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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,737 1,045 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 4.16% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.41% 10.99% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 703 870
10th Percentile £401 £366 £413
25th Percentile £470 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £693 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 11 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.25 £34.63
25th Percentile £14.72 £34.38 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.00 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.30 £78.70 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,223 9,508 12,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.88% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,307 6,455 8,632
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 339
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -37.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -5 907 £575 -4.17% 334
North of England +13 368 £540 +2.86% 122
Yorkshire -2 222 £540 +8.00% 24
South East +8 162 £550 - 112
North West +14 127 £540 +1.89% 84
South West +24 116 £565 +8.92% 52
Midlands -32 87 £500 +8.11% 25
West Midlands -21 66 £494 -25.47% 19
East of England -2 46 £535 +10.31% 18
North East -16 22 £575 +5.75% 14
East Midlands -22 21 £500 +23.46% 6
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
1 111 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 72 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.28%) Apache
4 41 (2.36%) Confluence
5 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.23%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.058%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.058%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.058%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) Sage X3
2 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.058%) Maximo
5 1 (0.058%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.058%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.058%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.058%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,142 (65.75%) AWS
2 1,128 (64.94%) Azure
3 185 (10.65%) GitHub
4 171 (9.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 119 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
6 109 (6.28%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.58%) Power Platform
8 79 (4.55%) SaaS
9 74 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (3.91%) Serverless
11 65 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (3.40%) dbt
13 54 (3.11%) Entra ID
14 53 (3.05%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.48%) Cloud Run
16 40 (2.30%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.13%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 31 (1.78%) Azure AKS
19 31 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.10%) Firewall
2 104 (5.99%) Network Security
3 98 (5.64%) DNS
4 88 (5.07%) VPN
5 31 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.67%) WAN
7 27 (1.55%) BGP
8 22 (1.27%) HTTP
9 18 (1.04%) DHCP
9 18 (1.04%) OSPF
9 18 (1.04%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.75%) VLAN
11 12 (0.69%) LAN
11 12 (0.69%) SSL
12 11 (0.63%) Internet
12 11 (0.63%) IPsec
13 10 (0.58%) VoIP
13 10 (0.58%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.52%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (10.42%) BigQuery
2 130 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
4 80 (4.61%) Data Lake
5 78 (4.49%) Power BI
6 74 (4.26%) Big Data
7 73 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 62 (3.57%) Metadata
9 54 (3.11%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.88%) Tableau
11 39 (2.25%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.78%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.73%) MySQL
14 25 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.38%) Looker
15 24 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (1.32%) Hadoop
17 20 (1.15%) Flink
18 19 (1.09%) Redis
19 16 (0.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 206 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 165 (9.50%) Git
3 129 (7.43%) GitLab
4 78 (4.49%) JIRA
5 47 (2.71%) JUnit
6 39 (2.25%) Selenium
7 32 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.78%) JMeter
9 30 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.09%) Maven
11 18 (1.04%) Postman
11 18 (1.04%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.75%) MLflow
12 13 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 10 (0.58%) ERwin
13 10 (0.58%) Gradle
13 10 (0.58%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.46%) Gatling
15 8 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 462 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 421 (24.24%) Finance
3 159 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (9.15%) Banking
4 141 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 69 (3.97%) Retail
6 52 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (2.19%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.07%) Legal
9 34 (1.96%) Front Office
9 34 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.38%) Marketing
12 22 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 17 (0.98%) Billing
15 14 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.75%) Military
16 13 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 373 (21.47%) Architect
2 218 (12.55%) Senior
3 195 (11.23%) Developer
4 168 (9.67%) Lead
5 158 (9.10%) GCP Engineer
6 144 (8.29%) Data Engineer
7 111 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 110 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 88 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.09%) Java Developer
11 68 (3.91%) Consultant
12 64 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 62 (3.57%) Security Architect
14 61 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
15 60 (3.45%) Security Engineer
