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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,867 1,173 1,202
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.14% 4.28% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.82% 11.43% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 804 869
10th Percentile £403 £366 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -7.14% +0.99%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £783
90th Percentile £749 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £33.88
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% +15.68% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £101.10 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £53.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +28.50% +47.59% -50.91%

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -3 998 £575 -4.17% 663
North of England +12 388 £538 +7.50% 196
Yorkshire +2 241 £525 +11.70% 59
South East +2 179 £541 +0.51% 133
North West +2 131 £558 +6.19% 109
South West +21 120 £560 +6.67% 68
Midlands -31 84 £500 +13.77% 51
West Midlands -16 68 £500 -13.04% 45
East of England +9 53 £533 +6.50% 18
North East -24 20 £525 -3.45% 29
East Midlands -25 16 £500 +25.00% 6
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
1 113 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 83 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.70%) Apache
4 50 (2.68%) Confluence
5 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) CMS
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) JBoss
11 1 (0.054%) Mule
11 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.054%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.054%) Houdini
8 1 (0.054%) NUKE
8 1 (0.054%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.054%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.054%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,219 (65.29%) AWS
2 1,188 (63.63%) Azure
3 198 (10.61%) GitHub
4 167 (8.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 130 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
6 123 (6.59%) Snowflake
7 87 (4.66%) SaaS
8 85 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 81 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 76 (4.07%) Serverless
12 72 (3.86%) dbt
13 55 (2.95%) Vertex AI
14 51 (2.73%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.25%) Amazon S3
16 41 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (2.14%) Cloud Run
18 35 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (1.87%) OpenShift
19 33 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.00%) Firewall
2 102 (5.46%) Network Security
3 100 (5.36%) DNS
4 92 (4.93%) VPN
5 35 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.71%) WAN
7 30 (1.61%) BGP
8 24 (1.29%) HTTP
9 21 (1.12%) OSPF
10 20 (1.07%) DHCP
11 19 (1.02%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.91%) Internet
12 17 (0.91%) VLAN
13 13 (0.70%) SSL
14 12 (0.64%) LAN
14 12 (0.64%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.59%) IPsec
15 11 (0.59%) MPLS
16 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (11.19%) BigQuery
2 163 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 80 (4.28%) Data Lake
6 74 (3.96%) Big Data
7 70 (3.75%) Metadata
7 70 (3.75%) Power BI
8 67 (3.59%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.46%) Tableau
10 33 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (1.77%) SQL Server
11 31 (1.66%) Looker
11 31 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.61%) MySQL
13 25 (1.34%) Flink
14 24 (1.29%) Redis
15 22 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (1.12%) Hadoop
17 15 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 219 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 192 (10.28%) Git
3 142 (7.61%) GitLab
4 86 (4.61%) JIRA
5 50 (2.68%) JUnit
6 35 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.82%) Selenium
8 30 (1.61%) JMeter
9 27 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.39%) Maven
11 18 (0.96%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.80%) Gradle
13 13 (0.70%) Postman
13 13 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (0.64%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.64%) MLflow
15 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.54%) LoadRunner
15 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.48%) Gatling
General
1 472 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 460 (24.64%) Finance
3 174 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.05%) Banking
5 154 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.59%) Retail
7 60 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.25%) Legal
10 40 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.93%) Front Office
12 34 (1.82%) Marketing
13 28 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.07%) Billing
17 18 (0.96%) Publishing
18 17 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
19 15 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 383 (20.51%) Architect
2 235 (12.59%) Senior
3 225 (12.05%) Developer
4 184 (9.86%) Lead
5 163 (8.73%) GCP Engineer
6 157 (8.41%) Data Engineer
7 124 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 123 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.61%) Java Developer
11 72 (3.86%) Consultant
12 69 (3.70%) Analyst
13 66 (3.54%) Data Architect
13 66 (3.54%) Software Engineer
