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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 54 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,866 1,183 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 4.30% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.89% 11.51% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 809 868
10th Percentile £403 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £613
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -9.39% +0.41%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £784
90th Percentile £749 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £33.88
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% +15.68% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £101.10 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £53.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +28.50% +47.59% -50.91%

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 15,700 10,274 11,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.35% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,475 6,952 8,104
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 268 254
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.48 £49.69
90th Percentile £84.63 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -3 995 £575 -4.17% 671
North of England +10 386 £538 +7.50% 198
Yorkshire +2 241 £525 +10.53% 60
South East -2 181 £541 +1.93% 132
North West -2 129 £560 +6.67% 111
South West +21 121 £568 +9.40% 70
Midlands -37 85 £500 +13.77% 51
West Midlands -22 69 £500 -13.04% 45
East of England +11 53 £533 +6.50% 17
North East -29 20 £525 -3.45% 27
East Midlands -25 16 £500 +25.00% 6
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
1 112 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 84 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.70%) Apache
4 51 (2.73%) Confluence
5 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.38%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.054%) JBoss
12 1 (0.054%) Mule
12 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.054%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.054%) Houdini
8 1 (0.054%) NUKE
8 1 (0.054%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.054%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.054%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,217 (65.22%) AWS
2 1,186 (63.56%) Azure
3 200 (10.72%) GitHub
4 168 (9.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 132 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
6 119 (6.38%) Snowflake
7 87 (4.66%) SaaS
8 83 (4.45%) Power Platform
9 82 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (3.97%) Serverless
12 73 (3.91%) dbt
13 55 (2.95%) Vertex AI
14 51 (2.73%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.14%) Amazon S3
16 40 (2.14%) Cloud Run
17 35 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (1.82%) OpenShift
19 33 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.00%) Firewall
2 103 (5.52%) Network Security
3 100 (5.36%) DNS
4 92 (4.93%) VPN
5 35 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.71%) WAN
7 30 (1.61%) BGP
8 24 (1.29%) HTTP
9 21 (1.13%) OSPF
10 20 (1.07%) DHCP
11 19 (1.02%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.91%) Internet
12 17 (0.91%) VLAN
13 13 (0.70%) SSL
14 12 (0.64%) LAN
14 12 (0.64%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.59%) IPsec
15 11 (0.59%) MPLS
16 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (11.20%) BigQuery
2 162 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 81 (4.34%) Data Lake
6 73 (3.91%) Big Data
7 69 (3.70%) Metadata
8 68 (3.64%) Power BI
9 66 (3.54%) Relational Database
10 44 (2.36%) Tableau
11 33 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (1.77%) SQL Server
12 32 (1.71%) Looker
13 31 (1.66%) MongoDB
14 30 (1.61%) MySQL
15 25 (1.34%) Flink
16 24 (1.29%) Redis
17 22 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.13%) Hadoop
19 15 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 221 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 195 (10.45%) Git
3 143 (7.66%) GitLab
4 87 (4.66%) JIRA
5 50 (2.68%) JUnit
6 35 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.82%) Selenium
8 30 (1.61%) JMeter
9 27 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.39%) Maven
11 18 (0.96%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.80%) Gradle
13 14 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.70%) Postman
15 12 (0.64%) MLflow
16 11 (0.59%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
17 10 (0.54%) LoadRunner
18 9 (0.48%) Gatling
General
1 468 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 457 (24.49%) Finance
3 174 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (8.95%) Banking
5 154 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.59%) Retail
7 60 (3.22%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.20%) Legal
10 40 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.93%) Front Office
12 34 (1.82%) Marketing
13 28 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.07%) Billing
17 18 (0.96%) Publishing
18 17 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
19 16 (0.86%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 381 (20.42%) Architect
2 235 (12.59%) Senior
3 226 (12.11%) Developer
4 183 (9.81%) Lead
5 163 (8.74%) GCP Engineer
6 156 (8.36%) Data Engineer
7 123 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 121 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.61%) Java Developer
11 73 (3.91%) Consultant
12 70 (3.75%) Analyst
13 67 (3.59%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.54%) Software Engineer
