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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 -15
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,657 928 984
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.41% 3.82% 2.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.00% 10.07% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 633 730
10th Percentile £375 £363 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £655 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £526 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -10.81% -1.67% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £32.00
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £43.03
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £76.50 £73.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.50 £53.03
% change year-on-year +19.63% +0.89% -20.85%

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 13,811 9,211 12,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.77% 37.96% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,512 6,488 8,740
10th Percentile £313 £313 £277
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 178 328
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £64.38 £43.29 £39.22
90th Percentile £80.28 £74.13 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £39.47 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.93% +23.69% -18.64%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +2 850 £600 - 382
North of England +30 338 £513 -6.82% 127
Yorkshire +9 191 £500 -4.76% 41
South East +27 183 £492 -14.43% 122
North West +27 132 £544 -9.15% 62
Midlands +10 116 £485 +2.11% 34
West Midlands +5 96 £500 +4.82% 23
South West +19 79 £550 -8.33% 51
East of England -9 46 £510 +59.38% 19
East Midlands -25 19 £437 +11.70% 11
North East -5 15 £550 +65.41% 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 92 (5.55%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (3.86%) Apache
4 35 (2.11%) Confluence
5 12 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.36%) Camunda
8 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.12%) Documentum
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.060%) nginx
12 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.30%) Weka
5 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.060%) Actimize
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,174 (70.85%) AWS
2 1,169 (70.55%) Azure
3 185 (11.16%) GitHub
4 126 (7.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (7.36%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (4.59%) Serverless
9 72 (4.35%) Snowflake
10 63 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (3.62%) OpenShift
12 55 (3.32%) Amazon S3
13 47 (2.84%) dbt
14 45 (2.72%) Entra ID
15 44 (2.66%) SaaS
16 41 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (2.35%) Cloud Run
18 35 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
19 32 (1.93%) Vertex AI
20 28 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 119 (7.18%) Firewall
2 87 (5.25%) VPN
3 79 (4.77%) DNS
4 78 (4.71%) Network Security
5 32 (1.93%) WAN
6 29 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.39%) BGP
8 21 (1.27%) HTTP
8 21 (1.27%) SD-WAN
9 19 (1.15%) LAN
10 17 (1.03%) OSPF
11 14 (0.84%) VLAN
12 13 (0.78%) VoIP
12 13 (0.78%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.72%) DHCP
14 11 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.60%) Wireless
16 9 (0.54%) Internet
16 9 (0.54%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (10.26%) BigQuery
2 125 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (6.28%) Power BI
4 96 (5.79%) NoSQL
5 68 (4.10%) Big Data
6 59 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 59 (3.56%) Metadata
7 56 (3.38%) Tableau
8 43 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 40 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 36 (2.17%) MySQL
11 34 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.63%) Hadoop
12 27 (1.63%) Looker
13 23 (1.39%) OLAP
14 19 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
15 18 (1.09%) Mixpanel
15 18 (1.09%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 234 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 167 (10.08%) Git
3 163 (9.84%) GitLab
4 77 (4.65%) JIRA
5 40 (2.41%) Selenium
6 37 (2.23%) JUnit
7 31 (1.87%) JMeter
8 27 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.39%) Postman
10 16 (0.97%) Liquibase
10 16 (0.97%) REST Assured
10 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.78%) Gatling
11 13 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.72%) MLflow
13 10 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.60%) Maven
14 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 526 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 366 (22.09%) Finance
3 189 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.02%) Banking
5 142 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.66%) Retail
8 41 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.99%) Legal
10 32 (1.93%) Front Office
10 32 (1.93%) Marketing
11 30 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 29 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (1.03%) Electronics
16 15 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (0.66%) Billing
17 11 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 344 (20.76%) Architect
2 190 (11.47%) Senior
3 168 (10.14%) Developer
4 166 (10.02%) Lead
5 165 (9.96%) GCP Engineer
6 135 (8.15%) Data Engineer
7 103 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 99 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
9 86 (5.19%) Analyst
9 86 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
10 73 (4.41%) Software Engineer
11 64 (3.86%) Consultant