14 63 (3.37%) Security Architect
14 63 (3.37%) Security Engineer
15 58 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
16 57 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 49 (2.62%) GCP DevOps
18 47 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (9.53%) Kafka
2 160 (8.57%) REST
3 119 (6.37%) React
3 119 (6.37%) Spring
4 96 (5.14%) Spring Boot
5 95 (5.09%) Node.js
6 82 (4.39%) OAuth
7 64 (3.43%) RESTful
8 47 (2.52%) JSON
9 45 (2.41%) OAuth2
9 45 (2.41%) OpenID
9 45 (2.41%) PyTorch
10 44 (2.36%) LangChain
11 43 (2.30%) AngularJS
11 43 (2.30%) GraphQL
11 43 (2.30%) SAML
12 42 (2.25%) TensorFlow
13 40 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
14 39 (2.09%) LDAP
15 36 (1.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 353 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 132 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (4.23%) AI Agents
4 66 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 52 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 51 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 49 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
10 41 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.93%) Fixed Income
13 34 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
14 33 (1.77%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.71%) Management Information System
16 31 (1.66%) Derivative
17 30 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 27 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.64%) Linux
2 90 (4.82%) Windows
3 29 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.34%) Android
4 25 (1.34%) Unix
5 20 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.64%) VMS
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.054%) CentOS
13 1 (0.054%) Solaris
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (44.08%) CI/CD
2 583 (31.23%) DevOps
3 491 (26.30%) Agile
4 436 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 429 (22.98%) AI
6 328 (17.57%) Microservices
7 312 (16.71%) Analytics
8 270 (14.46%) Machine Learning
9 267 (14.30%) Observability
9 267 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
10 259 (13.87%) Containerisation
11 255 (13.66%) Software Engineering
12 254 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 233 (12.48%) Data Modelling
14 229 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
15 209 (11.19%) Migration
16 206 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 203 (10.87%) Roadmaps
18 201 (10.77%) Cloud Security
19 194 (10.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 709 (37.98%) Python
2 389 (20.84%) SQL
3 358 (19.18%) Java
4 150 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 146 (7.82%) Bash
6 131 (7.02%) PowerShell
7 89 (4.77%) Go
8 88 (4.71%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.20%) Scala
10 38 (2.04%) C#
11 31 (1.66%) Bicep
12 26 (1.39%) Kotlin
13 25 (1.34%) Groovy
14 23 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.96%) Rust
16 16 (0.86%) R
17 13 (0.70%) Ruby
18 10 (0.54%) C++
18 10 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
19 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 359 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 125 (6.70%) Degree
4 107 (5.73%) CISSP
5 91 (4.87%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 63 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 56 (3.00%) CISM
11 40 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (1.61%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 25 (1.34%) CCSP
15 22 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (1.12%) CCNP
17 18 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.96%) GIAC
18 14 (0.75%) PhD
19 13 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.93%) GDPR
3 85 (4.55%) QA
4 78 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 78 (4.18%) NIST
5 31 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 28 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.18%) NCSC
8 19 (1.02%) GRC
9 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.43%) COBIT
11 8 (0.43%) PSD2
11 8 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.37%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 344 (18.43%) Docker
2 68 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.75%) vSphere
7 13 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 560 (29.99%) Kubernetes
2 463 (24.80%) Terraform
3 130 (6.96%) Grafana
3 130 (6.96%) Prometheus
4 113 (6.05%) Ansible
5 37 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.71%) Argo
7 29 (1.55%) Istio
8 24 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.07%) Puppet
10 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.64%) Kubeflow
11 12 (0.64%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 7 (0.37%) linkerd
14 6 (0.32%) QRadar
15 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 595 (31.87%) Google
2 173 (9.27%) Microsoft
3 96 (5.14%) Databricks
4 67 (3.59%) Splunk
5 52 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.57%) Oracle
8 42 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.14%) VMware
10 38 (2.04%) Dynatrace
11 36 (1.93%) CyberArk
12 35 (1.87%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.55%) SAP
14 28 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.29%) Informatica
16 23 (1.23%) Cisco
17 18 (0.96%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.96%) Okta
18 14 (0.75%) IBM
19 13 (0.70%) Tenable