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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,649 924 988
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.22% 3.79% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.72% 10.07% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 626 738
10th Percentile £375 £391 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.90
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £37.01
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +2.42% -26.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £73.00 £78.34 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +20.75% +9.28% -30.71%

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 14,074 9,178 11,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.64% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 6,447 8,518
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 187 318
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 0 849 £589 -3.09% 384
North of England +31 327 £525 -4.55% 127
Yorkshire +6 185 £500 -6.98% 40
South East +34 183 £492 -14.43% 129
North West +22 128 £550 -4.35% 72
Midlands -5 99 £475 - 49
South West +20 87 £550 -8.33% 45
West Midlands -7 78 £494 +3.51% 29
East of England +3 52 £570 +19.69% 35
East Midlands -23 21 £438 +26.63% 20
North East -3 17 £563 +21.62% 15
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 91 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 60 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (3.58%) Apache
4 35 (2.12%) Confluence
5 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.42%) SAS
7 6 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) Documentum
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.061%) nginx
11 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.18%) Weka
7 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.061%) Actimize
6 1 (0.061%) Cloudability
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 1,157 (70.16%) Azure
2 1,142 (69.25%) AWS
3 176 (10.67%) GitHub
4 131 (7.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 120 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 97 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 60 (3.64%) Serverless
10 57 (3.46%) OpenShift
11 56 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.34%) Amazon S3
12 55 (3.34%) SaaS
13 47 (2.85%) Entra ID
14 45 (2.73%) dbt
15 44 (2.67%) Vertex AI
16 38 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 35 (2.12%) Cloud Run
18 31 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (1.88%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.67%) Firewall
2 86 (5.22%) VPN
3 81 (4.91%) DNS
4 77 (4.67%) Network Security
5 25 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.52%) WAN
6 23 (1.39%) BGP
7 21 (1.27%) HTTP
8 17 (1.03%) LAN
8 17 (1.03%) OSPF
9 15 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.85%) VLAN
10 14 (0.85%) VoIP
11 13 (0.79%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.73%) Internet
13 11 (0.67%) DHCP
14 10 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
15 9 (0.55%) IPv6
15 9 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (10.61%) BigQuery
2 107 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (6.12%) Power BI
5 80 (4.85%) NoSQL
6 66 (4.00%) Metadata
7 64 (3.88%) Big Data
8 61 (3.70%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.40%) Tableau
10 39 (2.37%) SQL Server
11 38 (2.30%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 36 (2.18%) MySQL
13 24 (1.46%) Looker
14 23 (1.39%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.39%) OLAP
15 19 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 18 (1.09%) Mixpanel
16 18 (1.09%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 204 (12.37%) Jenkins
2 155 (9.40%) Git
3 131 (7.94%) GitLab
4 74 (4.49%) JIRA
5 42 (2.55%) Selenium
6 41 (2.49%) JUnit
7 28 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.70%) JMeter
8 25 (1.52%) Postman
9 18 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.73%) MLflow
12 10 (0.61%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.55%) LoadRunner
13 9 (0.55%) Maven
14 8 (0.49%) Gatling
14 8 (0.49%) Mockito
15 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.42%) IntelliJ
General
1 505 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 355 (21.53%) Finance
3 187 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.22%) Banking
5 138 (8.37%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.03%) Retail
8 41 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.12%) Legal
10 33 (2.00%) Front Office
10 33 (2.00%) Marketing
11 31 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.97%) Electronics
16 15 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.85%) Military
18 12 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 342 (20.74%) Architect
2 183 (11.10%) Senior
3 176 (10.67%) Developer
4 175 (10.61%) Lead
5 160 (9.70%) GCP Engineer
6 132 (8.00%) Data Engineer
7 99 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 98 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 83 (5.03%) Analyst
10 75 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (3.94%) Software Engineer
12 53 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
13 52 (3.15%) Consultant
14 49 (2.97%) Security Engineer
15 48 (2.91%) Java Developer
15 48 (2.91%) Security Architect
16 47 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
17 45 (2.73%) Data Architect
