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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,915 1,246 1,218
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.52% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.08% 11.93% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 840 815
10th Percentile £405 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £39.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% -5.51% -26.42%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.65 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +39.71% -5.51% -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 15,850 10,440 11,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.38% 37.86% 34.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,568 7,059 7,708
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 245 173
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £64.73
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +16.07% -11.81% -9.29%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 1,004 £575 -4.17% 2,610
North of England +7 406 £538 +10.14% 476
Yorkshire +3 264 £538 +13.16% 124
South East 0 188 £525 +5.00% 307
South West +26 134 £550 +4.76% 196
North West -4 128 £530 +6.00% 318
Midlands -68 67 £525 +10.53% 151
East of England +11 60 £555 +0.91% 82
West Midlands -58 49 £525 - 127
North East -26 18 £500 -2.91% 36
East Midlands -28 18 £500 +20.48% 24
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 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 104 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.81%) Apache
4 52 (2.72%) Confluence
5 18 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.31%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) Camunda
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.052%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
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 (0.57%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (64.86%) AWS
2 1,212 (63.29%) Azure
3 214 (11.17%) GitHub
4 169 (8.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 140 (7.31%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (7.00%) Snowflake
7 101 (5.27%) dbt
8 96 (5.01%) SaaS
9 88 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (3.81%) Entra ID
12 72 (3.76%) Power Platform
13 67 (3.50%) Serverless
14 58 (3.03%) Vertex AI
15 51 (2.66%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
18 39 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.93%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.91%) Firewall
2 93 (4.86%) Network Security
3 76 (3.97%) DNS
4 66 (3.45%) VPN
5 29 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.36%) BGP
7 25 (1.31%) WAN
8 24 (1.25%) DHCP
9 19 (0.99%) HTTP
9 19 (0.99%) Internet
10 18 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.94%) VLAN
11 16 (0.84%) SSL
12 15 (0.78%) OSPF
13 13 (0.68%) VoIP
14 12 (0.63%) IPsec
15 10 (0.52%) LAN
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
16 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
17 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (12.79%) BigQuery
2 169 (8.83%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (4.65%) Metadata
5 79 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.97%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.81%) Data Lake
8 66 (3.45%) Big Data
9 64 (3.34%) Power BI
10 45 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (2.14%) Looker
12 39 (2.04%) Tableau
13 37 (1.93%) SQL Server
14 32 (1.67%) Flink
14 32 (1.67%) MongoDB
15 30 (1.57%) Redis
16 29 (1.51%) MySQL
17 23 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.04%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 219 (11.44%) Git
2 218 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 148 (7.73%) GitLab
4 96 (5.01%) JIRA
5 39 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.83%) JUnit
7 34 (1.78%) Maven
8 23 (1.20%) Selenium
9 22 (1.15%) JMeter
10 20 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 20 (1.04%) Gradle
11 19 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 18 (0.94%) Postman
13 16 (0.84%) LoadRunner
14 15 (0.78%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.78%) Gatling
15 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.63%) Snyk
17 10 (0.52%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 524 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 476 (24.86%) Finance
3 191 (9.97%) Banking
4 189 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 152 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 72 (3.76%) Retail
7 57 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (1.98%) Legal
10 37 (1.93%) Marketing
11 33 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.31%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.25%) Billing
17 22 (1.15%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.04%) Publishing
19 19 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
20 17 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 402 (20.99%) Architect
2 259 (13.52%) Senior
3 217 (11.33%) Developer
4 179 (9.35%) Lead
5 171 (8.93%) Data Engineer
6 152 (7.94%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 112 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.39%) Consultant
