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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,898 1,218 1,196
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.11% 4.45% 3.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.90% 11.84% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 819 812
10th Percentile £407 £378 £405
25th Percentile £463 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year - -8.79% -1.55%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £766
90th Percentile £738 £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% -29.03%
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% -29.03%

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 15,948 10,289 11,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 37.60% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,643 6,957 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -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 545 249 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 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 15 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 15 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 0 993 £575 -4.17% 2,570
North of England +3 408 £540 +10.20% 497
Yorkshire +1 261 £545 +14.74% 131
South East +5 187 £525 +1.55% 295
North West -2 134 £545 +9.00% 334
South West +12 127 £560 +6.67% 195
Midlands -59 67 £525 +13.51% 165
East of England +6 58 £555 +9.79% 69
West Midlands -53 49 £525 -0.94% 138
East Midlands -24 18 £500 +20.48% 27
North East -23 17 £481 -23.00% 33
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 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 107 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.95%) Apache
4 50 (2.63%) Confluence
5 18 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) 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
10 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (64.96%) AWS
2 1,207 (63.59%) Azure
3 210 (11.06%) GitHub
4 164 (8.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 140 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (7.17%) Snowflake
7 100 (5.27%) dbt
8 96 (5.06%) SaaS
9 84 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 71 (3.74%) Power Platform
12 64 (3.37%) Entra ID
12 64 (3.37%) Serverless
13 55 (2.90%) Vertex AI
14 45 (2.37%) Cloud Run
15 44 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
16 38 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (1.95%) OpenShift
18 36 (1.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.95%) Firewall
1 94 (4.95%) Network Security
2 78 (4.11%) DNS
3 70 (3.69%) VPN
4 29 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.26%) BGP
5 24 (1.26%) WAN
6 22 (1.16%) DHCP
7 19 (1.00%) HTTP
7 19 (1.00%) Internet
8 18 (0.95%) VLAN
9 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.84%) SSL
11 15 (0.79%) OSPF
12 11 (0.58%) IPsec
12 11 (0.58%) VoIP
13 10 (0.53%) MPLS
14 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.47%) LAN
15 8 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (12.43%) BigQuery
2 170 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
4 86 (4.53%) Metadata
5 77 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 77 (4.06%) Relational Database
6 74 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 67 (3.53%) Big Data
8 64 (3.37%) Power BI
9 46 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (2.16%) Tableau
11 39 (2.05%) Looker
12 36 (1.90%) SQL Server
13 32 (1.69%) Flink
13 32 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 30 (1.58%) Redis
15 29 (1.53%) MySQL
16 21 (1.11%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (1.05%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 223 (11.75%) Jenkins
2 219 (11.54%) Git
3 148 (7.80%) GitLab
4 93 (4.90%) JIRA
5 39 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.84%) JUnit
7 34 (1.79%) Maven
8 24 (1.26%) Selenium
9 21 (1.11%) JMeter
10 20 (1.05%) Gradle
11 17 (0.90%) Postman
11 17 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.79%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.79%) LoadRunner
14 14 (0.74%) Gatling
15 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.58%) Snyk
17 10 (0.53%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 517 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 470 (24.76%) Finance
3 187 (9.85%) Banking
4 178 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.74%) Retail
7 55 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (2.00%) Legal
10 36 (1.90%) Marketing
11 34 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.32%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.26%) Billing
16 21 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.05%) Publishing
18 19 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 399 (21.02%) Architect
2 260 (13.70%) Senior
3 209 (11.01%) Developer
4 179 (9.43%) Lead
5 171 (9.01%) Data Engineer
6 152 (8.01%) GCP Engineer
7 131 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.74%) Java Developer
11 86 (4.53%) Consultant
12 78 (4.11%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.58%) Analyst
14 66 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
