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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,941 1,242 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.50% 3.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.10% 11.88% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 834 801
10th Percentile £406 £381 £400
25th Percentile £463 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £663 £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 26 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £39.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% -5.51% -26.42%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.65 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +39.71% -5.51% -23.61%

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 16,039 10,456 11,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 37.88% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,685 7,075 7,552
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 245 165
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
% change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 1,014 £575 -4.17% 1,798
North of England +2 418 £530 +6.00% 392
Yorkshire -1 273 £533 +12.16% 109
South East +5 188 £525 +5.00% 280
South West +28 134 £550 - 170
North West -1 131 £530 +6.00% 246
Midlands -66 69 £525 +10.53% 121
East of England +11 62 £555 +0.91% 49
West Midlands -49 51 £525 - 100
North East -24 18 £500 -2.91% 39
East Midlands -33 18 £500 +20.48% 21
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
1 119 (6.13%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.86%) Apache
4 53 (2.73%) Confluence
5 18 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.052%) Houdini
7 1 (0.052%) NUKE
7 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 15 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.21%) 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%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,262 (65.02%) AWS
2 1,232 (63.47%) Azure
3 216 (11.13%) GitHub
4 172 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 142 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (6.96%) Snowflake
7 101 (5.20%) dbt
8 96 (4.95%) SaaS
9 91 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (3.86%) Entra ID
12 72 (3.71%) Power Platform
13 67 (3.45%) Serverless
14 58 (2.99%) Vertex AI
15 54 (2.78%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.91%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 96 (4.95%) Firewall
2 94 (4.84%) Network Security
3 77 (3.97%) DNS
4 68 (3.50%) VPN
5 29 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.39%) BGP
7 26 (1.34%) WAN
8 24 (1.24%) DHCP
9 19 (0.98%) HTTP
9 19 (0.98%) Internet
9 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.93%) VLAN
11 17 (0.88%) SSL
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 13 (0.67%) VoIP
14 12 (0.62%) IPsec
15 10 (0.52%) LAN
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
16 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 8 (0.41%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (12.88%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (4.69%) Metadata
5 81 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.97%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.76%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.50%) Big Data
9 64 (3.30%) Power BI
10 45 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (2.11%) Looker
12 40 (2.06%) Tableau
13 37 (1.91%) SQL Server
14 35 (1.80%) MongoDB
15 32 (1.65%) Flink
15 32 (1.65%) MySQL
16 30 (1.55%) Redis
17 23 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.03%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 224 (11.54%) Git
2 223 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 150 (7.73%) GitLab
4 97 (5.00%) JIRA
5 40 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 38 (1.96%) JUnit
7 35 (1.80%) Maven
8 25 (1.29%) Selenium
9 23 (1.18%) JMeter
10 21 (1.08%) Gradle
11 20 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 20 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 18 (0.93%) Postman
13 17 (0.88%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.88%) LoadRunner
14 16 (0.82%) Gatling
15 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.62%) Snyk
17 11 (0.57%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.46%) MLflow
General
1 533 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 485 (24.99%) Finance
3 195 (10.05%) Banking
4 194 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
5 157 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.81%) Retail
7 57 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.91%) Legal
9 37 (1.91%) Marketing
10 33 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 26 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.24%) Billing
15 22 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 20 (1.03%) Publishing
17 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 407 (20.97%) Architect
2 262 (13.50%) Senior
3 222 (11.44%) Developer
4 180 (9.27%) Lead
5 173 (8.91%) Data Engineer
6 153 (7.88%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 112 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.69%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.33%) Consultant
12 83 (4.28%) Security Engineer
13 70 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 68 (3.50%) Analyst
