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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,909 1,181 1,207
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.19% 4.28% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.96% 11.49% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 813 868
10th Percentile £402 £368 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% +0.33%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +11.34% +70.34% -50.91%

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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1,015 £575 -4.17% 837
North of England +15 401 £538 +13.16% 234
Yorkshire +8 254 £525 +13.51% 78
South East +5 185 £537 +0.05% 185
North West +1 131 £560 +9.27% 131
South West +24 123 £560 +7.95% 96
Midlands -32 87 £500 +12.42% 54
West Midlands -24 71 £502 -14.64% 47
East of England +12 53 £533 +6.50% 17
North East -22 20 £525 -3.45% 25
East Midlands -27 16 £500 +25.00% 7
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
1 115 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.93%) Apache
4 54 (2.83%) Confluence
5 14 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.052%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.052%) JBoss
11 1 (0.052%) Mule
11 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
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%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.10%) Maximo
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.052%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,234 (64.64%) AWS
2 1,209 (63.33%) Azure
3 207 (10.84%) GitHub
4 168 (8.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 134 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (6.39%) Snowflake
7 91 (4.77%) SaaS
8 85 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (4.45%) Power Platform
9 80 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (4.03%) dbt
11 74 (3.88%) Serverless
12 59 (3.09%) Vertex AI
13 51 (2.67%) Entra ID
14 43 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (2.15%) Cloud Run
16 40 (2.10%) Amazon S3
17 36 (1.89%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.92%) Firewall
2 103 (5.40%) DNS
2 103 (5.40%) Network Security
3 92 (4.82%) VPN
4 35 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.68%) WAN
6 30 (1.57%) BGP
7 24 (1.26%) HTTP
8 21 (1.10%) OSPF
9 20 (1.05%) DHCP
10 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.94%) Internet
12 17 (0.89%) VLAN
13 14 (0.73%) SSL
14 12 (0.63%) LAN
14 12 (0.63%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.58%) IPsec
15 11 (0.58%) MPLS
16 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.42%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 81 (4.24%) Data Lake
6 73 (3.82%) Big Data
7 71 (3.72%) Metadata
8 70 (3.67%) Power BI
9 67 (3.51%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.41%) Tableau
11 35 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (1.83%) Looker
12 33 (1.73%) SQL Server
13 32 (1.68%) MongoDB
14 30 (1.57%) MySQL
15 28 (1.47%) Flink
16 26 (1.36%) Redis
17 23 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.10%) Hadoop
19 17 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 225 (11.79%) Jenkins
2 203 (10.63%) Git
3 146 (7.65%) GitLab
4 94 (4.92%) JIRA
5 50 (2.62%) JUnit
6 36 (1.89%) Selenium
7 35 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.57%) JMeter
9 27 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.36%) Maven
11 18 (0.94%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.79%) Gradle
13 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.68%) Postman
15 12 (0.63%) MLflow
15 12 (0.63%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.52%) LoadRunner
17 9 (0.47%) Gatling
General
1 479 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 462 (24.20%) Finance
3 177 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (8.80%) Banking
5 157 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.61%) Retail
7 60 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (2.15%) Legal
10 36 (1.89%) Front Office
11 34 (1.78%) Marketing
12 30 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.05%) Billing
17 18 (0.94%) Publishing
18 17 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 391 (20.48%) Architect
2 245 (12.83%) Senior
3 231 (12.10%) Developer
4 191 (10.01%) Lead
5 169 (8.85%) GCP Engineer
6 163 (8.54%) Data Engineer
7 127 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 121 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 110 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.61%) Java Developer
11 73 (3.82%) Consultant
12 70 (3.67%) Analyst
13 67 (3.51%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.46%) Security Architect
14 66 (3.46%) Security Engineer
14 66 (3.46%) Software Engineer
15 60 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
16 57 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 52 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
18 48 (2.51%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (9.32%) Kafka
2 162 (8.49%) REST
3 122 (6.39%) React
4 119 (6.23%) Spring
5 102 (5.34%) Node.js
6 96 (5.03%) Spring Boot
7 83 (4.35%) OAuth
8 67 (3.51%) RESTful
9 48 (2.51%) JSON
