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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,821 1,152 1,224
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.04% 4.25% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.54% 11.36% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 781 893
10th Percentile £401 £367 £413
25th Percentile £464 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -0.41%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £775
90th Percentile £742 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.08%
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 15,776 10,143 12,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.42% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,603 6,846 8,652
10th Percentile £325 £311 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 268 326
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £45.57
90th Percentile £83.88 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.63 £22.23
% change year-on-year +34.35% +24.32% -36.50%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -4 947 £575 -4.17% 424
North of England +10 389 £538 +7.50% 137
Yorkshire -2 243 £538 +13.16% 35
South East +11 175 £538 -0.46% 135
North West +3 128 £530 -3.64% 88
South West +21 119 £568 +8.10% 49
Midlands -30 91 £500 +11.11% 36
West Midlands -27 70 £500 -13.04% 29
East of England +2 53 £542 +10.08% 15
North East -13 22 £550 +1.15% 15
East Midlands -26 21 £474 +15.49% 7
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
1 119 (6.53%) Apache Spark
2 79 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.68%) Apache
4 42 (2.31%) Confluence
5 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.27%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Camunda
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Luigi
11 1 (0.055%) Predix
Applications
1 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.055%) Trello
9 1 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.055%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.055%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.055%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.055%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.055%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (65.62%) AWS
2 1,174 (64.47%) Azure
3 194 (10.65%) GitHub
4 172 (9.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 124 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
6 116 (6.37%) Snowflake
7 96 (5.27%) Power Platform
8 87 (4.78%) SaaS
9 76 (4.17%) Serverless
10 74 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (3.46%) dbt
13 59 (3.24%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.97%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.42%) Amazon S3
15 44 (2.42%) Cloud Run
16 39 (2.14%) OpenShift
17 33 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 31 (1.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.99%) Firewall
2 105 (5.77%) Network Security
3 96 (5.27%) DNS
4 91 (5.00%) VPN
5 32 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.70%) WAN
7 29 (1.59%) BGP
8 23 (1.26%) HTTP
9 20 (1.10%) OSPF
10 18 (0.99%) DHCP
11 17 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.82%) VLAN
13 13 (0.71%) Internet
13 13 (0.71%) LAN
13 13 (0.71%) SSL
14 11 (0.60%) IPsec
15 10 (0.55%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.49%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.49%) MPLS
16 9 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (10.71%) BigQuery
2 142 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
3 129 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
4 80 (4.39%) Big Data
5 78 (4.28%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 77 (4.23%) Power BI
7 65 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 63 (3.46%) Metadata
9 50 (2.75%) Tableau
10 41 (2.25%) SQL Server
11 34 (1.87%) MySQL
12 33 (1.81%) MongoDB
13 29 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 26 (1.43%) Looker
15 24 (1.32%) Hadoop
15 24 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
16 22 (1.21%) Flink
17 20 (1.10%) Redis
18 16 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 214 (11.75%) Jenkins
2 179 (9.83%) Git
3 133 (7.30%) GitLab
4 81 (4.45%) JIRA
5 48 (2.64%) JUnit
6 37 (2.03%) Selenium
7 34 (1.87%) JMeter
8 32 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 28 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.21%) Maven
11 20 (1.10%) Postman
12 18 (0.99%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.71%) Gradle
13 13 (0.71%) MLflow
14 11 (0.60%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.55%) ERwin
15 10 (0.55%) Gatling
16 9 (0.49%) Cypress.io
General
1 475 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 445 (24.44%) Finance
3 173 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (9.45%) Banking
5 149 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.06%) Retail
7 51 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 42 (2.31%) Legal
10 38 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.98%) Front Office
12 29 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.59%) Marketing
13 24 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.32%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.21%) Billing
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.77%) Military
16 14 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 373 (20.48%) Architect
2 230 (12.63%) Senior
3 222 (12.19%) Developer
4 175 (9.61%) Lead
5 160 (8.79%) GCP Engineer
6 149 (8.18%) Data Engineer
7 119 (6.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 116 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 93 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
