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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,808 1,142 1,225
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.03% 4.22% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.52% 11.30% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 770 895
10th Percentile £402 £370 £413
25th Percentile £467 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -1.05%
75th Percentile £665 £688 £775
90th Percentile £745 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £24.02 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.44 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% +1.45% -26.16%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.30 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -38.65%

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 15,698 10,109 12,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.40% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 6,818 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 269 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
% change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -8 938 £575 -4.17% 439
North of England +10 388 £538 +7.50% 145
Yorkshire +3 243 £538 +13.16% 34
South East +10 173 £545 +0.93% 147
North West +6 128 £530 -3.64% 94
South West +31 119 £568 +9.40% 51
Midlands -26 90 £494 +8.52% 37
West Midlands -27 69 £494 -21.00% 29
East of England -4 53 £542 +10.08% 16
North East -19 21 £550 +1.15% 18
East Midlands -20 21 £474 +15.49% 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
1 119 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 79 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.71%) Apache
4 42 (2.32%) Confluence
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Camunda
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Luigi
11 1 (0.055%) Predix
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.055%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.055%) Maximo
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.055%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.055%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.055%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.055%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,184 (65.49%) AWS
2 1,163 (64.33%) Azure
3 189 (10.45%) GitHub
4 172 (9.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
6 116 (6.42%) Snowflake
7 96 (5.31%) Power Platform
8 86 (4.76%) SaaS
9 75 (4.15%) Serverless
10 74 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (3.48%) dbt
13 59 (3.26%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.99%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.43%) Cloud Run
16 43 (2.38%) Amazon S3
17 39 (2.16%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (1.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.97%) Firewall
2 105 (5.81%) Network Security
3 95 (5.25%) DNS
4 90 (4.98%) VPN
5 31 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.71%) WAN
6 29 (1.60%) BGP
7 22 (1.22%) HTTP
8 20 (1.11%) OSPF
9 18 (1.00%) DHCP
10 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.83%) VLAN
12 13 (0.72%) LAN
12 13 (0.72%) SSL
13 12 (0.66%) Internet
14 11 (0.61%) IPsec
15 10 (0.55%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.50%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.50%) MPLS
16 9 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (10.73%) BigQuery
2 141 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
4 80 (4.42%) Big Data
5 78 (4.31%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.26%) Power BI
7 76 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 63 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 62 (3.43%) Metadata
10 50 (2.77%) Tableau
11 41 (2.27%) SQL Server
12 32 (1.77%) MongoDB
12 32 (1.77%) MySQL
13 28 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (1.38%) Looker
15 24 (1.33%) Hadoop
15 24 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 22 (1.22%) Flink
17 19 (1.05%) Redis
18 16 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 214 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 176 (9.73%) Git
3 132 (7.30%) GitLab
4 77 (4.26%) JIRA
5 48 (2.65%) JUnit
6 37 (2.05%) Selenium
7 34 (1.88%) JMeter
8 32 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 28 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 20 (1.11%) Maven
10 20 (1.11%) Postman
11 18 (1.00%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.72%) MLflow
13 11 (0.61%) Gradle
13 11 (0.61%) LoadRunner
13 11 (0.61%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (0.55%) ERwin
14 10 (0.55%) Gatling
15 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 469 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 440 (24.34%) Finance
3 171 (9.46%) Banking
4 167 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.09%) Retail
7 51 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (2.43%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.27%) Legal
10 38 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.99%) Front Office
12 29 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.60%) Marketing
13 24 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.33%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.22%) Billing
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.77%) Military
16 14 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 371 (20.52%) Architect
2 229 (12.67%) Senior
3 220 (12.17%) Developer
4 170 (9.40%) Lead
5 160 (8.85%) GCP Engineer
6 149 (8.24%) Data Engineer
7 119 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 116 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 93 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
10 82 (4.54%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.93%) Consultant
