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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,890 1,226 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.08% 4.41% 3.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.79% 11.75% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 820 825
10th Percentile £407 £379 £413
25th Percentile £466 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £775
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £19.47 £45.99 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.60 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.30 £100.00 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.93% -4.55% -29.03%

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 16,025 10,431 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.61% 37.53% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 7,044 7,727
10th Percentile £322 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £83.13 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -2 993 £575 -4.17% 1,026
North of England +5 400 £540 +13.45% 191
Yorkshire +1 256 £545 +14.74% 59
South East +2 189 £525 +1.55% 179
North West -11 131 £545 +9.00% 111
South West +23 126 £560 +6.67% 113
Midlands -67 66 £528 +14.05% 54
East of England +9 61 £550 +8.73% 20
West Midlands -45 48 £530 - 38
East Midlands -26 18 £500 +25.00% 16
North East -31 17 £463 -26.00% 22
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
1 121 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 103 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.97%) Apache
4 48 (2.54%) Confluence
5 17 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Maximo
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (65.40%) AWS
2 1,216 (64.34%) Azure
3 209 (11.06%) GitHub
4 159 (8.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 137 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
5 137 (7.25%) Snowflake
6 97 (5.13%) SaaS
7 96 (5.08%) dbt
8 79 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (3.65%) Power Platform
10 69 (3.65%) Serverless
11 63 (3.33%) Entra ID
12 53 (2.80%) Vertex AI
13 44 (2.33%) Cloud Run
14 43 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
15 37 (1.96%) Amazon S3
15 37 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
16 34 (1.80%) Azure Sentinel
17 33 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.19%) Network Security
2 96 (5.08%) Firewall
3 82 (4.34%) DNS
4 73 (3.86%) VPN
5 29 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.27%) WAN
7 23 (1.22%) BGP
7 23 (1.22%) DHCP
8 19 (1.01%) HTTP
8 19 (1.01%) Internet
9 18 (0.95%) VLAN
10 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.79%) SSL
12 13 (0.69%) OSPF
13 11 (0.58%) IPsec
14 10 (0.53%) VoIP
15 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.48%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
16 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (11.85%) BigQuery
2 172 (9.10%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (4.29%) Metadata
5 77 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 76 (4.02%) Relational Database
7 72 (3.81%) Big Data
7 72 (3.81%) Data Lake
8 62 (3.28%) Power BI
9 46 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 45 (2.38%) Tableau
11 35 (1.85%) Looker
11 35 (1.85%) SQL Server
12 34 (1.80%) Flink
13 32 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 30 (1.59%) Redis
15 29 (1.53%) MySQL
16 22 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 219 (11.59%) Jenkins
2 210 (11.11%) Git
3 148 (7.83%) GitLab
4 89 (4.71%) JIRA
5 41 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 39 (2.06%) JUnit
7 32 (1.69%) Maven
8 28 (1.48%) Selenium
9 24 (1.27%) JMeter
10 18 (0.95%) Gradle
10 18 (0.95%) Postman
11 17 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 16 (0.85%) LoadRunner
13 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.53%) Snyk
16 9 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 521 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 465 (24.60%) Finance
3 179 (9.47%) Banking
4 178 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 70 (3.70%) Retail
7 59 (3.12%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.96%) Legal
9 37 (1.96%) Marketing
10 35 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 31 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (1.32%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.27%) Billing
15 21 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 21 (1.11%) Publishing
16 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 404 (21.38%) Architect
2 259 (13.70%) Senior
3 210 (11.11%) Developer
4 181 (9.58%) Lead
5 165 (8.73%) Data Engineer
6 147 (7.78%) GCP Engineer
7 131 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.81%) Java Developer
11 85 (4.50%) Consultant
12 76 (4.02%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.60%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.49%) Analyst
15 64 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
15 64 (3.39%) Security Architect
16 61 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 51 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
17 51 (2.70%) Software Engineer
18 45 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (25.03%) Terraform
2 211 (11.16%) Kafka
3 177 (9.37%) REST
4 104 (5.50%) Spring
5 100 (5.29%) React
6 95 (5.03%) OAuth
7 94 (4.97%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.23%) RESTful
9 68 (3.60%) Node.js
10 58 (3.07%) JSON
11 57 (3.02%) OpenID
12 53 (2.80%) SAML
13 51 (2.70%) LDAP
14 50 (2.65%) PySpark
15 49 (2.59%) OAuth2
16 45 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
17 44 (2.33%) LangChain
17 44 (2.33%) SOAP
18 39 (2.06%) GraphQL
19 37 (1.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 405 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.08%) AI Agents
4 68 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.60%) Security Posture
5 62 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (3.12%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 47 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 46 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
10 45 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
11 43 (2.28%) Data Centre
12 42 (2.22%) Algorithms
13 40 (2.12%) Data Structures
14 39 (2.06%) Management Information System
15 38 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (1.75%) PKI
17 26 (1.38%) CMDB
18 25 (1.32%) Private Cloud
19 24 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.83%) Linux
2 93 (4.92%) Windows
3 38 (2.01%) Unix
4 29 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.11%) Android
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 610 (32.28%) DevOps
3 480 (25.40%) Agile
4 466 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 460 (24.34%) AI
6 330 (17.46%) Microservices
7 323 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 305 (16.14%) Analytics
9 278 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (14.44%) Software Engineering
11 271 (14.34%) Machine Learning
11 271 (14.34%) Observability
12 263 (13.92%) Containerisation
13 235 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
14 233 (12.33%) Roadmaps
15 229 (12.12%) Data Modelling
16 224 (11.85%) Cloud Security
17 208 (11.01%) Migration
18 207 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
19 206 (10.90%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 726 (38.41%) Python
2 409 (21.64%) SQL
3 380 (20.11%) Java
4 153 (8.10%) Bash
5 137 (7.25%) PowerShell
6 136 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 90 (4.76%) Go
8 67 (3.54%) TypeScript
9 47 (2.49%) Scala
10 39 (2.06%) Shell Script
11 34 (1.80%) C#
12 29 (1.53%) Bicep
13 23 (1.22%) Groovy
14 21 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) R
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 10 (0.53%) C++
16 10 (0.53%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 277 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 134 (7.09%) Degree
4 113 (5.98%) CISSP
5 97 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (3.39%) CISM
9 59 (3.12%) Azure Certification
10 58 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.80%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.53%) CCSP
14 25 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.90%) GIAC
16 15 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.69%) CCNP
17 13 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.97%) QA
3 90 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (4.60%) GDPR
5 86 (4.55%) NIST
6 30 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.16%) NCSC
8 20 (1.06%) GRC
9 15 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) COBIT
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.26%) SLA
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 342 (18.10%) Docker
2 84 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.53%) vSphere
7 6 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 597 (31.59%) Kubernetes
2 136 (7.20%) Ansible
3 117 (6.19%) Grafana
4 113 (5.98%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.64%) Argo
7 26 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.32%) Istio
9 21 (1.11%) Puppet
10 18 (0.95%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 8 (0.42%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.32%) CASB
15 6 (0.32%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 627 (33.17%) Google
2 215 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.46%) Databricks
4 75 (3.97%) Splunk
5 71 (3.76%) Oracle
6 58 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.49%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.43%) CyberArk
10 44 (2.33%) VMware
11 41 (2.17%) OpenAI
12 38 (2.01%) SAP
13 31 (1.64%) Informatica
13 31 (1.64%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.48%) IBM
14 28 (1.48%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.27%) Cisco
16 20 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 20 (1.06%) Okta
17 18 (0.95%) New Relic