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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 68
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,685 985 1,139
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 4.03% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.40% 10.67% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 664 832
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £504
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 £838 £875
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 £75.25 £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 14,777 9,235 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.74% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,038 6,295 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
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 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 225 331
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -5 883 £575 -5.54% 321
North of England +20 349 £539 +2.13% 149
Yorkshire +5 218 £525 - 35
South East +13 157 £525 -4.55% 111
North West +7 114 £560 +3.70% 95
South West +37 109 £565 +7.62% 54
Midlands -21 92 £475 +5.56% 38
West Midlands -7 70 £476 -20.67% 24
East of England +3 48 £510 +3.55% 16
East Midlands -29 22 £442 +11.82% 14
North East -6 20 £584 +7.36% 19
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 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.20%) Apache
4 39 (2.31%) Confluence
5 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
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 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.059%) Maximo
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,115 (66.17%) AWS
2 1,101 (65.34%) Azure
3 190 (11.28%) GitHub
4 163 (9.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 124 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (5.82%) Power Platform
7 97 (5.76%) Snowflake
8 75 (4.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 74 (4.39%) SaaS
10 67 (3.98%) Serverless
11 66 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.26%) dbt
13 53 (3.15%) Entra ID
14 49 (2.91%) Vertex AI
15 46 (2.73%) Cloud Run
16 43 (2.55%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (2.20%) OpenShift
18 34 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (1.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.29%) Firewall
2 97 (5.76%) Network Security
3 92 (5.46%) DNS
4 91 (5.40%) VPN
5 27 (1.60%) WAN
6 26 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.36%) BGP
8 20 (1.19%) HTTP
9 17 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.89%) OSPF
11 14 (0.83%) DHCP
11 14 (0.83%) Internet
12 13 (0.77%) VoIP
13 12 (0.71%) SSL
14 11 (0.65%) LAN
15 10 (0.59%) IPsec
15 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.53%) VLAN
17 8 (0.47%) DKIM
17 8 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (10.68%) BigQuery
2 116 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.69%) Power BI
5 77 (4.57%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.45%) NoSQL
7 70 (4.15%) Big Data
8 55 (3.26%) Metadata
9 52 (3.09%) Relational Database
10 48 (2.85%) Tableau
11 43 (2.55%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.08%) MySQL
13 34 (2.02%) MongoDB
14 23 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (1.31%) Hadoop
16 20 (1.19%) Flink
17 19 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.13%) Looker
18 16 (0.95%) OLAP
18 16 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 209 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 158 (9.38%) Git
3 136 (8.07%) GitLab
4 87 (5.16%) JIRA
5 46 (2.73%) Selenium
6 45 (2.67%) JUnit
7 35 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.78%) JMeter
9 29 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 23 (1.36%) Postman
11 19 (1.13%) Maven
11 19 (1.13%) REST Assured
11 19 (1.13%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.71%) MLflow
13 9 (0.53%) ERwin
13 9 (0.53%) Gradle
13 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.47%) Gatling
15 7 (0.42%) Mockito
15 7 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 461 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 388 (23.03%) Finance
3 154 (9.14%) Banking
4 151 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.74%) Retail
7 45 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.96%) Front Office
10 32 (1.90%) Legal
11 27 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.42%) Marketing
14 21 (1.25%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.89%) Military
17 14 (0.83%) Billing
18 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
20 11 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 354 (21.01%) Architect
2 210 (12.46%) Senior
3 183 (10.86%) Developer
4 165 (9.79%) Lead
5 160 (9.50%) GCP Engineer
6 140 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 105 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 80 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
10 67 (3.98%) Software Engineer
11 64 (3.80%) Java Developer
12 60 (3.56%) Consultant
13 59 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
14 57 (3.38%) Security Engineer
15 55 (3.26%) Security Architect
16 51 (3.03%) Analyst
17 48 (2.85%) GCP DevOps
18 47 (2.79%) Data Architect
