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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -15
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,659 928 990
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.37% 3.80% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.95% 10.01% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 631 736
10th Percentile £375 £367 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £526 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.29% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £32.00
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £43.03
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -21.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £76.50 £73.40
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.50 £53.03
% change year-on-year +19.63% +0.89% -22.59%

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 13,879 9,267 12,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.59% 37.90% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,549 6,534 8,719
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
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 426 187 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.06 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67.19 £43.19 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.25 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -21.47%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +3 856 £600 - 382
North of England +34 337 £513 -6.82% 127
Yorkshire +3 190 £500 -4.76% 41
South East +20 181 £492 -14.43% 122
North West +21 132 £544 -12.58% 62
Midlands +6 115 £485 +2.11% 34
West Midlands +10 95 £500 +4.82% 23
South West +20 81 £550 -8.33% 51
East of England -8 45 £510 +58.69% 19
East Midlands -29 19 £437 +16.93% 11
North East -1 15 £550 +61.76% 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 93 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 67 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (3.86%) Apache
4 38 (2.29%) Confluence
5 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.36%) Camunda
8 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.12%) Documentum
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.060%) JBoss
12 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.060%) nginx
12 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.24%) Weka
4 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.060%) Actimize
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (70.64%) AWS
2 1,169 (70.46%) Azure
3 186 (11.21%) GitHub
4 124 (7.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (4.58%) Serverless
9 72 (4.34%) Snowflake
10 63 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (3.62%) OpenShift
12 55 (3.32%) Amazon S3
13 49 (2.95%) dbt
14 48 (2.89%) Entra ID
15 44 (2.65%) SaaS
16 41 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (2.35%) Cloud Run
18 35 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
19 32 (1.93%) Vertex AI
20 28 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 118 (7.11%) Firewall
2 88 (5.30%) VPN
3 80 (4.82%) DNS
4 77 (4.64%) Network Security
5 32 (1.93%) WAN
6 28 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.39%) BGP
8 21 (1.27%) HTTP
8 21 (1.27%) SD-WAN
9 19 (1.15%) LAN
10 17 (1.02%) OSPF
11 14 (0.84%) VLAN
12 13 (0.78%) VoIP
12 13 (0.78%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.72%) DHCP
14 11 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.60%) Wireless
16 9 (0.54%) Internet
16 9 (0.54%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (10.43%) BigQuery
2 124 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (6.27%) Power BI
4 95 (5.73%) NoSQL
5 68 (4.10%) Big Data
6 62 (3.74%) Metadata
7 59 (3.56%) Data Lake
8 56 (3.38%) Tableau
9 42 (2.53%) SQL Server
10 40 (2.41%) MongoDB
11 36 (2.17%) MySQL
12 33 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 27 (1.63%) Looker
14 25 (1.51%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.39%) OLAP
16 19 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.08%) Mixpanel
17 18 (1.08%) OLTP
17 18 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 233 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 166 (10.01%) Git
3 162 (9.76%) GitLab
4 78 (4.70%) JIRA
5 41 (2.47%) Selenium
6 37 (2.23%) JUnit
7 32 (1.93%) JMeter
8 27 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.45%) Postman
10 17 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 16 (0.96%) Liquibase
11 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
12 14 (0.84%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.78%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.78%) Gatling
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 11 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.66%) Maven
15 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 520 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 366 (22.06%) Finance
3 189 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.01%) Banking
5 138 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (2.83%) Retail
8 42 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.11%) Legal
10 33 (1.99%) Marketing
11 32 (1.93%) Front Office
12 31 (1.87%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.02%) Electronics
18 15 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 11 (0.66%) Billing
19 11 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 346 (20.86%) Architect
2 188 (11.33%) Senior
3 170 (10.25%) Developer
4 167 (10.07%) Lead
5 165 (9.95%) GCP Engineer
6 136 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 104 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 96 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 86 (5.18%) Analyst
