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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 54 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,650 923 1,065
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.05% 3.81% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.51% 10.26% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 627 790
10th Percentile £392 £368 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £813 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.90
25th Percentile £24.02 £25.25 £37.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £70.47 £59.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.08 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £47.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +14.74% -8.21% -26.16%

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 14,332 8,992 11,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.19% 37.16% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,816 6,239 8,405
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 195 324
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £67.67 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +1 859 £575 -4.17% 335
North of England +21 336 £538 -2.27% 118
Yorkshire +12 201 £510 -7.27% 27
South East +17 171 £500 -13.04% 111
North West +14 119 £555 -1.38% 73
South West +27 104 £565 +7.62% 58
Midlands -23 85 £475 +3.54% 47
West Midlands -20 66 £481 -8.33% 21
East of England -1 51 £549 +11.54% 14
North East -2 19 £584 +26.22% 18
East Midlands -25 19 £438 +9.38% 26
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
1 101 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 64 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.45%) Apache
4 38 (2.30%) Confluence
5 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) JBoss
10 1 (0.061%) SAS
10 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.061%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.061%) Trello
7 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.061%) Actimize
4 1 (0.061%) Maximo
4 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.061%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,121 (67.94%) Azure
2 1,106 (67.03%) AWS
3 184 (11.15%) GitHub
4 140 (8.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 110 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (6.36%) Power Platform
7 86 (5.21%) Snowflake
8 80 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (4.18%) SaaS
10 59 (3.58%) Serverless
11 53 (3.21%) dbt
12 50 (3.03%) OpenShift
13 49 (2.97%) Entra ID
14 47 (2.85%) Amazon S3
15 46 (2.79%) Vertex AI
16 41 (2.48%) Cloud Run
17 36 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 30 (1.82%) Google Workspace
18 30 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.76%) Firewall
2 88 (5.33%) DNS
2 88 (5.33%) VPN
3 82 (4.97%) Network Security
4 23 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.39%) WAN
5 19 (1.15%) HTTP
6 18 (1.09%) BGP
7 13 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.73%) VoIP
9 11 (0.67%) LAN
9 11 (0.67%) OSPF
9 11 (0.67%) SSL
10 10 (0.61%) Internet
10 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.48%) DKIM
11 8 (0.48%) DMARC
11 8 (0.48%) IPsec
12 7 (0.42%) VLAN
12 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (11.09%) BigQuery
2 102 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (5.33%) Power BI
5 76 (4.61%) NoSQL
6 69 (4.18%) Data Lake
7 67 (4.06%) Big Data
8 59 (3.58%) Metadata
9 51 (3.09%) Tableau
10 45 (2.73%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.42%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.12%) MongoDB
13 26 (1.58%) Looker
13 26 (1.58%) MySQL
14 23 (1.39%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.21%) Flink
16 19 (1.15%) OLAP
17 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 206 (12.48%) Jenkins
2 150 (9.09%) Git
3 131 (7.94%) GitLab
4 81 (4.91%) JIRA
5 44 (2.67%) Selenium
6 37 (2.24%) JUnit
7 31 (1.88%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.64%) JMeter
9 25 (1.52%) Postman
9 25 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 19 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 17 (1.03%) Maven
12 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.79%) MLflow
14 10 (0.61%) ERwin
14 10 (0.61%) Gradle
15 9 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.55%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 466 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 357 (21.64%) Finance
3 152 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (9.09%) Banking
5 132 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 54 (3.27%) Retail
7 45 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.18%) Legal
9 31 (1.88%) Front Office
9 31 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.76%) Marketing
11 23 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 20 (1.21%) Investment Banking
14 16 (0.97%) Military
15 15 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (0.67%) Billing
17 11 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 344 (20.85%) Architect
2 196 (11.88%) Senior
3 179 (10.85%) Developer
4 168 (10.18%) Lead
5 161 (9.76%) GCP Engineer
6 139 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 111 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 95 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 72 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
10 65 (3.94%) Software Engineer
11 64 (3.88%) Analyst
12 60 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