15 64 (3.43%) Security Architect
16 63 (3.38%) Security Engineer
17 58 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
18 57 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 48 (2.57%) GCP DevOps
20 47 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.38%) Kafka
2 158 (8.47%) REST
3 118 (6.32%) React
4 116 (6.22%) Spring
5 97 (5.20%) Node.js
6 94 (5.04%) Spring Boot
7 82 (4.39%) OAuth
8 63 (3.38%) RESTful
9 47 (2.52%) JSON
10 45 (2.41%) OAuth2
10 45 (2.41%) OpenID
10 45 (2.41%) PyTorch
11 44 (2.36%) LangChain
12 43 (2.30%) AngularJS
12 43 (2.30%) GraphQL
12 43 (2.30%) SAML
13 42 (2.25%) TensorFlow
14 40 (2.14%) LDAP
15 39 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (1.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 351 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 129 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (4.23%) AI Agents
4 66 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.84%) Data Centre
7 52 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 49 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 48 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
10 41 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.93%) Fixed Income
13 35 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
14 33 (1.77%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.71%) Management Information System
16 31 (1.66%) Derivative
17 30 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 27 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.70%) Linux
2 91 (4.88%) Windows
3 30 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.34%) Android
4 25 (1.34%) Unix
5 20 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.64%) VMS
9 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.054%) CentOS
13 1 (0.054%) Solaris
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (44.16%) CI/CD
2 583 (31.24%) DevOps
3 488 (26.15%) Agile
4 435 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 429 (22.99%) AI
6 325 (17.42%) Microservices
7 310 (16.61%) Analytics
8 272 (14.58%) Machine Learning
9 268 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
10 266 (14.26%) Observability
11 255 (13.67%) Containerisation
12 254 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 253 (13.56%) Software Engineering
14 233 (12.49%) Data Modelling
15 230 (12.33%) Data Pipeline
16 209 (11.20%) Migration
17 208 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
18 202 (10.83%) Cloud Security
18 202 (10.83%) Roadmaps
19 192 (10.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 713 (38.21%) Python
2 389 (20.85%) SQL
3 358 (19.19%) Java
4 151 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 148 (7.93%) Bash
6 133 (7.13%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.82%) TypeScript
8 89 (4.77%) Go
9 41 (2.20%) Scala
10 38 (2.04%) C#
11 32 (1.71%) Bicep
12 26 (1.39%) Groovy
12 26 (1.39%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.96%) Rust
15 16 (0.86%) R
16 13 (0.70%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) C++
17 10 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
18 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 362 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 284 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.65%) Degree
4 108 (5.79%) CISSP
5 91 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 84 (4.50%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 56 (3.00%) CISM
11 41 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.55%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 25 (1.34%) CCSP
15 22 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (1.13%) CCNP
17 18 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.96%) GIAC
18 14 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
18 14 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.88%) GDPR
3 87 (4.66%) QA
4 79 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (4.23%) NIST
5 31 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 28 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.23%) NCSC
8 19 (1.02%) GRC
9 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.43%) COBIT
11 8 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.38%) MiFID
12 7 (0.38%) PSD2
13 6 (0.32%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 342 (18.33%) Docker
2 69 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.75%) vSphere
7 13 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 558 (29.90%) Kubernetes
2 461 (24.71%) Terraform
3 130 (6.97%) Grafana
3 130 (6.97%) Prometheus
4 115 (6.16%) Ansible
5 37 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.66%) Argo
7 29 (1.55%) Istio
8 24 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.07%) Puppet
10 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.64%) Kubeflow
11 12 (0.64%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 7 (0.38%) linkerd
14 6 (0.32%) QRadar
15 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 598 (32.05%) Google
2 174 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 96 (5.14%) Databricks
4 67 (3.59%) Splunk
5 52 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.57%) Oracle
8 42 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 41 (2.20%) VMware
10 39 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 37 (1.98%) CyberArk
12 35 (1.88%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.55%) SAP
14 28 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.29%) Informatica
16 23 (1.23%) Cisco
17 18 (0.96%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.96%) Okta
18 14 (0.75%) IBM
19 13 (0.70%) Tenable