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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,669 911 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.13% 3.74% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.66% 10.05% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 627 761
10th Percentile £375 £372 £413
25th Percentile £454 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £813 £825
UK median daily rate £546 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.04% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.90
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £37.94
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -26.75%
75th Percentile £71.13 £55.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.65 £77.46 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +13.33% +1.45% -26.26%

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 14,317 9,065 11,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.46% 37.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 6,343 8,545
10th Percentile £316 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 194 321
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +5 864 £575 -8.00% 309
North of England +23 329 £526 -4.32% 115
Yorkshire +6 191 £500 -4.76% 25
South East +33 180 £500 -13.04% 103
North West +12 123 £550 -4.35% 72
South West +28 102 £570 +4.11% 41
Midlands -22 93 £465 - 50
West Midlands -15 70 £486 -2.75% 24
East of England +3 53 £570 +14.00% 21
East Midlands -20 23 £438 +10.62% 26
North East -3 18 £575 +24.32% 18
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
1 100 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.30%) Apache
4 39 (2.34%) Confluence
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) JBoss
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Weka
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.060%) Actimize
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,156 (69.26%) Azure
2 1,135 (68.00%) AWS
3 188 (11.26%) GitHub
4 134 (8.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 114 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 108 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
7 83 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 82 (4.91%) Snowflake
9 63 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (3.77%) SaaS
10 61 (3.65%) Serverless
11 51 (3.06%) dbt
11 51 (3.06%) OpenShift
12 49 (2.94%) Amazon S3
13 47 (2.82%) Vertex AI
14 46 (2.76%) Entra ID
15 39 (2.34%) Cloud Run
16 32 (1.92%) Google Gemini
16 32 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
17 31 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.45%) Firewall
2 85 (5.09%) VPN
3 83 (4.97%) DNS
4 78 (4.67%) Network Security
5 25 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.32%) HTTP
7 21 (1.26%) WAN
8 16 (0.96%) BGP
9 14 (0.84%) VoIP
10 11 (0.66%) Internet
10 11 (0.66%) LAN
10 11 (0.66%) OSPF
10 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.48%) SSL
12 8 (0.48%) VLAN
13 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.36%) DKIM
14 6 (0.36%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (10.55%) BigQuery
2 106 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
4 95 (5.69%) Power BI
5 79 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 72 (4.31%) Big Data
7 63 (3.77%) Data Lake
7 63 (3.77%) Metadata
8 55 (3.30%) Tableau
9 40 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.40%) SQL Server
10 34 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 31 (1.86%) MySQL
12 26 (1.56%) Hadoop
12 26 (1.56%) Looker
13 23 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 20 (1.20%) OLAP
15 19 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (1.02%) Flink
Development Applications
1 206 (12.34%) Jenkins
2 159 (9.53%) Git
3 129 (7.73%) GitLab
4 80 (4.79%) JIRA
5 43 (2.58%) Selenium
6 40 (2.40%) JUnit
7 28 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.62%) JMeter
9 26 (1.56%) Postman
10 20 (1.20%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 12 (0.72%) Maven
15 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) Mockito
16 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
17 7 (0.42%) IntelliJ
General
1 491 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 364 (21.81%) Finance
3 174 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.17%) Banking
5 135 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.12%) Retail
7 51 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (2.34%) Legal
9 35 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.92%) Front Office
11 31 (1.86%) Marketing
12 24 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.96%) Military
16 14 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.78%) Electronics
17 13 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 337 (20.19%) Architect
2 192 (11.50%) Senior
3 180 (10.78%) Developer
4 179 (10.72%) Lead
5 157 (9.41%) GCP Engineer
6 138 (8.27%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 92 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 77 (4.61%) Analyst
10 72 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (3.71%) Software Engineer
12 58 (3.48%) Java Developer
13 57 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
14 54 (3.24%) Consultant
15 48 (2.88%) GCP DevOps
15 48 (2.88%) Security Engineer
16 47 (2.82%) Security Architect
17 46 (2.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 43 (2.58%) Data Architect
