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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,894 1,187 1,195
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.30% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.89% 11.56% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 814 853
10th Percentile £403 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -
75th Percentile £662 £688 £788
90th Percentile £745 £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 £32.12 £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 £68.75 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +11.34% +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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 1,004 £575 -4.17% 1,074
North of England +11 400 £538 +7.50% 299
Yorkshire +5 249 £538 +14.36% 78
South East +3 185 £537 -0.56% 173
North West +9 137 £550 +3.77% 189
South West +20 127 £560 +6.67% 98
Midlands -40 76 £500 +13.77% 78
West Midlands -27 60 £525 -10.64% 67
East of England +13 54 £530 +4.85% 16
North East -27 18 £463 -14.94% 32
East Midlands -21 16 £500 +27.39% 11
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
1 111 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.70%) Apache
4 55 (2.90%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
13 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.053%) JBoss
13 1 (0.053%) Mule
13 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
1 8 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,218 (64.31%) AWS
2 1,198 (63.25%) Azure
3 215 (11.35%) GitHub
4 168 (8.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 141 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
6 125 (6.60%) Snowflake
7 90 (4.75%) SaaS
8 87 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 76 (4.01%) dbt
11 73 (3.85%) Serverless
12 54 (2.85%) Entra ID
12 54 (2.85%) Vertex AI
13 45 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (2.11%) Cloud Run
15 39 (2.06%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
16 35 (1.85%) OpenShift
17 34 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.76%) Firewall
2 105 (5.54%) DNS
3 103 (5.44%) Network Security
4 87 (4.59%) VPN
5 37 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.53%) WAN
7 27 (1.43%) BGP
8 26 (1.37%) HTTP
9 22 (1.16%) DHCP
10 19 (1.00%) Internet
10 19 (1.00%) VLAN
11 18 (0.95%) OSPF
11 18 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.74%) SSL
13 10 (0.53%) IPsec
13 10 (0.53%) LAN
13 10 (0.53%) MPLS
13 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
15 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.51%) BigQuery
2 166 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
3 122 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 72 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 71 (3.75%) Big Data
7 71 (3.75%) Metadata
8 67 (3.54%) Power BI
9 47 (2.48%) Tableau
10 38 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (1.90%) Looker
12 31 (1.64%) SQL Server
13 30 (1.58%) Flink
13 30 (1.58%) MongoDB
14 26 (1.37%) MySQL
14 26 (1.37%) Redis
15 23 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
16 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (0.95%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 230 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 212 (11.19%) Git
3 150 (7.92%) GitLab
4 94 (4.96%) JIRA
5 49 (2.59%) JUnit
6 37 (1.95%) Selenium
6 37 (1.95%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.80%) JMeter
8 27 (1.43%) Maven
9 26 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 16 (0.84%) Gradle
12 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.79%) Postman
13 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
14 13 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 488 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 449 (23.71%) Finance
3 181 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (8.71%) Banking
5 158 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.38%) Retail
7 60 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.06%) Legal
11 35 (1.85%) Marketing
12 30 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.53%) Front Office
14 28 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.00%) Billing
18 18 (0.95%) Publishing
19 17 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 389 (20.54%) Architect
2 255 (13.46%) Senior
3 225 (11.88%) Developer
4 188 (9.93%) Lead
5 167 (8.82%) GCP Engineer
6 160 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 129 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 115 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
10 84 (4.44%) Java Developer
11 77 (4.07%) Consultant
12 69 (3.64%) Security Architect
12 69 (3.64%) Security Engineer
13 67 (3.54%) Analyst
14 63 (3.33%) Data Architect
15 62 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
16 60 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 57 (3.01%) Software Engineer
18 54 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
19 45 (2.38%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (9.29%) Kafka
2 161 (8.50%) REST
3 114 (6.02%) Spring
4 112 (5.91%) React
5 93 (4.91%) Node.js
6 91 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 90 (4.75%) OAuth
8 74 (3.91%) RESTful
9 52 (2.75%) JSON
10 48 (2.53%) OAuth2
10 48 (2.53%) OpenID
11 47 (2.48%) SAML
12 43 (2.27%) LangChain
13 42 (2.22%) GraphQL
13 42 (2.22%) LDAP
14 41 (2.16%) PyTorch
14 41 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (2.11%) PySpark
16 39 (2.06%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 369 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 129 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.59%) AI Agents
4 72 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 49 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.43%) Data Centre
9 46 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
10 44 (2.32%) Public Cloud
11 41 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 39 (2.06%) Data Structures
12 39 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
13 36 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.69%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.58%) Fixed Income
16 29 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 28 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
18 27 (1.43%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.86%) Linux
2 88 (4.65%) Windows
3 30 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (1.43%) Unix
5 23 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.11%) Android
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.48%) VMS
10 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (44.30%) CI/CD
2 598 (31.57%) DevOps
3 491 (25.92%) Agile
4 450 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 436 (23.02%) AI
6 324 (17.11%) Microservices
7 303 (16.00%) Analytics
8 279 (14.73%) Machine Learning
9 275 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 272 (14.36%) Observability
10 272 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 264 (13.94%) Containerisation
12 259 (13.67%) Software Engineering
13 239 (12.62%) Data Pipeline
14 230 (12.14%) Data Modelling
15 220 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 210 (11.09%) Cloud Security
17 209 (11.03%) Migration
18 207 (10.93%) Roadmaps
19 191 (10.08%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 721 (38.07%) Python
2 390 (20.59%) SQL
3 362 (19.11%) Java
4 164 (8.66%) JavaScript
5 154 (8.13%) Bash
6 140 (7.39%) PowerShell
7 89 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 87 (4.59%) Go
9 45 (2.38%) Scala
10 40 (2.11%) C#
11 31 (1.64%) Bicep
12 27 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.32%) Groovy
14 20 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 17 (0.90%) R
17 13 (0.69%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) C++
19 9 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
20 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 380 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 293 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 117 (6.18%) Degree
4 111 (5.86%) CISSP
5 95 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.54%) AWS Certification
7 63 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 63 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (3.06%) CISM
10 42 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 28 (1.48%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.32%) CCSP
13 23 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.00%) CCNP
16 18 (0.95%) GIAC
17 17 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
19 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 90 (4.75%) GDPR
3 88 (4.65%) QA
4 83 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (4.28%) NIST
6 29 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.21%) NCSC
9 18 (0.95%) GRC
10 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.42%) COBIT
13 8 (0.42%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.32%) PSD2
16 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 360 (19.01%) Docker
2 74 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.69%) vSphere
6 12 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 586 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 470 (24.82%) Terraform
3 128 (6.76%) Prometheus
4 126 (6.65%) Grafana
5 121 (6.39%) Ansible
6 40 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.64%) Argo
8 28 (1.48%) Istio
9 26 (1.37%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.11%) Puppet
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.63%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.48%) Podman
15 6 (0.32%) QRadar
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) linkerd
16 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
17 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 614 (32.42%) Google
2 182 (9.61%) Microsoft
3 102 (5.39%) Databricks
4 64 (3.38%) Splunk
5 53 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.59%) Oracle
6 49 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 43 (2.27%) VMware
8 40 (2.11%) CyberArk
9 38 (2.01%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 29 (1.53%) Red Hat
11 29 (1.53%) SAP
12 23 (1.21%) Informatica
13 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
14 20 (1.06%) Cisco
15 19 (1.00%) IBM
16 18 (0.95%) Okta
17 15 (0.79%) New Relic