16 56 (3.22%) Data Architect
17 52 (2.99%) Analyst
18 48 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 48 (2.76%) GCP DevOps
19 43 (2.48%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (9.04%) Kafka
2 141 (8.12%) REST
3 116 (6.68%) Spring
4 111 (6.39%) React
5 96 (5.53%) Spring Boot
6 91 (5.24%) Node.js
7 79 (4.55%) OAuth
8 60 (3.45%) RESTful
9 57 (3.28%) LDAP
10 51 (2.94%) OpenID
11 48 (2.76%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.65%) TensorFlow
13 45 (2.59%) OAuth2
14 44 (2.53%) SAML
15 39 (2.25%) LangChain
16 37 (2.13%) AngularJS
17 36 (2.07%) GraphQL
17 36 (2.07%) SOAP
18 35 (2.01%) .NET
19 33 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 338 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 111 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 60 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.40%) AI Agents
6 54 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 52 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 44 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 41 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (2.01%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 31 (1.78%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.61%) Derivative
13 28 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
14 27 (1.55%) Clustering
14 27 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
15 26 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
16 25 (1.44%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.28%) Linux
2 80 (4.61%) Windows
3 27 (1.55%) Android
4 25 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (1.32%) Unix
6 18 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.92%) VMS
9 14 (0.81%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.17%) AIX
12 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.12%) CentOS
13 2 (0.12%) Solaris
14 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.058%) Rocky
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (45.08%) CI/CD
2 557 (32.07%) DevOps
3 414 (23.83%) Agile
4 409 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 390 (22.45%) AI
6 287 (16.52%) Analytics
7 285 (16.41%) Microservices
8 260 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
9 252 (14.51%) Observability
10 249 (14.34%) Machine Learning
11 245 (14.10%) Containerisation
12 212 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
13 210 (12.09%) Software Engineering
14 203 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 200 (11.51%) Data Modelling
16 198 (11.40%) Migration
17 192 (11.05%) Cloud Security
18 184 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
18 184 (10.59%) Data Engineering
19 182 (10.48%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 687 (39.55%) Python
2 342 (19.69%) SQL
3 323 (18.60%) Java
4 132 (7.60%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 124 (7.14%) Bash
7 94 (5.41%) Go
8 89 (5.12%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.30%) C#
9 40 (2.30%) Scala
10 22 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 21 (1.21%) Groovy
12 20 (1.15%) Bicep
13 16 (0.92%) Rust
14 13 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.69%) R
15 12 (0.69%) Ruby
16 9 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.46%) C++
18 7 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 351 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 279 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.28%) Degree
4 107 (6.16%) CISSP
5 79 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 70 (4.03%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.40%) CISM
8 58 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
9 56 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 52 (2.99%) Azure Certification
11 41 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.55%) CCSP
13 24 (1.38%) Master's Degree
14 23 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (1.09%) GIAC
17 16 (0.92%) CCNP
18 12 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 11 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
19 11 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.10%) GDPR
3 91 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (5.18%) NIST
5 65 (3.74%) QA
6 36 (2.07%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.67%) NCSC
8 24 (1.38%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.09%) GRC
10 14 (0.81%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.75%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.69%) SLA
13 9 (0.52%) COBIT
13 9 (0.52%) PSD2
13 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.52%) WCAG
14 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 319 (18.36%) Docker
2 76 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.81%) vSphere
7 13 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 521 (29.99%) Kubernetes
2 459 (26.42%) Terraform
3 114 (6.56%) Grafana
3 114 (6.56%) Prometheus
4 110 (6.33%) Ansible
5 37 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.84%) Istio
7 28 (1.61%) Argo
8 19 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.04%) Puppet
10 13 (0.75%) Kubeflow
11 10 (0.58%) Kustomize
11 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.46%) Podman
14 7 (0.40%) linkerd
15 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.29%) Nessus
15 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 540 (31.09%) Google
2 160 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 87 (5.01%) Databricks
4 58 (3.34%) Splunk
5 55 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 51 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 46 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.36%) VMware
9 40 (2.30%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.13%) Oracle
11 30 (1.73%) Dynatrace
12 29 (1.67%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.50%) BeyondTrust
14 24 (1.38%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.27%) Okta
16 20 (1.15%) Cisco
16 20 (1.15%) Informatica
16 20 (1.15%) SAP
17 15 (0.86%) Centrify
17 15 (0.86%) Foundry