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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 60 76
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,490 999 1,027
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.71% 3.53% 2.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.33% 9.64% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 635 762
10th Percentile £362 £390 £423
25th Percentile £447 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £738
90th Percentile £750 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £33.53 £23.65 £43.03
25th Percentile £44.38 £40.25 £53.39
Median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -7.26% +77.14%
75th Percentile £69.63 £61.63 £75.38
90th Percentile £70.80 £68.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.17% -11.54% +107.24%

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 12,086 10,364 12,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.18% 36.62% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,343 6,943 9,151
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 138 245
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.60 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%
75th Percentile £56.50 £47.17 £53.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -1.05% +8.35% +12.80%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 0 738 £600 -4.00% 844
North of England +39 321 £500 -6.98% 1,006
Yorkshire +17 190 £500 -7.92% 426
South East +42 169 £465 -28.46% 1,135
North West +45 125 £518 -5.82% 513
Midlands +20 111 £490 +3.16% 781
West Midlands +21 90 £500 +4.82% 388
South West +43 68 £570 -8.80% 481
East of England -12 39 £594 +85.55% 652
East Midlands -10 20 £442 +24.02% 339
North East -13 6 £508 +6.84% 68
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 67 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
1 67 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 41 (2.75%) Apache
3 33 (2.21%) Confluence
4 15 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 10 (0.67%) SAS
6 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.40%) Mule
7 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Camunda
9 2 (0.13%) CMS
9 2 (0.13%) Documentum
9 2 (0.13%) Drupal
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.34%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.067%) Actimize
5 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.067%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (73.09%) AWS
2 1,049 (70.40%) Azure
3 191 (12.82%) GitHub
4 96 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 93 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
6 91 (6.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 85 (5.70%) Serverless
8 68 (4.56%) Snowflake
9 65 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
10 61 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (4.09%) OpenShift
11 53 (3.56%) Entra ID
12 51 (3.42%) dbt
13 40 (2.68%) SaaS
14 39 (2.62%) Amazon S3
15 37 (2.48%) Cloud Run
16 36 (2.42%) Apigee
17 34 (2.28%) Datadog
18 32 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
19 30 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 137 (9.19%) Firewall
2 52 (3.49%) VPN
3 44 (2.95%) DNS
3 44 (2.95%) Network Security
4 25 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.61%) WAN
6 21 (1.41%) Wireshark
7 19 (1.28%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.14%) LAN
9 14 (0.94%) DHCP
9 14 (0.94%) SSL
10 12 (0.81%) BGP
10 12 (0.81%) HTTP
10 12 (0.81%) VLAN
11 10 (0.67%) OSPF
11 10 (0.67%) VoIP
11 10 (0.67%) Wireless
12 9 (0.60%) Internet
12 9 (0.60%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.54%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (10.94%) BigQuery
2 126 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (7.85%) NoSQL
4 90 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (6.04%) Power BI
5 49 (3.29%) Data Lake
5 49 (3.29%) MongoDB
6 47 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 47 (3.15%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.15%) Tableau
7 45 (3.02%) Big Data
8 42 (2.82%) Metadata
9 37 (2.48%) MySQL
10 31 (2.08%) Looker
11 25 (1.68%) Hadoop
12 20 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (1.07%) Data Vault
14 16 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 244 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 164 (11.01%) GitLab
3 162 (10.87%) Git
4 89 (5.97%) JIRA
5 37 (2.48%) Liquibase
6 35 (2.35%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.88%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.81%) Postman
9 24 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 23 (1.54%) Selenium
11 21 (1.41%) JUnit
12 20 (1.34%) Maven
13 19 (1.28%) Gradle
14 17 (1.14%) Cypress.io
14 17 (1.14%) MLflow
15 13 (0.87%) Cucumber
16 11 (0.74%) SoapUI
17 10 (0.67%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.67%) ER Studio
17 10 (0.67%) Snyk
General
1 551 (36.98%) Social Skills
2 337 (22.62%) Finance
3 180 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (12.01%) Banking
5 134 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 35 (2.35%) Marketing
9 34 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 28 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (1.88%) Retail
11 27 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 23 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.48%) Legal
14 21 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.21%) Front Office
17 17 (1.14%) Electronics
17 17 (1.14%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 249 (16.71%) Architect
2 195 (13.09%) Senior
3 172 (11.54%) Developer
4 107 (7.18%) GCP Engineer
5 106 (7.11%) Lead
6 100 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 97 (6.51%) Analyst
8 96 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 74 (4.97%) Software Engineer
10 72 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
