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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 59 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,649 914 975
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.48% 3.70% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.08% 9.79% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 611 723
10th Percentile £370 £363 £425
25th Percentile £450 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 12
10th Percentile £12.95 - £31.63
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate £59.75 £54.50 £54.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% +0.41% -20.76%
75th Percentile £70.38 £63.69 £63.25
90th Percentile £73.13 £77.00 £74.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £54.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +17.43% +6.75% -22.94%

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 13,647 9,338 12,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.07% 37.79% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 6,476 8,847
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 163 330
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.57 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.80 £76.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +1 823 £600 - 377
North of England +30 340 £510 -7.27% 131
South East +41 198 £481 -12.50% 124
Yorkshire +12 196 £500 -8.97% 48
North West +32 127 £536 -13.91% 65
Midlands +12 125 £488 +2.63% 37
West Midlands +7 105 £500 +4.82% 29
South West +22 78 £550 -12.00% 53
East of England -16 42 £510 +59.76% 17
East Midlands -23 19 £437 +11.70% 8
North East -4 17 £538 +61.65% 18
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 94 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 66 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (3.70%) Apache
4 35 (2.12%) Confluence
5 13 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.61%) SAS
7 5 (0.30%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) Documentum
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.061%) JBoss
11 1 (0.061%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.30%) Weka
4 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) Actimize
6 1 (0.061%) Maximo
6 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (72.47%) AWS
2 1,180 (71.56%) Azure
3 200 (12.13%) GitHub
4 128 (7.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (7.40%) Power Platform
6 101 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (4.73%) Serverless
9 75 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 68 (4.12%) OpenShift
11 66 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.34%) Amazon S3
13 44 (2.67%) Cloud Run
13 44 (2.67%) dbt
13 44 (2.67%) Entra ID
13 44 (2.67%) SaaS
14 42 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 35 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
15 35 (2.12%) Vertex AI
16 29 (1.76%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 126 (7.64%) Firewall
2 78 (4.73%) VPN
3 74 (4.49%) Network Security
4 73 (4.43%) DNS
5 31 (1.88%) WAN
6 28 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.33%) BGP
8 20 (1.21%) LAN
8 20 (1.21%) SD-WAN
9 19 (1.15%) HTTP
10 17 (1.03%) OSPF
11 15 (0.91%) DHCP
12 13 (0.79%) VoIP
13 12 (0.73%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.67%) VLAN
14 11 (0.67%) Wireless
15 10 (0.61%) Internet
15 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
16 9 (0.55%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (10.13%) BigQuery
2 142 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (6.31%) Power BI
4 101 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 100 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (3.64%) Big Data
7 58 (3.52%) Data Lake
8 57 (3.46%) Metadata
9 53 (3.21%) Tableau
10 48 (2.91%) SQL Server
11 44 (2.67%) MongoDB
12 40 (2.43%) MySQL
13 34 (2.06%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.82%) Hadoop
15 25 (1.52%) Looker
16 22 (1.33%) OLAP
17 18 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
18 17 (1.03%) Mixpanel
18 17 (1.03%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 228 (13.83%) Jenkins
2 182 (11.04%) Git
3 161 (9.76%) GitLab
4 79 (4.79%) JIRA
5 37 (2.24%) Selenium
6 35 (2.12%) JUnit
7 30 (1.82%) JMeter
8 29 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.46%) Postman
10 17 (1.03%) CircleCI
11 16 (0.97%) Liquibase
12 15 (0.91%) REST Assured
12 15 (0.91%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.79%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.79%) Gatling
13 13 (0.79%) MLflow
14 12 (0.73%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.55%) Maven
16 8 (0.49%) ERwin
General
1 545 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 371 (22.50%) Finance
3 196 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (9.95%) Banking
5 147 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (2.37%) Retail
8 38 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.12%) Front Office
10 31 (1.88%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.82%) Legal
12 29 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.39%) Marketing
14 23 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.97%) Electronics
17 15 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.73%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 329 (19.95%) Architect
2 190 (11.52%) Senior
3 183 (11.10%) Developer
4 160 (9.70%) Lead
5 151 (9.16%) GCP Engineer
6 128 (7.76%) Data Engineer
7 94 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 93 (5.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 89 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (5.28%) Analyst
11 77 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 64 (3.88%) Consultant
13 51 (3.09%) Security Engineer
