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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,947 1,247 1,209
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.48% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.12% 11.82% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 839 805
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 25 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.50
25th Percentile £15.93 £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 £83.45 £101.65 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +48.16% -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 16,062 10,549 11,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.91% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,699 7,136 7,593
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
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% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -5.44%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 1,013 £575 -4.17% 2,096
North of England +7 420 £534 +6.75% 399
Yorkshire 0 275 £538 +13.16% 115
South East +6 188 £525 +5.00% 292
South West +28 138 £550 +4.76% 179
North West -4 131 £530 +6.00% 248
Midlands -64 69 £525 +10.53% 122
East of England +10 63 £555 +0.91% 61
West Midlands -53 51 £525 - 101
North East -30 18 £500 -2.91% 38
East Midlands -32 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
1 116 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.85%) Apache
4 54 (2.77%) Confluence
5 18 (0.92%) 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 (0.051%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.051%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (0.56%) 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 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.051%) Houdini
7 1 (0.051%) NUKE
7 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
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 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.051%) Maximo
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
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 1,267 (65.07%) AWS
2 1,238 (63.59%) Azure
3 215 (11.04%) GitHub
4 171 (8.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 141 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
6 137 (7.04%) Snowflake
7 104 (5.34%) dbt
8 97 (4.98%) SaaS
9 91 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 76 (3.90%) Power Platform
12 75 (3.85%) Entra ID
13 67 (3.44%) Serverless
14 59 (3.03%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.82%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.90%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 96 (4.93%) Firewall
2 94 (4.83%) Network Security
3 77 (3.95%) DNS
4 68 (3.49%) VPN
5 29 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.39%) BGP
7 26 (1.34%) WAN
8 24 (1.23%) DHCP
9 19 (0.98%) HTTP
9 19 (0.98%) Internet
9 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.92%) VLAN
11 17 (0.87%) SSL
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 13 (0.67%) VoIP
14 12 (0.62%) IPsec
15 10 (0.51%) LAN
15 10 (0.51%) MPLS
16 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 8 (0.41%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (12.84%) BigQuery
2 171 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (4.88%) Metadata
5 81 (4.16%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.75%) Data Lake
8 67 (3.44%) Power BI
9 65 (3.34%) Big Data
10 46 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.16%) Tableau
12 41 (2.11%) Looker
13 37 (1.90%) SQL Server
14 36 (1.85%) MongoDB
15 34 (1.75%) MySQL
16 32 (1.64%) Flink
17 31 (1.59%) Redis
18 23 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (1.03%) Delta Lake
19 20 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 224 (11.50%) Git
2 223 (11.45%) Jenkins
3 151 (7.76%) GitLab
4 99 (5.08%) JIRA
5 39 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 37 (1.90%) JUnit
7 35 (1.80%) Maven
8 24 (1.23%) Selenium
9 23 (1.18%) JMeter
10 21 (1.08%) Gradle
11 20 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 20 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 18 (0.92%) Postman
13 17 (0.87%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
14 16 (0.82%) Gatling
15 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.62%) Snyk
17 11 (0.56%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 533 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 485 (24.91%) Finance
3 197 (10.12%) Banking
4 194 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.95%) Retail
7 54 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.85%) Legal
10 35 (1.80%) Marketing
11 33 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.23%) Billing
16 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.03%) Publishing
18 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 410 (21.06%) Architect
2 264 (13.56%) Senior
3 226 (11.61%) Developer
4 179 (9.19%) Lead
5 173 (8.89%) Data Engineer
6 152 (7.81%) GCP Engineer
7 127 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 111 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.67%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.31%) Consultant
11 84 (4.31%) Security Engineer
12 70 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 70 (3.60%) Data Architect
13 68 (3.49%) Analyst
14 65 (3.34%) Cloud Architect
