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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 64
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,701 1,016 1,189
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 4.08% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.28% 10.84% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 684 868
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £463 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -3.42%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 10
10th Percentile - £25.25 £34.63
25th Percentile £13.51 £34.38 £35.31
Median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.83 £78.70 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,086 9,377 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.70% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,221 6,374 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 233 339
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +16.98% -36.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -6 894 £575 -4.17% 308
North of England +22 353 £540 +2.86% 121
Yorkshire 0 215 £538 +4.88% 25
South East +12 157 £525 -4.55% 109
North West +14 120 £545 +0.93% 88
South West +38 114 £560 +7.95% 57
Midlands -25 88 £477 +0.42% 27
West Midlands -21 69 £477 -23.68% 21
East of England -2 46 £535 +8.63% 15
North East -17 21 £575 +5.75% 8
East Midlands -22 19 £474 +16.91% 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
1 107 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 69 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.17%) Apache
4 43 (2.53%) Confluence
5 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
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%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (65.78%) AWS
2 1,099 (64.61%) Azure
3 184 (10.82%) GitHub
4 166 (9.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 118 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
6 103 (6.06%) Snowflake
7 98 (5.76%) Power Platform
8 75 (4.41%) SaaS
9 68 (4.00%) Serverless
10 66 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (3.41%) dbt
13 52 (3.06%) Entra ID
14 51 (3.00%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.53%) Cloud Run
16 42 (2.47%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.18%) OpenShift
18 32 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 28 (1.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.88%) Firewall
2 97 (5.70%) Network Security
3 91 (5.35%) DNS
4 87 (5.11%) VPN
5 26 (1.53%) WAN
6 25 (1.47%) BGP
7 23 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.29%) HTTP
9 16 (0.94%) OSPF
9 16 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.76%) DHCP
10 13 (0.76%) Internet
11 11 (0.65%) SSL
11 11 (0.65%) VLAN
12 10 (0.59%) VoIP
12 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.53%) IPsec
13 9 (0.53%) LAN
14 8 (0.47%) DKIM
14 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.41%) BigQuery
2 124 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
3 117 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.64%) Power BI
5 78 (4.59%) Data Lake
6 74 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 71 (4.17%) Big Data
8 60 (3.53%) Metadata
9 53 (3.12%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.94%) Tableau
11 39 (2.29%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.82%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.76%) MySQL
14 24 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.35%) Hadoop
16 22 (1.29%) Looker
17 20 (1.18%) Flink
17 20 (1.18%) Redis
18 16 (0.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 204 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 163 (9.58%) Git
3 130 (7.64%) GitLab
4 80 (4.70%) JIRA
5 47 (2.76%) JUnit
6 39 (2.29%) Selenium
7 32 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.82%) JMeter
9 30 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.12%) Maven
11 18 (1.06%) Postman
11 18 (1.06%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.71%) MLflow
14 10 (0.59%) ERwin
14 10 (0.59%) Gradle
14 10 (0.59%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.53%) Gatling
16 8 (0.47%) Mockito
17 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 453 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 415 (24.40%) Finance
3 157 (9.23%) Banking
4 156 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 140 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.76%) Retail
7 48 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.06%) Legal
10 33 (1.94%) Front Office
10 33 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.47%) Marketing
13 21 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.88%) Billing
16 14 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.82%) Military
16 14 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 354 (20.81%) Architect
2 215 (12.64%) Senior
3 192 (11.29%) Developer
4 163 (9.58%) Lead
5 158 (9.29%) GCP Engineer
6 140 (8.23%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 104 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 84 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.17%) Java Developer
11 67 (3.94%) Consultant
12 65 (3.82%) Software Engineer
13 58 (3.41%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.41%) Security Architect
14 56 (3.29%) Security Engineer
15 51 (3.00%) Data Architect
16 49 (2.88%) GCP DevOps
17 47 (2.76%) Analyst
18 44 (2.59%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 43 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (8.99%) Kafka
