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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,933 1,253 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.55% 3.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.12% 11.93% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 849 799
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £664 £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 15,949 10,507 11,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.13% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,122 7,511
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £644
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 550 245 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £15.98
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 £69.80 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% +1.64%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 990 £575 -4.17% 1,724
North of England +4 427 £538 +7.57% 332
Yorkshire +1 279 £538 +13.23% 93
South East -9 189 £525 +5.00% 193
South West +24 136 £550 -5.38% 150
North West +1 133 £535 +7.00% 208
Midlands -59 74 £530 +11.58% 102
East of England +14 64 £555 +0.91% 49
West Midlands -50 56 £551 +5.00% 87
North East -23 21 £588 +14.08% 33
East Midlands -30 18 £500 +20.48% 15
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
1 112 (5.79%) Apache Spark
2 105 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.78%) Apache
4 51 (2.64%) Confluence
5 19 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.052%) CIMPLICITY
13 1 (0.052%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (0.67%) 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%) Cloudability
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
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 1,261 (65.24%) AWS
2 1,225 (63.37%) Azure
3 213 (11.02%) GitHub
4 171 (8.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 141 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (6.88%) Snowflake
7 102 (5.28%) dbt
8 99 (5.12%) SaaS
9 90 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.98%) Power Platform
12 74 (3.83%) Entra ID
13 66 (3.41%) Serverless
14 59 (3.05%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.85%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
18 41 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.91%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.02%) Firewall
2 95 (4.91%) Network Security
3 74 (3.83%) DNS
4 65 (3.36%) VPN
5 28 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.40%) BGP
7 25 (1.29%) DHCP
8 24 (1.24%) WAN
9 19 (0.98%) HTTP
9 19 (0.98%) Internet
10 18 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.88%) VLAN
12 15 (0.78%) OSPF
12 15 (0.78%) SSL
13 13 (0.67%) VoIP
14 12 (0.62%) IPsec
15 11 (0.57%) LAN
16 10 (0.52%) MPLS
17 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 172 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (4.55%) Metadata
5 82 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.88%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.52%) Power BI
9 59 (3.05%) Big Data
10 47 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (2.43%) Looker
11 39 (2.02%) Tableau
12 37 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 37 (1.91%) SQL Server
13 36 (1.86%) MySQL
14 32 (1.66%) Redis
15 28 (1.45%) Flink
16 24 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (1.03%) Delta Lake
17 20 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 227 (11.74%) Git
2 219 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 150 (7.76%) GitLab
4 101 (5.23%) JIRA
5 36 (1.86%) JUnit
5 36 (1.86%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.66%) Maven
7 24 (1.24%) JMeter
8 22 (1.14%) Selenium
9 21 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.09%) Gradle
9 21 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.93%) LoadRunner
10 18 (0.93%) Postman
11 17 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.88%) Gatling
12 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.62%) Claude Code
13 12 (0.62%) Snyk
14 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 527 (27.26%) Social Skills
2 485 (25.09%) Finance
3 202 (10.45%) Banking
4 193 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 73 (3.78%) Retail
7 53 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 47 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (1.81%) Legal
9 35 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 32 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 28 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.45%) Marketing
13 27 (1.40%) Billing
14 25 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.93%) Publishing
18 17 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 400 (20.69%) Architect
2 266 (13.76%) Senior
3 223 (11.54%) Developer
4 176 (9.11%) Data Engineer
5 175 (9.05%) Lead
6 149 (7.71%) GCP Engineer
7 125 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 110 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 88 (4.55%) Security Engineer
11 84 (4.35%) Consultant
12 75 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 70 (3.62%) Analyst
14 63 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
14 63 (3.26%) Data Architect