15 67 (3.45%) Data Architect
16 65 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
17 60 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
18 57 (2.94%) Security Architect
19 53 (2.73%) Software Engineer
20 45 (2.32%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (26.12%) Terraform
2 218 (11.23%) Kafka
3 189 (9.74%) REST
4 110 (5.67%) React
5 106 (5.46%) OAuth
6 100 (5.15%) Spring
7 93 (4.79%) Spring Boot
8 88 (4.53%) RESTful
9 76 (3.92%) Node.js
10 67 (3.45%) OpenID
11 62 (3.19%) JSON
12 61 (3.14%) SAML
13 55 (2.83%) OAuth2
14 54 (2.78%) SOAP
15 50 (2.58%) LDAP
16 48 (2.47%) PySpark
17 47 (2.42%) LangChain
18 45 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
19 44 (2.27%) JWT
20 40 (2.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 413 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 141 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 78 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.55%) Security Posture
6 65 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 61 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 54 (2.78%) Data Centre
10 52 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
11 47 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.32%) Data Structures
13 42 (2.16%) Algorithms
13 42 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (2.16%) Management Information System
14 36 (1.85%) PKI
15 29 (1.49%) Private Cloud
16 26 (1.34%) CMDB
17 23 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 162 (8.35%) Linux
2 102 (5.26%) Windows
3 46 (2.37%) Unix
4 33 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.18%) Android
6 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.15%) CentOS
11 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (45.60%) CI/CD
2 626 (32.25%) DevOps
3 495 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (25.09%) AI
5 484 (24.94%) Agile
6 349 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 335 (17.26%) Microservices
8 310 (15.97%) Analytics
9 290 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
10 284 (14.63%) Observability
10 284 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 275 (14.17%) Containerisation
12 269 (13.86%) Machine Learning
13 248 (12.78%) Roadmaps
14 240 (12.36%) Data Modelling
15 238 (12.26%) Cloud Security
15 238 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
16 228 (11.75%) Migration
17 227 (11.70%) Event-Driven
18 219 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 760 (39.16%) Python
2 437 (22.51%) SQL
3 387 (19.94%) Java
4 155 (7.99%) Bash
5 146 (7.52%) PowerShell
6 145 (7.47%) JavaScript
7 103 (5.31%) Go
8 69 (3.55%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.32%) Scala
9 45 (2.32%) Shell Script
10 37 (1.91%) C#
11 32 (1.65%) Bicep
12 24 (1.24%) Groovy
13 21 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.98%) R
15 18 (0.93%) Rust
16 11 (0.57%) ABAP
16 11 (0.57%) C++
17 10 (0.52%) Ruby
18 9 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 386 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 282 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.57%) Degree
4 112 (5.77%) CISSP
5 101 (5.20%) DV Cleared
6 94 (4.84%) AWS Certification
7 68 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 63 (3.25%) CISM
10 62 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (2.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 36 (1.85%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.65%) CCSP
14 30 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.82%) GIAC
17 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMP
19 12 (0.62%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (9.17%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.15%) QA
3 94 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (4.48%) NIST
5 75 (3.86%) GDPR
6 33 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.24%) GRC
9 23 (1.18%) NCSC
10 19 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.36%) COBIT
13 7 (0.36%) MiFID
13 7 (0.36%) SLA
14 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.31%) WCAG
15 5 (0.26%) Basel III
15 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 343 (17.67%) Docker
2 85 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.70%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 617 (31.79%) Kubernetes
2 155 (7.99%) Ansible
3 116 (5.98%) Grafana
4 110 (5.67%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.65%) Argo
7 30 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.34%) Puppet
9 24 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.46%) Podman
13 8 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.41%) CASB
13 8 (0.41%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.36%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) Control-M
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 670 (34.52%) Google
2 233 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 129 (6.65%) Databricks
4 81 (4.17%) Splunk
5 75 (3.86%) Oracle
6 59 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.89%) Dynatrace
9 48 (2.47%) VMware
10 47 (2.42%) CyberArk
11 45 (2.32%) SAP
12 41 (2.11%) OpenAI
13 37 (1.91%) IBM
14 31 (1.60%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.49%) Informatica
15 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
16 28 (1.44%) Cisco
17 24 (1.24%) Okta
18 22 (1.13%) MuleSoft
19 20 (1.03%) New Relic