19 43 (2.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 43 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (9.50%) REST
2 149 (8.84%) Kafka
3 116 (6.88%) Spring
4 113 (6.71%) React
5 96 (5.70%) Spring Boot
6 93 (5.52%) Node.js
7 85 (5.04%) LDAP
8 78 (4.63%) OAuth
9 57 (3.38%) RESTful
10 56 (3.32%) OpenID
11 54 (3.20%) SOAP
12 46 (2.73%) PyTorch
13 45 (2.67%) AngularJS
14 44 (2.61%) TensorFlow
15 43 (2.55%) .NET
16 42 (2.49%) OAuth2
16 42 (2.49%) SAML
17 37 (2.20%) LangChain
18 32 (1.90%) GraphQL
18 32 (1.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 322 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.45%) Security Posture
4 66 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (3.20%) AI Agents
7 53 (3.15%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.61%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (2.31%) Onboarding
11 37 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.08%) 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 23 (1.36%) Clustering
15 23 (1.36%) Equities
15 23 (1.36%) Private Cloud
16 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (5.99%) Linux
2 82 (4.87%) Windows
3 30 (1.78%) Android
4 24 (1.42%) Unix
5 23 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.31%) VMS
7 21 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 20 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.95%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
12 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.059%) CentOS
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (45.82%) CI/CD
2 557 (33.06%) DevOps
3 388 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 375 (22.26%) Agile
5 357 (21.19%) AI
6 280 (16.62%) Microservices
7 273 (16.20%) Analytics
7 273 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 257 (15.25%) Observability
9 236 (14.01%) Containerisation
10 226 (13.41%) Machine Learning
11 203 (12.05%) Software Engineering
12 199 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
13 198 (11.75%) Migration
14 190 (11.28%) Data Modelling
15 189 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 174 (10.33%) Cloud Security
17 172 (10.21%) Data Engineering
18 170 (10.09%) ETL
19 168 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 659 (39.11%) Python
2 345 (20.47%) SQL
3 313 (18.58%) Java
4 144 (8.55%) PowerShell
5 127 (7.54%) JavaScript
6 115 (6.82%) Bash
7 85 (5.04%) Go
7 85 (5.04%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.55%) C#
9 38 (2.26%) Scala
10 20 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.01%) Bicep
11 17 (1.01%) Groovy
12 14 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.65%) Ruby
14 10 (0.59%) R
15 9 (0.53%) PHP
16 8 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.47%) Rust
17 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 364 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 295 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 97 (5.76%) Degree
4 95 (5.64%) CISSP
5 64 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 63 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 57 (3.38%) CISM
8 54 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.15%) Azure Certification
9 53 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 26 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.54%) CCSP
12 22 (1.31%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.95%) GIAC
15 15 (0.89%) CCNP
16 14 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 108 (6.41%) GDPR
3 89 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (5.16%) NIST
5 70 (4.15%) QA
6 33 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.36%) NCSC
8 22 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.07%) GRC
10 17 (1.01%) SLA
11 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.53%) COBIT
14 9 (0.53%) PSD2
14 9 (0.53%) WCAG
15 8 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 317 (18.81%) Docker
2 99 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) vSphere
7 12 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.18%) HDFS
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.12%) GPFS
11 2 (0.12%) Lustre
11 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 503 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 435 (25.82%) Terraform
3 119 (7.06%) Grafana
4 111 (6.59%) Ansible
4 111 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 35 (2.08%) Istio
6 33 (1.96%) Argo
7 32 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.95%) Puppet
10 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.53%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
14 6 (0.36%) Podman
14 6 (0.36%) SCCM
15 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 524 (31.10%) Google
2 151 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.75%) Databricks
4 68 (4.04%) CyberArk
5 63 (3.74%) Splunk
6 60 (3.56%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.79%) BeyondTrust
8 43 (2.55%) VMware
9 42 (2.49%) Oracle
10 36 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.08%) Centrify
12 34 (2.02%) OpenAI
13 28 (1.66%) Dynatrace
14 27 (1.60%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.31%) Red Hat
16 21 (1.25%) Cisco
17 19 (1.13%) Okta
18 18 (1.07%) SAP
19 15 (0.89%) Foundry
19 15 (0.89%) Informatica