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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,866 1,162 1,202
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.13% 4.24% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.78% 11.36% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 796 874
10th Percentile £403 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -9.80% +0.41%
75th Percentile £666 £688 £788
90th Percentile £750 £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 £68.50 £53.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +28.04% +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 15,839 10,232 11,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.34% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,573 6,915 8,251
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -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 +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 267 270
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £45.57
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -4 998 £575 -4.17% 630
North of England +11 382 £538 +7.50% 174
Yorkshire +3 238 £525 +10.53% 47
South East +4 179 £545 +2.64% 153
North West -7 128 £550 +4.76% 101
South West +24 123 £560 +6.67% 55
Midlands -31 84 £500 +13.77% 52
West Midlands -20 67 £500 -13.04% 44
East of England +11 53 £533 +6.50% 20
North East -25 20 £525 -3.45% 27
East Midlands -26 17 £500 +25.00% 8
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
1 117 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 85 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.91%) 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%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
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
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Trello
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 (0.38%) 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
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
7 1 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,220 (65.38%) AWS
2 1,188 (63.67%) Azure
3 197 (10.56%) GitHub
4 170 (9.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 130 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
6 124 (6.65%) Snowflake
7 88 (4.72%) Power Platform
8 85 (4.56%) SaaS
9 80 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 79 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
11 75 (4.02%) Serverless
12 74 (3.97%) dbt
13 54 (2.89%) Vertex AI
14 53 (2.84%) Entra ID
15 45 (2.41%) Amazon S3
16 41 (2.20%) Cloud Run
17 39 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
18 36 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
19 35 (1.88%) OpenShift
20 34 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.00%) Firewall
2 103 (5.52%) Network Security
3 100 (5.36%) DNS
4 93 (4.98%) VPN
5 35 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.66%) BGP
6 31 (1.66%) WAN
7 23 (1.23%) HTTP
8 22 (1.18%) OSPF
9 20 (1.07%) DHCP
10 18 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.91%) VLAN
12 16 (0.86%) Internet
13 12 (0.64%) IPsec
13 12 (0.64%) LAN
13 12 (0.64%) SSL
13 12 (0.64%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.59%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (11.41%) BigQuery
2 165 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 82 (4.39%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.02%) Big Data
7 73 (3.91%) Power BI
8 71 (3.80%) Metadata
9 67 (3.59%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.47%) Tableau
11 34 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (1.71%) SQL Server
13 31 (1.66%) Looker
14 30 (1.61%) MongoDB
15 28 (1.50%) MySQL
16 25 (1.34%) Flink
17 23 (1.23%) Redis
17 23 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.13%) Hadoop
19 15 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 218 (11.68%) Jenkins
2 192 (10.29%) Git
3 138 (7.40%) GitLab
4 84 (4.50%) JIRA
5 51 (2.73%) JUnit
6 35 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.82%) Selenium
8 28 (1.50%) 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%) MLflow
15 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.43%) Mockito
17 8 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 473 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 456 (24.44%) Finance
3 175 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.00%) Banking
5 157 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.64%) Retail
7 60 (3.22%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.25%) Legal
10 39 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.93%) Front Office
12 34 (1.82%) Marketing
13 27 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.07%) Billing
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
19 17 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
20 14 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 384 (20.58%) Architect
2 237 (12.70%) Senior
3 228 (12.22%) Developer
4 182 (9.75%) Lead
5 163 (8.74%) GCP Engineer
6 159 (8.52%) Data Engineer
7 124 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 124 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 108 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
9 87 (4.66%) Java Developer
10 73 (3.91%) Consultant
11 68 (3.64%) Analyst
12 67 (3.59%) Data Architect
13 65 (3.48%) Software Engineer
14 64 (3.43%) Security Architect
15 63 (3.38%) Security Engineer
16 58 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
17 57 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 50 (2.68%) GCP DevOps
19 48 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (9.65%) Kafka
2 158 (8.47%) REST
3 121 (6.48%) Spring
4 119 (6.38%) React
5 99 (5.31%) Spring Boot
6 96 (5.14%) Node.js
7 79 (4.23%) OAuth
8 66 (3.54%) RESTful
9 46 (2.47%) JSON
10 45 (2.41%) LangChain
11 44 (2.36%) OAuth2
12 43 (2.30%) PyTorch
13 42 (2.25%) AngularJS
13 42 (2.25%) GraphQL
13 42 (2.25%) LDAP
13 42 (2.25%) OpenID
14 40 (2.14%) SAML
14 40 (2.14%) TensorFlow
15 39 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (1.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 350 (18.76%) Cloud Native
2 131 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (4.18%) AI Agents
4 66 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.05%) Security Posture
6 54 (2.89%) Data Centre
7 53 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 52 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 52 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.93%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.71%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.66%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.66%) Derivative
16 30 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 27 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 122 (6.54%) 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 (0.38%) 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%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.054%) Solaris
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (44.27%) CI/CD
2 590 (31.62%) DevOps
3 483 (25.88%) Agile
4 438 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 430 (23.04%) AI
6 330 (17.68%) Microservices
7 316 (16.93%) Analytics
8 271 (14.52%) Machine Learning
8 271 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
9 268 (14.36%) Observability
10 261 (13.99%) Containerisation
11 253 (13.56%) Software Engineering
12 250 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 237 (12.70%) Data Modelling
14 229 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
15 210 (11.25%) Migration
16 205 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 201 (10.77%) Roadmaps
18 199 (10.66%) Cloud Security
19 197 (10.56%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 711 (38.10%) Python
2 393 (21.06%) SQL
3 357 (19.13%) Java
4 147 (7.88%) JavaScript
5 144 (7.72%) Bash
6 133 (7.13%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.82%) Go
8 89 (4.77%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.14%) Scala
10 38 (2.04%) C#
11 30 (1.61%) Bicep
12 25 (1.34%) Groovy
12 25 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.96%) Rust
15 16 (0.86%) R
16 14 (0.75%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
18 9 (0.48%) C++
18 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 359 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 282 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.48%) Degree
4 110 (5.89%) CISSP
5 90 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.16%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.16%) CISM
10 41 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 30 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 28 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.39%) CCSP
14 22 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (1.13%) CCNP
16 18 (0.96%) GIAC
17 16 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.47%) GDPR
3 85 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 84 (4.50%) NIST
4 84 (4.50%) QA
5 33 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 28 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.18%) NCSC
8 21 (1.13%) GRC
9 12 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.48%) COBIT
13 8 (0.43%) PSD2
13 8 (0.43%) WCAG
14 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.38%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 345 (18.49%) Docker
2 71 (3.80%) 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
1 555 (29.74%) Kubernetes
2 465 (24.92%) Terraform
3 130 (6.97%) Prometheus
4 129 (6.91%) Grafana
5 111 (5.95%) Ansible
6 38 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.71%) Argo
8 29 (1.55%) Istio
9 24 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 19 (1.02%) Puppet
11 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.64%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.48%) Podman
14 7 (0.38%) linkerd
15 6 (0.32%) QRadar
16 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 593 (31.78%) Google
2 171 (9.16%) Microsoft
3 97 (5.20%) Databricks
4 68 (3.64%) Splunk
5 50 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.41%) Oracle
8 42 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.14%) CyberArk
10 39 (2.09%) VMware
11 36 (1.93%) Dynatrace
12 34 (1.82%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.50%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.50%) SAP
14 24 (1.29%) Informatica
15 22 (1.18%) Cisco
16 18 (0.96%) Okta
17 17 (0.91%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.75%) Tenable
19 13 (0.70%) IBM