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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,896 1,188 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.28% 3.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.94% 11.48% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 819 871
10th Percentile £402 £370 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +11.74% +70.34% -50.91%

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 15,886 10,346 11,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,591 7,013 8,027
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 268 239
10th Percentile £16.56 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.02 £18.13 £16.15
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £84.38 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%

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 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 1,007 £575 -4.17% 822
North of England +12 399 £538 +13.16% 231
Yorkshire +6 251 £527 +12.98% 81
South East -2 183 £538 +0.09% 174
North West -1 132 £560 +9.27% 123
South West +26 123 £560 +7.95% 88
Midlands -27 86 £500 +11.11% 66
West Midlands -24 70 £503 -12.52% 59
East of England +16 53 £533 +6.50% 19
North East -21 20 £525 -3.45% 27
East Midlands -28 16 £500 +25.00% 7
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 (6.07%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.96%) Apache
4 54 (2.85%) Confluence
5 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.053%) JBoss
11 1 (0.053%) Mule
11 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (64.56%) AWS
2 1,199 (63.24%) Azure
3 207 (10.92%) GitHub
4 168 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 134 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (6.43%) Snowflake
7 91 (4.80%) SaaS
8 85 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.43%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.06%) dbt
12 73 (3.85%) Serverless
13 57 (3.01%) Vertex AI
14 50 (2.64%) Entra ID
15 43 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (2.16%) Cloud Run
17 38 (2.00%) Amazon S3
18 36 (1.90%) OpenShift
19 35 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 111 (5.85%) Firewall
2 103 (5.43%) Network Security
3 102 (5.38%) DNS
4 91 (4.80%) VPN
5 35 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.69%) WAN
7 30 (1.58%) BGP
8 24 (1.27%) HTTP
9 21 (1.11%) OSPF
10 20 (1.05%) DHCP
11 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.95%) Internet
13 17 (0.90%) VLAN
14 14 (0.74%) SSL
15 12 (0.63%) LAN
15 12 (0.63%) VXLAN
16 11 (0.58%) IPsec
16 11 (0.58%) MPLS
17 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (11.39%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 132 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (4.27%) NoSQL
5 80 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 73 (3.85%) Big Data
7 71 (3.74%) Metadata
8 69 (3.64%) Power BI
9 67 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.43%) Tableau
11 35 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (1.85%) Looker
12 33 (1.74%) SQL Server
13 32 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 29 (1.53%) MySQL
15 28 (1.48%) Flink
16 26 (1.37%) Redis
17 23 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.11%) Hadoop
19 17 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 224 (11.81%) Jenkins
2 203 (10.71%) Git
3 145 (7.65%) GitLab
4 93 (4.91%) JIRA
5 49 (2.58%) JUnit
6 35 (1.85%) Selenium
6 35 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.58%) JMeter
8 26 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.32%) Maven
10 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.79%) Gradle
12 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.69%) Postman
14 11 (0.58%) MLflow
15 10 (0.53%) LoadRunner
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.47%) Gatling
General
1 477 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 455 (24.00%) Finance
3 176 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (8.81%) Banking
5 156 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.64%) Retail
7 59 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (2.11%) Legal
11 36 (1.90%) Front Office
12 34 (1.79%) Marketing
13 29 (1.53%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.00%) Billing
17 18 (0.95%) Publishing
18 17 (0.90%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 389 (20.52%) Architect
2 246 (12.97%) Senior
3 229 (12.08%) Developer
4 191 (10.07%) Lead
5 169 (8.91%) GCP Engineer
6 160 (8.44%) Data Engineer
7 127 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 121 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.54%) Java Developer
11 73 (3.85%) Consultant
12 69 (3.64%) Analyst
13 67 (3.53%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.48%) Security Architect
14 66 (3.48%) Security Engineer
15 65 (3.43%) Software Engineer
16 60 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
17 57 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 52 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
