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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,689 1,023 1,174
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.93% 4.12% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.23% 10.94% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 689 855
10th Percentile £400 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -3.42%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 10
10th Percentile - £25.25 £34.63
25th Percentile £13.51 £34.38 £35.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +1.90% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -5 886 £575 -4.17% 253
North of England +15 350 £540 +2.37% 112
Yorkshire -3 212 £538 +2.38% 23
South East +17 155 £525 -4.55% 101
North West +12 120 £545 -0.91% 79
South West +39 114 £560 +7.95% 46
Midlands -22 90 £482 +1.53% 24
West Midlands -9 71 £482 -27.21% 17
East of England 0 47 £535 +8.63% 14
North East -18 21 £575 +5.75% 10
East Midlands -27 19 £474 +16.91% 7
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
1 107 (6.34%) Apache Spark
2 69 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.20%) Apache
4 42 (2.49%) Confluence
5 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.24%) SAS
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,103 (65.30%) AWS
2 1,086 (64.30%) Azure
3 186 (11.01%) GitHub
4 168 (9.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 118 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (6.04%) Snowflake
7 98 (5.80%) Power Platform
8 72 (4.26%) SaaS
9 70 (4.14%) Serverless
10 65 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (3.43%) dbt
13 52 (3.08%) Vertex AI
14 51 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 44 (2.61%) Cloud Run
16 42 (2.49%) Amazon S3
17 38 (2.25%) OpenShift
18 32 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 29 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.92%) Firewall
2 96 (5.68%) Network Security
3 91 (5.39%) DNS
4 87 (5.15%) VPN
5 26 (1.54%) WAN
6 25 (1.48%) BGP
7 23 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.30%) HTTP
9 16 (0.95%) OSPF
9 16 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.83%) Internet
11 13 (0.77%) DHCP
12 11 (0.65%) SSL
12 11 (0.65%) VLAN
13 10 (0.59%) VoIP
13 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.53%) IPsec
14 9 (0.53%) LAN
15 8 (0.47%) DKIM
15 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.60%) BigQuery
2 124 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.68%) Power BI
5 76 (4.50%) Data Lake
6 74 (4.38%) NoSQL
7 70 (4.14%) Big Data
8 59 (3.49%) Metadata
9 53 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.96%) Tableau
11 39 (2.31%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.84%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.78%) MySQL
14 24 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.36%) Hadoop
16 22 (1.30%) Looker
17 20 (1.18%) Flink
17 20 (1.18%) Redis
18 16 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 201 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 161 (9.53%) Git
3 126 (7.46%) GitLab
4 79 (4.68%) JIRA
5 47 (2.78%) JUnit
6 39 (2.31%) Selenium
7 32 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.84%) JMeter
9 30 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.12%) Maven
11 18 (1.07%) Postman
11 18 (1.07%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.77%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.71%) MLflow
14 10 (0.59%) ERwin
14 10 (0.59%) Gradle
14 10 (0.59%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.53%) Gatling
16 8 (0.47%) Mockito
17 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 453 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 406 (24.04%) Finance
3 156 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.12%) Banking
5 138 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.73%) Retail
7 48 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.07%) Legal
10 33 (1.95%) Front Office
10 33 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.48%) Marketing
13 21 (1.24%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.89%) Billing
16 14 (0.83%) Military
17 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 349 (20.66%) Architect
2 213 (12.61%) Senior
3 193 (11.43%) Developer
4 160 (9.47%) GCP Engineer
4 160 (9.47%) Lead
5 140 (8.29%) Data Engineer
6 109 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 105 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 84 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
9 71 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 67 (3.97%) Consultant
11 64 (3.79%) Software Engineer
12 58 (3.43%) Cloud Architect
13 56 (3.32%) Security Architect
14 55 (3.26%) Security Engineer
15 50 (2.96%) Data Architect
16 49 (2.90%) GCP DevOps
17 47 (2.78%) Analyst
18 44 (2.61%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 42 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.94%) Kafka
2 149 (8.82%) REST
3 117 (6.93%) Spring
4 109 (6.45%) React
5 97 (5.74%) Spring Boot
6 92 (5.45%) Node.js
