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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 69
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,692 976 1,120
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 4.04% 3.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.42% 10.70% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 657 821
10th Percentile £400 £363 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 9
10th Percentile £13.29 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £73.13 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +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 14,812 9,123 11,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.12% 37.73% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,071 6,234 8,479
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 218 328
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.88 £16.05
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.21 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.18% +31.19% -42.67%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -4 883 £575 -6.12% 512
North of England +20 355 £538 +1.90% 176
Yorkshire +5 220 £525 - 36
South East +17 156 £518 -5.91% 129
North West +9 119 £554 +2.55% 119
South West +34 110 £560 +6.67% 62
Midlands -16 89 £475 +8.08% 37
West Midlands -12 68 £476 -20.67% 24
East of England +3 49 £523 +6.09% 18
East Midlands -27 21 £438 +10.62% 13
North East -10 19 £584 +7.36% 21
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 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.19%) Apache
4 39 (2.30%) Confluence
5 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
7 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,125 (66.49%) AWS
2 1,117 (66.02%) Azure
3 195 (11.52%) GitHub
4 165 (9.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 127 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 96 (5.67%) Snowflake
8 80 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 72 (4.26%) SaaS
10 70 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (4.14%) Serverless
11 56 (3.31%) dbt
12 54 (3.19%) Entra ID
13 49 (2.90%) Vertex AI
14 47 (2.78%) Amazon S3
15 44 (2.60%) OpenShift
16 43 (2.54%) Cloud Run
17 38 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 37 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (1.89%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 105 (6.21%) Firewall
2 94 (5.56%) DNS
2 94 (5.56%) Network Security
3 90 (5.32%) VPN
4 26 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.42%) WAN
6 22 (1.30%) BGP
7 20 (1.18%) HTTP
8 14 (0.83%) Internet
8 14 (0.83%) OSPF
8 14 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.77%) DHCP
10 12 (0.71%) SSL
10 12 (0.71%) VoIP
11 10 (0.59%) IPsec
12 9 (0.53%) LAN
12 9 (0.53%) VLAN
12 9 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 8 (0.47%) DKIM
13 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.46%) BigQuery
2 117 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (4.85%) Power BI
5 79 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 72 (4.26%) Big Data
8 56 (3.31%) Metadata
9 49 (2.90%) Relational Database
9 49 (2.90%) Tableau
10 45 (2.66%) SQL Server
11 35 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 35 (2.07%) MySQL
12 23 (1.36%) Hadoop
12 23 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.12%) Flink
13 19 (1.12%) Looker
14 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.00%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 218 (12.88%) Jenkins
2 163 (9.63%) Git
3 142 (8.39%) GitLab
4 89 (5.26%) JIRA
5 47 (2.78%) Selenium
6 46 (2.72%) JUnit
7 35 (2.07%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.89%) SonarQube
9 30 (1.77%) JMeter
10 24 (1.42%) Postman
11 20 (1.18%) Maven
12 19 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.77%) MLflow
14 10 (0.59%) ERwin
14 10 (0.59%) Gradle
14 10 (0.59%) Snyk
15 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
General
1 461 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 392 (23.17%) Finance
3 156 (9.22%) Banking
4 150 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.72%) Retail
7 45 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (1.95%) Front Office
8 33 (1.95%) Legal
9 29 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (1.48%) Marketing
11 23 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 21 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.95%) Military
15 12 (0.71%) Billing
15 12 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 360 (21.28%) Architect
2 213 (12.59%) Senior
3 182 (10.76%) Developer
4 169 (9.99%) Lead
5 162 (9.57%) GCP Engineer
6 137 (8.10%) Data Engineer
7 107 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 103 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 79 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
10 63 (3.72%) Software Engineer
11 62 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
11 62 (3.66%) Java Developer
12 59 (3.49%) Consultant
13 56 (3.31%) Security Engineer
14 54 (3.19%) Security Architect
15 51 (3.01%) Analyst
16 49 (2.90%) GCP DevOps
17 48 (2.84%) Data Architect
18 44 (2.60%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (9.63%) REST
2 147 (8.69%) Kafka
3 116 (6.86%) Spring
