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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 53 64
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,414 1,159 1,315
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.75% 3.72% 3.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.24% 10.40% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 743 1,024
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.64% -2.71%
75th Percentile £650 £731 £738
90th Percentile £775 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £33.11 £35.75 £49.03
25th Percentile £39.12 £45.75 £58.00
Median hourly rate £57.97 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -11.54% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.31 £61.63 £78.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £57.97 £57.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +0.82% -20.14% +176.92%

All Cloud 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 11,555 11,141 14,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.82% 35.76% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,829 7,399 10,349
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 291
10th Percentile £14.90 £19.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £23.80 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.48 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -3 776 £590 -5.60% 1,951
North of England +19 281 £500 -1.38% 361
Yorkshire +10 185 £500 -3.85% 71
South East +29 127 £500 - 1,571
Midlands +33 109 £490 +2.73% 75
North West +24 92 £505 -3.81% 268
West Midlands +18 80 £525 +6.06% 43
South West +31 52 £550 -12.00% 98
East of England -17 30 £491 +53.52% 84
East Midlands 0 27 £413 +15.87% 30
North East -16 4 £495 +4.21% 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 92 (6.51%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (5.09%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.83%) Apache
4 36 (2.55%) Confluence
5 13 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.57%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.50%) SAS
9 6 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.42%) Mule
9 6 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.35%) nginx
11 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) Camunda
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.28%) Weka
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Maple
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.071%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.071%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.071%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,005 (71.07%) AWS
2 931 (65.84%) Azure
3 180 (12.73%) GitHub
4 100 (7.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 87 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 83 (5.87%) dbt
7 77 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (5.45%) Snowflake
8 75 (5.30%) Serverless
9 64 (4.53%) SaaS
10 58 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
11 57 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 54 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 46 (3.25%) OpenShift
14 37 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (2.62%) PaaS
15 36 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
16 34 (2.40%) IaaS
17 32 (2.26%) Cloud Run
18 31 (2.19%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 135 (9.55%) Firewall
2 45 (3.18%) VPN
3 42 (2.97%) Network Security
4 38 (2.69%) DNS
5 24 (1.70%) WAN
6 20 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.41%) Wireshark
7 19 (1.34%) VLAN
8 18 (1.27%) BGP
8 18 (1.27%) SD-WAN
9 16 (1.13%) OSPF
10 15 (1.06%) LAN
11 14 (0.99%) SSL
12 13 (0.92%) DHCP
13 11 (0.78%) HTTP
14 10 (0.71%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.64%) MPLS
15 9 (0.64%) SAN
15 9 (0.64%) Wireless
16 7 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (12.45%) BigQuery
2 152 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (8.42%) NoSQL
4 114 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (5.66%) Power BI
6 56 (3.96%) Big Data
7 52 (3.68%) Tableau
8 50 (3.54%) Data Lake
9 49 (3.47%) MongoDB
10 48 (3.39%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.90%) Looker
12 38 (2.69%) SQL Server
13 34 (2.40%) Metadata
14 29 (2.05%) Hadoop
14 29 (2.05%) MySQL
15 28 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
16 26 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
18 22 (1.56%) Apache Arrow
18 22 (1.56%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 214 (15.13%) Jenkins
2 148 (10.47%) Git
3 141 (9.97%) GitLab
4 85 (6.01%) JIRA
5 48 (3.39%) SonarQube
6 43 (3.04%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (1.63%) Maven
9 22 (1.56%) MLflow
10 21 (1.49%) Burp Suite
10 21 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.49%) Gradle
11 20 (1.41%) Metasploit
12 18 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 18 (1.27%) ER Studio
12 18 (1.27%) JUnit
12 18 (1.27%) Selenium
13 17 (1.20%) Postman
14 16 (1.13%) ERwin
15 15 (1.06%) Artifactory
General
1 524 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 346 (24.47%) Finance
3 194 (13.72%) Banking
4 170 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 45 (3.18%) Front Office
7 44 (3.11%) Financial Institution
8 43 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.04%) Telecoms
9 38 (2.69%) Marketing
10 32 (2.26%) Retail
11 29 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 21 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.06%) Legal
16 10 (0.71%) Electronics
16 10 (0.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 254 (17.96%) Architect
2 191 (13.51%) Developer
2 191 (13.51%) Senior
3 100 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 99 (7.00%) Software Engineer
5 94 (6.65%) GCP Engineer
6 93 (6.58%) Data Engineer
7 87 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 77 (5.45%) Analyst
9 67 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 67 (4.74%) Security Engineer
10 65 (4.60%) Lead
11 51 (3.61%) Consultant
12 50 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (3.47%) Java Developer