15 61 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
16 55 (2.82%) Security Architect
17 52 (2.67%) Software Engineer
18 46 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 510 (26.19%) Terraform
2 218 (11.20%) Kafka
3 190 (9.76%) REST
4 110 (5.65%) React
5 106 (5.44%) OAuth
6 98 (5.03%) Spring
7 91 (4.67%) Spring Boot
8 90 (4.62%) RESTful
9 75 (3.85%) Node.js
10 66 (3.39%) OpenID
11 64 (3.29%) JSON
12 61 (3.13%) SAML
13 55 (2.82%) OAuth2
13 55 (2.82%) SOAP
14 50 (2.57%) LDAP
15 47 (2.41%) LangChain
15 47 (2.41%) PySpark
16 46 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
17 44 (2.26%) JWT
18 40 (2.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 413 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 142 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.60%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 72 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 69 (3.54%) Security Posture
7 65 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 61 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 54 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 52 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
12 47 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
13 45 (2.31%) Data Structures
14 43 (2.21%) Management Information System
15 42 (2.16%) Algorithms
15 42 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
16 36 (1.85%) PKI
17 29 (1.49%) Private Cloud
18 28 (1.44%) CMDB
19 25 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 162 (8.32%) Linux
2 102 (5.24%) Windows
3 46 (2.36%) Unix
4 33 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.18%) Android
6 17 (0.87%) 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 (0.051%) Solaris
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 631 (32.41%) DevOps
3 497 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 489 (25.12%) AI
5 488 (25.06%) Agile
6 350 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 335 (17.21%) Microservices
8 314 (16.13%) Analytics
9 288 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
10 285 (14.64%) Observability
10 285 (14.64%) Software Engineering
11 275 (14.12%) Containerisation
12 266 (13.66%) Machine Learning
13 251 (12.89%) Roadmaps
14 247 (12.69%) Data Modelling
15 238 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
16 237 (12.17%) Cloud Security
17 232 (11.92%) Migration
18 231 (11.86%) Event-Driven
19 223 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 760 (39.03%) Python
2 441 (22.65%) SQL
3 384 (19.72%) Java
4 155 (7.96%) Bash
5 146 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 146 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 103 (5.29%) Go
7 70 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 44 (2.26%) Scala
10 38 (1.95%) C#
11 32 (1.64%) Bicep
12 24 (1.23%) Groovy
13 21 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.98%) R
15 18 (0.92%) Rust
16 12 (0.62%) ABAP
17 11 (0.56%) C++
18 10 (0.51%) Ruby
19 9 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 388 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 282 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.55%) Degree
4 111 (5.70%) CISSP
5 102 (5.24%) DV Cleared
6 94 (4.83%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.44%) Azure Certification
7 67 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.24%) CISM
9 61 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 48 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 35 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.64%) CCSP
13 31 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.77%) GIAC
15 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.67%) PMP
17 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.14%) QA
3 94 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (4.47%) NIST
5 77 (3.95%) GDPR
6 33 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.23%) GRC
9 23 (1.18%) NCSC
10 19 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.41%) SLA
14 7 (0.36%) COBIT
14 7 (0.36%) MiFID
15 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.31%) WCAG
16 5 (0.26%) Basel III
16 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 342 (17.57%) Docker
2 85 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.51%) 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
1 616 (31.64%) Kubernetes
2 155 (7.96%) Ansible
3 116 (5.96%) Grafana
4 110 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.64%) Argo
7 30 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.34%) Puppet
9 24 (1.23%) Istio
10 18 (0.92%) 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
14 7 (0.36%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.36%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 672 (34.51%) Google
2 236 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 128 (6.57%) Databricks
4 83 (4.26%) Splunk
5 74 (3.80%) Oracle
6 61 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.88%) Dynatrace
9 48 (2.47%) VMware
10 47 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 45 (2.31%) SAP
12 41 (2.11%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.85%) IBM
14 31 (1.59%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.49%) Informatica
15 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
16 28 (1.44%) Cisco
17 24 (1.23%) Okta
18 21 (1.08%) MuleSoft
19 20 (1.03%) CrowdStrike