9 86 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 74 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 64 (3.86%) Consultant
12 56 (3.38%) Security Architect
13 49 (2.95%) Security Engineer
14 48 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
15 47 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
16 43 (2.59%) GCP DevOps
16 43 (2.59%) Java Developer
17 40 (2.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (11.33%) REST
2 155 (9.34%) Kafka
3 114 (6.87%) Spring
4 111 (6.69%) React
5 97 (5.85%) Node.js
6 93 (5.61%) RESTful
7 86 (5.18%) Spring Boot
8 83 (5.00%) LDAP
9 63 (3.80%) PyTorch
9 63 (3.80%) TensorFlow
10 55 (3.32%) SOAP
11 53 (3.19%) AngularJS
12 52 (3.13%) OAuth
13 47 (2.83%) .NET
14 46 (2.77%) scikit-learn
15 44 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
16 43 (2.59%) OpenID
17 40 (2.41%) Middleware
18 35 (2.11%) LangChain
19 34 (2.05%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 271 (16.34%) Cloud Native
2 99 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (5.85%) Public Cloud
4 68 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.86%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 49 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 45 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 44 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 30 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.81%) Fixed Income
11 29 (1.75%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.39%) Derivative
13 20 (1.21%) Clustering
13 20 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.21%) Equities
14 19 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.08%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.63%) Linux
2 64 (3.86%) Windows
3 23 (1.39%) VMS
4 18 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.96%) Android
6 14 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.66%) 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 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (44.18%) CI/CD
2 589 (35.50%) DevOps
3 384 (23.15%) Agile
4 355 (21.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 340 (20.49%) AI
6 328 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (18.14%) Analytics
8 297 (17.90%) Containerisation
9 268 (16.15%) Microservices
10 255 (15.37%) Machine Learning
11 214 (12.90%) Observability
12 190 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
13 183 (11.03%) Software Engineering
14 181 (10.91%) Migration
15 177 (10.67%) Data Modelling
16 174 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 163 (9.83%) Data Engineering
18 157 (9.46%) ETL
19 154 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
20 149 (8.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 707 (42.62%) Python
2 321 (19.35%) SQL
3 264 (15.91%) Java
4 134 (8.08%) PowerShell
5 122 (7.35%) JavaScript
6 106 (6.39%) Bash
7 78 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 77 (4.64%) Go
9 51 (3.07%) C#
10 33 (1.99%) Scala
11 20 (1.21%) R
12 19 (1.15%) Groovy
13 18 (1.08%) Bicep
14 13 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.54%) PHP
15 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) C++
18 5 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 367 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 301 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 122 (7.35%) Degree
4 87 (5.24%) CISSP
5 80 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (3.32%) AWS Certification
6 55 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 54 (3.25%) CISM
8 49 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (2.65%) DV Cleared
10 41 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.45%) CCNP
14 18 (1.08%) CCSP
15 16 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.78%) CCIE
18 12 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
19 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (9.28%) GDPR
2 123 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 98 (5.91%) NIST
4 97 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (4.52%) QA
6 46 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.27%) NCSC
8 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.08%) GRC
10 17 (1.02%) ISO 20022
10 17 (1.02%) SLA
11 14 (0.84%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.72%) PSD2
13 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.42%) PERC
16 6 (0.36%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.36%) WCAG
17 5 (0.30%) COBIT
17 5 (0.30%) HL7
System Software
1 379 (22.85%) Docker
2 97 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 8 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) GPFS
9 5 (0.30%) Lustre
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 (0.060%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 521 (31.40%) Kubernetes
2 411 (24.77%) Terraform
3 142 (8.56%) Ansible
4 127 (7.66%) Grafana
5 116 (6.99%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.05%) Istio
7 24 (1.45%) Argo
8 17 (1.02%) Kubeflow
9 16 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.78%) Puppet
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.66%) SCCM
12 9 (0.54%) Nessus
13 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) Rancher
15 5 (0.30%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 538 (32.43%) Google
2 138 (8.32%) Microsoft
3 111 (6.69%) Splunk
4 81 (4.88%) Databricks
5 72 (4.34%) CyberArk
6 60 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.56%) BeyondTrust
8 45 (2.71%) Oracle
9 42 (2.53%) VMware
10 38 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 38 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 36 (2.17%) Cisco
12 35 (2.11%) Centrify
13 33 (1.99%) SAP
14 24 (1.45%) Informatica
15 23 (1.39%) Red Hat
16 22 (1.33%) Foundry
17 21 (1.27%) Dynatrace
17 21 (1.27%) Salesforce
18 18 (1.08%) Fortinet