (5.43%) Windows
3 35 (3.11%) Unix
4 27 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.80%) Android
8 8 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.53%) Rocky
10 4 (0.36%) AIX
10 4 (0.36%) Solaris
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.27%) CentOS
11 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.18%) VMS
13 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (31.41%) CI/CD
2 329 (29.27%) Agile
3 297 (26.42%) DevOps
4 236 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (17.62%) Software Engineering
6 179 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 174 (15.48%) Containerisation
8 173 (15.39%) Analytics
9 149 (13.26%) ETL
10 137 (12.19%) Data Modelling
10 137 (12.19%) Microservices
11 136 (12.10%) Migration
12 131 (11.65%) Cloud Security
13 127 (11.30%) Artificial Intelligence
14 121 (10.77%) Machine Learning
15 112 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
16 110 (9.79%) Asset Management
17 108 (9.61%) Data Engineering
18 105 (9.34%) Fintech
19 103 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 501 (44.57%) Python
2 225 (20.02%) SQL
3 195 (17.35%) Java
4 178 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 117 (10.41%) TypeScript
6 108 (9.61%) Bash
7 88 (7.83%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.45%) Go
9 38 (3.38%) Scala
10 31 (2.76%) C#
11 22 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.60%) Groovy
12 18 (1.60%) Perl
13 17 (1.51%) Bicep
13 17 (1.51%) C++
14 14 (1.25%) R
15 12 (1.07%) C
16 10 (0.89%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 110 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 99 (8.81%) Degree
4 59 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (4.36%) Azure Certification
6 42 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 41 (3.65%) CISSP
8 40 (3.56%) AWS Certification
9 35 (3.11%) Master's Degree
10 27 (2.40%) CISM
11 24 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.78%) OSCP
13 18 (1.60%) CREST Certified
14 15 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (1.07%) CCNP
16 12 (1.07%) CEH
16 12 (1.07%) Tigerscheme
17 9 (0.80%) CHECK Team Member
18 8 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (8.81%) GDPR
2 74 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (6.32%) Data Quality
4 66 (5.87%) NIST
5 53 (4.72%) QA
6 30 (2.67%) HIPAA
7 29 (2.58%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.51%) NCSC
9 16 (1.42%) SOC 2
10 15 (1.33%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.71%) Basel III
12 8 (0.71%) GRC
13 7 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.44%) MiFID
15 4 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.27%) IFRS
16 3 (0.27%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 203 (18.06%) Docker
2 57 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.80%) BitLocker
7 9 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.80%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.27%) Firmware
9 3 (0.27%) Lustre
10 2 (0.18%) NFS
10 2 (0.18%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.18%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.089%) HDFS
11 1 (0.089%) Snort
11 1 (0.089%) Squid
Systems Management
1 265 (23.58%) Kubernetes
2 212 (18.86%) Terraform
3 116 (10.32%) Ansible
4 46 (4.09%) Grafana
5 36 (3.20%) Puppet
6 35 (3.11%) Prometheus
7 28 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.42%) Nagios
9 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.25%) Argo
11 13 (1.16%) Nmap
12 12 (1.07%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 11 (0.98%) Istio
14 10 (0.89%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.80%) vMotion
16 8 (0.71%) Kubeflow
17 7 (0.62%) Control-M
18 6 (0.53%) Podman
19 5 (0.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 377 (33.54%) Google
2 135 (12.01%) Microsoft
3 60 (5.34%) Databricks
4 47 (4.18%) Oracle
5 45 (4.00%) IBM
6 41 (3.65%) Splunk
7 37 (3.29%) VMware
8 30 (2.67%) SAP
9 29 (2.58%) CyberArk
10 27 (2.40%) Cisco
11 24 (2.14%) Citrix
12 19 (1.69%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.51%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.42%) Red Hat
15 15 (1.33%) HP
15 15 (1.33%) Ping Identity
16 14 (1.25%) Adobe
17 13 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
17 13 (1.16%) ServiceNow
17 13 (1.16%) Veracode