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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 61 73
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,505 1,024 1,057
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.75% 3.56% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.50% 9.73% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 655 785
10th Percentile £361 £390 £417
25th Percentile £447 £496 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £738
90th Percentile £750 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -6.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 11
10th Percentile £33.96 £23.65 £43.03
25th Percentile £48.94 £40.25 £53.39
Median hourly rate £66.00 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.78% -7.26% +77.14%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.63 £75.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £68.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.78% -11.54% +107.24%

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 12,040 10,525 12,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.97% 36.62% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,276 7,037 9,306
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £649 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 136 243
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £68.75 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 25 December 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 +2 751 £594 -4.96% 567
North of England +30 318 £500 -8.85% 340
Yorkshire +19 191 £500 -8.85% 138
South East +34 176 £475 -26.92% 424
North West +34 123 £518 -5.82% 170
Midlands +17 112 £489 +2.89% 229
West Midlands +21 90 £500 +4.82% 127
South West +34 68 £570 -8.80% 173
East of England -15 40 £538 +67.97% 180
East Midlands -14 21 £436 +22.47% 87
North East -14 4 £495 +4.21% 33
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 69 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 42 (2.79%) Apache
4 34 (2.26%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.66%) SAS
6 10 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Mule
9 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.13%) CICS
11 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Documentum
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.33%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.066%) Actimize
5 1 (0.066%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.066%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,097 (72.89%) AWS
2 1,058 (70.30%) Azure
3 190 (12.62%) GitHub
4 96 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 92 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
5 92 (6.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 85 (5.65%) Serverless
7 68 (4.52%) Snowflake
8 67 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
9 61 (4.05%) OpenShift
10 60 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 55 (3.65%) Entra ID
12 53 (3.52%) dbt
13 45 (2.99%) SaaS
14 39 (2.59%) Amazon S3
15 37 (2.46%) Cloud Run
16 36 (2.39%) Apigee
17 35 (2.33%) Datadog
17 35 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 141 (9.37%) Firewall
2 52 (3.46%) VPN
3 48 (3.19%) DNS
4 44 (2.92%) Network Security
5 26 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.66%) WAN
7 20 (1.33%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.33%) Wireshark
8 17 (1.13%) LAN
9 16 (1.06%) DHCP
10 14 (0.93%) SSL
11 13 (0.86%) VLAN
12 12 (0.80%) BGP
13 11 (0.73%) HTTP
14 10 (0.66%) OSPF
14 10 (0.66%) VoIP
14 10 (0.66%) Wireless
15 9 (0.60%) Internet
16 8 (0.53%) Kerberos
16 8 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (10.90%) BigQuery
2 128 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
3 115 (7.64%) NoSQL
4 92 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
5 90 (5.98%) Power BI
6 50 (3.32%) SQL Server
7 49 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 48 (3.19%) Tableau
9 47 (3.12%) Data Lake
9 47 (3.12%) Relational Database
10 43 (2.86%) Big Data
11 41 (2.72%) Metadata
12 37 (2.46%) MySQL
13 31 (2.06%) Looker
14 24 (1.59%) Hadoop
15 20 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 16 (1.06%) Data Vault
17 16 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 245 (16.28%) Jenkins
2 166 (11.03%) GitLab
3 165 (10.96%) Git
4 88 (5.85%) JIRA
5 38 (2.52%) Liquibase
6 36 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.86%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.79%) Postman
9 24 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 23 (1.53%) Selenium
11 21 (1.40%) JUnit
12 20 (1.33%) Maven
13 19 (1.26%) Gradle
14 17 (1.13%) Cypress.io
14 17 (1.13%) MLflow
15 13 (0.86%) Cucumber
16 11 (0.73%) SoapUI
17 10 (0.66%) Artifactory
17 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.66%) ERwin
General
1 554 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 337 (22.39%) Finance
3 187 (12.43%) Banking
4 186 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (9.10%) Public Sector
6 49 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (2.66%) Financial Institution
8 35 (2.33%) Marketing
8 35 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (1.86%) Retail
11 27 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 22 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.46%) Legal
12 22 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.26%) Front Office
15 18 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 17 (1.13%) Electronics
17 14 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 251 (16.68%) Architect
2 198 (13.16%) Senior
3 174 (11.56%) Developer
4 108 (7.18%) GCP Engineer
5 103 (6.84%) Lead
6 102 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 97 (6.45%) Analyst