12 60 (3.64%) Consultant
13 59 (3.58%) Java Developer
14 51 (3.09%) Security Architect
15 50 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.91%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 47 (2.85%) Security Engineer
18 44 (2.67%) Data Architect
19 39 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (9.70%) REST
2 147 (8.91%) Kafka
3 113 (6.85%) Spring
4 107 (6.48%) React
5 98 (5.94%) Node.js
6 91 (5.52%) Spring Boot
7 88 (5.33%) LDAP
8 73 (4.42%) OAuth
9 59 (3.58%) RESTful
10 56 (3.39%) SOAP
11 53 (3.21%) OpenID
12 49 (2.97%) PyTorch
13 47 (2.85%) TensorFlow
14 45 (2.73%) AngularJS
15 44 (2.67%) .NET
16 38 (2.30%) LangChain
16 38 (2.30%) OAuth2
16 38 (2.30%) SAML
17 33 (2.00%) Middleware
18 31 (1.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 284 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 89 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.82%) Security Posture
4 62 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 58 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 47 (2.85%) AI Agents
8 43 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 38 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.94%) Fixed Income
11 25 (1.52%) Derivative
12 23 (1.39%) Equities
13 22 (1.33%) Clustering
13 22 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
14 21 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.21%) Management Information System
16 19 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.33%) Linux
2 64 (3.88%) Windows
3 26 (1.58%) Android
4 23 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.21%) VMS
7 17 (1.03%) Unix
8 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.061%) CentOS
14 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Rocky
14 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (44.67%) CI/CD
2 561 (34.00%) DevOps
3 354 (21.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 349 (21.15%) Agile
5 336 (20.36%) AI
6 282 (17.09%) Analytics
7 281 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (15.94%) Microservices
9 256 (15.52%) Containerisation
10 229 (13.88%) Observability
11 223 (13.52%) Machine Learning
12 195 (11.82%) Software Engineering
13 194 (11.76%) Data Modelling
14 189 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
15 186 (11.27%) Migration
16 180 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 175 (10.61%) Data Engineering
18 164 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 164 (9.94%) ETL
19 148 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 647 (39.21%) Python
2 323 (19.58%) SQL
3 293 (17.76%) Java
4 136 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 128 (7.76%) JavaScript
6 108 (6.55%) Bash
7 81 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 76 (4.61%) Go
9 49 (2.97%) C#
10 38 (2.30%) Scala
11 19 (1.15%) Groovy
12 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.03%) Bicep
14 10 (0.61%) PHP
14 10 (0.61%) R
15 9 (0.55%) Ruby
16 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 373 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 308 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.09%) CISSP
4 83 (5.03%) Degree
5 56 (3.39%) CISM
6 53 (3.21%) AWS Certification
7 51 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 49 (2.97%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 23 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.33%) CCSP
13 18 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.03%) CCNP
14 17 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.85%) GIAC
17 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.06%) GDPR
2 115 (6.97%) Data Quality
3 95 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (5.76%) NIST
4 68 (4.12%) QA
5 39 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.27%) NCSC
8 19 (1.15%) GRC
9 18 (1.09%) SLA
10 15 (0.91%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.55%) COBIT
12 9 (0.55%) PSD2
12 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.48%) WCAG
14 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.36%) MiFID
15 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.36%) PERC
System Software
1 321 (19.45%) Docker
2 99 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) HDFS
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.12%) GPFS
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.061%) iptables
11 1 (0.061%) Varnish
11 1 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 499 (30.24%) Kubernetes
2 403 (24.42%) Terraform
3 111 (6.73%) Ansible
4 108 (6.55%) Grafana
5 99 (6.00%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.24%) Istio
7 29 (1.76%) Argo
8 26 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.85%) Kubeflow
9 14 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.48%) SCCM
13 7 (0.42%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
14 6 (0.36%) Nessus
14 6 (0.36%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
16 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 512 (31.03%) Google
2 141 (8.55%) Microsoft
3 83 (5.03%) Databricks
4 70 (4.24%) Splunk
5 67 (4.06%) CyberArk
6 65 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 53 (3.21%) BeyondTrust
8 38 (2.30%) Oracle
9 37 (2.24%) OpenAI
9 37 (2.24%) VMware
10 36 (2.18%) Centrify
11 33 (2.00%) Salesforce
12 30 (1.82%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.70%) Dynatrace
14 23 (1.39%) SAP
15 22 (1.33%) Cisco
16 18 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 17 (1.03%) Foundry
17 17 (1.03%) Informatica
17 17 (1.03%) MuleSoft