19 42 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (9.95%) REST
2 150 (8.99%) Kafka
3 121 (7.25%) Spring
4 111 (6.65%) React
5 100 (5.99%) Node.js
6 94 (5.63%) Spring Boot
7 87 (5.21%) LDAP
8 72 (4.31%) RESTful
9 69 (4.13%) OAuth
10 55 (3.30%) SOAP
11 52 (3.12%) PyTorch
11 52 (3.12%) TensorFlow
12 51 (3.06%) OpenID
13 49 (2.94%) AngularJS
14 46 (2.76%) .NET
15 39 (2.34%) LangChain
16 38 (2.28%) SAML
17 37 (2.22%) OAuth2
18 36 (2.16%) scikit-learn
19 34 (2.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 285 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 61 (3.65%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 58 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 41 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 40 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 37 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 33 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.74%) Fixed Income
13 23 (1.38%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.32%) Clustering
14 22 (1.32%) Derivative
15 21 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
15 21 (1.26%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.20%) Equities
16 20 (1.20%) Management Information System
17 18 (1.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.51%) Linux
2 69 (4.13%) Windows
3 26 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 25 (1.50%) Android
5 22 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.32%) VMS
6 17 (1.02%) Unix
7 11 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
13 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (44.10%) CI/CD
2 557 (33.37%) DevOps
3 364 (21.81%) Agile
4 344 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 341 (20.43%) AI
6 309 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
7 295 (17.68%) Analytics
8 271 (16.24%) Microservices
9 270 (16.18%) Containerisation
10 231 (13.84%) Machine Learning
11 220 (13.18%) Observability
12 201 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
13 192 (11.50%) Software Engineering
14 190 (11.38%) Data Modelling
15 187 (11.20%) Migration
16 186 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 176 (10.55%) Data Engineering
18 164 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
19 162 (9.71%) ETL
20 149 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 676 (40.50%) Python
2 322 (19.29%) SQL
3 301 (18.03%) Java
4 136 (8.15%) PowerShell
5 135 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 109 (6.53%) Bash
7 84 (5.03%) TypeScript
8 70 (4.19%) Go
9 50 (3.00%) C#
10 36 (2.16%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
11 19 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.08%) Bicep
13 15 (0.90%) R
14 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) PHP
15 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
17 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 378 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 311 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 94 (5.63%) Degree
4 78 (4.67%) CISSP
5 57 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.12%) CISM
8 50 (3.00%) Azure Certification
9 46 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.64%) DV Cleared
11 27 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 24 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.08%) CCSP
14 18 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (1.02%) CCNP
16 16 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (8.39%) GDPR
2 123 (7.37%) Data Quality
3 91 (5.45%) NIST
4 90 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (4.31%) QA
6 40 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.20%) NCSC
9 19 (1.14%) GRC
10 18 (1.08%) SLA
11 15 (0.90%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.72%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.54%) PSD2
13 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) COBIT
14 7 (0.42%) PERC
15 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 341 (20.43%) Docker
2 96 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.36%) vSphere
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.30%) HDFS
7 5 (0.30%) NFS
7 5 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.24%) GPFS
8 4 (0.24%) Lustre
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.060%) UAG
11 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 515 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 402 (24.09%) Terraform
3 114 (6.83%) Ansible
4 106 (6.35%) Grafana
5 97 (5.81%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.10%) Istio
7 27 (1.62%) Argo
8 21 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.96%) Kubeflow
10 14 (0.84%) Puppet
11 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.60%) SCCM
13 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.42%) Kibana
15 6 (0.36%) Nessus
15 6 (0.36%) Podman
15 6 (0.36%) Rancher
16 5 (0.30%) linkerd
16 5 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 529 (31.70%) Google
2 142 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 78 (4.67%) Databricks
4 77 (4.61%) Splunk
5 70 (4.19%) CyberArk
6 62 (3.71%) ServiceNow
7 55 (3.30%) BeyondTrust
8 39 (2.34%) Oracle
9 37 (2.22%) OpenAI
10 36 (2.16%) Centrify
11 35 (2.10%) VMware
12 30 (1.80%) Salesforce
13 28 (1.68%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.62%) Dynatrace
14 27 (1.62%) SAP
15 24 (1.44%) Cisco
16 21 (1.26%) Foundry
16 21 (1.26%) Informatica
17 18 (1.08%) Red Hat
18 17 (1.02%) Okta