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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,889 1,196 1,193
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.30% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.86% 11.57% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 821 853
10th Percentile £403 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -8.16% -
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £745 £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 £32.12 £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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -2 1,007 £575 -4.17% 1,199
North of England +12 393 £538 +7.50% 286
Yorkshire +5 245 £538 +14.36% 90
South East -4 186 £533 -1.25% 173
North West 0 134 £558 +5.44% 165
South West +15 125 £560 +6.67% 87
Midlands -36 76 £500 +12.42% 69
West Midlands -22 60 £525 -10.64% 59
East of England +14 54 £530 +6.00% 19
North East -27 18 £463 -14.94% 31
East Midlands -21 16 £500 +25.00% 10
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
1 113 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (3.76%) Apache
4 55 (2.91%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
13 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.053%) JBoss
13 1 (0.053%) Mule
13 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,216 (64.37%) AWS
2 1,196 (63.31%) Azure
3 213 (11.28%) GitHub
4 165 (8.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 140 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 125 (6.62%) Snowflake
7 92 (4.87%) SaaS
8 89 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (4.24%) Power Platform
10 77 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 76 (4.02%) dbt
12 73 (3.86%) Serverless
13 55 (2.91%) Vertex AI
14 53 (2.81%) Entra ID
15 44 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (2.01%) Amazon S3
16 38 (2.01%) Cloud Run
17 36 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (1.80%) Datadog
18 34 (1.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.72%) Firewall
2 103 (5.45%) DNS
3 100 (5.29%) Network Security
4 88 (4.66%) VPN
5 36 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.64%) WAN
7 29 (1.54%) BGP
8 26 (1.38%) HTTP
9 21 (1.11%) DHCP
10 20 (1.06%) OSPF
11 19 (1.01%) Internet
11 19 (1.01%) SD-WAN
11 19 (1.01%) VLAN
12 14 (0.74%) SSL
13 11 (0.58%) IPsec
13 11 (0.58%) LAN
13 11 (0.58%) MPLS
13 11 (0.58%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (11.49%) BigQuery
2 167 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 77 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 72 (3.81%) Big Data
7 70 (3.71%) Metadata
7 70 (3.71%) Relational Database
8 68 (3.60%) Power BI
9 47 (2.49%) Tableau
10 38 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (1.91%) Looker
12 30 (1.59%) SQL Server
13 29 (1.54%) Flink
13 29 (1.54%) MongoDB
14 27 (1.43%) MySQL
15 25 (1.32%) Redis
16 22 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (1.06%) Hadoop
18 17 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 227 (12.02%) Jenkins
2 212 (11.22%) Git
3 149 (7.89%) GitLab
4 94 (4.98%) JIRA
5 49 (2.59%) JUnit
6 37 (1.96%) Selenium
7 36 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 34 (1.80%) JMeter
9 26 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 25 (1.32%) Maven
11 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.79%) Gradle
12 15 (0.79%) Postman
13 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
13 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 485 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 449 (23.77%) Finance
3 179 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.79%) Banking
5 158 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.39%) Retail
7 59 (3.12%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.06%) Legal
11 35 (1.85%) Marketing
12 31 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.59%) Front Office
14 27 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.01%) Billing
18 18 (0.95%) Publishing
19 17 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 392 (20.75%) Architect
2 255 (13.50%) Senior
3 226 (11.96%) Developer
4 186 (9.85%) Lead
5 165 (8.73%) GCP Engineer
6 159 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 127 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 115 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 110 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.39%) Java Developer
11 75 (3.97%) Consultant
12 69 (3.65%) Security Architect
13 67 (3.55%) Analyst
14 66 (3.49%) Security Engineer
15 65 (3.44%) Data Architect
16 61 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
17 60 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 57 (3.02%) Software Engineer
19 54 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
20 43 (2.28%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (9.11%) Kafka
2 159 (8.42%) REST
3 113 (5.98%) Spring
4 112 (5.93%) React
5 94 (4.98%) Node.js
6 90 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 88 (4.66%) OAuth
8 73 (3.86%) RESTful
9 51 (2.70%) JSON
10 48 (2.54%) OpenID
11 47 (2.49%) OAuth2
11 47 (2.49%) SAML
12 43 (2.28%) LangChain
13 42 (2.22%) GraphQL
13 42 (2.22%) PyTorch
14 41 (2.17%) LDAP
15 40 (2.12%) PySpark
15 40 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (2.06%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 364 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 130 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.61%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.12%) Security Posture
6 52 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 49 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 47 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
8 47 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 40 (2.12%) Algorithms
11 39 (2.06%) Data Structures
12 38 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
13 36 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.69%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.59%) Fixed Income
16 29 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 28 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
18 27 (1.43%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.72%) Linux
2 89 (4.71%) Windows
3 28 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.38%) Unix
5 23 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.11%) Android
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) VMS
10 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (44.26%) CI/CD
2 597 (31.60%) DevOps
3 489 (25.89%) Agile
4 445 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 438 (23.19%) AI
6 327 (17.31%) Microservices
7 306 (16.20%) Analytics
8 279 (14.77%) Machine Learning
9 274 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (14.24%) Observability
10 269 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 263 (13.92%) Containerisation
12 259 (13.71%) Software Engineering
13 240 (12.71%) Data Pipeline
14 233 (12.33%) Data Modelling
15 219 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 209 (11.06%) Migration
17 207 (10.96%) Cloud Security
18 205 (10.85%) Roadmaps
19 194 (10.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 718 (38.01%) Python
2 388 (20.54%) SQL
3 359 (19.00%) Java
4 160 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.99%) Bash
6 138 (7.31%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 84 (4.45%) Go
9 46 (2.44%) Scala
10 41 (2.17%) C#
11 30 (1.59%) Bicep
12 27 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.32%) Groovy
14 21 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 17 (0.90%) R
17 13 (0.69%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) C++
19 9 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
20 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 380 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 119 (6.30%) Degree
4 110 (5.82%) CISSP
5 97 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.50%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 61 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.02%) CISM
10 42 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (1.54%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.32%) CCSP
13 23 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (1.06%) CCNP
16 18 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.95%) GIAC
17 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 88 (4.66%) GDPR
2 88 (4.66%) QA
3 82 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (4.18%) NIST
5 29 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.22%) NCSC
8 18 (0.95%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) PSD2
15 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 359 (19.00%) Docker
2 74 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 579 (30.65%) Kubernetes
2 463 (24.51%) Terraform
3 126 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 124 (6.56%) Grafana
5 120 (6.35%) Ansible
6 39 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.64%) Argo
8 28 (1.48%) Istio
9 25 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.11%) Puppet
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.64%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.48%) Podman
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) linkerd
15 5 (0.26%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 613 (32.45%) Google
2 183 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 101 (5.35%) Databricks
4 63 (3.34%) Splunk
5 52 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.54%) Oracle
7 47 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.22%) Dynatrace
8 42 (2.22%) VMware
9 39 (2.06%) CyberArk
9 39 (2.06%) OpenAI
10 34 (1.80%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.43%) Red Hat
11 27 (1.43%) SAP
12 23 (1.22%) Informatica
13 22 (1.16%) Cisco
14 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.90%) IBM
15 17 (0.90%) Okta
16 14 (0.74%) New Relic