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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 59 71
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 -14
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,459 1,105 1,162
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.72% 3.63% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.34% 10.02% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 713 884
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -0.08% -7.62%
75th Percentile £648 £725 £739
90th Percentile £750 £885 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £33.96 £24.05 £43.03
25th Percentile £46.85 £33.50 £53.39
Median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -8.87% +103.28%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.19 £75.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.75% -13.08% +134.40%

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 11,827 11,024 13,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.28% 36.21% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,094 7,350 9,793
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 148 268
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £56.31 £55.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -2 751 £575 -8.00% 312
North of England +29 298 £500 - 120
Yorkshire +17 184 £500 -3.61% 36
South East +46 165 £481 -16.30% 253
North West +34 111 £526 -4.43% 74
Midlands +30 110 £500 +5.04% 33
West Midlands +27 88 £525 +8.58% 20
South West +45 61 £538 -14.00% 60
East of England -18 35 £500 +56.25% 23
East Midlands -9 21 £425 +19.38% 12
North East -14 3 £475 - 12
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 86 (5.89%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.46%) Apache Spark
3 42 (2.88%) Apache
4 32 (2.19%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.69%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.41%) Mule
9 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) CICS
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Weka
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Maple
6 2 (0.14%) Trello
7 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.069%) Actimize
5 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.069%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (71.90%) AWS
2 993 (68.06%) Azure
3 168 (11.51%) GitHub
4 98 (6.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 91 (6.24%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.48%) Serverless
7 78 (5.35%) Snowflake
8 73 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 70 (4.80%) dbt
10 61 (4.18%) Entra ID
11 57 (3.91%) SaaS
12 56 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 47 (3.22%) OpenShift
15 36 (2.47%) PaaS
16 34 (2.33%) Apigee
17 33 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
17 33 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (2.19%) Cloud Run
19 31 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 134 (9.18%) Firewall
2 44 (3.02%) Network Security
3 43 (2.95%) VPN
4 37 (2.54%) DNS
5 24 (1.64%) WAN
6 20 (1.37%) SD-WAN
6 20 (1.37%) Wireshark
7 19 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.96%) LAN
8 14 (0.96%) VLAN
9 13 (0.89%) BGP
9 13 (0.89%) SSL
10 12 (0.82%) DHCP
11 11 (0.75%) OSPF
12 10 (0.69%) HTTP
13 9 (0.62%) SAN
14 8 (0.55%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.55%) VXLAN
14 8 (0.55%) Wireless
14 8 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (11.65%) BigQuery
2 137 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (8.02%) NoSQL
4 106 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
5 85 (5.83%) Power BI
6 52 (3.56%) MongoDB
7 51 (3.50%) Tableau
8 50 (3.43%) Big Data
9 46 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 44 (3.02%) Data Lake
11 41 (2.81%) Metadata
12 40 (2.74%) SQL Server
13 34 (2.33%) Looker
14 33 (2.26%) MySQL
15 29 (1.99%) Hadoop
16 26 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
19 17 (1.17%) Redis
20 16 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 213 (14.60%) Jenkins
2 154 (10.56%) Git
3 138 (9.46%) GitLab
4 77 (5.28%) JIRA
5 40 (2.74%) Liquibase
6 38 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.51%) CircleCI
8 22 (1.51%) MLflow
9 19 (1.30%) Gradle
9 19 (1.30%) JUnit
9 19 (1.30%) Maven
9 19 (1.30%) Postman
10 15 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 15 (1.03%) Selenium
11 13 (0.89%) Burp Suite
12 12 (0.82%) ER Studio
12 12 (0.82%) ERwin
12 12 (0.82%) Metasploit
13 11 (0.75%) Artifactory
General
1 543 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.78%) Finance
3 186 (12.75%) Banking
4 180 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.02%) Financial Institution
8 42 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.74%) Marketing
10 31 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.99%) Front Office
12 26 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (1.71%) Retail
14 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.37%) Legal
16 19 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.17%) Electronics
17 17 (1.17%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 247 (16.93%) Architect
2 195 (13.37%) Senior
3 183 (12.54%) Developer
4 99 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 99 (6.79%) GCP Engineer
5 97 (6.65%) Analyst
6 94 (6.44%) Data Engineer
7 86 (5.89%) Lead
7 86 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
8 84 (5.76%) Software Engineer
9 68 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 63 (4.32%) Security Engineer