10 47 (2.46%) OpenID
11 46 (2.41%) LangChain
11 46 (2.41%) OAuth2
12 45 (2.36%) PyTorch
13 44 (2.30%) SAML
14 43 (2.25%) AngularJS
14 43 (2.25%) GraphQL
15 42 (2.20%) TensorFlow
16 41 (2.15%) LDAP
17 39 (2.04%) PySpark
17 39 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 361 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 130 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.50%) AI Agents
4 70 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.04%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 53 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 50 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (2.57%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.94%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.89%) Fixed Income
13 35 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
14 34 (1.78%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.73%) Management Information System
16 31 (1.62%) Derivative
17 30 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 28 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.81%) Linux
2 92 (4.82%) Windows
3 30 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.31%) Android
4 25 (1.31%) Unix
5 22 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.63%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.052%) CentOS
13 1 (0.052%) Solaris
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (44.37%) CI/CD
2 600 (31.43%) DevOps
3 496 (25.98%) Agile
4 448 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 445 (23.31%) AI
6 329 (17.23%) Microservices
7 315 (16.50%) Analytics
8 282 (14.77%) Machine Learning
9 278 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (14.30%) Observability
11 266 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 259 (13.57%) Software Engineering
13 257 (13.46%) Containerisation
14 238 (12.47%) Data Modelling
15 237 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
16 217 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 214 (11.21%) Migration
18 210 (11.00%) Cloud Security
19 208 (10.90%) Roadmaps
20 197 (10.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 728 (38.14%) Python
2 396 (20.74%) SQL
3 366 (19.17%) Java
4 157 (8.22%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.91%) Bash
6 136 (7.12%) PowerShell
7 94 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 89 (4.66%) Go
9 43 (2.25%) Scala
10 39 (2.04%) C#
11 32 (1.68%) Bicep
12 27 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 26 (1.36%) Groovy
14 25 (1.31%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.94%) Rust
16 16 (0.84%) R
17 13 (0.68%) Ruby
18 10 (0.52%) C++
18 10 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
19 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 375 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 293 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 126 (6.60%) Degree
4 109 (5.71%) CISSP
5 95 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.50%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 57 (2.99%) CISM
11 41 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 25 (1.31%) CCSP
15 22 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (1.10%) CCNP
17 19 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 18 (0.94%) GIAC
19 14 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
19 14 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 90 (4.71%) GDPR
3 89 (4.66%) QA
4 80 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (4.19%) NIST
5 30 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 29 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.20%) NCSC
8 20 (1.05%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.42%) COBIT
11 8 (0.42%) WCAG
12 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.31%) PSD2
13 6 (0.31%) SLA
14 5 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 354 (18.54%) Docker
2 71 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.73%) vSphere
7 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.26%) NFS
9 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.10%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 581 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 474 (24.83%) Terraform
3 130 (6.81%) Prometheus
4 129 (6.76%) Grafana
5 119 (6.23%) Ansible
6 37 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.62%) Argo
8 30 (1.57%) Istio
9 24 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.05%) Puppet
11 13 (0.68%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.63%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.47%) Podman
14 6 (0.31%) linkerd
14 6 (0.31%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 616 (32.27%) Google
2 179 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 100 (5.24%) Databricks
4 68 (3.56%) Splunk
5 52 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.51%) Oracle
8 44 (2.30%) OpenAI
9 42 (2.20%) VMware
10 41 (2.15%) Dynatrace
11 39 (2.04%) CyberArk
12 36 (1.89%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.52%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.52%) SAP
14 24 (1.26%) Informatica
15 23 (1.20%) Cisco
16 19 (1.00%) Okta
17 18 (0.94%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.73%) IBM
19 13 (0.68%) Foundry