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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 53 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,800 1,154 1,233
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 4.25% 3.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.52% 11.39% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 784 903
10th Percentile £402 £365 £413
25th Percentile £463 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £612
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.05% -0.08%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £775
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £24.02 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.44 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% +1.45% -29.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.30 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -41.76%

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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -4 951 £568 -5.42% 468
North of England +12 378 £538 +7.50% 204
Yorkshire -3 234 £538 +13.16% 61
South East +5 167 £538 -0.46% 216
North West +1 126 £534 -2.95% 122
South West +25 119 £560 +6.67% 69
Midlands -28 88 £500 +10.50% 87
West Midlands -30 67 £500 -16.67% 49
East of England +3 52 £535 +8.63% 66
North East -20 22 £550 +1.15% 22
East Midlands -18 21 £474 +15.49% 38
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
1 114 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 81 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.78%) Apache
4 42 (2.33%) Confluence
5 13 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Camunda
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.056%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.056%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.056%) Luigi
11 1 (0.056%) Predix
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.056%) Trello
8 1 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.056%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.056%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.056%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.056%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.056%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.056%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,178 (65.44%) AWS
2 1,153 (64.06%) Azure
3 193 (10.72%) GitHub
4 170 (9.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 126 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
6 118 (6.56%) Snowflake
7 93 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 85 (4.72%) SaaS
9 78 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (4.28%) Serverless
11 67 (3.72%) dbt
12 55 (3.06%) Entra ID
13 52 (2.89%) Vertex AI
14 43 (2.39%) Cloud Run
15 41 (2.28%) Amazon S3
16 36 (2.00%) OpenShift
17 33 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (1.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.11%) Firewall
2 104 (5.78%) Network Security
3 97 (5.39%) DNS
4 91 (5.06%) VPN
5 33 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.72%) WAN
7 29 (1.61%) BGP
8 22 (1.22%) HTTP
9 20 (1.11%) OSPF
10 18 (1.00%) DHCP
11 17 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.83%) VLAN
13 13 (0.72%) Internet
13 13 (0.72%) LAN
13 13 (0.72%) SSL
14 11 (0.61%) IPsec
15 10 (0.56%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.50%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.50%) MPLS
17 8 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (11.00%) BigQuery
2 145 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.33%) Big Data
5 76 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 74 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 74 (4.11%) Power BI
7 64 (3.56%) Metadata
8 63 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.61%) Tableau
10 38 (2.11%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.78%) MySQL
12 29 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (1.61%) MongoDB
13 27 (1.50%) Looker
14 24 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (1.28%) Hadoop
16 22 (1.22%) Flink
17 21 (1.17%) Redis
18 14 (0.78%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 182 (10.11%) Git
3 131 (7.28%) GitLab
4 74 (4.11%) JIRA
5 48 (2.67%) JUnit
6 37 (2.06%) Selenium
7 32 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.67%) JMeter
9 28 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.28%) Maven
11 18 (1.00%) WebDriver
12 16 (0.89%) Postman
13 14 (0.78%) Gradle
14 11 (0.61%) MLflow
14 11 (0.61%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.50%) ERwin
16 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 462 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 437 (24.28%) Finance
3 173 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (9.11%) Banking
5 148 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.94%) Retail
7 48 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 42 (2.33%) Legal
10 36 (2.00%) Front Office
10 36 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.72%) Marketing
12 28 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.28%) Billing
14 23 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.72%) Military
16 13 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 367 (20.39%) Architect
2 228 (12.67%) Senior
3 219 (12.17%) Developer
4 174 (9.67%) Lead
5 162 (9.00%) GCP Engineer
6 148 (8.22%) Data Engineer
7 125 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 116 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 95 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
