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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 51 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,906 1,258 1,220
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.13% 4.52% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.97% 11.99% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 844 823
10th Percentile £406 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year - -9.24% -1.06%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £764
90th Percentile £737 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £34.39 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £41.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -26.42%
75th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.10 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +38.30% -4.55% -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 15,929 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 247 174
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.34 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -1 998 £575 -4.17% 2,071
North of England +4 408 £534 +6.75% 406
Yorkshire +1 266 £538 +13.16% 111
South East +2 187 £525 +2.94% 312
South West +29 133 £550 +4.76% 150
North West -10 129 £530 +6.00% 258
Midlands -68 65 £525 +10.53% 130
East of England +7 59 £553 +9.30% 62
West Midlands -56 48 £528 +0.48% 108
East Midlands -30 17 £500 +20.48% 22
North East -32 17 £481 -15.57% 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
1 117 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.83%) Apache
4 51 (2.68%) Confluence
5 18 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.31%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) 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 11 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
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%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,231 (64.59%) AWS
2 1,206 (63.27%) Azure
3 214 (11.23%) GitHub
4 170 (8.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 143 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (7.08%) Snowflake
7 102 (5.35%) dbt
8 96 (5.04%) SaaS
9 87 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (3.67%) Power Platform
12 69 (3.62%) Entra ID
13 65 (3.41%) Serverless
14 55 (2.89%) Vertex AI
15 50 (2.62%) Cloud Run
16 47 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
18 39 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
19 38 (1.99%) OpenShift
20 37 (1.94%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.93%) Firewall
1 94 (4.93%) Network Security
2 76 (3.99%) DNS
3 67 (3.52%) VPN
4 28 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.31%) BGP
6 24 (1.26%) WAN
7 23 (1.21%) DHCP
8 20 (1.05%) HTTP
9 19 (1.00%) Internet
10 18 (0.94%) VLAN
11 17 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.84%) SSL
13 15 (0.79%) OSPF
14 11 (0.58%) IPsec
14 11 (0.58%) VoIP
15 10 (0.52%) LAN
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
16 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
17 8 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (12.64%) BigQuery
2 169 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (4.67%) Metadata
5 77 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 77 (4.04%) Relational Database
6 74 (3.88%) Data Lake
7 66 (3.46%) Big Data
8 63 (3.31%) Power BI
9 46 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 40 (2.10%) Tableau
11 39 (2.05%) Looker
12 35 (1.84%) SQL Server
13 32 (1.68%) Flink
14 31 (1.63%) MongoDB
15 30 (1.57%) Redis
16 28 (1.47%) MySQL
17 23 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.05%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.05%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 224 (11.75%) Jenkins
2 217 (11.39%) Git
3 152 (7.97%) GitLab
4 95 (4.98%) JIRA
5 39 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.78%) Maven
7 33 (1.73%) JUnit
8 23 (1.21%) Selenium
9 22 (1.15%) JMeter
10 20 (1.05%) Gradle
11 19 (1.00%) Bitbucket
12 18 (0.94%) Postman
12 18 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
13 16 (0.84%) LoadRunner
14 15 (0.79%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.79%) Gatling
15 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.63%) Snyk
17 10 (0.52%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 518 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 475 (24.92%) Finance
3 191 (10.02%) Banking
4 185 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 70 (3.67%) Retail
7 55 (2.89%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (1.99%) Legal
10 36 (1.89%) Marketing
11 33 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 25 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.26%) Billing
15 24 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.05%) Publishing
18 19 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 400 (20.99%) Architect
2 260 (13.64%) Senior
3 213 (11.18%) Developer
4 180 (9.44%) Lead
5 173 (9.08%) Data Engineer
6 155 (8.13%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 115 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.72%) Java Developer
11 83 (4.35%) Consultant
12 79 (4.14%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 67 (3.52%) Analyst
15 66 (3.46%) Data Architect