15 65 (3.42%) Data Architect
16 63 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 60 (3.16%) Security Architect
18 54 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
19 50 (2.63%) Software Engineer
20 46 (2.42%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (25.55%) Terraform
2 216 (11.38%) Kafka
3 177 (9.33%) REST
4 101 (5.32%) React
4 101 (5.32%) Spring
5 96 (5.06%) OAuth
6 94 (4.95%) Spring Boot
7 81 (4.27%) RESTful
8 68 (3.58%) Node.js
9 60 (3.16%) JSON
10 59 (3.11%) OpenID
11 55 (2.90%) SAML
12 51 (2.69%) PySpark
13 50 (2.63%) OAuth2
14 49 (2.58%) LDAP
15 46 (2.42%) SOAP
16 45 (2.37%) LangChain
17 44 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
18 37 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
18 37 (1.95%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 402 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (5.22%) AI Agents
4 74 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.37%) Security Posture
6 63 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 56 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 52 (2.74%) Public Cloud
10 49 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 44 (2.32%) Data Centre
13 42 (2.21%) Data Structures
14 41 (2.16%) Algorithms
15 39 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (2.05%) Management Information System
16 35 (1.84%) PKI
17 27 (1.42%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.26%) CMDB
19 23 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 154 (8.11%) Linux
2 94 (4.95%) Windows
3 41 (2.16%) Unix
4 29 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.16%) Android
7 16 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 859 (45.26%) CI/CD
2 612 (32.24%) DevOps
3 476 (25.08%) Agile
4 473 (24.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 472 (24.87%) AI
6 333 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 329 (17.33%) Microservices
8 308 (16.23%) Analytics
9 280 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
10 277 (14.59%) Observability
11 272 (14.33%) Software Engineering
12 269 (14.17%) Machine Learning
13 264 (13.91%) Containerisation
14 242 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 237 (12.49%) Data Pipeline
16 230 (12.12%) Data Modelling
17 226 (11.91%) Cloud Security
18 218 (11.49%) Migration
19 209 (11.01%) Event-Driven
20 205 (10.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 735 (38.72%) Python
2 421 (22.18%) SQL
3 377 (19.86%) Java
4 153 (8.06%) Bash
5 139 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 136 (7.17%) JavaScript
7 90 (4.74%) Go
8 66 (3.48%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.37%) Scala
10 41 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 34 (1.79%) C#
12 31 (1.63%) Bicep
13 22 (1.16%) Groovy
14 21 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 17 (0.90%) R
17 10 (0.53%) Ruby
18 9 (0.47%) C++
18 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 386 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 284 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.11%) Degree
4 108 (5.69%) CISSP
5 97 (5.11%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (3.27%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 59 (3.11%) CISM
10 45 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 34 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.58%) CCSP
13 25 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.90%) GIAC
15 15 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.68%) CCNP
17 13 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 94 (4.95%) QA
3 87 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (4.37%) NIST
5 77 (4.06%) GDPR
6 31 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.11%) GRC
8 21 (1.11%) NCSC
9 15 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) COBIT
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.26%) SLA
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 341 (17.97%) Docker
2 82 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.58%) vSphere
7 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.16%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 606 (31.93%) Kubernetes
2 144 (7.59%) Ansible
3 117 (6.16%) Grafana
4 112 (5.90%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.63%) Argo
7 28 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.32%) Istio
9 23 (1.21%) Puppet
10 18 (0.95%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 8 (0.42%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) CASB
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.32%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 637 (33.56%) Google
2 219 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 125 (6.59%) Databricks
4 80 (4.21%) Splunk
5 74 (3.90%) Oracle
6 57 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 50 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.42%) VMware
10 44 (2.32%) CyberArk
11 40 (2.11%) SAP
12 39 (2.05%) OpenAI
13 31 (1.63%) IBM
13 31 (1.63%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.58%) Informatica
14 30 (1.58%) Red Hat
15 26 (1.37%) Cisco
16 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
17 20 (1.05%) Okta
18 19 (1.00%) New Relic