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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,679 920 1,026
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.23% 3.74% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.79% 9.99% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 631 764
10th Percentile £375 £375 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £541 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.87% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.55
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -21.62%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.50 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.65 £76.84 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -30.71%

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 14,244 9,205 11,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.85% 37.42% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,823 6,454 8,547
10th Percentile £315 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 194 323
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.74 £33.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -37.78%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +2 861 £575 -4.56% 267
North of England +29 336 £525 -4.55% 100
Yorkshire +7 190 £500 -4.76% 24
South East +29 184 £496 -13.74% 119
North West +22 131 £550 -4.35% 60
South West +28 101 £550 -3.93% 44
Midlands -4 92 £455 -2.15% 47
West Midlands -11 70 £486 +1.94% 24
East of England +2 55 £570 +14.46% 38
East Midlands -24 22 £438 +11.89% 23
North East +1 18 £575 +24.32% 16
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 95 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 64 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.22%) Apache
4 35 (2.08%) Confluence
5 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.42%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.18%) nginx
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.12%) Documentum
13 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.060%) JBoss
13 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Weka
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.060%) Actimize
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,166 (69.45%) Azure
2 1,145 (68.20%) AWS
3 181 (10.78%) GitHub
4 133 (7.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 113 (6.73%) Power Platform
6 102 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (4.71%) Snowflake
9 65 (3.87%) SaaS
10 61 (3.63%) Serverless
11 58 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 57 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (3.10%) Amazon S3
14 49 (2.92%) dbt
15 48 (2.86%) Vertex AI
16 47 (2.80%) Entra ID
17 38 (2.26%) Cloud Run
18 33 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (1.91%) Google Gemini
19 32 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.84%) Firewall
2 88 (5.24%) VPN
3 84 (5.00%) DNS
4 77 (4.59%) Network Security
5 26 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.31%) HTTP
7 21 (1.25%) WAN
8 17 (1.01%) BGP
9 14 (0.83%) VoIP
10 12 (0.71%) OSPF
11 11 (0.66%) Internet
11 11 (0.66%) LAN
11 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 9 (0.54%) VLAN
14 8 (0.48%) SSL
14 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
16 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.66%) BigQuery
2 106 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (5.60%) Power BI
5 80 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 69 (4.11%) Big Data
7 64 (3.81%) Metadata
8 63 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.34%) Tableau
10 39 (2.32%) SQL Server
11 38 (2.26%) Relational Database
12 35 (2.08%) MongoDB
13 34 (2.03%) MySQL
14 27 (1.61%) Looker
15 26 (1.55%) Hadoop
16 21 (1.25%) OLAP
16 21 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 17 (1.01%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 205 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 155 (9.23%) Git
3 130 (7.74%) GitLab
4 77 (4.59%) JIRA
5 43 (2.56%) Selenium
6 41 (2.44%) JUnit
7 28 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.67%) JMeter
8 26 (1.55%) Postman
9 19 (1.13%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 16 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.77%) MLflow
13 11 (0.66%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.60%) Maven
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.48%) Gatling
16 8 (0.48%) Mockito
General
1 496 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 364 (21.68%) Finance
3 181 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.05%) Banking
5 138 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.98%) Retail
8 38 (2.26%) Legal
9 36 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.91%) Front Office
10 32 (1.91%) Marketing
11 27 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.95%) Military
14 16 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 345 (20.55%) Architect
2 189 (11.26%) Senior
3 180 (10.72%) Lead
4 176 (10.48%) Developer
5 164 (9.77%) GCP Engineer
6 137 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 104 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 99 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 79 (4.71%) Analyst
10 74 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.81%) Software Engineer
12 56 (3.34%) Cloud Architect
