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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,676 979 1,111
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 4.07% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.39% 10.77% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 658 818
10th Percentile £400 £363 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -3.96% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 9
10th Percentile £13.29 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £73.13 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +8.25% -30.71%

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 14,717 9,086 11,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.08% 37.73% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,002 6,201 8,458
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 218 323
10th Percentile £15.74 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.57 £17.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.28 £25.26 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +59.49% +18.18% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.69 £39.50
90th Percentile £81.35 £68.75 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -4 876 £575 -7.07% 514
North of England +19 347 £538 +1.42% 183
Yorkshire +6 212 £525 - 40
South East +12 155 £525 -4.55% 130
North West +10 119 £554 +0.68% 122
South West +32 110 £560 +6.67% 62
Midlands -11 89 £475 +8.08% 40
West Midlands -9 68 £476 -20.67% 25
East of England +1 49 £523 +6.09% 18
East Midlands -27 21 £438 +10.62% 15
North East -12 19 £584 +7.36% 21
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
1 107 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.22%) Apache
4 39 (2.33%) Confluence
5 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
7 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (66.47%) AWS
2 1,107 (66.05%) Azure
3 192 (11.46%) GitHub
4 162 (9.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 124 (7.40%) GitHub Actions
6 100 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 95 (5.67%) Snowflake
8 78 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (4.24%) SaaS
10 69 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (4.06%) Serverless
12 56 (3.34%) dbt
13 52 (3.10%) Entra ID
14 49 (2.92%) Vertex AI
15 46 (2.74%) Amazon S3
16 44 (2.63%) OpenShift
17 41 (2.45%) Cloud Run
18 37 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 36 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
20 32 (1.91%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.15%) Firewall
2 94 (5.61%) DNS
3 93 (5.55%) Network Security
4 90 (5.37%) VPN
5 26 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.43%) WAN
7 22 (1.31%) BGP
8 18 (1.07%) HTTP
9 14 (0.84%) OSPF
9 14 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.78%) DHCP
10 13 (0.78%) Internet
11 12 (0.72%) SSL
11 12 (0.72%) VoIP
12 10 (0.60%) IPsec
13 9 (0.54%) LAN
13 9 (0.54%) VLAN
13 9 (0.54%) VXLAN
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (10.50%) BigQuery
2 116 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (4.89%) Power BI
5 78 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 72 (4.30%) Big Data
8 55 (3.28%) Metadata
9 48 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.86%) Tableau
10 44 (2.63%) SQL Server
11 35 (2.09%) MongoDB
12 34 (2.03%) MySQL
13 23 (1.37%) Hadoop
13 23 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (1.13%) Flink
14 19 (1.13%) Looker
15 18 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.01%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 213 (12.71%) Jenkins
2 162 (9.67%) Git
3 140 (8.35%) GitLab
4 89 (5.31%) JIRA
5 47 (2.80%) Selenium
6 45 (2.68%) JUnit
7 34 (2.03%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.79%) JMeter
8 30 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.43%) Postman
10 19 (1.13%) Maven
10 19 (1.13%) REST Assured
10 19 (1.13%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.78%) MLflow
12 10 (0.60%) ERwin
12 10 (0.60%) Gradle
13 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
13 9 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 455 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 387 (23.09%) Finance
3 154 (9.19%) Banking
4 148 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.70%) Retail
7 45 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (1.97%) Legal
9 32 (1.91%) Front Office
10 29 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.43%) Marketing
13 22 (1.31%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.95%) Military
17 12 (0.72%) Billing
17 12 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 357 (21.30%) Architect
2 210 (12.53%) Senior
3 179 (10.68%) Developer
4 165 (9.84%) Lead
5 161 (9.61%) GCP Engineer
6 137 (8.17%) Data Engineer
7 103 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 103 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 78 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (3.76%) Software Engineer
10 62 (3.70%) Java Developer
11 61 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
12 59 (3.52%) Consultant
13 56 (3.34%) Security Engineer
14 54 (3.22%) Security Architect
15 51 (3.04%) Analyst
16 49 (2.92%) GCP DevOps
17 48 (2.86%) Data Architect
