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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,671 919 1,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 3.77% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.64% 10.13% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 633 749
10th Percentile £381 £371 £413
25th Percentile £458 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £813 £808
UK median daily rate £549 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.47% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.90
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £37.94
Median hourly rate £54.75 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.26% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.65 £78.08 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +25.26% -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 14,350 9,074 11,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.36% 37.22% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,857 6,350 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £744 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 195 318
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £39.38 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 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 5 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 5 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 +4 872 £575 -8.00% 365
North of England +22 325 £537 -2.36% 126
Yorkshire +6 191 £500 -4.76% 31
South East +28 179 £500 -13.04% 118
North West +12 119 £551 -4.17% 76
South West +20 102 £570 +8.57% 48
Midlands -16 92 £475 +3.54% 57
West Midlands -10 70 £486 -2.75% 26
East of England -14 53 £570 +15.74% 21
East Midlands -27 22 £438 -0.46% 31
North East -2 18 £575 +24.32% 19
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
1 100 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 64 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.23%) Apache
4 38 (2.27%) Confluence
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.060%) JBoss
10 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.18%) Weka
5 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.060%) Actimize
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
4 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,160 (69.42%) Azure
2 1,134 (67.86%) AWS
3 182 (10.89%) GitHub
4 134 (8.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 114 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 105 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (5.09%) Snowflake
8 82 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 65 (3.89%) SaaS
10 64 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (3.53%) Serverless
12 53 (3.17%) dbt
13 51 (3.05%) OpenShift
14 48 (2.87%) Amazon S3
15 47 (2.81%) Vertex AI
16 45 (2.69%) Entra ID
17 37 (2.21%) Cloud Run
18 32 (1.92%) Google Gemini
18 32 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
19 30 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.51%) Firewall
2 84 (5.03%) DNS
2 84 (5.03%) VPN
3 81 (4.85%) Network Security
4 25 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.38%) WAN
6 20 (1.20%) HTTP
7 16 (0.96%) BGP
8 14 (0.84%) VoIP
9 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.66%) Internet
10 11 (0.66%) LAN
10 11 (0.66%) OSPF
11 10 (0.60%) SSL
12 9 (0.54%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.48%) VLAN
14 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
15 6 (0.36%) DKIM
15 6 (0.36%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.59%) BigQuery
2 102 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (5.63%) Power BI
5 80 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 70 (4.19%) Big Data
7 64 (3.83%) Data Lake
7 64 (3.83%) Metadata
8 52 (3.11%) Tableau
9 40 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.39%) SQL Server
10 34 (2.03%) MongoDB
11 28 (1.68%) MySQL
12 26 (1.56%) Looker
13 24 (1.44%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.20%) OLAP
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.08%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 202 (12.09%) Jenkins
2 156 (9.34%) Git
3 128 (7.66%) GitLab
4 79 (4.73%) JIRA
5 42 (2.51%) Selenium
6 38 (2.27%) JUnit
7 28 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.62%) JMeter
9 24 (1.44%) Postman
10 20 (1.20%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 12 (0.72%) Maven
15 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) ERwin
15 9 (0.54%) Mockito
16 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 491 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 364 (21.78%) Finance
3 171 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.16%) Banking
5 131 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
6 52 (3.11%) Retail
7 39 (2.33%) Legal
8 34 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 32 (1.92%) Front Office
10 29 (1.74%) Marketing
11 23 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.96%) Military
16 13 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.72%) Billing
17 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 345 (20.65%) Architect
2 192 (11.49%) Senior
3 178 (10.65%) Lead
4 175 (10.47%) Developer
5 159 (9.52%) GCP Engineer
6 138 (8.26%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 94 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (4.49%) Analyst
9 75 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
10 61 (3.65%) Software Engineer
11 58 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
12 55 (3.29%) Java Developer
13 54 (3.23%) Consultant
14 49 (2.93%) Security Engineer
15 48 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