11 71 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 62 (4.16%) Consultant
13 52 (3.49%) Security Engineer
14 47 (3.15%) Java Developer
15 42 (2.82%) Data Scientist
16 38 (2.55%) Python Engineer
17 37 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
18 36 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 36 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (10.60%) REST
2 126 (8.46%) RESTful
3 104 (6.98%) React
4 103 (6.91%) Kafka
5 93 (6.24%) Node.js
6 89 (5.97%) Spring
7 75 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 65 (4.36%) LDAP
9 64 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
10 58 (3.89%) AngularJS
11 51 (3.42%) TensorFlow
12 49 (3.29%) PyTorch
13 47 (3.15%) SOAP
14 42 (2.82%) Pandas
15 40 (2.68%) .NET
16 39 (2.62%) HTML
17 36 (2.42%) OAuth
17 36 (2.42%) scikit-learn
18 35 (2.35%) Vue
19 33 (2.21%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 268 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.57%) Public Cloud
3 79 (5.30%) Security Posture
4 77 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
5 65 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (4.23%) Product Ownership
7 56 (3.76%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (2.28%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.41%) Life Science
15 18 (1.21%) Private Cloud
16 17 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (1.14%) Genomics
16 17 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
17 16 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.00%) Linux
2 68 (4.56%) Windows
3 26 (1.74%) Mac OS
3 26 (1.74%) Unix
4 14 (0.94%) VMS
5 13 (0.87%) Android
5 13 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.60%) CentOS
7 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) zOS
12 1 (0.067%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (42.75%) CI/CD
2 552 (37.05%) DevOps
3 379 (25.44%) Agile
4 369 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
5 318 (21.34%) Containerisation
6 293 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 246 (16.51%) AI
8 244 (16.38%) Microservices
9 226 (15.17%) Analytics
10 206 (13.83%) Machine Learning
11 168 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 164 (11.01%) Software Engineering
13 145 (9.73%) Test Automation
14 141 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
15 139 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
15 139 (9.33%) Data Modelling
16 138 (9.26%) Data Science
16 138 (9.26%) DevSecOps
17 136 (9.13%) Migration
18 135 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 649 (43.56%) Python
2 291 (19.53%) SQL
3 256 (17.18%) Java
4 139 (9.33%) Bash
5 133 (8.93%) PowerShell
6 112 (7.52%) JavaScript
7 88 (5.91%) Go
8 77 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 37 (2.48%) C#
10 25 (1.68%) R
11 24 (1.61%) Scala
12 17 (1.14%) Ruby
12 17 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.07%) Bicep
14 13 (0.87%) C++
14 13 (0.87%) Groovy
14 13 (0.87%) Perl
15 11 (0.74%) PHP
16 10 (0.67%) C
16 10 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 298 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 241 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 144 (9.66%) Degree
4 98 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (5.17%) CISSP
6 63 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 58 (3.89%) Master's Degree
8 50 (3.36%) CISM
9 49 (3.29%) Azure Certification
10 35 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (2.08%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (1.34%) CCSP
14 17 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.94%) CCNP
16 13 (0.87%) OSCP
17 12 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (8.86%) GDPR
2 104 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (6.51%) Data Quality
4 88 (5.91%) NIST
5 79 (5.30%) QA
6 47 (3.15%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.21%) HIPAA
9 16 (1.07%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.87%) GRC
11 11 (0.74%) SLA
12 10 (0.67%) PSD2
13 9 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.60%) NCSC
14 7 (0.47%) PERC
15 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.40%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.27%) WCAG
18 3 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 403 (27.05%) Docker
2 103 (6.91%) Active Directory
3 44 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.54%) KVM
5 8 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.54%) vSphere
6 5 (0.34%) GPFS
6 5 (0.34%) Lustre
6 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.34%) Squid
7 4 (0.27%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) HDFS
8 2 (0.13%) UAG
9 1 (0.067%) Ceph
9 1 (0.067%) QEMU
9 1 (0.067%) SRDF
9 1 (0.067%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 485 (32.55%) Kubernetes
2 343 (23.02%) Terraform
3 175 (11.74%) Ansible
4 109 (7.32%) Grafana
5 104 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.01%) Argo
7 24 (1.61%) Istio
8 21 (1.41%) SCCM
9 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.34%) Puppet
10 18 (1.21%) CSIRT
11 15 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.87%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.74%) Kibana
13 11 (0.74%) Nessus
14 10 (0.67%) Fluentd
14 10 (0.67%) Podman
15 9 (0.60%) Kubeflow
16 8 (0.54%) Nmap
17 7 (0.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 497 (33.36%) Google
2 159 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 136 (9.13%) Splunk
4 69 (4.63%) CyberArk
5 67 (4.50%) Databricks
6 58 (3.89%) Oracle
7 54 (3.62%) BeyondTrust
8 50 (3.36%) VMware
9 45 (3.02%) ServiceNow
10 42 (2.82%) SAP
11 40 (2.68%) F5
11 40 (2.68%) Palo Alto
12 38 (2.55%) Cisco
13 29 (1.95%) Centrify
13 29 (1.95%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.74%) Red Hat
15 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.07%) Citrix
16 16 (1.07%) Salesforce
17 15 (1.01%) Okta