10 84 (4.61%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.90%) Consultant
12 69 (3.79%) Software Engineer
13 65 (3.57%) Security Architect
14 63 (3.46%) Cloud Architect
15 62 (3.40%) Security Engineer
16 61 (3.35%) Analyst
17 56 (3.08%) Data Architect
18 50 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 50 (2.75%) GCP DevOps
19 49 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.61%) Kafka
2 146 (8.02%) REST
3 125 (6.86%) Spring
4 116 (6.37%) React
5 104 (5.71%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.22%) Node.js
7 85 (4.67%) OAuth
8 68 (3.73%) RESTful
9 53 (2.91%) OpenID
10 46 (2.53%) OAuth2
10 46 (2.53%) SAML
11 45 (2.47%) LDAP
11 45 (2.47%) PyTorch
12 43 (2.36%) TensorFlow
13 41 (2.25%) GraphQL
14 39 (2.14%) LangChain
15 38 (2.09%) AngularJS
16 36 (1.98%) .NET
17 33 (1.81%) PySpark
17 33 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 343 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 121 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 61 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 58 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 50 (2.75%) Onboarding
9 44 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.98%) Fixed Income
11 35 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.92%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 30 (1.65%) Derivative
15 28 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
16 27 (1.48%) Clustering
16 27 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
17 24 (1.32%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.26%) Linux
2 82 (4.50%) Windows
3 27 (1.48%) Android
4 25 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.32%) Unix
6 18 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.66%) VMS
9 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Rocky
13 1 (0.055%) Solaris
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (45.47%) CI/CD
2 587 (32.24%) DevOps
3 452 (24.82%) Agile
4 428 (23.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 409 (22.46%) AI
6 318 (17.46%) Microservices
7 300 (16.47%) Analytics
8 273 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (14.66%) Observability
10 266 (14.61%) Containerisation
11 259 (14.22%) Machine Learning
12 232 (12.74%) Software Engineering
13 225 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
14 221 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 216 (11.86%) Data Modelling
16 206 (11.31%) Migration
17 205 (11.26%) Cloud Security
18 194 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
19 192 (10.54%) Roadmaps
20 188 (10.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 705 (38.71%) Python
2 372 (20.43%) SQL
3 354 (19.44%) Java
4 135 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 128 (7.03%) Bash
6 124 (6.81%) PowerShell
7 100 (5.49%) Go
8 96 (5.27%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.53%) Scala
10 40 (2.20%) C#
11 24 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 23 (1.26%) Bicep
12 23 (1.26%) Groovy
13 17 (0.93%) Rust
13 17 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.77%) R
15 12 (0.66%) Ruby
16 9 (0.49%) C++
16 9 (0.49%) Cypher
16 9 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 349 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 273 (14.99%) SC Cleared
3 116 (6.37%) Degree
4 111 (6.10%) CISSP
5 81 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 73 (4.01%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
7 64 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (3.29%) CISM
9 52 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 44 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 31 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.70%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.59%) CCSP
13 22 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (1.04%) CCNP
14 19 (1.04%) GIAC
15 13 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (0.44%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 107 (5.88%) GDPR
3 94 (5.16%) NIST
4 93 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (4.01%) QA
6 37 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.48%) NCSC
8 26 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 20 (1.10%) GRC
10 14 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.71%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) SLA
13 9 (0.49%) COBIT
14 8 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.44%) WCAG
15 7 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 341 (18.73%) Docker
2 67 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) vSphere
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 550 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 467 (25.65%) Terraform
3 125 (6.86%) Grafana
4 123 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 110 (6.04%) Ansible
6 40 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.65%) Argo
7 30 (1.65%) Istio
8 20 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.04%) Puppet
10 13 (0.71%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.71%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.44%) Podman
13 7 (0.38%) linkerd
14 6 (0.33%) QRadar
15 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 567 (31.14%) Google
2 168 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 96 (5.27%) Databricks
4 67 (3.68%) Splunk
5 54 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 40 (2.20%) Oracle
8 39 (2.14%) CyberArk
9 38 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 38 (2.09%) VMware
10 33 (1.81%) Palo Alto
11 32 (1.76%) Dynatrace
12 24 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.32%) SAP
13 22 (1.21%) Informatica
13 22 (1.21%) Okta
14 20 (1.10%) Cisco
15 18 (0.99%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.82%) Rapid7
17 14 (0.77%) Foundry