18 44 (2.63%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.45%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (9.43%) REST
2 146 (8.71%) Kafka
3 115 (6.86%) Spring
4 109 (6.50%) React
5 95 (5.67%) Node.js
5 95 (5.67%) Spring Boot
6 84 (5.01%) LDAP
7 74 (4.42%) OAuth
8 56 (3.34%) RESTful
9 54 (3.22%) OpenID
10 53 (3.16%) SOAP
11 48 (2.86%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.74%) TensorFlow
13 45 (2.68%) AngularJS
14 42 (2.51%) .NET
15 40 (2.39%) OAuth2
16 37 (2.21%) SAML
17 36 (2.15%) LangChain
18 32 (1.91%) Middleware
19 30 (1.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 321 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.47%) Security Posture
4 66 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (3.16%) AI Agents
7 50 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 45 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.97%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.61%) Derivative
13 27 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
13 27 (1.61%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.43%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.37%) Clustering
16 23 (1.37%) Equities
17 21 (1.25%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.21%) Linux
2 84 (5.01%) Windows
3 31 (1.85%) Android
4 24 (1.43%) Unix
5 23 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.25%) VMS
8 15 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
13 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (45.70%) CI/CD
2 560 (33.41%) DevOps
3 388 (23.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 366 (21.84%) Agile
5 348 (20.76%) AI
6 282 (16.83%) Analytics
7 274 (16.35%) Microservices
8 269 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (15.21%) Observability
10 238 (14.20%) Containerisation
11 225 (13.42%) Machine Learning
12 199 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
12 199 (11.87%) Software Engineering
13 198 (11.81%) Migration
14 191 (11.40%) Data Modelling
15 185 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 174 (10.38%) Cloud Security
16 174 (10.38%) Data Engineering
17 171 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
18 168 (10.02%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 657 (39.20%) Python
2 344 (20.53%) SQL
3 305 (18.20%) Java
4 147 (8.77%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.52%) JavaScript
6 116 (6.92%) Bash
7 83 (4.95%) Go
8 81 (4.83%) TypeScript
9 42 (2.51%) C#
10 38 (2.27%) Scala
11 19 (1.13%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.01%) Bicep
13 16 (0.95%) Groovy
14 15 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.66%) Ruby
16 10 (0.60%) R
17 9 (0.54%) PHP
18 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.48%) Rust
19 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 363 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 292 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 95 (5.67%) CISSP
3 95 (5.67%) Degree
4 63 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 61 (3.64%) AWS Certification
6 56 (3.34%) CISM
7 54 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
8 53 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (3.04%) Azure Certification
10 38 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (1.49%) CCSP
12 24 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.31%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.95%) GIAC
16 15 (0.89%) CCNP
16 15 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 111 (6.62%) GDPR
3 89 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (5.13%) NIST
5 69 (4.12%) QA
6 32 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.31%) NCSC
8 20 (1.19%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 18 (1.07%) SLA
10 13 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.54%) COBIT
13 9 (0.54%) PSD2
14 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.48%) WCAG
15 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 319 (19.03%) Docker
2 98 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 11 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 507 (30.25%) Kubernetes
2 432 (25.78%) Terraform
3 119 (7.10%) Grafana
4 115 (6.86%) Ansible
5 110 (6.56%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.09%) Istio
7 32 (1.91%) Argo
8 30 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.07%) Puppet
11 13 (0.78%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.48%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.48%) SCCM
13 7 (0.42%) Podman
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) Kibana
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 523 (31.21%) Google
2 146 (8.71%) Microsoft
3 82 (4.89%) Databricks
4 67 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 65 (3.88%) Splunk
6 60 (3.58%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
8 42 (2.51%) VMware
9 41 (2.45%) Oracle
10 36 (2.15%) Centrify
11 35 (2.09%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.97%) Salesforce
13 28 (1.67%) Dynatrace
14 27 (1.61%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.25%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.13%) Okta
17 18 (1.07%) Cisco
18 17 (1.01%) Foundry
18 17 (1.01%) SAP
19 16 (0.95%) Informatica