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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,683 910 1,010
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 3.74% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.77% 10.04% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 627 745
10th Percentile £375 £372 £424
25th Percentile £453 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £540 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.55
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -26.75%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.50 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.65 £76.84 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -30.89%

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 14,305 9,067 11,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.54% 37.31% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,353 8,480
10th Percentile £319 £313 £290
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 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 193 321
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -1 867 £575 -6.12% 273
North of England +31 340 £526 -4.32% 106
Yorkshire +5 195 £500 -4.76% 23
South East +24 182 £492 -14.43% 95
North West +22 130 £550 -4.35% 66
South West +26 101 £550 +0.46% 39
Midlands -12 91 £453 -0.55% 49
West Midlands -13 69 £485 -3.00% 23
East of England -5 52 £570 +14.00% 21
East Midlands -28 22 £438 +11.89% 26
North East +1 18 £575 +24.32% 17
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 98 (5.82%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.21%) Apache
4 39 (2.32%) Confluence
5 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.36%) SAS
8 5 (0.30%) CMS
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.18%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.059%) Documentum
12 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Weka
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.059%) Actimize
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,166 (69.28%) Azure
2 1,141 (67.80%) AWS
3 187 (11.11%) GitHub
4 135 (8.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 114 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 106 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
7 82 (4.87%) Snowflake
8 81 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 62 (3.68%) SaaS
10 61 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (3.57%) Serverless
12 58 (3.45%) OpenShift
13 51 (3.03%) dbt
14 49 (2.91%) Amazon S3
15 47 (2.79%) Vertex AI
16 46 (2.73%) Entra ID
17 39 (2.32%) Cloud Run
18 32 (1.90%) Google Gemini
18 32 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.88%) Firewall
2 89 (5.29%) VPN
3 85 (5.05%) DNS
4 79 (4.69%) Network Security
5 25 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.31%) HTTP
6 22 (1.31%) WAN
7 17 (1.01%) BGP
8 14 (0.83%) VoIP
9 12 (0.71%) OSPF
9 12 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.65%) Internet
10 11 (0.65%) LAN
11 10 (0.59%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.48%) SSL
12 8 (0.48%) VLAN
12 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.52%) BigQuery
2 106 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (5.64%) Power BI
5 79 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 70 (4.16%) Big Data
7 63 (3.74%) Data Lake
7 63 (3.74%) Metadata
8 55 (3.27%) Tableau
9 41 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 34 (2.02%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.84%) MySQL
13 26 (1.54%) Hadoop
13 26 (1.54%) Looker
14 23 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.19%) OLAP
16 19 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
18 16 (0.95%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 205 (12.18%) Jenkins
2 158 (9.39%) Git
3 132 (7.84%) GitLab
4 80 (4.75%) JIRA
5 44 (2.61%) Selenium
6 41 (2.44%) JUnit
7 28 (1.66%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.66%) JMeter
8 26 (1.54%) Postman
9 19 (1.13%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 16 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.77%) MLflow
13 11 (0.65%) Maven
14 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.53%) Mockito
15 8 (0.48%) Gatling
General
1 492 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 367 (21.81%) Finance
3 181 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.03%) Banking
5 136 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.97%) Retail
8 39 (2.32%) Legal
9 35 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.90%) Front Office
11 31 (1.84%) Marketing
12 28 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.95%) Investment Banking
15 16 (0.95%) Military
16 14 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.77%) Electronics
17 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 343 (20.38%) Architect
2 194 (11.53%) Senior
3 182 (10.81%) Lead
4 179 (10.64%) Developer
5 163 (9.69%) GCP Engineer
6 138 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 97 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 80 (4.75%) Analyst
10 74 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (3.74%) Software Engineer
12 57 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
13 56 (3.33%) Java Developer
14 53 (3.15%) Security Engineer
15 52 (3.09%) Consultant
16 48 (2.85%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.85%) Security Architect
