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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,933 1,259 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.51% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.05% 11.86% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 850 805
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £15.93 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -38.13%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -35.76%

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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 0 996 £575 -4.17% 2,125
North of England +9 420 £538 +7.50% 405
Yorkshire 0 273 £538 +13.16% 115
South East -7 191 £525 +5.00% 293
South West +24 137 £550 -5.38% 181
North West +3 133 £535 +7.00% 257
Midlands -64 71 £525 +10.53% 129
East of England +8 64 £558 +1.36% 65
West Midlands -53 53 £530 +0.95% 109
North East -25 18 £500 -2.91% 35
East Midlands -29 18 £500 +20.48% 20
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
1 115 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.88%) Apache
4 54 (2.79%) Confluence
5 18 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.052%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.052%) Houdini
8 1 (0.052%) NUKE
8 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.052%) Maximo
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,262 (65.29%) AWS
2 1,230 (63.63%) Azure
3 215 (11.12%) GitHub
4 171 (8.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 142 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (6.88%) Snowflake
7 102 (5.28%) dbt
8 97 (5.02%) SaaS
9 91 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 78 (4.04%) Power Platform
12 74 (3.83%) Entra ID
13 67 (3.47%) Serverless
14 58 (3.00%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.85%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.91%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 93 (4.81%) Firewall
1 93 (4.81%) Network Security
2 73 (3.78%) DNS
3 64 (3.31%) VPN
4 27 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.35%) BGP
6 24 (1.24%) DHCP
6 24 (1.24%) WAN
7 19 (0.98%) HTTP
7 19 (0.98%) Internet
8 18 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.88%) SSL
10 16 (0.83%) VLAN
11 15 (0.78%) OSPF
12 13 (0.67%) VoIP
13 12 (0.62%) IPsec
14 10 (0.52%) LAN
14 10 (0.52%) MPLS
15 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
16 8 (0.41%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (12.93%) BigQuery
2 173 (8.95%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (4.71%) Metadata
5 84 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.98%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.88%) Data Lake
8 69 (3.57%) Power BI
9 60 (3.10%) Big Data
10 46 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 45 (2.33%) Looker
12 39 (2.02%) Tableau
13 37 (1.91%) SQL Server
14 36 (1.86%) MongoDB
14 36 (1.86%) MySQL
15 31 (1.60%) Redis
16 30 (1.55%) Flink
17 23 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.03%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 225 (11.64%) Git
2 219 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 150 (7.76%) GitLab
4 103 (5.33%) JIRA
5 37 (1.91%) SonarQube
6 36 (1.86%) JUnit
7 33 (1.71%) Maven
8 24 (1.24%) JMeter
9 22 (1.14%) Gradle
9 22 (1.14%) Selenium
10 20 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 20 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (0.93%) LoadRunner
11 18 (0.93%) Postman
12 17 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.88%) Gatling
13 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.62%) Snyk
15 11 (0.57%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 526 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 484 (25.04%) Finance
3 199 (10.29%) Banking
4 193 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.88%) Retail
7 54 (2.79%) Telecoms
8 46 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.86%) Legal
10 35 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 32 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (1.50%) Marketing
13 27 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.35%) Billing
14 26 (1.35%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 401 (20.74%) Architect
2 266 (13.76%) Senior
3 226 (11.69%) Developer
4 178 (9.21%) Data Engineer
5 175 (9.05%) Lead
6 151 (7.81%) GCP Engineer
7 123 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 110 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.66%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.35%) Security Engineer
12 83 (4.29%) Consultant
13 71 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 67 (3.47%) Analyst
15 65 (3.36%) Data Architect
16 63 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
17 61 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
18 54 (2.79%) Security Architect
18 54 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 48 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (26.18%) Terraform
2 214 (11.07%) Kafka
3 193 (9.98%) REST
4 110 (5.69%) React
5 105 (5.43%) OAuth
6 95 (4.91%) Spring
7 89 (4.60%) RESTful
8 88 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 71 (3.67%) Node.js
10 66 (3.41%) OpenID
11 65 (3.36%) JSON
12 61 (3.16%) SAML
13 56 (2.90%) SOAP
14 54 (2.79%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.59%) LDAP
16 49 (2.53%) PySpark
17 47 (2.43%) LangChain
18 43 (2.22%) JWT
18 43 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
19 41 (2.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 417 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.64%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 78 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 68 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 65 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 65 (3.36%) Public Cloud
8 61 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 53 (2.74%) Data Centre
10 49 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.33%) Data Structures
11 45 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 43 (2.22%) Management Information System
13 42 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (2.07%) Algorithms
15 36 (1.86%) PKI
16 29 (1.50%) CMDB
16 29 (1.50%) Private Cloud
17 25 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 164 (8.48%) Linux
2 102 (5.28%) Windows
3 48 (2.48%) Unix
4 33 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.24%) Android
6 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
11 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (45.58%) CI/CD
2 627 (32.44%) DevOps
3 492 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 485 (25.09%) AI
5 482 (24.94%) Agile
6 354 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 332 (17.18%) Microservices
8 313 (16.19%) Analytics
9 293 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
10 286 (14.80%) Software Engineering
11 281 (14.54%) Observability
12 271 (14.02%) Containerisation
13 262 (13.55%) Machine Learning
14 254 (13.14%) Roadmaps
15 249 (12.88%) Data Modelling
16 236 (12.21%) Cloud Security
17 235 (12.16%) Data Pipeline
18 230 (11.90%) Migration
19 228 (11.80%) Event-Driven
20 220 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 753 (38.95%) Python
2 447 (23.12%) SQL
3 377 (19.50%) Java
4 152 (7.86%) Bash
5 146 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 146 (7.55%) PowerShell
6 103 (5.33%) Go
7 71 (3.67%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 42 (2.17%) Scala
10 38 (1.97%) C#
11 32 (1.66%) Bicep
12 22 (1.14%) Groovy
12 22 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.03%) R
14 18 (0.93%) Rust
15 12 (0.62%) ABAP
16 11 (0.57%) C++
17 10 (0.52%) Ruby
18 9 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 386 (19.97%) Security Cleared
2 281 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 145 (7.50%) Degree
4 112 (5.79%) CISSP
5 101 (5.23%) DV Cleared
6 95 (4.91%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.47%) CISM
8 66 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (3.31%) Azure Certification
10 58 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 35 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.66%) CCSP
14 31 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.83%) CISA
17 15 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.72%) GIAC
19 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
19 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.12%) QA
3 97 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.60%) NIST
5 73 (3.78%) GDPR
6 33 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.45%) GRC
9 23 (1.19%) NCSC
10 19 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.57%) COBIT
14 9 (0.47%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) Basel III
18 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 341 (17.64%) Docker
2 84 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.052%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 612 (31.66%) Kubernetes
2 152 (7.86%) Ansible
3 114 (5.90%) Grafana
4 109 (5.64%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.66%) Argo
7 30 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.35%) Puppet
9 24 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 8 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.41%) CASB
14 7 (0.36%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
15 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 679 (35.13%) Google
2 236 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 123 (6.36%) Databricks
4 85 (4.40%) Splunk
5 72 (3.72%) Oracle
6 63 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.59%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.48%) VMware
10 47 (2.43%) CyberArk
11 45 (2.33%) SAP
12 41 (2.12%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.86%) IBM
14 30 (1.55%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.50%) Red Hat
16 28 (1.45%) Informatica
17 27 (1.40%) Cisco
18 24 (1.24%) Okta
19 20 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
19 20 (1.03%) MuleSoft