10 84 (4.67%) Java Developer
11 69 (3.83%) Software Engineer
12 68 (3.78%) Consultant
13 62 (3.44%) Security Architect
14 61 (3.39%) Analyst
14 61 (3.39%) Security Engineer
15 59 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
16 56 (3.11%) Data Architect
17 52 (2.89%) GCP DevOps
18 50 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 48 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (9.56%) Kafka
2 142 (7.89%) REST
3 124 (6.89%) Spring
4 116 (6.44%) React
5 103 (5.72%) Spring Boot
6 93 (5.17%) Node.js
7 82 (4.56%) OAuth
8 65 (3.61%) RESTful
9 47 (2.61%) OpenID
10 44 (2.44%) OAuth2
11 43 (2.39%) SAML
12 42 (2.33%) PyTorch
13 40 (2.22%) GraphQL
13 40 (2.22%) LangChain
13 40 (2.22%) TensorFlow
14 39 (2.17%) LDAP
15 38 (2.11%) AngularJS
16 33 (1.83%) .NET
16 33 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (1.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 335 (18.61%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (3.67%) AI Agents
4 59 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 56 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 51 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 50 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 43 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 31 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.67%) Derivative
14 29 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
15 27 (1.50%) Clustering
15 27 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.39%) Linux
2 83 (4.61%) Windows
3 26 (1.44%) Android
3 26 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (1.28%) Unix
5 19 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.67%) VMS
8 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.17%) AIX
10 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.056%) Rocky
12 1 (0.056%) Solaris
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 582 (32.33%) DevOps
3 458 (25.44%) Agile
4 426 (23.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 403 (22.39%) AI
6 318 (17.67%) Microservices
7 296 (16.44%) Analytics
8 267 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
9 261 (14.50%) Observability
10 257 (14.28%) Containerisation
10 257 (14.28%) Machine Learning
11 233 (12.94%) Software Engineering
12 224 (12.44%) Data Pipeline
13 223 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 219 (12.17%) Data Modelling
15 209 (11.61%) Migration
16 199 (11.06%) Cloud Security
17 198 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
18 193 (10.72%) Roadmaps
19 187 (10.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 694 (38.56%) Python
2 373 (20.72%) SQL
3 345 (19.17%) Java
4 139 (7.72%) JavaScript
5 134 (7.44%) Bash
6 129 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 95 (5.28%) Go
8 93 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.28%) Scala
10 38 (2.11%) C#
11 25 (1.39%) Bicep
12 24 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.22%) Groovy
14 18 (1.00%) Rust
14 18 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.78%) R
16 12 (0.67%) Ruby
17 9 (0.50%) C++
17 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 344 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 273 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 111 (6.17%) Degree
4 106 (5.89%) CISSP
5 82 (4.56%) DV Cleared
6 79 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.17%) Azure Certification
9 57 (3.17%) CISM
10 42 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 31 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.61%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.50%) CCSP
14 22 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.06%) CCNP
15 19 (1.06%) GIAC
16 13 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 103 (5.72%) GDPR
3 89 (4.94%) NIST
4 88 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (4.11%) QA
6 35 (1.94%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 24 (1.33%) NCSC
9 21 (1.17%) GRC
10 12 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.50%) COBIT
12 9 (0.50%) SLA
13 8 (0.44%) PSD2
13 8 (0.44%) WCAG
14 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.39%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 335 (18.61%) Docker
2 66 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.78%) vSphere
7 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) NFS
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 542 (30.11%) Kubernetes
2 464 (25.78%) Terraform
3 127 (7.06%) Grafana
4 124 (6.89%) Prometheus
5 112 (6.22%) Ansible
6 40 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.61%) Argo
7 29 (1.61%) Istio
8 24 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.17%) Puppet
10 13 (0.72%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.44%) Podman
13 7 (0.39%) linkerd
14 6 (0.33%) QRadar
15 5 (0.28%) Nessus
15 5 (0.28%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 568 (31.56%) Google
2 171 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 93 (5.17%) Databricks
4 67 (3.72%) Splunk
5 50 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 50 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.28%) Oracle
7 37 (2.06%) CyberArk
7 37 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 37 (2.06%) VMware
8 32 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 32 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.33%) SAP
10 22 (1.22%) Informatica
11 20 (1.11%) Cisco
11 20 (1.11%) Okta
12 18 (1.00%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.78%) Tenable
14 13 (0.72%) Rapid7