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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,867 1,191 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 4.35% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.78% 11.64% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 802 851
10th Percentile £408 £375 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £660 £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 28 11 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £21.23 £45.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £74.75 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.38% +40.00% -51.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.23 £100.00 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £70.36 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +34.01% +50.00% -53.18%

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 15,844 10,233 11,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.37% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 6,926 7,845
10th Percentile £325 £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 £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 196
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.62 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -2 978 £571 -4.79% 1,998
North of England +7 399 £550 +15.67% 318
Yorkshire +6 255 £550 +18.47% 90
South East +5 185 £525 +1.55% 204
North West -5 130 £550 +4.76% 199
South West +20 126 £575 +9.52% 199
Midlands -61 66 £525 +16.67% 94
East of England +13 60 £549 +7.50% 41
West Midlands -45 48 £528 -0.47% 73
East Midlands -24 18 £500 +25.00% 21
North East -29 18 £463 -26.00% 30
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
1 117 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 96 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (3.86%) Apache
4 46 (2.46%) Confluence
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) 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%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.054%) Luigi
12 1 (0.054%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
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 (0.054%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.054%) Houdini
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.054%) NUKE
7 1 (0.054%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.054%) Maximo
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.054%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.054%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.054%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.054%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (65.56%) AWS
2 1,202 (64.38%) Azure
3 206 (11.03%) GitHub
4 162 (8.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 138 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (7.18%) Snowflake
7 98 (5.25%) SaaS
8 89 (4.77%) dbt
9 80 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (3.96%) Power Platform
11 70 (3.75%) Serverless
12 61 (3.27%) Entra ID
13 53 (2.84%) Vertex AI
14 43 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (2.09%) Cloud Run
16 37 (1.98%) Amazon S3
17 35 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (1.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.46%) Network Security
2 97 (5.20%) Firewall
3 88 (4.71%) DNS
4 75 (4.02%) VPN
5 30 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.29%) WAN
7 23 (1.23%) BGP
7 23 (1.23%) DHCP
8 19 (1.02%) Internet
9 18 (0.96%) HTTP
9 18 (0.96%) VLAN
10 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.75%) SSL
12 13 (0.70%) OSPF
13 11 (0.59%) IPsec
14 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.48%) MPLS
14 9 (0.48%) VoIP
14 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
15 8 (0.43%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (11.52%) BigQuery
2 171 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (4.12%) Metadata
5 76 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 74 (3.96%) Data Lake
7 73 (3.91%) Big Data
8 66 (3.54%) Power BI
9 47 (2.52%) Tableau
10 46 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (1.87%) Looker
12 32 (1.71%) Flink
13 31 (1.66%) Redis
13 31 (1.66%) SQL Server
14 28 (1.50%) MongoDB
15 26 (1.39%) MySQL
16 19 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 219 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 201 (10.77%) Git
3 145 (7.77%) GitLab
4 87 (4.66%) JIRA
5 40 (2.14%) JUnit
5 40 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.61%) Maven
7 29 (1.55%) Selenium
8 25 (1.34%) JMeter
9 17 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 17 (0.91%) Gradle
10 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.86%) LoadRunner
10 16 (0.86%) Postman
10 16 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.70%) Gatling
13 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.48%) MLflow
14 9 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 515 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 447 (23.94%) Finance
3 179 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.05%) Banking
5 152 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.64%) Retail
7 61 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.09%) Legal
10 37 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.87%) Marketing
12 31 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.39%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.29%) Billing
16 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