14 47 (3.32%) Python Engineer
14 47 (3.32%) Security Architect
15 43 (3.04%) Data Architect
16 41 (2.90%) GCP Architect
17 39 (2.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (8.27%) React
1 117 (8.27%) RESTful
2 102 (7.21%) Kafka
2 102 (7.21%) Node.js
2 102 (7.21%) REST
3 82 (5.80%) Spring
4 65 (4.60%) AngularJS
5 64 (4.53%) Spring Boot
6 60 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
7 50 (3.54%) Pandas
7 50 (3.54%) Vue
8 48 (3.39%) OAuth
9 42 (2.97%) NumPy
9 42 (2.97%) TensorFlow
10 40 (2.83%) PyTorch
11 37 (2.62%) HTML
12 35 (2.48%) FastAPI
13 34 (2.40%) OpenID
14 33 (2.33%) LDAP
15 32 (2.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 252 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 79 (5.59%) Public Cloud
3 75 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 50 (3.54%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 40 (2.83%) Fixed Income
9 38 (2.69%) Data Structures
10 35 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (2.48%) Equities
10 35 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 33 (2.33%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (2.12%) Algorithms
14 27 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (1.63%) Private Cloud
16 18 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 18 (1.27%) Life Science
17 17 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.61%) Linux
2 53 (3.75%) Windows
3 32 (2.26%) Unix
4 18 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.71%) Android
6 10 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.71%) CentOS
7 7 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.28%) VMS
10 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 3 (0.21%) zOS
11 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.071%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (42.08%) CI/CD
2 486 (34.37%) DevOps
3 418 (29.56%) Agile
4 314 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 298 (21.07%) Containerisation
6 283 (20.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 230 (16.27%) AI
8 227 (16.05%) Microservices
9 213 (15.06%) Analytics
10 196 (13.86%) Machine Learning
11 176 (12.45%) Software Engineering
12 154 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
13 152 (10.75%) Data Modelling
14 151 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 150 (10.61%) Cloud Security
16 138 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
16 138 (9.76%) ETL
17 134 (9.48%) Data Science
17 134 (9.48%) Test Automation
18 131 (9.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 640 (45.26%) Python
2 287 (20.30%) SQL
3 254 (17.96%) Java
4 153 (10.82%) Bash
5 138 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 103 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 102 (7.21%) Go
8 97 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 33 (2.33%) Scala
10 25 (1.77%) C#
11 24 (1.70%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.49%) C++
12 21 (1.49%) R
13 20 (1.41%) Perl
14 18 (1.27%) Groovy
15 17 (1.20%) Ruby
16 16 (1.13%) Bicep
17 14 (0.99%) C
18 11 (0.78%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 203 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 153 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 148 (10.47%) Degree
4 101 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (5.09%) CISSP
6 70 (4.95%) Master's Degree
7 65 (4.60%) AWS Certification
8 44 (3.11%) Azure Certification
9 43 (3.04%) CISM
10 35 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (2.05%) DV Cleared
12 26 (1.84%) OSCP
13 23 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (1.41%) CCSP
15 18 (1.27%) CREST Certified
16 15 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (0.92%) CCNP
18 12 (0.85%) Tigerscheme
19 11 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (9.05%) GDPR
2 113 (7.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (6.36%) Data Quality
4 88 (6.22%) NIST
5 80 (5.66%) QA
6 42 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.84%) HIPAA
8 24 (1.70%) SOC 2
9 23 (1.63%) Accessibility
10 18 (1.27%) NCSC
11 11 (0.78%) GRC
12 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.57%) PSD2
14 6 (0.42%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.35%) SLA
15 5 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 367 (25.95%) Docker
2 71 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.57%) vSphere
6 7 (0.50%) KVM
7 5 (0.35%) Squid
7 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.28%) Firmware
8 4 (0.28%) GPFS
8 4 (0.28%) Lustre
8 4 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.28%) Snort
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) UAG
10 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.071%) Ceph
11 1 (0.071%) QEMU
11 1 (0.071%) SRDF
11 1 (0.071%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 438 (30.98%) Kubernetes
2 306 (21.64%) Terraform
3 146 (10.33%) Ansible
4 95 (6.72%) Grafana
5 89 (6.29%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.33%) Argo
6 33 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.98%) Puppet
8 21 (1.49%) Nmap
9 18 (1.27%) CSIRT
9 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.20%) Istio
11 15 (1.06%) SCCM
12 14 (0.99%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.92%) Kubeflow
14 11 (0.78%) Nessus
14 11 (0.78%) Tivoli Identity Manager
15 10 (0.71%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (0.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 458 (32.39%) Google
2 153 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 115 (8.13%) Splunk
4 68 (4.81%) Databricks
5 56 (3.96%) Oracle
6 48 (3.39%) F5
7 47 (3.32%) VMware
8 39 (2.76%) Cisco
9 38 (2.69%) CyberArk
9 38 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 38 (2.69%) SAP
10 28 (1.98%) IBM
11 23 (1.63%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.49%) Citrix
12 21 (1.49%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.49%) ServiceNow
13 18 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
13 18 (1.27%) Okta
13 18 (1.27%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.13%) Fortinet