8 94 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 75 (4.98%) Software Engineer
9 75 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 73 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 62 (4.12%) Security Engineer
12 61 (4.05%) Consultant
13 47 (3.12%) Java Developer
14 40 (2.66%) Data Scientist
15 39 (2.59%) Python Engineer
16 38 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
17 37 (2.46%) Security Architect
18 36 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (9.83%) REST
2 127 (8.44%) RESTful
3 105 (6.98%) Kafka
4 103 (6.84%) React
5 93 (6.18%) Node.js
6 90 (5.98%) Spring
7 75 (4.98%) Spring Boot
8 67 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
9 59 (3.92%) AngularJS
10 58 (3.85%) LDAP
11 48 (3.19%) TensorFlow
12 46 (3.06%) PyTorch
13 42 (2.79%) Pandas
14 41 (2.72%) .NET
15 39 (2.59%) HTML
15 39 (2.59%) SOAP
16 37 (2.46%) OAuth
17 36 (2.39%) Vue
18 35 (2.33%) Middleware
19 34 (2.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 267 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 79 (5.25%) Public Cloud
3 77 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (4.72%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (3.79%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 35 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.40%) Life Science
14 18 (1.20%) Private Cloud
15 17 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.13%) Genomics
15 17 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 156 (10.37%) Linux
2 73 (4.85%) Windows
3 30 (1.99%) Unix
4 29 (1.93%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.86%) Android
5 13 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.73%) VMS
7 10 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.60%) CentOS
8 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.13%) zOS
13 1 (0.066%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (42.52%) CI/CD
2 553 (36.74%) DevOps
3 378 (25.12%) Agile
4 367 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 326 (21.66%) Containerisation
6 293 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 246 (16.35%) Microservices
8 242 (16.08%) AI
9 226 (15.02%) Analytics
10 202 (13.42%) Machine Learning
11 170 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 164 (10.90%) Software Engineering
13 146 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
13 146 (9.70%) Test Automation
14 141 (9.37%) DevSecOps
15 139 (9.24%) Data Modelling
16 137 (9.10%) Data Pipeline
17 136 (9.04%) Data Science
18 134 (8.90%) Migration
19 132 (8.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 649 (43.12%) Python
2 291 (19.34%) SQL
3 257 (17.08%) Java
4 150 (9.97%) Bash
5 136 (9.04%) PowerShell
6 114 (7.57%) JavaScript
7 91 (6.05%) Go
8 78 (5.18%) TypeScript
9 38 (2.52%) C#
10 25 (1.66%) R
11 24 (1.59%) Scala
12 19 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.13%) Ruby
14 16 (1.06%) Bicep
15 14 (0.93%) C++
15 14 (0.93%) Groovy
15 14 (0.93%) Perl
16 11 (0.73%) PHP
17 10 (0.66%) C
17 10 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 294 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 235 (15.61%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.63%) Degree
4 99 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (5.25%) CISSP
6 66 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 61 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 52 (3.46%) Azure Certification
9 50 (3.32%) CISM
10 36 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.06%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (1.33%) CCSP
14 17 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (1.00%) CCNP
16 14 (0.93%) OSCP
17 11 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (9.24%) GDPR
2 115 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (6.31%) Data Quality
4 91 (6.05%) NIST
5 80 (5.32%) QA
6 48 (3.19%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.26%) HIPAA
9 17 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.93%) GRC
11 10 (0.66%) PSD2
11 10 (0.66%) SLA
12 9 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.60%) NCSC
13 7 (0.47%) PERC
14 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.40%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.27%) WCAG
17 3 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 408 (27.11%) Docker
2 98 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 50 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.53%) KVM
5 8 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.53%) vSphere
6 5 (0.33%) GPFS
6 5 (0.33%) Lustre
6 5 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.33%) Squid
7 4 (0.27%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) HDFS
8 2 (0.13%) UAG
9 1 (0.066%) Ceph
9 1 (0.066%) SRDF
9 1 (0.066%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 483 (32.09%) Kubernetes
2 341 (22.66%) Terraform
3 172 (11.43%) Ansible
4 110 (7.31%) Grafana
5 107 (7.11%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.13%) Argo
7 24 (1.59%) SCCM
8 23 (1.53%) Istio
8 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.53%) Puppet
9 18 (1.20%) CSIRT
10 16 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.73%) Kibana
12 11 (0.73%) Nessus
13 10 (0.66%) Fluentd
13 10 (0.66%) NetBackup
13 10 (0.66%) Podman
14 9 (0.60%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 498 (33.09%) Google
2 163 (10.83%) Microsoft
3 137 (9.10%) Splunk
4 68 (4.52%) Databricks
5 66 (4.39%) CyberArk
6 64 (4.25%) Oracle
7 58 (3.85%) VMware
8 48 (3.19%) BeyondTrust
9 45 (2.99%) ServiceNow
10 42 (2.79%) F5
10 42 (2.79%) Palo Alto
10 42 (2.79%) SAP
11 38 (2.52%) Cisco
12 28 (1.86%) OpenAI
13 26 (1.73%) Red Hat
14 21 (1.40%) Centrify
14 21 (1.40%) Citrix
15 18 (1.20%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.06%) Salesforce
17 15 (1.00%) Okta