19 17 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 401 (21.48%) Architect
2 255 (13.66%) Senior
3 201 (10.77%) Developer
4 178 (9.53%) Lead
5 158 (8.46%) Data Engineer
6 144 (7.71%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 111 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 81 (4.34%) Consultant
12 73 (3.91%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.64%) Analyst
14 67 (3.59%) Data Architect
15 65 (3.48%) Security Architect
16 62 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 51 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
19 50 (2.68%) Software Engineer
20 43 (2.30%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (24.91%) Terraform
2 198 (10.61%) Kafka
3 166 (8.89%) REST
4 104 (5.57%) Spring
5 96 (5.14%) React
6 92 (4.93%) OAuth
6 92 (4.93%) Spring Boot
7 79 (4.23%) RESTful
8 71 (3.80%) Node.js
9 57 (3.05%) JSON
10 55 (2.95%) OpenID
11 52 (2.79%) LDAP
12 51 (2.73%) SAML
13 48 (2.57%) OAuth2
13 48 (2.57%) PySpark
14 44 (2.36%) LangChain
15 41 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (2.20%) SOAP
16 37 (1.98%) GraphQL
17 36 (1.93%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 389 (20.84%) Cloud Native
2 134 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.03%) AI Agents
4 66 (3.54%) Security Posture
5 65 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 59 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 47 (2.52%) Public Cloud
10 46 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.41%) Data Centre
11 45 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 42 (2.25%) Algorithms
13 39 (2.09%) Data Structures
14 37 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (1.98%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.66%) PKI
16 26 (1.39%) CMDB
17 25 (1.34%) Private Cloud
18 23 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 145 (7.77%) Linux
2 93 (4.98%) Windows
3 36 (1.93%) Unix
4 30 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.054%) Solaris
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (44.67%) CI/CD
2 598 (32.03%) DevOps
3 471 (25.23%) Agile
4 456 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 449 (24.05%) AI
6 318 (17.03%) Microservices
7 312 (16.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 298 (15.96%) Analytics
9 273 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
10 270 (14.46%) Observability
11 269 (14.41%) Machine Learning
12 261 (13.98%) Software Engineering
13 257 (13.77%) Containerisation
14 231 (12.37%) Roadmaps
15 229 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
16 225 (12.05%) Cloud Security
17 224 (12.00%) Data Modelling
18 210 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 206 (11.03%) Migration
20 196 (10.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 708 (37.92%) Python
2 392 (21.00%) SQL
3 374 (20.03%) Java
4 154 (8.25%) Bash
5 139 (7.45%) PowerShell
6 137 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 88 (4.71%) Go
8 65 (3.48%) TypeScript
9 48 (2.57%) Scala
10 38 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 33 (1.77%) C#
12 30 (1.61%) Bicep
13 23 (1.23%) Groovy
14 19 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.96%) R
15 18 (0.96%) Rust
16 10 (0.54%) C++
16 10 (0.54%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 282 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.07%) Degree
4 113 (6.05%) CISSP
5 95 (5.09%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.37%) CISM
9 60 (3.21%) Azure Certification
10 57 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.45%) CCSP
14 24 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.91%) GIAC
16 15 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.70%) CCNP
19 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (8.41%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 92 (4.93%) GDPR
3 92 (4.93%) QA
4 91 (4.87%) NIST
5 31 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 30 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.18%) NCSC
8 19 (1.02%) GRC
9 15 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.43%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) COBIT
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 338 (18.10%) Docker
2 85 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.54%) vSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) 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%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.054%) zsh
Systems Management
1 586 (31.39%) Kubernetes
2 130 (6.96%) Ansible
3 119 (6.37%) Grafana
4 116 (6.21%) Prometheus
5 42 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (1.61%) Argo
7 27 (1.45%) Istio
8 26 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.12%) Puppet
10 17 (0.91%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 8 (0.43%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 5 (0.27%) CASB
15 5 (0.27%) Cilium
15 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 617 (33.05%) Google
2 208 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 121 (6.48%) Databricks
4 72 (3.86%) Splunk
5 69 (3.70%) Oracle
6 58 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 48 (2.57%) CyberArk
9 47 (2.52%) Dynatrace
10 45 (2.41%) VMware
11 39 (2.09%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.98%) SAP
13 30 (1.61%) Informatica
13 30 (1.61%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.45%) IBM
16 22 (1.18%) Cisco
17 20 (1.07%) MuleSoft
17 20 (1.07%) Okta
18 18 (0.96%) New Relic