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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 51 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,954 1,285 1,208
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.20% 4.59% 3.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.19% 11.99% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,291 873 801
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £751
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £17.70 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -35.76%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +39.71% +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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
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 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 0 1,004 £575 -4.17% 2,293
North of England +7 433 £536 +7.25% 700
Yorkshire 0 280 £538 +11.57% 209
South East -4 189 £525 +5.00% 556
North West -2 138 £530 +6.00% 368
South West +26 136 £550 - 338
Midlands -63 74 £530 +11.58% 338
East of England +13 62 £558 +1.36% 225
West Midlands -47 56 £551 +5.00% 206
North East -28 21 £588 +14.08% 130
East Midlands -30 18 £500 +20.48% 132
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
1 116 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 110 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.94%) Apache
4 53 (2.71%) Confluence
5 19 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.36%) SAS
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.051%) JBoss
12 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.20%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Houdini
8 1 (0.051%) NUKE
8 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Cloudability
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.051%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.051%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (65.40%) AWS
2 1,245 (63.72%) Azure
3 222 (11.36%) GitHub
4 172 (8.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 145 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (6.96%) Snowflake
7 105 (5.37%) dbt
8 99 (5.07%) SaaS
9 93 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 81 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.94%) Power Platform
12 76 (3.89%) Entra ID
13 67 (3.43%) Serverless
14 56 (2.87%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.81%) Cloud Run
16 50 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
19 39 (2.00%) Amazon S3
19 39 (2.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.22%) Firewall
2 99 (5.07%) Network Security
3 75 (3.84%) DNS
4 66 (3.38%) VPN
5 31 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.43%) BGP
7 26 (1.33%) DHCP
8 25 (1.28%) WAN
9 20 (1.02%) HTTP
9 20 (1.02%) Internet
10 19 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.92%) VLAN
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) SSL
14 12 (0.61%) VoIP
15 11 (0.56%) IPsec
15 11 (0.56%) LAN
16 10 (0.51%) MPLS
17 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (12.90%) BigQuery
2 173 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (4.50%) Metadata
5 84 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.84%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.48%) Power BI
9 59 (3.02%) Big Data
10 51 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.46%) Looker
12 39 (2.00%) MongoDB
12 39 (2.00%) MySQL
12 39 (2.00%) SQL Server
13 38 (1.94%) Tableau
14 33 (1.69%) Redis
15 28 (1.43%) Flink
16 25 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (1.18%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 234 (11.98%) Git
2 229 (11.72%) Jenkins
3 152 (7.78%) GitLab
4 106 (5.42%) JIRA
5 36 (1.84%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.79%) JUnit
6 35 (1.79%) Maven
7 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.23%) Gradle
8 23 (1.18%) JMeter
9 22 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.07%) Selenium
11 20 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.87%) Gatling
12 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
13 16 (0.82%) Postman
14 13 (0.67%) Snyk
15 11 (0.56%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.56%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 537 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 490 (25.08%) Finance
3 209 (10.70%) Banking
4 197 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 72 (3.68%) Retail
7 55 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 47 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.79%) Legal
11 32 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.48%) Billing
13 29 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.38%) Marketing
15 26 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 402 (20.57%) Architect
2 273 (13.97%) Senior
3 227 (11.62%) Developer
4 183 (9.37%) Data Engineer
5 174 (8.90%) Lead
6 150 (7.68%) GCP Engineer
7 129 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.50%) Consultant
10 88 (4.50%) Java Developer
11 87 (4.45%) Security Engineer
12 74 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 69 (3.53%) Analyst
14 63 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
15 60 (3.07%) Data Architect
15 60 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
16 53 (2.71%) Security Architect
16 53 (2.71%) Software Engineer
17 50 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (26.56%) Terraform
2 220 (11.26%) Kafka
3 199 (10.18%) REST
4 108 (5.53%) React
5 100 (5.12%) OAuth
6 92 (4.71%) Spring
7 89 (4.55%) RESTful
8 85 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 66 (3.38%) Node.js
10 64 (3.28%) JSON
11 62 (3.17%) OpenID
12 57 (2.92%) SOAP
13 56 (2.87%) SAML
14 51 (2.61%) PySpark
15 49 (2.51%) OAuth2
16 48 (2.46%) LangChain
16 48 (2.46%) LDAP
17 42 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (2.10%) HTML
18 41 (2.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 429 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.53%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.15%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 73 (3.74%) Public Cloud
7 67 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (3.43%) Security Posture
8 63 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 56 (2.87%) Data Centre
10 54 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
11 49 (2.51%) Data Structures
12 46 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.25%) Management Information System
14 43 (2.20%) Algorithms
14 43 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.74%) PKI
16 29 (1.48%) CMDB
16 29 (1.48%) Private Cloud
17 25 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 177 (9.06%) Linux
2 109 (5.58%) Windows
3 53 (2.71%) Unix
4 35 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.23%) Android
7 16 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.36%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.15%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.051%) Solaris
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (46.06%) CI/CD
2 640 (32.75%) DevOps
3 502 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 497 (25.44%) Agile
5 486 (24.87%) AI
6 362 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 334 (17.09%) Microservices
8 319 (16.33%) Analytics
9 294 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
10 288 (14.74%) Software Engineering
11 284 (14.53%) Observability
12 271 (13.87%) Containerisation
13 267 (13.66%) Machine Learning
14 253 (12.95%) Roadmaps
15 248 (12.69%) Data Modelling
16 240 (12.28%) Cloud Security
17 238 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
18 232 (11.87%) Event-Driven
19 231 (11.82%) Migration
20 222 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 771 (39.46%) Python
2 456 (23.34%) SQL
3 372 (19.04%) Java
4 159 (8.14%) Bash
5 152 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 151 (7.73%) PowerShell
7 102 (5.22%) Go
8 71 (3.63%) TypeScript
9 50 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.15%) C#
10 42 (2.15%) Scala
11 33 (1.69%) Bicep
12 25 (1.28%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.18%) Groovy
14 19 (0.97%) R
15 18 (0.92%) Rust
16 13 (0.67%) C++
17 12 (0.61%) ABAP
18 11 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 390 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 283 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 146 (7.47%) Degree
4 108 (5.53%) CISSP
5 105 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 98 (5.02%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 64 (3.28%) CISM
10 57 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 37 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 35 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 31 (1.59%) CCSP
15 20 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.87%) CISA
17 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.07%) QA
3 96 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.55%) NIST
5 67 (3.43%) GDPR
6 34 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.48%) GRC
9 24 (1.23%) NCSC
10 20 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.51%) COBIT
14 9 (0.46%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 345 (17.66%) Docker
2 86 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.56%) 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 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.051%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 617 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 163 (8.34%) Ansible
3 121 (6.19%) Grafana
4 113 (5.78%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.69%) Argo
7 31 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.38%) Puppet
9 26 (1.33%) Istio
10 18 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.51%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Control-M
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.20%) Kibana
17 4 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 693 (35.47%) Google
2 250 (12.79%) Microsoft
3 124 (6.35%) Databricks
4 91 (4.66%) Splunk
5 75 (3.84%) Oracle
6 63 (3.22%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.07%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 49 (2.51%) VMware
10 48 (2.46%) CyberArk
10 48 (2.46%) SAP
11 42 (2.15%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.89%) IBM
13 35 (1.79%) Palo Alto
14 31 (1.59%) Cisco
15 29 (1.48%) Red Hat
16 28 (1.43%) Informatica
17 24 (1.23%) Okta
18 21 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
19 19 (0.97%) MuleSoft