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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,651 914 982
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.40% 3.76% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.96% 9.93% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 620 727
10th Percentile £375 £363 £425
25th Percentile £450 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 12
10th Percentile £12.95 - £31.63
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.50 £54.28
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -1.43% -22.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £73.00 £76.50 £74.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +19.63% +4.79% -23.80%

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 13,807 9,206 12,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.81% 37.92% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,518 6,471 8,752
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 176 331
10th Percentile £15.89 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £63.24 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.38 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +3 845 £600 - 382
North of England +29 334 £513 -6.82% 127
Yorkshire +5 187 £500 -4.76% 41
South East +31 184 £492 -10.55% 122
North West +30 132 £544 -9.15% 62
Midlands +3 116 £485 +2.11% 34
West Midlands +12 96 £500 +4.82% 23
South West +23 82 £550 -8.33% 51
East of England -15 45 £510 +59.38% 19
East Midlands -25 19 £437 +11.70% 11
North East -4 15 £550 +65.41% 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 94 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 66 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (3.76%) Apache
4 35 (2.12%) Confluence
5 12 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.61%) SAS
7 5 (0.30%) Camunda
7 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) Documentum
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.061%) JBoss
11 1 (0.061%) nginx
11 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.30%) Weka
5 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) Actimize
6 1 (0.061%) Maximo
6 1 (0.061%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (70.99%) AWS
2 1,170 (70.87%) Azure
3 192 (11.63%) GitHub
4 125 (7.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (4.54%) Serverless
9 73 (4.42%) Snowflake
10 67 (4.06%) OpenShift
11 64 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 44 (2.67%) dbt
13 44 (2.67%) Entra ID
14 43 (2.60%) SaaS
15 41 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (2.36%) Cloud Run
17 34 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
18 32 (1.94%) Vertex AI
19 28 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 117 (7.09%) Firewall
2 84 (5.09%) VPN
3 78 (4.72%) Network Security
4 76 (4.60%) DNS
5 31 (1.88%) WAN
6 27 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.39%) BGP
8 20 (1.21%) HTTP
8 20 (1.21%) SD-WAN
9 19 (1.15%) LAN
10 17 (1.03%) OSPF
11 13 (0.79%) DHCP
11 13 (0.79%) VoIP
11 13 (0.79%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.73%) VLAN
13 11 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.61%) Internet
14 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.61%) Wireless
15 9 (0.55%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (10.18%) BigQuery
2 132 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (6.36%) Power BI
4 96 (5.81%) NoSQL
5 69 (4.18%) Big Data
6 60 (3.63%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.39%) Tableau
8 55 (3.33%) Metadata
9 42 (2.54%) SQL Server
10 40 (2.42%) MongoDB
11 36 (2.18%) MySQL
12 34 (2.06%) Relational Database
13 29 (1.76%) Hadoop
14 28 (1.70%) Looker
15 23 (1.39%) OLAP
16 19 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
16 19 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (1.09%) Mixpanel
17 18 (1.09%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 231 (13.99%) Jenkins
2 173 (10.48%) Git
3 164 (9.93%) GitLab
4 76 (4.60%) JIRA
5 40 (2.42%) Selenium
6 37 (2.24%) JUnit
7 31 (1.88%) JMeter
8 27 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.39%) Postman
10 16 (0.97%) REST Assured
10 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.91%) Liquibase
12 13 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.79%) Gatling
13 12 (0.73%) MLflow
14 11 (0.67%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.61%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 529 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 362 (21.93%) Finance
3 187 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.99%) Banking
5 143 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.60%) Retail
8 40 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 33 (2.00%) Legal
9 33 (2.00%) Marketing
10 32 (1.94%) Front Office
11 30 (1.82%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.03%) Electronics
15 15 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.67%) Billing
16 11 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 341 (20.65%) Architect
2 189 (11.45%) Senior
3 172 (10.42%) Developer
4 164 (9.93%) Lead
5 163 (9.87%) GCP Engineer
6 135 (8.18%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 96 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 86 (5.21%) Analyst
10 85 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (4.42%) Software Engineer
12 64 (3.88%) Consultant
13 55 (3.33%) Security Architect
14 49 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
15 48 (2.91%) Security Engineer
16 46 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
17 45 (2.73%) GCP DevOps