13 54 (3.22%) Consultant
14 51 (3.04%) Java Developer
14 51 (3.04%) Security Engineer
15 48 (2.86%) GCP DevOps
15 48 (2.86%) Security Architect
16 46 (2.74%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 45 (2.68%) Data Architect
18 42 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.07%) REST
2 150 (8.93%) Kafka
3 120 (7.15%) Spring
4 111 (6.61%) React
5 99 (5.90%) Node.js
6 93 (5.54%) Spring Boot
7 85 (5.06%) LDAP
8 73 (4.35%) RESTful
9 69 (4.11%) OAuth
10 56 (3.34%) SOAP
11 53 (3.16%) PyTorch
11 53 (3.16%) TensorFlow
12 51 (3.04%) OpenID
13 50 (2.98%) AngularJS
14 48 (2.86%) .NET
15 40 (2.38%) LangChain
16 37 (2.20%) OAuth2
16 37 (2.20%) SAML
16 37 (2.20%) scikit-learn
17 33 (1.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 277 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (3.69%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 45 (2.68%) AI Agents
7 41 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 33 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.73%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.31%) Clustering
12 22 (1.31%) Derivative
12 22 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 20 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.19%) Equities
13 20 (1.19%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 91 (5.42%) Linux
2 68 (4.05%) Windows
3 26 (1.55%) Mac OS
4 25 (1.49%) Android
5 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.31%) VMS
6 15 (0.89%) Unix
7 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (43.66%) CI/CD
2 548 (32.64%) DevOps
3 362 (21.56%) Agile
4 346 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (20.43%) AI
6 313 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (17.75%) Analytics
8 275 (16.38%) Containerisation
9 266 (15.84%) Microservices
10 234 (13.94%) Machine Learning
11 225 (13.40%) Observability
12 202 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
13 192 (11.44%) Migration
14 191 (11.38%) Data Modelling
15 187 (11.14%) Software Engineering
16 183 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
17 173 (10.30%) Data Engineering
18 162 (9.65%) ETL
19 159 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
20 150 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 676 (40.26%) Python
2 323 (19.24%) SQL
3 292 (17.39%) Java
4 134 (7.98%) PowerShell
5 132 (7.86%) JavaScript
6 109 (6.49%) Bash
7 82 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 69 (4.11%) Go
9 50 (2.98%) C#
10 34 (2.03%) Scala
11 18 (1.07%) Bicep
11 18 (1.07%) Groovy
12 17 (1.01%) R
13 16 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.42%) C++
16 7 (0.42%) PHP
17 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 380 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 314 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 94 (5.60%) Degree
4 79 (4.71%) CISSP
5 59 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.10%) CISM
8 50 (2.98%) Azure Certification
9 45 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.62%) DV Cleared
11 25 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 18 (1.07%) CCNP
13 18 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.95%) CCSP
14 16 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.54%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (8.70%) GDPR
2 128 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 94 (5.60%) NIST
4 93 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (4.23%) QA
6 41 (2.44%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.25%) NCSC
8 18 (1.07%) GRC
8 18 (1.07%) SLA
9 15 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 15 (0.89%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.60%) PSD2
11 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.42%) COBIT
12 7 (0.42%) PERC
13 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 345 (20.55%) Docker
2 95 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) GPFS
8 5 (0.30%) HDFS
8 5 (0.30%) Lustre
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.18%) KVM
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.060%) iptables
10 1 (0.060%) UAG
10 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 515 (30.67%) Kubernetes
2 399 (23.76%) Terraform
3 120 (7.15%) Ansible
4 106 (6.31%) Grafana
5 99 (5.90%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.08%) Istio
7 27 (1.61%) Argo
8 20 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.95%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.77%) Puppet
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.60%) SCCM
13 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
15 7 (0.42%) Kibana
15 7 (0.42%) Podman
16 6 (0.36%) Nessus
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 539 (32.10%) Google
2 138 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 84 (5.00%) Splunk
4 80 (4.76%) Databricks
5 71 (4.23%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.63%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.22%) BeyondTrust
8 38 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 38 (2.26%) Oracle
9 37 (2.20%) VMware
10 36 (2.14%) Centrify
11 29 (1.73%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.67%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.61%) Cisco
13 27 (1.61%) SAP
14 26 (1.55%) Dynatrace
15 21 (1.25%) Foundry
15 21 (1.25%) Informatica
16 20 (1.19%) Red Hat
17 17 (1.01%) Okta