19 48 (2.53%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (9.39%) Kafka
2 160 (8.44%) REST
3 119 (6.28%) React
3 119 (6.28%) Spring
4 100 (5.27%) Node.js
5 96 (5.06%) Spring Boot
6 83 (4.38%) OAuth
7 66 (3.48%) RESTful
8 48 (2.53%) JSON
9 46 (2.43%) OAuth2
9 46 (2.43%) OpenID
10 45 (2.37%) LangChain
11 44 (2.32%) PyTorch
11 44 (2.32%) SAML
12 43 (2.27%) GraphQL
13 42 (2.22%) AngularJS
14 41 (2.16%) TensorFlow
15 40 (2.11%) LDAP
15 40 (2.11%) PySpark
16 39 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 358 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 130 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.06%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 51 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 49 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
10 48 (2.53%) Public Cloud
11 43 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
13 36 (1.90%) Algorithms
13 36 (1.90%) Fixed Income
14 35 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.79%) Data Structures
16 33 (1.74%) Management Information System
17 31 (1.64%) Derivative
18 29 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
19 28 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.86%) Linux
2 92 (4.85%) Windows
3 30 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.32%) Android
4 25 (1.32%) Unix
5 22 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.63%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (44.30%) CI/CD
2 597 (31.49%) DevOps
3 494 (26.05%) Agile
4 446 (23.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 440 (23.21%) AI
6 326 (17.19%) Microservices
7 311 (16.40%) Analytics
8 279 (14.72%) Machine Learning
9 278 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
10 270 (14.24%) Observability
11 265 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 257 (13.55%) Software Engineering
13 256 (13.50%) Containerisation
14 238 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
15 236 (12.45%) Data Modelling
16 217 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 212 (11.18%) Migration
18 208 (10.97%) Cloud Security
19 207 (10.92%) Roadmaps
20 193 (10.18%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 721 (38.03%) Python
2 394 (20.78%) SQL
3 362 (19.09%) Java
4 157 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.96%) Bash
6 136 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 93 (4.91%) TypeScript
8 88 (4.64%) Go
9 43 (2.27%) Scala
10 38 (2.00%) C#
11 32 (1.69%) Bicep
12 27 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 26 (1.37%) Groovy
14 25 (1.32%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 16 (0.84%) R
17 13 (0.69%) Ruby
18 10 (0.53%) C++
18 10 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
19 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 374 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 292 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 125 (6.59%) Degree
4 109 (5.75%) CISSP
5 94 (4.96%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 57 (3.01%) CISM
11 41 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (1.58%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 25 (1.32%) CCSP
15 22 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (1.11%) CCNP
17 19 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 18 (0.95%) GIAC
19 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
19 14 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 89 (4.69%) QA
3 87 (4.59%) GDPR
4 80 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (4.22%) NIST
5 30 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 29 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.21%) NCSC
8 19 (1.00%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.42%) COBIT
11 8 (0.42%) WCAG
12 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.32%) PSD2
14 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 352 (18.57%) Docker
2 71 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.74%) vSphere
7 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.26%) NFS
9 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 578 (30.49%) Kubernetes
2 471 (24.84%) Terraform
3 130 (6.86%) Prometheus
4 128 (6.75%) Grafana
5 119 (6.28%) Ansible
6 37 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.64%) Argo
8 30 (1.58%) Istio
9 24 (1.27%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.05%) Puppet
11 13 (0.69%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.63%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.47%) Podman
14 6 (0.32%) linkerd
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 612 (32.28%) Google
2 178 (9.39%) Microsoft
3 99 (5.22%) Databricks
4 66 (3.48%) Splunk
5 52 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.53%) Oracle
8 42 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 42 (2.22%) VMware
9 41 (2.16%) Dynatrace
10 38 (2.00%) CyberArk
11 36 (1.90%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.53%) SAP
13 23 (1.21%) Cisco
13 23 (1.21%) Informatica
14 18 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 18 (0.95%) Okta
15 13 (0.69%) Foundry
15 13 (0.69%) IBM