16 65 (3.41%) Cloud Architect
17 57 (2.99%) Security Architect
18 56 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
19 52 (2.73%) Software Engineer
20 46 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (25.97%) Terraform
2 217 (11.39%) Kafka
3 180 (9.44%) REST
4 105 (5.51%) React
5 101 (5.30%) OAuth
6 100 (5.25%) Spring
7 93 (4.88%) Spring Boot
8 85 (4.46%) RESTful
9 73 (3.83%) Node.js
10 63 (3.31%) OpenID
11 61 (3.20%) JSON
12 58 (3.04%) SAML
13 53 (2.78%) OAuth2
14 49 (2.57%) LDAP
14 49 (2.57%) PySpark
15 47 (2.47%) SOAP
16 46 (2.41%) LangChain
16 46 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
17 42 (2.20%) JWT
18 37 (1.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 406 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (5.51%) AI Agents
4 78 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.62%) Security Posture
6 66 (3.46%) Onboarding
7 62 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 53 (2.78%) Public Cloud
10 50 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
11 49 (2.57%) Data Centre
12 48 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.31%) Data Structures
14 43 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
15 41 (2.15%) Algorithms
16 40 (2.10%) Management Information System
17 35 (1.84%) PKI
18 28 (1.47%) Private Cloud
19 24 (1.26%) CMDB
20 22 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 155 (8.13%) Linux
2 96 (5.04%) Windows
3 42 (2.20%) Unix
4 30 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.21%) Android
7 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (45.49%) CI/CD
2 617 (32.37%) DevOps
3 485 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 478 (25.08%) Agile
4 478 (25.08%) AI
5 333 (17.47%) Microservices
5 333 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 307 (16.11%) Analytics
7 281 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
8 279 (14.64%) Observability
9 277 (14.53%) Software Engineering
10 270 (14.17%) Containerisation
11 269 (14.11%) Machine Learning
12 239 (12.54%) Roadmaps
13 237 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
14 235 (12.33%) Data Modelling
15 227 (11.91%) Cloud Security
16 221 (11.59%) Migration
17 219 (11.49%) Event-Driven
18 210 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 742 (38.93%) Python
2 428 (22.46%) SQL
3 378 (19.83%) Java
4 154 (8.08%) Bash
5 140 (7.35%) PowerShell
6 137 (7.19%) JavaScript
7 97 (5.09%) Go
8 68 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.36%) Scala
10 42 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.89%) C#
12 32 (1.68%) Bicep
13 23 (1.21%) Groovy
14 22 (1.15%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.94%) Rust
16 17 (0.89%) R
17 10 (0.52%) Ruby
18 9 (0.47%) C++
18 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (19.99%) Security Cleared
2 278 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.29%) Degree
4 107 (5.61%) CISSP
5 99 (5.19%) DV Cleared
6 88 (4.62%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.46%) Azure Certification
7 66 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (3.10%) CISM
9 57 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 35 (1.84%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.57%) CCSP
13 29 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.89%) GIAC
16 15 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.63%) CCNP
18 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 97 (5.09%) QA
3 88 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 81 (4.25%) NIST
5 75 (3.93%) GDPR
6 34 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.15%) GRC
8 22 (1.15%) NCSC
9 17 (0.89%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.68%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.37%) MiFID
12 7 (0.37%) WCAG
13 6 (0.31%) COBIT
13 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.26%) SLA
15 4 (0.21%) Basel III
System Software
1 340 (17.84%) Docker
2 84 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (0.63%) vSphere
6 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.16%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.10%) HDFS
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 609 (31.95%) Kubernetes
2 150 (7.87%) Ansible
3 118 (6.19%) Grafana
4 112 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.63%) Argo
7 29 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 24 (1.26%) Istio
8 24 (1.26%) Puppet
9 18 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.47%) Podman
12 8 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.42%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.37%) CASB
13 7 (0.37%) QRadar
14 6 (0.31%) Cilium
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 649 (34.05%) Google
2 220 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 125 (6.56%) Databricks
4 81 (4.25%) Splunk
5 74 (3.88%) Oracle
6 57 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 53 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 47 (2.47%) VMware
10 46 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 41 (2.15%) SAP
12 38 (1.99%) OpenAI
13 32 (1.68%) IBM
14 31 (1.63%) Informatica
14 31 (1.63%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.52%) Red Hat
16 25 (1.31%) Cisco
17 22 (1.15%) MuleSoft
17 22 (1.15%) Okta
18 19 (1.00%) New Relic