12 55 (3.32%) Security Architect
13 50 (3.02%) Security Engineer
14 49 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
15 46 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
16 45 (2.72%) GCP DevOps
17 43 (2.60%) Java Developer
18 42 (2.53%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (11.35%) REST
2 154 (9.29%) Kafka
3 113 (6.82%) Spring
4 110 (6.64%) React
5 97 (5.85%) Node.js
6 94 (5.67%) RESTful
7 85 (5.13%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.83%) LDAP
9 64 (3.86%) PyTorch
9 64 (3.86%) TensorFlow
10 55 (3.32%) SOAP
11 53 (3.20%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.14%) OAuth
13 49 (2.96%) .NET
14 47 (2.84%) scikit-learn
15 44 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
16 42 (2.53%) OpenID
17 40 (2.41%) Middleware
18 34 (2.05%) LangChain
19 33 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 270 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 98 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.79%) Public Cloud
4 69 (4.16%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 45 (2.72%) Data Centre
9 43 (2.60%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 31 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.81%) Fixed Income
12 28 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.39%) Derivative
14 21 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.21%) Equities
15 20 (1.21%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.03%) Clustering
16 17 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.70%) Linux
2 64 (3.86%) Windows
3 23 (1.39%) VMS
4 18 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.97%) Android
6 14 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.66%) Unix
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 585 (35.30%) DevOps
3 387 (23.36%) Agile
4 357 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 333 (20.10%) AI
5 333 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
6 300 (18.11%) Containerisation
7 297 (17.92%) Analytics
8 268 (16.17%) Microservices
9 252 (15.21%) Machine Learning
10 210 (12.67%) Observability
11 189 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
12 182 (10.98%) Software Engineering
13 174 (10.50%) Migration
14 173 (10.44%) Data Modelling
15 172 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 163 (9.84%) Data Engineering
17 157 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 156 (9.41%) ETL
19 151 (9.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 711 (42.91%) Python
2 322 (19.43%) SQL
3 263 (15.87%) Java
4 135 (8.15%) PowerShell
5 120 (7.24%) JavaScript
6 111 (6.70%) Bash
7 78 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 77 (4.65%) Go
9 51 (3.08%) C#
10 35 (2.11%) Scala
11 19 (1.15%) Groovy
11 19 (1.15%) R
12 18 (1.09%) Bicep
13 13 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.60%) Ruby
15 9 (0.54%) C++
15 9 (0.54%) PHP
15 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 369 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 304 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 124 (7.48%) Degree
4 85 (5.13%) CISSP
5 80 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.38%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 51 (3.08%) CISM
9 50 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.66%) DV Cleared
10 44 (2.66%) Master's Degree
11 27 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.45%) CCNP
14 19 (1.15%) CCSP
15 16 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.78%) CCIE
17 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (9.17%) GDPR
2 122 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 99 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (5.91%) NIST
5 74 (4.47%) QA
6 48 (2.90%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.21%) NCSC
8 18 (1.09%) GRC
8 18 (1.09%) SLA
9 17 (1.03%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.97%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.72%) PSD2
12 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) PERC
15 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.36%) WCAG
16 5 (0.30%) HL7
16 5 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 382 (23.05%) Docker
2 94 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 8 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.36%) GPFS
9 6 (0.36%) Lustre
10 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.30%) NFS
11 4 (0.24%) HDFS
12 3 (0.18%) KVM
12 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.12%) Snort
13 2 (0.12%) Squid
14 1 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 524 (31.62%) Kubernetes
2 412 (24.86%) Terraform
3 147 (8.87%) Ansible
4 129 (7.79%) Grafana
5 118 (7.12%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.05%) Istio
7 24 (1.45%) Argo
8 15 (0.91%) Kubeflow
8 15 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.84%) Puppet
10 13 (0.78%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.72%) SCCM
12 9 (0.54%) Nessus
13 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) Rancher
15 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.30%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 540 (32.59%) Google
2 139 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 111 (6.70%) Splunk
4 79 (4.77%) Databricks
5 73 (4.41%) CyberArk
6 59 (3.56%) BeyondTrust
7 58 (3.50%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.78%) Oracle
9 42 (2.53%) VMware
10 39 (2.35%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.29%) OpenAI
12 36 (2.17%) Cisco
13 35 (2.11%) Centrify
14 33 (1.99%) SAP
15 24 (1.45%) Informatica
16 23 (1.39%) Red Hat
17 22 (1.33%) Foundry
18 21 (1.27%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.27%) Salesforce
19 18 (1.09%) Fortinet