12 82 (4.28%) Security Engineer
13 69 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 67 (3.50%) Analyst
15 66 (3.45%) Data Architect
16 65 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
17 58 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
18 57 (2.98%) Security Architect
19 52 (2.72%) Software Engineer
20 45 (2.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (26.06%) Terraform
2 214 (11.17%) Kafka
3 184 (9.61%) REST
4 106 (5.54%) React
5 102 (5.33%) OAuth
6 99 (5.17%) Spring
7 92 (4.80%) Spring Boot
8 84 (4.39%) RESTful
9 72 (3.76%) Node.js
10 63 (3.29%) OpenID
11 61 (3.19%) JSON
12 59 (3.08%) SAML
13 53 (2.77%) OAuth2
14 50 (2.61%) LDAP
15 49 (2.56%) SOAP
16 48 (2.51%) PySpark
17 47 (2.45%) LangChain
18 45 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
19 42 (2.19%) JWT
20 40 (2.09%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 406 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.64%) AI Agents
4 77 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.60%) Security Posture
6 68 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 63 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 58 (3.03%) Public Cloud
10 51 (2.66%) Data Centre
11 50 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
12 46 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.30%) Data Structures
14 42 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (2.19%) Management Information System
15 41 (2.14%) Algorithms
16 35 (1.83%) PKI
17 28 (1.46%) Private Cloud
18 26 (1.36%) CMDB
19 22 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 158 (8.25%) Linux
2 100 (5.22%) Windows
3 43 (2.25%) Unix
4 33 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.20%) 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%) SUSE
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (45.43%) CI/CD
2 616 (32.17%) DevOps
3 488 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 480 (25.07%) AI
5 477 (24.91%) Agile
6 341 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 329 (17.18%) Microservices
8 307 (16.03%) Analytics
9 287 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
10 278 (14.52%) Observability
11 277 (14.46%) Software Engineering
12 269 (14.05%) Containerisation
13 267 (13.94%) Machine Learning
14 238 (12.43%) Data Modelling
14 238 (12.43%) Roadmaps
15 237 (12.38%) Data Pipeline
16 231 (12.06%) Cloud Security
17 222 (11.59%) Migration
18 220 (11.49%) Event-Driven
19 213 (11.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 745 (38.90%) Python
2 432 (22.56%) SQL
3 381 (19.90%) Java
4 153 (7.99%) Bash
5 142 (7.42%) PowerShell
6 140 (7.31%) JavaScript
7 100 (5.22%) Go
8 69 (3.60%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.35%) Scala
10 43 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.88%) C#
12 32 (1.67%) Bicep
13 24 (1.25%) Groovy
14 21 (1.10%) 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
1 380 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 277 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.36%) Degree
4 111 (5.80%) CISSP
5 99 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 93 (4.86%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 64 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 63 (3.29%) CISM
10 61 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (2.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 35 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.67%) CCSP
14 29 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.84%) GIAC
17 15 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.63%) CCNP
18 12 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 98 (5.12%) QA
3 91 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (4.49%) NIST
5 75 (3.92%) GDPR
6 33 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.20%) GRC
8 23 (1.20%) 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%) SLA
13 6 (0.31%) COBIT
13 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.31%) WCAG
14 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 339 (17.70%) Docker
2 85 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.67%) 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 4 (0.21%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 606 (31.64%) Kubernetes
2 151 (7.89%) Ansible
3 114 (5.95%) Grafana
4 109 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (1.57%) Argo
7 29 (1.51%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.31%) Puppet
9 24 (1.25%) Istio
10 18 (0.94%) Kustomize
11 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 8 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.42%) CASB
13 8 (0.42%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 660 (34.46%) Google
2 227 (11.85%) Microsoft
3 127 (6.63%) Databricks
4 80 (4.18%) Splunk
5 75 (3.92%) Oracle
6 57 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.77%) Dynatrace
9 47 (2.45%) CyberArk
9 47 (2.45%) VMware
10 41 (2.14%) OpenAI
10 41 (2.14%) SAP
11 35 (1.83%) IBM
12 31 (1.62%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.51%) Informatica
13 29 (1.51%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.41%) Cisco
15 22 (1.15%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.15%) Okta
16 19 (0.99%) CrowdStrike