18 42 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 42 (2.54%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.54%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (11.33%) REST
2 151 (9.15%) Kafka
3 117 (7.09%) Spring
4 116 (7.03%) React
5 100 (6.06%) Node.js
6 93 (5.63%) RESTful
7 83 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.85%) LDAP
9 64 (3.88%) PyTorch
9 64 (3.88%) TensorFlow
10 58 (3.51%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.33%) SOAP
12 51 (3.09%) OAuth
13 49 (2.97%) .NET
14 47 (2.85%) scikit-learn
15 44 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
16 42 (2.54%) OpenID
17 40 (2.42%) Middleware
18 34 (2.06%) LangChain
18 34 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 274 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
2 96 (5.81%) Public Cloud
3 68 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.88%) Security Posture
5 58 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 45 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 30 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 30 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 28 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.39%) Derivative
12 22 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.21%) Equities
14 20 (1.21%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
15 17 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.66%) Linux
2 64 (3.88%) Windows
3 23 (1.39%) VMS
4 18 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.97%) Android
6 14 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.67%) Unix
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.061%) Rocky
13 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (44.09%) CI/CD
2 588 (35.61%) DevOps
3 392 (23.74%) Agile
4 352 (21.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 338 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
6 331 (20.05%) AI
7 302 (18.29%) Containerisation
8 295 (17.87%) Analytics
9 271 (16.41%) Microservices
10 251 (15.20%) Machine Learning
11 209 (12.66%) Observability
12 188 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
13 182 (11.02%) Software Engineering
14 173 (10.48%) Data Modelling
15 172 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 171 (10.36%) Migration
17 162 (9.81%) Data Engineering
18 157 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 155 (9.39%) ETL
20 150 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 710 (43.00%) Python
2 321 (19.44%) SQL
3 265 (16.05%) Java
4 134 (8.12%) PowerShell
5 125 (7.57%) JavaScript
6 107 (6.48%) Bash
7 84 (5.09%) TypeScript
8 77 (4.66%) Go
9 52 (3.15%) C#
10 35 (2.12%) Scala
11 21 (1.27%) R
12 18 (1.09%) Bicep
13 17 (1.03%) Groovy
14 15 (0.91%) Ruby
15 13 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.55%) C++
16 9 (0.55%) PHP
16 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
18 5 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 375 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 311 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 128 (7.75%) Degree
4 85 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (5.09%) CISSP
6 56 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 51 (3.09%) CISM
9 48 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.67%) DV Cleared
11 43 (2.60%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 25 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.33%) CCNP
15 19 (1.15%) CCSP
16 16 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.79%) CCIE
18 11 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 9 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (9.15%) GDPR
2 120 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 99 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (5.88%) NIST
5 73 (4.42%) QA
6 48 (2.91%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.21%) NCSC
8 18 (1.09%) GRC
8 18 (1.09%) SLA
9 17 (1.03%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.97%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.73%) PSD2
12 11 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) PERC
15 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.36%) WCAG
16 5 (0.30%) HL7
16 5 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 385 (23.32%) Docker
2 93 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.79%) vSphere
7 8 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) GPFS
8 6 (0.36%) Lustre
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.12%) Snort
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
13 1 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.061%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 523 (31.68%) Kubernetes
2 407 (24.65%) Terraform
3 146 (8.84%) Ansible
4 128 (7.75%) Grafana
5 117 (7.09%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.06%) Istio
7 31 (1.88%) Argo
8 15 (0.91%) Kubeflow
8 15 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.85%) Puppet
10 13 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.73%) SCCM
12 9 (0.55%) Nessus
13 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) Rancher
15 5 (0.30%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 545 (33.01%) Google
2 136 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 110 (6.66%) Splunk
4 78 (4.72%) Databricks
5 73 (4.42%) CyberArk
6 59 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
7 58 (3.51%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.73%) Oracle
9 42 (2.54%) VMware
10 40 (2.42%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.30%) OpenAI
12 36 (2.18%) Cisco
13 35 (2.12%) Centrify
14 32 (1.94%) SAP
15 30 (1.82%) Red Hat
16 23 (1.39%) Informatica
17 22 (1.33%) Foundry
18 21 (1.27%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.27%) Salesforce
19 19 (1.15%) Fortinet