12 68 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 65 (3.60%) Security Architect
14 63 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
15 62 (3.43%) Security Engineer
16 61 (3.37%) Analyst
17 56 (3.10%) Data Architect
18 50 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 50 (2.77%) GCP DevOps
19 49 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (9.62%) Kafka
2 144 (7.96%) REST
3 122 (6.75%) Spring
4 116 (6.42%) React
5 102 (5.64%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.25%) Node.js
7 84 (4.65%) OAuth
8 66 (3.65%) RESTful
9 53 (2.93%) OpenID
10 46 (2.54%) OAuth2
11 45 (2.49%) LDAP
11 45 (2.49%) PyTorch
11 45 (2.49%) SAML
12 43 (2.38%) TensorFlow
13 40 (2.21%) GraphQL
14 39 (2.16%) LangChain
15 38 (2.10%) AngularJS
16 35 (1.94%) .NET
17 33 (1.83%) PySpark
18 32 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 340 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.54%) AI Agents
4 60 (3.32%) Public Cloud
5 58 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 50 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 49 (2.71%) Onboarding
10 43 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.99%) Fixed Income
12 34 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 30 (1.66%) Derivative
17 28 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
18 27 (1.49%) Clustering
18 27 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
19 24 (1.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.31%) Linux
2 82 (4.54%) Windows
3 26 (1.44%) Android
4 25 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.33%) Unix
6 18 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.66%) VMS
10 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.17%) AIX
12 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.11%) CentOS
14 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Rocky
14 1 (0.055%) Solaris
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (45.52%) CI/CD
2 583 (32.25%) DevOps
3 446 (24.67%) Agile
4 427 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 407 (22.51%) AI
6 315 (17.42%) Microservices
7 299 (16.54%) Analytics
8 268 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (14.71%) Observability
10 264 (14.60%) Containerisation
11 258 (14.27%) Machine Learning
12 231 (12.78%) Software Engineering
13 224 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
14 220 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 214 (11.84%) Data Modelling
16 205 (11.34%) Cloud Security
16 205 (11.34%) Migration
17 192 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 190 (10.51%) Roadmaps
19 187 (10.34%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 703 (38.88%) Python
2 368 (20.35%) SQL
3 351 (19.41%) Java
4 134 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 128 (7.08%) Bash
6 123 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 100 (5.53%) Go
8 96 (5.31%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.54%) Scala
10 40 (2.21%) C#
11 23 (1.27%) Bicep
11 23 (1.27%) Groovy
11 23 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 17 (0.94%) Rust
12 17 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.77%) R
14 12 (0.66%) Ruby
15 9 (0.50%) C++
15 9 (0.50%) Cypher
15 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 345 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 270 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.31%) Degree
4 110 (6.08%) CISSP
5 80 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 72 (3.98%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 62 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.26%) CISM
10 51 (2.82%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.66%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.60%) CCSP
14 21 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.05%) CCNP
15 19 (1.05%) GIAC
16 13 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 8 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 106 (5.86%) GDPR
3 93 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (5.14%) NIST
4 72 (3.98%) QA
5 37 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 27 (1.49%) NCSC
7 25 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.11%) GRC
9 14 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.55%) SLA
12 9 (0.50%) COBIT
12 9 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.44%) PSD2
13 8 (0.44%) WCAG
14 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.39%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 337 (18.64%) Docker
2 67 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) vSphere
7 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.28%) NFS
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 546 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 467 (25.83%) Terraform
3 125 (6.91%) Grafana
4 122 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 110 (6.08%) Ansible
6 40 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.66%) Argo
7 30 (1.66%) Istio
8 20 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.05%) Puppet
10 13 (0.72%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.44%) Podman
13 7 (0.39%) linkerd
14 6 (0.33%) QRadar
15 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.28%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 561 (31.03%) Google
2 166 (9.18%) Microsoft
3 96 (5.31%) Databricks
4 67 (3.71%) Splunk
5 54 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 39 (2.16%) CyberArk
8 38 (2.10%) OpenAI
8 38 (2.10%) VMware
9 37 (2.05%) Oracle
10 33 (1.83%) Palo Alto
11 32 (1.77%) Dynatrace
12 24 (1.33%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.27%) SAP
14 22 (1.22%) Okta
15 21 (1.16%) Informatica
16 20 (1.11%) Cisco
17 17 (0.94%) MuleSoft
18 15 (0.83%) Rapid7
19 14 (0.77%) Foundry