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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 60 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -17
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,635 910 977
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.42% 3.72% 2.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.94% 9.83% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 608 728
10th Percentile £369 £363 £425
25th Percentile £450 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.31%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £527 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.21% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 12
10th Percentile £12.95 - £31.63
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate £59.75 £54.50 £54.28
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% +0.41% -24.09%
75th Percentile £70.38 £63.69 £63.25
90th Percentile £73.13 £77.00 £74.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £54.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +17.43% +6.75% -25.47%

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 13,692 9,262 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.00% 37.85% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,437 6,456 8,774
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 171 329
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.95 £75.50 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -16.88%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +3 822 £600 - 413
North of England +25 337 £513 -6.82% 142
South East +35 195 £481 -12.50% 118
Yorkshire +8 191 £500 -6.85% 43
North West +36 130 £538 -13.79% 76
Midlands +6 116 £485 +2.11% 35
West Midlands +11 96 £500 +4.82% 25
South West +23 77 £550 -11.11% 54
East of England -7 41 £510 +60.15% 22
East Midlands -27 19 £437 +11.70% 10
North East 0 16 £550 +65.41% 23
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 92 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (3.79%) Apache
4 35 (2.14%) Confluence
5 12 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.61%) SAS
7 5 (0.31%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) Documentum
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.061%) nginx
11 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.31%) Weka
5 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.061%) Actimize
5 1 (0.061%) Maximo
5 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (72.23%) AWS
2 1,172 (71.68%) Azure
3 193 (11.80%) GitHub
4 126 (7.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 121 (7.40%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (4.59%) Serverless
9 72 (4.40%) Snowflake
10 69 (4.22%) OpenShift
11 62 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (3.49%) Amazon S3
13 44 (2.69%) Entra ID
14 43 (2.63%) SaaS
15 42 (2.57%) dbt
15 42 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 40 (2.45%) Cloud Run
17 34 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
18 33 (2.02%) Vertex AI
19 29 (1.77%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 121 (7.40%) Firewall
2 82 (5.02%) VPN
3 76 (4.65%) Network Security
4 74 (4.53%) DNS
5 31 (1.90%) WAN
6 27 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.35%) BGP
8 20 (1.22%) LAN
8 20 (1.22%) SD-WAN
9 19 (1.16%) HTTP
10 17 (1.04%) OSPF
11 13 (0.80%) DHCP
11 13 (0.80%) VoIP
12 12 (0.73%) VLAN
12 12 (0.73%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.67%) Wireless
14 10 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.61%) Internet
14 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
15 9 (0.55%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (9.91%) BigQuery
2 139 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (6.30%) Power BI
4 100 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (5.75%) NoSQL
6 62 (3.79%) Big Data
7 59 (3.61%) Data Lake
8 56 (3.43%) Metadata
9 52 (3.18%) Tableau
10 45 (2.75%) SQL Server
11 42 (2.57%) MongoDB
12 38 (2.32%) MySQL
13 34 (2.08%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.83%) Hadoop
15 24 (1.47%) Looker
16 23 (1.41%) OLAP
17 19 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.10%) Mixpanel
18 18 (1.10%) OLTP
19 17 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 226 (13.82%) Jenkins
2 174 (10.64%) Git
3 157 (9.60%) GitLab
4 76 (4.65%) JIRA
5 37 (2.26%) Selenium
6 36 (2.20%) JUnit
7 31 (1.90%) JMeter
8 30 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.41%) Postman
10 16 (0.98%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 15 (0.92%) Liquibase
11 15 (0.92%) REST Assured
12 13 (0.80%) Gatling
12 13 (0.80%) MLflow
13 10 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.61%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.49%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 533 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 360 (22.02%) Finance
3 188 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (9.97%) Banking
5 147 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (2.39%) Retail
8 37 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.02%) Front Office
10 31 (1.90%) Legal
11 29 (1.77%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.41%) Marketing
14 20 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.04%) Electronics
17 15 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.73%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 331 (20.24%) Architect
2 191 (11.68%) Senior
3 177 (10.83%) Developer
4 164 (10.03%) Lead
5 155 (9.48%) GCP Engineer
6 130 (7.95%) Data Engineer
7 95 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 95 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 86 (5.26%) Analyst
9 85 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.34%) Software Engineer
11 67 (4.10%) Consultant
12 50 (3.06%) Security Architect
13 48 (2.94%) Security Engineer
14 47 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