11 61 (4.18%) Consultant
12 51 (3.50%) Java Developer
13 43 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
13 43 (2.95%) Security Architect
14 41 (2.81%) Python Engineer
15 37 (2.54%) Data Scientist
16 35 (2.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 34 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (8.84%) RESTful
2 118 (8.09%) REST
3 107 (7.33%) Kafka
4 102 (6.99%) React
5 92 (6.31%) Node.js
6 89 (6.10%) Spring
7 70 (4.80%) Spring Boot
8 60 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
9 57 (3.91%) AngularJS
10 47 (3.22%) OAuth
11 46 (3.15%) TensorFlow
12 45 (3.08%) PyTorch
13 44 (3.02%) Pandas
14 43 (2.95%) Vue
15 41 (2.81%) HTML
16 37 (2.54%) NumPy
17 35 (2.40%) CSS
17 35 (2.40%) FastAPI
18 32 (2.19%) JSON
18 32 (2.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 263 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 63 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 54 (3.70%) Security Posture
7 39 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 32 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.85%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.58%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.44%) Equities
13 21 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (1.37%) Private Cloud
15 19 (1.30%) Life Science
16 18 (1.23%) AI Agents
16 18 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.28%) Linux
2 59 (4.04%) Windows
3 27 (1.85%) Unix
4 21 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.69%) CentOS
7 9 (0.62%) Android
7 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.27%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.069%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (41.74%) CI/CD
2 518 (35.50%) DevOps
3 400 (27.42%) Agile
4 327 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 322 (22.07%) Containerisation
6 276 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 243 (16.66%) AI
8 238 (16.31%) Microservices
9 222 (15.22%) Analytics
10 202 (13.85%) Machine Learning
11 172 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 168 (11.51%) Software Engineering
13 151 (10.35%) Cybersecurity
14 145 (9.94%) Data Modelling
15 141 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
16 139 (9.53%) Data Science
17 137 (9.39%) ETL
18 134 (9.18%) Cloud Security
18 134 (9.18%) Migration
19 133 (9.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 634 (43.45%) Python
2 280 (19.19%) SQL
3 258 (17.68%) Java
4 146 (10.01%) Bash
5 120 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 93 (6.37%) Go
8 87 (5.96%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.06%) C#
10 28 (1.92%) Scala
11 25 (1.71%) R
12 17 (1.17%) C++
12 17 (1.17%) Ruby
13 16 (1.10%) Bicep
13 16 (1.10%) Perl
13 16 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.82%) C
14 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.75%) Groovy
16 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 189 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.28%) Degree
4 98 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (5.41%) CISSP
6 71 (4.87%) AWS Certification
7 66 (4.52%) Master's Degree
8 51 (3.50%) CISM
9 50 (3.43%) Azure Certification
10 36 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.92%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (1.37%) CCSP
14 18 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (1.23%) OSCP
15 14 (0.96%) CCNP
16 12 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.75%) CCIE
17 11 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (9.46%) GDPR
2 120 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (6.65%) NIST
4 94 (6.44%) Data Quality
5 80 (5.48%) QA
6 48 (3.29%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.58%) HIPAA
8 22 (1.51%) SOC 2
9 21 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.96%) GRC
11 12 (0.82%) NCSC
12 8 (0.55%) PSD2
13 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
14 6 (0.41%) PERC
15 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 388 (26.59%) Docker
2 77 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.55%) KVM
4 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.55%) vSphere
5 6 (0.41%) Squid
5 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.34%) GPFS
6 5 (0.34%) Lustre
6 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.34%) Snort
7 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) UAG
9 1 (0.069%) QEMU
9 1 (0.069%) SRDF
9 1 (0.069%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 460 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 312 (21.38%) Terraform
3 145 (9.94%) Ansible
4 94 (6.44%) Grafana
5 92 (6.31%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.06%) Argo
7 29 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.51%) Puppet
9 18 (1.23%) CSIRT
9 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.17%) Istio
11 16 (1.10%) SCCM
12 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.89%) Kubeflow
13 13 (0.89%) Nmap
14 12 (0.82%) Nessus
15 10 (0.69%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.69%) Podman
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 483 (33.10%) Google
2 150 (10.28%) Microsoft
3 120 (8.22%) Splunk
4 68 (4.66%) Databricks
5 59 (4.04%) Oracle
6 50 (3.43%) VMware
7 46 (3.15%) CyberArk
8 44 (3.02%) F5
9 43 (2.95%) Palo Alto
9 43 (2.95%) SAP
10 37 (2.54%) Cisco
11 29 (1.99%) ServiceNow
12 27 (1.85%) OpenAI
13 26 (1.78%) BeyondTrust
14 24 (1.64%) Red Hat
15 21 (1.44%) Citrix
16 18 (1.23%) IBM
16 18 (1.23%) Okta
17 16 (1.10%) Fortinet
17 16 (1.10%) Informatica