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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,798 1,137 1,225
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.02% 4.21% 3.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.49% 11.24% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 764 894
10th Percentile £403 £368 £413
25th Percentile £470 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -1.13%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £775
90th Percentile £748 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £24.02 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.44 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.27% +1.45% -26.16%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.30 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -38.65%

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 15,642 10,119 12,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.50% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,520 6,814 8,731
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 268 329
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.15
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.33 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -8 935 £575 -4.17% 664
North of England +9 390 £538 +7.50% 195
Yorkshire +1 244 £538 +13.16% 49
South East +5 166 £550 +1.85% 147
North West +8 128 £530 -3.64% 125
South West +28 119 £568 +8.10% 193
Midlands -31 89 £500 +9.89% 59
West Midlands -26 68 £500 -20.00% 49
East of England +5 53 £542 +10.08% 17
North East -13 22 £563 +3.45% 22
East Midlands -19 21 £474 +15.49% 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
1 116 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 78 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (3.62%) Apache
4 42 (2.34%) Confluence
5 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Camunda
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.056%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.056%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.056%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.056%) Maximo
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.056%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.056%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.056%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.056%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (65.41%) AWS
2 1,156 (64.29%) Azure
3 188 (10.46%) GitHub
4 172 (9.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (6.40%) Snowflake
7 96 (5.34%) Power Platform
8 86 (4.78%) SaaS
9 75 (4.17%) Serverless
10 74 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (3.50%) dbt
13 58 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 55 (3.06%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.45%) Cloud Run
16 43 (2.39%) Amazon S3
17 39 (2.17%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (6.01%) Firewall
2 105 (5.84%) Network Security
3 95 (5.28%) DNS
4 90 (5.01%) VPN
5 31 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.72%) WAN
6 29 (1.61%) BGP
7 22 (1.22%) HTTP
8 20 (1.11%) OSPF
9 18 (1.00%) DHCP
10 17 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.83%) VLAN
12 13 (0.72%) LAN
12 13 (0.72%) SSL
13 12 (0.67%) Internet
14 11 (0.61%) IPsec
15 10 (0.56%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.50%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.50%) MPLS
16 9 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (10.68%) BigQuery
2 137 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.34%) Data Lake
5 77 (4.28%) Big Data
5 77 (4.28%) Power BI
6 76 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 62 (3.45%) Metadata
8 61 (3.39%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.78%) Tableau
10 40 (2.22%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.78%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.67%) MySQL
13 28 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (1.39%) Looker
15 24 (1.33%) Hadoop
15 24 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 22 (1.22%) Flink
17 19 (1.06%) Redis
18 16 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 215 (11.96%) Jenkins
2 173 (9.62%) Git
3 133 (7.40%) GitLab
4 79 (4.39%) JIRA
5 48 (2.67%) JUnit
6 39 (2.17%) Selenium
7 34 (1.89%) JMeter
8 32 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 30 (1.67%) Cucumber
10 20 (1.11%) Postman
11 19 (1.06%) Maven
12 18 (1.00%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.72%) MLflow
13 13 (0.72%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.61%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.56%) ERwin
15 10 (0.56%) Gatling
15 10 (0.56%) Gradle
16 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 463 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 440 (24.47%) Finance
3 171 (9.51%) Banking
4 161 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 73 (4.06%) Retail
7 49 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (2.45%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.28%) Legal
10 37 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (2.00%) Front Office
12 29 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.56%) Marketing
14 24 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.22%) Billing
17 16 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 370 (20.58%) Architect
2 228 (12.68%) Senior
3 217 (12.07%) Developer
4 169 (9.40%) Lead
5 160 (8.90%) GCP Engineer
6 148 (8.23%) Data Engineer
7 118 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 116 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 92 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
10 80 (4.45%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.95%) Consultant
12 68 (3.78%) Software Engineer