14 47 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
15 46 (2.79%) Security Architect
16 44 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
16 44 (2.67%) GCP DevOps
17 42 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
17 42 (2.55%) Java Developer
18 41 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (11.40%) REST
2 144 (8.73%) Kafka
3 126 (7.64%) React
4 115 (6.97%) Spring
5 109 (6.61%) Node.js
6 94 (5.70%) RESTful
7 81 (4.91%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.85%) LDAP
9 69 (4.18%) PyTorch
10 67 (4.06%) TensorFlow
11 63 (3.82%) AngularJS
12 58 (3.52%) SOAP
13 50 (3.03%) OAuth
14 48 (2.91%) .NET
15 45 (2.73%) scikit-learn
16 42 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
16 42 (2.55%) Middleware
17 41 (2.49%) OpenID
18 35 (2.12%) LangChain
18 35 (2.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 272 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.70%) Public Cloud
3 87 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 72 (4.37%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 44 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.82%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 29 (1.76%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.39%) Derivative
14 21 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.21%) Equities
15 20 (1.21%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.09%) Life Science
16 18 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.97%) Linux
2 64 (3.88%) Windows
3 23 (1.39%) VMS
4 20 (1.21%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.09%) Android
6 15 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.85%) Unix
8 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.30%) CentOS
9 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.061%) Rocky
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
12 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (44.33%) CI/CD
2 595 (36.08%) DevOps
3 405 (24.56%) Agile
4 348 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
5 344 (20.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 325 (19.71%) AI
7 315 (19.10%) Containerisation
8 285 (17.28%) Analytics
9 268 (16.25%) Microservices
10 251 (15.22%) Machine Learning
11 206 (12.49%) Observability
12 186 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
13 183 (11.10%) Software Engineering
14 174 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 171 (10.37%) Migration
16 170 (10.31%) Data Modelling
17 160 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 157 (9.52%) ETL
18 157 (9.52%) Test Automation
19 152 (9.22%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 714 (43.30%) Python
2 322 (19.53%) SQL
3 260 (15.77%) Java
4 137 (8.31%) PowerShell
5 133 (8.07%) JavaScript
6 112 (6.79%) Bash
7 91 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 74 (4.49%) Go
9 51 (3.09%) C#
10 33 (2.00%) Scala
11 22 (1.33%) R
12 18 (1.09%) Bicep
13 17 (1.03%) Groovy
14 16 (0.97%) Ruby
15 14 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.67%) C++
17 9 (0.55%) PHP
17 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
19 7 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 366 (22.20%) Security Cleared
2 305 (18.50%) SC Cleared
3 138 (8.37%) Degree
4 87 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (4.79%) CISSP
6 60 (3.64%) AWS Certification
7 56 (3.40%) Azure Certification
8 52 (3.15%) CISM
9 45 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 44 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 22 (1.33%) CCNP
14 20 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.15%) CCSP
16 16 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.79%) CCIE
18 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.98%) GDPR
2 121 (7.34%) Data Quality
3 97 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 95 (5.76%) NIST
5 73 (4.43%) QA
6 49 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.09%) GRC
8 18 (1.09%) NCSC
8 18 (1.09%) SLA
9 17 (1.03%) HIPAA
10 16 (0.97%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.67%) PSD2
11 11 (0.67%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.42%) PERC
13 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.30%) WCAG
15 4 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 397 (24.08%) Docker
2 93 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.79%) vSphere
7 8 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) GPFS
8 6 (0.36%) Lustre
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) KVM
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.12%) Snort
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
13 1 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.061%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 525 (31.84%) Kubernetes
2 400 (24.26%) Terraform
3 148 (8.98%) Ansible
4 123 (7.46%) Grafana
5 112 (6.79%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.12%) Istio
7 31 (1.88%) Argo
8 17 (1.03%) Puppet
9 16 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.79%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (0.79%) SCCM
12 9 (0.55%) Nessus
13 8 (0.49%) Fluentd
14 6 (0.36%) CSIRT
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) Podman
14 6 (0.36%) Rancher
15 5 (0.30%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 546 (33.11%) Google
2 138 (8.37%) Microsoft
3 112 (6.79%) Splunk
4 77 (4.67%) Databricks
5 74 (4.49%) CyberArk
6 65 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.58%) BeyondTrust
8 46 (2.79%) VMware
9 45 (2.73%) Oracle
10 40 (2.43%) Palo Alto
10 40 (2.43%) SAP
11 39 (2.37%) OpenAI
12 35 (2.12%) Centrify
12 35 (2.12%) Cisco
13 32 (1.94%) Red Hat
14 21 (1.27%) F5
14 21 (1.27%) Foundry
15 20 (1.21%) Dynatrace
15 20 (1.21%) Informatica
16 19 (1.15%) Fortinet