17 46 (2.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 43 (2.55%) Data Architect
19 41 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (9.98%) REST
2 151 (8.97%) Kafka
3 122 (7.25%) Spring
4 111 (6.60%) React
5 99 (5.88%) Node.js
6 95 (5.64%) Spring Boot
7 85 (5.05%) LDAP
8 73 (4.34%) RESTful
9 71 (4.22%) OAuth
10 56 (3.33%) SOAP
11 52 (3.09%) OpenID
11 52 (3.09%) PyTorch
11 52 (3.09%) TensorFlow
12 50 (2.97%) AngularJS
13 47 (2.79%) .NET
14 39 (2.32%) LangChain
14 39 (2.32%) OAuth2
15 38 (2.26%) SAML
16 36 (2.14%) scikit-learn
17 33 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 283 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 93 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (4.10%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 60 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 40 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 40 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 34 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.72%) Fixed Income
11 23 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.31%) Clustering
12 22 (1.31%) Derivative
13 21 (1.25%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
14 20 (1.19%) Equities
14 20 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 19 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.29%) Linux
2 67 (3.98%) Windows
3 26 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 25 (1.49%) Android
5 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.31%) VMS
6 15 (0.89%) Unix
7 12 (0.71%) 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 (0.059%) CentOS
13 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (44.15%) CI/CD
2 559 (33.21%) DevOps
3 365 (21.69%) Agile
4 350 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 342 (20.32%) AI
6 313 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (17.83%) Analytics
8 276 (16.40%) Containerisation
9 268 (15.92%) Microservices
10 233 (13.84%) Machine Learning
11 225 (13.37%) Observability
12 200 (11.88%) Data Pipeline
13 190 (11.29%) Migration
14 189 (11.23%) Data Modelling
14 189 (11.23%) Software Engineering
15 184 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 176 (10.46%) Data Engineering
17 161 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 161 (9.57%) ETL
18 151 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 674 (40.05%) Python
2 323 (19.19%) SQL
3 301 (17.88%) Java
4 134 (7.96%) JavaScript
4 134 (7.96%) PowerShell
5 106 (6.30%) Bash
6 82 (4.87%) TypeScript
7 66 (3.92%) Go
8 49 (2.91%) C#
9 36 (2.14%) Scala
10 19 (1.13%) Groovy
10 19 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 18 (1.07%) Bicep
12 17 (1.01%) R
13 9 (0.53%) Ruby
14 8 (0.48%) PHP
14 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.42%) C++
15 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 378 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 312 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 91 (5.41%) Degree
4 80 (4.75%) CISSP
5 55 (3.27%) AWS Certification
5 55 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.15%) CISM
7 51 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 46 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 24 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 18 (1.07%) CCNP
13 18 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (1.01%) CCSP
15 16 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.56%) GDPR
2 125 (7.43%) Data Quality
3 95 (5.64%) NIST
4 94 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (4.28%) QA
6 42 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.19%) NCSC
9 19 (1.13%) GRC
10 18 (1.07%) SLA
11 15 (0.89%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.83%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.59%) PSD2
14 9 (0.53%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.42%) COBIT
15 7 (0.42%) PERC
16 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 343 (20.38%) Docker
2 94 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.48%) 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
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.059%) UAG
11 1 (0.059%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 520 (30.90%) Kubernetes
2 405 (24.06%) Terraform
3 117 (6.95%) Ansible
4 106 (6.30%) Grafana
5 97 (5.76%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.08%) Istio
7 28 (1.66%) Argo
8 20 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.95%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.77%) Puppet
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.59%) SCCM
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
15 7 (0.42%) Kibana
15 7 (0.42%) Podman
16 6 (0.36%) Nessus
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 540 (32.09%) Google
2 140 (8.32%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.81%) Splunk
4 79 (4.69%) Databricks
5 70 (4.16%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.21%) BeyondTrust
8 38 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 38 (2.26%) Oracle
9 37 (2.20%) VMware
10 36 (2.14%) Centrify
11 30 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 30 (1.78%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.60%) Cisco
12 27 (1.60%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.60%) SAP
13 21 (1.25%) Foundry
13 21 (1.25%) Informatica
14 20 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.01%) Okta