4 110 (6.50%) React
5 96 (5.67%) Node.js
5 96 (5.67%) Spring Boot
6 85 (5.02%) LDAP
7 76 (4.49%) OAuth
8 57 (3.37%) RESTful
9 55 (3.25%) OpenID
10 54 (3.19%) SOAP
11 48 (2.84%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.72%) AngularJS
12 46 (2.72%) TensorFlow
13 43 (2.54%) .NET
14 41 (2.42%) OAuth2
15 39 (2.30%) SAML
16 36 (2.13%) LangChain
17 33 (1.95%) Middleware
18 31 (1.83%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 324 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 95 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.49%) Security Posture
4 67 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (3.13%) AI Agents
7 50 (2.96%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.78%) Product Ownership
9 45 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 34 (2.01%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.60%) Derivative
13 27 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
13 27 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.42%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.36%) Clustering
16 23 (1.36%) Equities
17 21 (1.24%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.15%) Linux
2 84 (4.96%) Windows
3 31 (1.83%) Android
4 24 (1.42%) Unix
5 23 (1.36%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.30%) VMS
7 15 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.059%) CentOS
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 568 (33.57%) DevOps
3 393 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 372 (21.99%) Agile
5 352 (20.80%) AI
6 283 (16.73%) Analytics
7 280 (16.55%) Microservices
8 273 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 259 (15.31%) Observability
10 242 (14.30%) Containerisation
11 227 (13.42%) Machine Learning
12 200 (11.82%) Software Engineering
13 199 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
13 199 (11.76%) Migration
14 192 (11.35%) Data Modelling
15 189 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
16 175 (10.34%) Cloud Security
17 174 (10.28%) Data Engineering
18 172 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 168 (9.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 662 (39.13%) Python
2 349 (20.63%) SQL
3 310 (18.32%) Java
4 148 (8.75%) PowerShell
5 127 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 117 (6.91%) Bash
7 84 (4.96%) Go
8 81 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 42 (2.48%) C#
10 38 (2.25%) Scala
11 20 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.00%) Bicep
12 17 (1.00%) Groovy
13 15 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.65%) Ruby
15 10 (0.59%) R
16 9 (0.53%) PHP
17 8 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.47%) Rust
18 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 367 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 295 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 97 (5.73%) Degree
4 95 (5.61%) CISSP
5 64 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 62 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 56 (3.31%) CISM
8 55 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
10 51 (3.01%) Azure Certification
11 38 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.48%) CCSP
13 24 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.36%) Master's Degree
15 17 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.95%) GIAC
17 15 (0.89%) CCNP
17 15 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 111 (6.56%) GDPR
3 89 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (5.08%) NIST
5 70 (4.14%) QA
6 32 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.30%) NCSC
8 20 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.06%) GRC
9 18 (1.06%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.65%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.53%) COBIT
13 9 (0.53%) PSD2
14 8 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.47%) WCAG
15 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 324 (19.15%) Docker
2 100 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.77%) vSphere
7 11 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 512 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 439 (25.95%) Terraform
3 122 (7.21%) Grafana
4 117 (6.91%) Ansible
5 114 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.07%) Istio
7 33 (1.95%) Argo
8 30 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.06%) Puppet
11 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.53%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.47%) SCCM
15 7 (0.41%) Podman
16 6 (0.35%) linkerd
17 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
17 5 (0.30%) Kibana
17 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 528 (31.21%) Google
2 150 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.91%) Databricks
4 67 (3.96%) CyberArk
5 65 (3.84%) Splunk
6 60 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.84%) BeyondTrust
8 42 (2.48%) Oracle
8 42 (2.48%) VMware
9 36 (2.13%) Centrify
10 35 (2.07%) OpenAI
10 35 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.65%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 21 (1.24%) Red Hat
14 19 (1.12%) Okta
15 18 (1.06%) Cisco
15 18 (1.06%) SAP
16 17 (1.00%) Foundry
17 16 (0.95%) Informatica