15 48 (2.87%) Security Architect
16 46 (2.75%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 43 (2.57%) Data Architect
18 41 (2.45%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (9.75%) REST
2 149 (8.92%) Kafka
3 117 (7.00%) Spring
4 107 (6.40%) React
5 99 (5.92%) Node.js
6 90 (5.39%) Spring Boot
7 88 (5.27%) LDAP
8 68 (4.07%) OAuth
9 66 (3.95%) RESTful
10 54 (3.23%) SOAP
11 52 (3.11%) OpenID
11 52 (3.11%) PyTorch
11 52 (3.11%) TensorFlow
12 48 (2.87%) AngularJS
13 46 (2.75%) .NET
14 40 (2.39%) LangChain
15 38 (2.27%) SAML
16 36 (2.15%) OAuth2
16 36 (2.15%) scikit-learn
17 33 (1.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 288 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 89 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 61 (3.65%) Security Posture
5 58 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 45 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 42 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 31 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.86%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.44%) Derivative
12 23 (1.38%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.32%) Clustering
13 22 (1.32%) Equities
14 21 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
14 21 (1.26%) Private Cloud
15 20 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 19 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 91 (5.45%) Linux
2 68 (4.07%) Windows
3 26 (1.56%) Android
3 26 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 23 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.32%) VMS
6 16 (0.96%) Unix
7 11 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
13 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (44.17%) CI/CD
2 561 (33.57%) DevOps
3 357 (21.36%) Agile
4 349 (20.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 343 (20.53%) AI
6 306 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
7 294 (17.59%) Analytics
8 267 (15.98%) Microservices
9 266 (15.92%) Containerisation
10 233 (13.94%) Machine Learning
11 220 (13.17%) Observability
12 198 (11.85%) Data Pipeline
13 190 (11.37%) Software Engineering
14 188 (11.25%) Data Modelling
14 188 (11.25%) Migration
15 187 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 174 (10.41%) Data Engineering
17 164 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 161 (9.63%) ETL
19 147 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 676 (40.45%) Python
2 321 (19.21%) SQL
3 295 (17.65%) Java
4 140 (8.38%) PowerShell
5 129 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 112 (6.70%) Bash
7 80 (4.79%) TypeScript
8 69 (4.13%) Go
9 50 (2.99%) C#
10 37 (2.21%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
11 19 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.02%) Bicep
13 16 (0.96%) R
14 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.48%) PHP
16 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
16 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 375 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 309 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.27%) Degree
4 80 (4.79%) CISSP
5 53 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 53 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.11%) CISM
7 49 (2.93%) Azure Certification
8 48 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.63%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 24 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.14%) CCSP
13 18 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.02%) CCNP
15 16 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (8.56%) GDPR
2 122 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 94 (5.63%) NIST
4 93 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (4.25%) QA
6 41 (2.45%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.32%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.14%) NCSC
9 18 (1.08%) GRC
9 18 (1.08%) SLA
10 15 (0.90%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.54%) PSD2
12 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.42%) COBIT
13 7 (0.42%) PERC
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 336 (20.11%) Docker
2 96 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.42%) vSphere
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.30%) HDFS
7 5 (0.30%) NFS
7 5 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.24%) GPFS
8 4 (0.24%) Lustre
8 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.060%) iptables
11 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 509 (30.46%) Kubernetes
2 406 (24.30%) Terraform
3 114 (6.82%) Ansible
4 105 (6.28%) Grafana
5 96 (5.75%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.03%) Istio
7 27 (1.62%) Argo
8 22 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.96%) Kubeflow
10 14 (0.84%) Puppet
11 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.60%) SCCM
13 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.42%) Kibana
15 6 (0.36%) Nessus
15 6 (0.36%) Podman
15 6 (0.36%) Rancher
16 5 (0.30%) linkerd
16 5 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 528 (31.60%) Google
2 141 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 82 (4.91%) Databricks
4 73 (4.37%) Splunk
5 71 (4.25%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 56 (3.35%) BeyondTrust
8 39 (2.33%) Oracle
9 38 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.21%) VMware
11 36 (2.15%) Centrify
12 31 (1.86%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.80%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.56%) Dynatrace
15 24 (1.44%) Cisco
15 24 (1.44%) SAP
16 21 (1.26%) Informatica
17 20 (1.20%) Foundry
18 18 (1.08%) Red Hat
19 16 (0.96%) Okta