7 79 (4.68%) OAuth
8 64 (3.79%) LDAP
9 61 (3.61%) RESTful
10 50 (2.96%) OpenID
11 49 (2.90%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.72%) TensorFlow
13 45 (2.66%) OAuth2
14 43 (2.55%) SOAP
15 42 (2.49%) SAML
16 39 (2.31%) AngularJS
17 36 (2.13%) LangChain
18 34 (2.01%) GraphQL
19 33 (1.95%) .NET
20 32 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 330 (19.54%) Cloud Native
2 105 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.03%) Public Cloud
4 67 (3.97%) Security Posture
5 57 (3.37%) AI Agents
6 54 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
7 52 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 49 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 41 (2.43%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.07%) Fixed Income
13 30 (1.78%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.60%) Derivative
14 27 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.48%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.48%) Clustering
16 23 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (1.36%) Private Cloud
17 22 (1.30%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.16%) Linux
2 78 (4.62%) Windows
3 27 (1.60%) Android
4 25 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.42%) Unix
6 18 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.01%) VMS
8 14 (0.83%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (45.23%) CI/CD
2 552 (32.68%) DevOps
3 394 (23.33%) Agile
4 389 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 371 (21.97%) AI
6 283 (16.76%) Microservices
7 279 (16.52%) Analytics
8 258 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 251 (14.86%) Observability
10 238 (14.09%) Containerisation
11 237 (14.03%) Machine Learning
12 205 (12.14%) Software Engineering
13 203 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
14 197 (11.66%) Migration
15 195 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 192 (11.37%) Data Modelling
17 181 (10.72%) Cloud Security
18 174 (10.30%) Data Engineering
18 174 (10.30%) Roadmaps
19 172 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 666 (39.43%) Python
2 344 (20.37%) SQL
3 316 (18.71%) Java
4 129 (7.64%) PowerShell
5 123 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 113 (6.69%) Bash
7 89 (5.27%) Go
8 87 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 38 (2.25%) C#
10 37 (2.19%) Scala
11 21 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.07%) Bicep
12 18 (1.07%) Groovy
13 14 (0.83%) Rust
14 13 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.71%) Ruby
16 11 (0.65%) R
17 9 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
19 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 345 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 278 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.04%) CISSP
3 102 (6.04%) Degree
4 72 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 69 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 59 (3.49%) CISM
7 55 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 54 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 27 (1.60%) CCSP
12 24 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.36%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 17 (1.01%) GIAC
16 14 (0.83%) CCNP
17 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
19 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 104 (6.16%) GDPR
3 87 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (5.15%) NIST
4 65 (3.85%) QA
5 35 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.48%) NCSC
7 24 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 14 (0.83%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.53%) COBIT
11 9 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.53%) WCAG
12 8 (0.47%) PSD2
13 6 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 320 (18.95%) Docker
2 84 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) vSphere
7 13 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.24%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 509 (30.14%) Kubernetes
2 436 (25.81%) Terraform
3 117 (6.93%) Grafana
4 115 (6.81%) Prometheus
5 107 (6.34%) Ansible
6 34 (2.01%) Istio
7 33 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
8 29 (1.72%) Argo
9 19 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.07%) Puppet
11 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.59%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.41%) linkerd
14 7 (0.41%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 523 (30.97%) Google
2 147 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 79 (4.68%) Databricks
4 60 (3.55%) Splunk
5 58 (3.43%) CyberArk
6 53 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 41 (2.43%) VMware
8 40 (2.37%) Oracle
9 39 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 38 (2.25%) OpenAI
11 35 (2.07%) BeyondTrust
12 31 (1.84%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.42%) Centrify
15 23 (1.36%) Red Hat
16 21 (1.24%) Okta
17 18 (1.07%) Cisco
17 18 (1.07%) Informatica
17 18 (1.07%) SAP
18 15 (0.89%) Foundry