17 45 (2.73%) GCP DevOps
18 42 (2.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.13%) REST
2 153 (9.28%) Kafka
3 120 (7.28%) Spring
4 104 (6.31%) React
5 97 (5.88%) Node.js
6 93 (5.64%) Spring Boot
7 89 (5.40%) LDAP
8 80 (4.85%) RESTful
9 61 (3.70%) OAuth
10 58 (3.52%) PyTorch
10 58 (3.52%) TensorFlow
11 55 (3.34%) SOAP
12 50 (3.03%) OpenID
13 48 (2.91%) .NET
13 48 (2.91%) AngularJS
14 43 (2.61%) scikit-learn
15 37 (2.24%) LangChain
16 35 (2.12%) OAuth2
16 35 (2.12%) Pandas
16 35 (2.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 267 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 86 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 63 (3.82%) Security Posture
5 62 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 45 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (2.37%) AI Agents
11 31 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.82%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.70%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.39%) Clustering
14 23 (1.39%) Derivative
15 21 (1.27%) Equities
16 20 (1.21%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
17 18 (1.09%) Management Information System
18 17 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.76%) Linux
2 72 (4.37%) Windows
3 25 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 24 (1.46%) Android
5 22 (1.33%) VMS
6 21 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.79%) Unix
8 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.061%) Rocky
12 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (43.30%) CI/CD
2 550 (33.35%) DevOps
3 359 (21.77%) Agile
4 339 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 338 (20.50%) AI
6 326 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (18.25%) Analytics
8 274 (16.62%) Containerisation
9 260 (15.77%) Microservices
10 239 (14.49%) Machine Learning
11 222 (13.46%) Observability
12 189 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
13 186 (11.28%) Data Modelling
14 184 (11.16%) Migration
15 180 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 176 (10.67%) Software Engineering
17 161 (9.76%) Data Engineering
18 158 (9.58%) ETL
19 152 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
20 150 (9.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 682 (41.36%) Python
2 316 (19.16%) SQL
3 280 (16.98%) Java
4 131 (7.94%) PowerShell
5 120 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 106 (6.43%) Bash
7 72 (4.37%) TypeScript
8 66 (4.00%) Go
9 51 (3.09%) C#
10 35 (2.12%) Scala
11 19 (1.15%) R
12 18 (1.09%) Bicep
12 18 (1.09%) Groovy
13 13 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.61%) Ruby
15 9 (0.55%) PHP
15 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) C++
18 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 375 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 307 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.00%) Degree
4 88 (5.34%) CISSP
5 63 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 55 (3.34%) CISM
8 54 (3.27%) Azure Certification
9 49 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (2.37%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.52%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.39%) CCNP
14 20 (1.21%) CCSP
15 17 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.73%) CCIE
17 12 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.28%) GDPR
2 125 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 101 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 101 (6.12%) NIST
4 70 (4.24%) QA
5 46 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.15%) NCSC
8 18 (1.09%) GRC
8 18 (1.09%) SLA
9 15 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.85%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.73%) PSD2
12 10 (0.61%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.42%) PERC
14 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.36%) WCAG
15 5 (0.30%) COBIT
15 5 (0.30%) HL7
System Software
1 347 (21.04%) Docker
2 96 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.73%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
8 5 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.24%) GPFS
9 4 (0.24%) HDFS
9 4 (0.24%) Lustre
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.061%) Ceph
11 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.061%) UAG
11 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 509 (30.87%) Kubernetes
2 397 (24.08%) Terraform
3 119 (7.22%) Ansible
4 108 (6.55%) Grafana
5 100 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.18%) Istio
7 24 (1.46%) Argo
8 17 (1.03%) Kubeflow
9 14 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.79%) Puppet
11 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.61%) SCCM
14 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.49%) Fluentd
15 8 (0.49%) Nessus
16 6 (0.36%) Kibana
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) linkerd
17 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 525 (31.84%) Google
2 135 (8.19%) Microsoft
3 89 (5.40%) Splunk
4 82 (4.97%) Databricks
5 77 (4.67%) CyberArk
6 60 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.58%) BeyondTrust
8 42 (2.55%) VMware
9 40 (2.43%) Oracle
10 38 (2.30%) OpenAI
11 37 (2.24%) Palo Alto
12 36 (2.18%) Centrify
13 31 (1.88%) Cisco
14 29 (1.76%) SAP
15 25 (1.52%) Salesforce
16 24 (1.46%) Dynatrace
17 22 (1.33%) Foundry
17 22 (1.33%) Informatica
18 20 (1.21%) Red Hat
19 15 (0.91%) Juniper