15 60 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
16 54 (2.79%) Software Engineer
17 52 (2.69%) Security Architect
18 48 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (26.23%) Terraform
2 214 (11.07%) Kafka
3 194 (10.04%) REST
4 110 (5.69%) React
5 104 (5.38%) OAuth
6 92 (4.76%) Spring
7 89 (4.60%) RESTful
8 85 (4.40%) Spring Boot
9 70 (3.62%) Node.js
10 64 (3.31%) JSON
10 64 (3.31%) OpenID
11 58 (3.00%) SAML
12 56 (2.90%) SOAP
13 51 (2.64%) OAuth2
14 48 (2.48%) LangChain
14 48 (2.48%) LDAP
14 48 (2.48%) PySpark
15 43 (2.22%) JWT
15 43 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
16 41 (2.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 418 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.59%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.14%) Product Ownership
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 55 (2.85%) Data Centre
10 50 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
11 48 (2.48%) Data Structures
12 45 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.28%) Management Information System
14 42 (2.17%) Algorithms
14 42 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
15 36 (1.86%) PKI
16 29 (1.50%) CMDB
16 29 (1.50%) Private Cloud
17 24 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 171 (8.85%) Linux
2 108 (5.59%) Windows
3 49 (2.53%) Unix
4 35 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.24%) Android
7 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.052%) Solaris
13 1 (0.052%) SUSE
13 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (45.63%) CI/CD
2 626 (32.38%) DevOps
3 496 (25.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 483 (24.99%) Agile
4 483 (24.99%) AI
5 355 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 328 (16.97%) Microservices
7 310 (16.04%) Analytics
8 291 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 286 (14.80%) Software Engineering
10 280 (14.49%) Observability
11 271 (14.02%) Containerisation
12 258 (13.35%) Machine Learning
13 252 (13.04%) Roadmaps
14 247 (12.78%) Data Modelling
15 239 (12.36%) Cloud Security
16 232 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
17 228 (11.80%) Migration
18 224 (11.59%) Event-Driven
19 221 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 757 (39.16%) Python
2 443 (22.92%) SQL
3 373 (19.30%) Java
4 155 (8.02%) Bash
5 148 (7.66%) PowerShell
6 146 (7.55%) JavaScript
7 103 (5.33%) Go
8 71 (3.67%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.17%) Scala
11 39 (2.02%) C#
12 33 (1.71%) Bicep
13 22 (1.14%) Groovy
14 21 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.98%) R
16 18 (0.93%) Rust
17 13 (0.67%) C++
18 12 (0.62%) ABAP
19 10 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 9 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 384 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 279 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 145 (7.50%) Degree
4 109 (5.64%) CISSP
5 102 (5.28%) DV Cleared
6 98 (5.07%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.36%) CISM
7 65 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (3.31%) Azure Certification
9 58 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 36 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 32 (1.66%) CCSP
14 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.88%) CISA
16 15 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.67%) GIAC
17 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (5.12%) QA
3 93 (4.81%) NIST
4 69 (3.57%) GDPR
5 33 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 33 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 29 (1.50%) GRC
7 23 (1.19%) NCSC
8 19 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 15 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.52%) COBIT
12 9 (0.47%) SLA
13 7 (0.36%) MiFID
14 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.31%) WCAG
15 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
15 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 339 (17.54%) Docker
2 86 (4.45%) 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 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.052%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 609 (31.51%) Kubernetes
2 156 (8.07%) Ansible
3 117 (6.05%) Grafana
4 111 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (1.76%) Argo
7 31 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.40%) Puppet
9 24 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.52%) Podman
13 9 (0.47%) CASB
14 7 (0.36%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) Kibana
17 4 (0.21%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 681 (35.23%) Google
2 240 (12.42%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.31%) Databricks
4 89 (4.60%) Splunk
5 72 (3.72%) Oracle
6 62 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 51 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.48%) CyberArk
9 48 (2.48%) VMware
10 45 (2.33%) SAP
11 42 (2.17%) OpenAI
12 36 (1.86%) IBM
13 33 (1.71%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.55%) Cisco
15 29 (1.50%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.40%) Informatica
17 25 (1.29%) Okta
18 21 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
19 19 (0.98%) MuleSoft