2 148 (8.70%) REST
3 115 (6.76%) Spring
4 109 (6.41%) React
5 95 (5.58%) Spring Boot
6 90 (5.29%) Node.js
7 80 (4.70%) OAuth
8 64 (3.76%) LDAP
9 61 (3.59%) RESTful
10 51 (3.00%) OpenID
11 49 (2.88%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.70%) OAuth2
12 46 (2.70%) TensorFlow
13 44 (2.59%) SOAP
14 43 (2.53%) SAML
15 37 (2.18%) AngularJS
16 36 (2.12%) GraphQL
17 35 (2.06%) LangChain
18 33 (1.94%) .NET
19 32 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 334 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 106 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 66 (3.88%) Security Posture
5 57 (3.35%) AI Agents
6 54 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 52 (3.06%) Data Centre
8 51 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 44 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 40 (2.35%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.06%) Fixed Income
13 31 (1.82%) Management Information System
14 28 (1.65%) Derivative
15 27 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
16 25 (1.47%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.47%) Clustering
17 23 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
17 23 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.17%) Linux
2 78 (4.59%) Windows
3 27 (1.59%) Android
4 25 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.41%) Unix
6 18 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.00%) VMS
8 14 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (45.27%) CI/CD
2 554 (32.57%) DevOps
3 401 (23.57%) Agile
4 393 (23.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 373 (21.93%) AI
6 286 (16.81%) Microservices
7 281 (16.52%) Analytics
8 259 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
9 252 (14.81%) Observability
10 241 (14.17%) Machine Learning
11 239 (14.05%) Containerisation
12 208 (12.23%) Software Engineering
13 205 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
14 199 (11.70%) Migration
15 197 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
16 192 (11.29%) Data Modelling
17 183 (10.76%) Cloud Security
18 177 (10.41%) Roadmaps
19 176 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
20 174 (10.23%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 670 (39.39%) Python
2 343 (20.16%) SQL
3 320 (18.81%) Java
4 129 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 125 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 113 (6.64%) Bash
7 91 (5.35%) Go
8 89 (5.23%) TypeScript
9 39 (2.29%) C#
10 37 (2.18%) Scala
11 21 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.06%) Bicep
12 18 (1.06%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Rust
14 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.71%) R
15 12 (0.71%) Ruby
16 9 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.47%) C++
18 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 351 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 280 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 105 (6.17%) Degree
4 104 (6.11%) CISSP
5 75 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 70 (4.12%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.47%) CISM
8 55 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (3.12%) Azure Certification
11 39 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.59%) CCSP
13 23 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 20 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (1.06%) GIAC
16 14 (0.82%) CCNP
17 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
19 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.23%) GDPR
3 89 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 89 (5.23%) NIST
4 66 (3.88%) QA
5 35 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.53%) NCSC
7 24 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.06%) GRC
9 14 (0.82%) SLA
9 14 (0.82%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.59%) PSD2
12 9 (0.53%) COBIT
12 9 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) WCAG
13 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 320 (18.81%) Docker
2 84 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.82%) vSphere
7 13 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.24%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 510 (29.98%) Kubernetes
2 439 (25.81%) Terraform
3 119 (7.00%) Grafana
4 117 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 111 (6.53%) Ansible
6 34 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.88%) Istio
8 28 (1.65%) Argo
9 19 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.06%) Puppet
11 13 (0.76%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.59%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.41%) linkerd
14 7 (0.41%) Podman
15 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.29%) Nessus
15 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 521 (30.63%) Google
2 149 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.70%) Databricks
4 60 (3.53%) Splunk
5 57 (3.35%) CyberArk
6 53 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 41 (2.41%) VMware
8 40 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.29%) Oracle
10 38 (2.23%) OpenAI
11 34 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
12 30 (1.76%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.59%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.35%) Centrify
14 23 (1.35%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.29%) Okta
16 20 (1.18%) SAP
17 18 (1.06%) Cisco
17 18 (1.06%) Informatica
18 15 (0.88%) Foundry