13 65 (3.62%) Security Architect
14 63 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
15 61 (3.39%) Security Engineer
16 58 (3.23%) Analyst
17 56 (3.11%) Data Architect
18 51 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 50 (2.78%) GCP DevOps
20 49 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (9.68%) Kafka
2 143 (7.95%) REST
3 121 (6.73%) Spring
4 116 (6.45%) React
5 101 (5.62%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.28%) Node.js
7 83 (4.62%) OAuth
8 64 (3.56%) RESTful
9 54 (3.00%) OpenID
10 46 (2.56%) LDAP
10 46 (2.56%) PyTorch
11 45 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 45 (2.50%) SAML
12 44 (2.45%) TensorFlow
13 40 (2.22%) GraphQL
13 40 (2.22%) LangChain
14 38 (2.11%) AngularJS
15 36 (2.00%) .NET
16 32 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
17 30 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 336 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.56%) AI Agents
4 59 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 57 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 50 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 50 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 49 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 43 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 33 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 30 (1.67%) Derivative
15 28 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
16 27 (1.50%) Clustering
16 27 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
17 25 (1.39%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.40%) Linux
2 82 (4.56%) Windows
3 26 (1.45%) Android
4 25 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.33%) Unix
6 18 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.67%) VMS
10 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.17%) AIX
12 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.056%) Rocky
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (45.55%) CI/CD
2 579 (32.20%) DevOps
3 440 (24.47%) Agile
4 426 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 406 (22.58%) AI
6 312 (17.35%) Microservices
7 293 (16.30%) Analytics
8 265 (14.74%) Observability
9 264 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (14.52%) Containerisation
11 258 (14.35%) Machine Learning
12 231 (12.85%) Software Engineering
13 220 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
14 215 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 214 (11.90%) Data Modelling
16 204 (11.35%) Cloud Security
17 200 (11.12%) Migration
18 190 (10.57%) Roadmaps
19 188 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
20 185 (10.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 700 (38.93%) Python
2 364 (20.24%) SQL
3 351 (19.52%) Java
4 132 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 128 (7.12%) Bash
6 123 (6.84%) PowerShell
7 99 (5.51%) Go
8 96 (5.34%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.56%) Scala
10 41 (2.28%) C#
11 23 (1.28%) Bicep
11 23 (1.28%) Groovy
11 23 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 17 (0.95%) Rust
12 17 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.72%) R
14 12 (0.67%) Ruby
15 9 (0.50%) C++
15 9 (0.50%) Cypher
15 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 344 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 269 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.28%) Degree
4 109 (6.06%) CISSP
5 80 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 69 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 63 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.28%) CISM
10 50 (2.78%) Azure Certification
11 43 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.61%) CCSP
13 29 (1.61%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.06%) CCNP
15 19 (1.06%) GIAC
16 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 106 (5.90%) GDPR
3 93 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (5.17%) NIST
4 68 (3.78%) QA
5 37 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 27 (1.50%) NCSC
7 24 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.11%) GRC
9 14 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.56%) SLA
12 9 (0.50%) COBIT
12 9 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.44%) PSD2
13 8 (0.44%) WCAG
14 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.39%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 334 (18.58%) Docker
2 65 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.78%) vSphere
7 13 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.28%) NFS
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 542 (30.14%) Kubernetes
2 468 (26.03%) Terraform
3 125 (6.95%) Grafana
4 122 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 110 (6.12%) Ansible
6 40 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.67%) Argo
7 30 (1.67%) Istio
8 20 (1.11%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.06%) Puppet
10 13 (0.72%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.72%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.44%) Podman
13 7 (0.39%) linkerd
14 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.28%) Nessus
14 5 (0.28%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 561 (31.20%) Google
2 163 (9.07%) Microsoft
3 91 (5.06%) Databricks
4 65 (3.62%) Splunk
5 56 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 39 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 38 (2.11%) CyberArk
8 38 (2.11%) VMware
9 36 (2.00%) Oracle
10 32 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 32 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 24 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.28%) SAP
13 22 (1.22%) Okta
14 21 (1.17%) Informatica
15 20 (1.11%) Cisco
16 17 (0.95%) MuleSoft
17 15 (0.83%) Rapid7
18 14 (0.78%) Tenable