15 46 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
16 45 (2.75%) GCP DevOps
17 43 (2.63%) Java Developer
18 42 (2.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (11.38%) REST
2 146 (8.93%) Kafka
3 120 (7.34%) React
4 117 (7.16%) Spring
5 101 (6.18%) Node.js
6 90 (5.50%) RESTful
7 82 (5.02%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.89%) LDAP
9 66 (4.04%) PyTorch
10 64 (3.91%) TensorFlow
11 61 (3.73%) AngularJS
12 57 (3.49%) SOAP
13 50 (3.06%) OAuth
14 45 (2.75%) .NET
14 45 (2.75%) scikit-learn
15 42 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
16 41 (2.51%) OpenID
17 40 (2.45%) Middleware
18 36 (2.20%) Vue
19 35 (2.14%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 271 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 95 (5.81%) Public Cloud
3 90 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (4.28%) Security Posture
5 67 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 44 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 30 (1.83%) Fixed Income
11 29 (1.77%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.41%) Derivative
14 21 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.22%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.22%) Equities
15 20 (1.22%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 17 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.73%) Linux
2 64 (3.91%) Windows
3 23 (1.41%) VMS
4 18 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 17 (1.04%) Android
6 15 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.67%) Unix
9 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.31%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.061%) Rocky
13 1 (0.061%) Solaris
13 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (44.22%) CI/CD
2 580 (35.47%) DevOps
3 385 (23.55%) Agile
4 346 (21.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 339 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
6 323 (19.76%) AI
7 300 (18.35%) Containerisation
8 285 (17.43%) Analytics
9 268 (16.39%) Microservices
10 247 (15.11%) Machine Learning
11 210 (12.84%) Observability
12 184 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
13 181 (11.07%) Software Engineering
14 170 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 168 (10.28%) Data Modelling
16 166 (10.15%) Migration
17 157 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 157 (9.60%) Data Engineering
18 153 (9.36%) ETL
18 153 (9.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 699 (42.75%) Python
2 317 (19.39%) SQL
3 260 (15.90%) Java
4 134 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.71%) JavaScript
6 107 (6.54%) Bash
7 85 (5.20%) TypeScript
8 74 (4.53%) Go
9 50 (3.06%) C#
10 33 (2.02%) Scala
11 21 (1.28%) R
12 18 (1.10%) Bicep
13 17 (1.04%) Groovy
14 16 (0.98%) Ruby
15 13 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.61%) C++
17 9 (0.55%) PHP
17 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
19 5 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 370 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 306 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 127 (7.77%) Degree
4 83 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (4.95%) CISSP
6 55 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 53 (3.24%) CISM
8 51 (3.12%) Azure Certification
9 47 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (2.63%) DV Cleared
11 42 (2.57%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 24 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.41%) CCNP
15 19 (1.16%) CCSP
16 16 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.80%) CCIE
18 11 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.11%) GDPR
2 118 (7.22%) Data Quality
3 99 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (5.99%) NIST
5 67 (4.10%) QA
6 48 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.22%) NCSC
9 18 (1.10%) GRC
9 18 (1.10%) SLA
10 17 (1.04%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.98%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.67%) PSD2
12 11 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.43%) PERC
14 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.31%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.31%) WCAG
16 4 (0.24%) COBIT
16 4 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 382 (23.36%) Docker
2 93 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.80%) vSphere
7 8 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.37%) GPFS
8 6 (0.37%) Lustre
8 6 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.31%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.12%) Snort
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
13 1 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.061%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 519 (31.74%) Kubernetes
2 401 (24.53%) Terraform
3 144 (8.81%) Ansible
4 123 (7.52%) Grafana
5 113 (6.91%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.20%) Istio
7 31 (1.90%) Argo
8 15 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.86%) Puppet
10 13 (0.80%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.73%) SCCM
12 9 (0.55%) Nessus
13 8 (0.49%) Fluentd
14 6 (0.37%) Kibana
14 6 (0.37%) Rancher
15 5 (0.31%) linkerd
15 5 (0.31%) Podman
15 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 540 (33.03%) Google
2 135 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 110 (6.73%) Splunk
4 74 (4.53%) Databricks
5 73 (4.46%) CyberArk
6 59 (3.61%) BeyondTrust
7 58 (3.55%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.69%) Oracle
9 42 (2.57%) VMware
10 40 (2.45%) OpenAI
10 40 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 36 (2.20%) Cisco
12 35 (2.14%) Centrify
13 32 (1.96%) SAP
14 30 (1.83%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.35%) Foundry
16 21 (1.28%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.28%) Informatica
17 20 (1.22%) Fortinet
18 18 (1.10%) F5