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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,906 1,186 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.29% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.97% 11.54% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 807 857
10th Percentile £406 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -
75th Percentile £659 £688 £788
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £41.25 £33.88
25th Percentile £27.56 £50.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £53.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.51% +15.68% -37.36%
75th Percentile £79.13 £75.60 £59.88
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £53.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +29.91% +47.59% -50.91%

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 15,926 10,278 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.18% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 6,965 7,955
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 273 230
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.01 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -1 1,000 £569 -5.21% 1,133
North of England +9 408 £538 +7.50% 273
Yorkshire +4 254 £538 +13.16% 78
South East +6 187 £541 +0.46% 166
North West +2 140 £550 +3.77% 164
South West +16 128 £560 +6.67% 89
Midlands -35 80 £525 +19.45% 72
West Midlands -17 61 £525 -8.70% 61
East of England +12 53 £540 +6.76% 18
East Midlands -24 19 £500 +27.39% 11
North East -27 18 £463 -14.94% 31
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
1 110 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 91 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (3.78%) Apache
4 56 (2.94%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 1 (0.052%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.052%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.052%) Luigi
12 1 (0.052%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.052%) Houdini
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) NUKE
6 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
1 8 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.052%) Maximo
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (64.53%) AWS
2 1,207 (63.33%) Azure
3 217 (11.39%) GitHub
4 168 (8.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 146 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
6 127 (6.66%) Snowflake
7 93 (4.88%) SaaS
8 88 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (4.20%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 76 (3.99%) dbt
12 71 (3.73%) Serverless
13 56 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.83%) Vertex AI
15 45 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.10%) Cloud Run
17 37 (1.94%) Amazon S3
18 35 (1.84%) OpenShift
19 34 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.67%) Firewall
2 104 (5.46%) DNS
2 104 (5.46%) Network Security
3 86 (4.51%) VPN
4 36 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.47%) WAN
6 26 (1.36%) BGP
6 26 (1.36%) HTTP
7 22 (1.15%) DHCP
8 19 (1.00%) Internet
8 19 (1.00%) VLAN
9 18 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.89%) OSPF
11 13 (0.68%) SSL
12 10 (0.52%) LAN
12 10 (0.52%) MPLS
12 10 (0.52%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
13 9 (0.47%) IPsec
14 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.44%) BigQuery
2 167 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 77 (4.04%) Data Lake
6 75 (3.93%) Metadata
7 72 (3.78%) Big Data
8 71 (3.73%) Relational Database
9 68 (3.57%) Power BI
10 46 (2.41%) Tableau
11 39 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (1.84%) Looker
13 30 (1.57%) Flink
13 30 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.57%) SQL Server
14 27 (1.42%) Redis
15 26 (1.36%) MySQL
16 24 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 235 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 213 (11.18%) Git
3 153 (8.03%) GitLab
4 97 (5.09%) JIRA
5 51 (2.68%) JUnit
6 38 (1.99%) SonarQube
7 37 (1.94%) Selenium
8 36 (1.89%) JMeter
9 28 (1.47%) Maven
10 26 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.94%) WebDriver
12 16 (0.84%) Gradle
12 16 (0.84%) LoadRunner
13 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.79%) Postman
14 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.68%) Gatling
15 13 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.52%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 500 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 450 (23.61%) Finance
3 180 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.71%) Banking
5 155 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.46%) Retail
7 60 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.05%) Legal
11 35 (1.84%) Marketing
12 30 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 28 (1.47%) Front Office
14 26 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.05%) Billing
18 18 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 394 (20.67%) Architect
2 254 (13.33%) Senior
3 222 (11.65%) Developer
4 194 (10.18%) Lead
5 167 (8.76%) GCP Engineer
6 161 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 132 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
10 85 (4.46%) Java Developer
11 78 (4.09%) Consultant
12 72 (3.78%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.57%) Security Architect
14 65 (3.41%) Analyst
15 64 (3.36%) Data Architect
16 63 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 56 (2.94%) Software Engineer
19 52 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
20 45 (2.36%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (9.65%) Kafka
2 163 (8.55%) REST
3 115 (6.03%) Spring
4 112 (5.88%) React
5 92 (4.83%) Spring Boot
6 90 (4.72%) Node.js
6 90 (4.72%) OAuth
7 76 (3.99%) RESTful
8 55 (2.89%) JSON
9 50 (2.62%) OpenID
10 48 (2.52%) OAuth2
11 47 (2.47%) SAML
12 44 (2.31%) LDAP
13 43 (2.26%) LangChain
13 43 (2.26%) PySpark
13 43 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
14 42 (2.20%) GraphQL
15 40 (2.10%) PyTorch
16 38 (1.99%) AngularJS
16 38 (1.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 373 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 131 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (4.62%) AI Agents
4 72 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 55 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 50 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 47 (2.47%) Data Centre
11 45 (2.36%) Public Cloud
12 42 (2.20%) Algorithms
13 40 (2.10%) Data Structures
13 40 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
14 35 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
15 33 (1.73%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 28 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
18 27 (1.42%) Fixed Income
18 27 (1.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 134 (7.03%) Linux
2 89 (4.67%) Windows
3 31 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (1.47%) Unix
5 24 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.10%) Android
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.47%) VMS
10 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.052%) CentOS
13 1 (0.052%) Solaris
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (44.33%) CI/CD
2 606 (31.79%) DevOps
3 493 (25.87%) Agile
4 454 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 439 (23.03%) AI
6 326 (17.10%) Microservices
7 303 (15.90%) Analytics
8 285 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 278 (14.59%) Machine Learning
10 277 (14.53%) Observability
10 277 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
11 263 (13.80%) Containerisation
12 260 (13.64%) Software Engineering
13 240 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
14 229 (12.01%) Data Modelling
15 224 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 216 (11.33%) Roadmaps
17 212 (11.12%) Migration
18 211 (11.07%) Cloud Security
19 190 (9.97%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 719 (37.72%) Python
2 387 (20.30%) SQL
3 365 (19.15%) Java
4 163 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 155 (8.13%) Bash
6 138 (7.24%) PowerShell
7 89 (4.67%) Go
8 88 (4.62%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.36%) Scala
10 40 (2.10%) C#
11 31 (1.63%) Bicep
12 28 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.26%) Groovy
14 19 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.94%) Rust
16 17 (0.89%) R
17 12 (0.63%) Ruby
18 10 (0.52%) C++
19 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 7 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 382 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 295 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.51%) Degree
4 110 (5.77%) CISSP
5 96 (5.04%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.51%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 62 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
9 58 (3.04%) CISM
10 41 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 31 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.26%) CCSP
13 23 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (0.94%) CCNP
15 18 (0.94%) GIAC
16 15 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.83%) GDPR
3 88 (4.62%) QA
4 85 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 84 (4.41%) NIST
6 29 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.21%) NCSC
9 18 (0.94%) GRC
10 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.31%) PSD2
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 359 (18.84%) Docker
2 76 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.68%) vSphere
6 11 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 589 (30.90%) Kubernetes
2 471 (24.71%) Terraform
3 130 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 128 (6.72%) Grafana
5 122 (6.40%) Ansible
6 40 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.63%) Argo
8 27 (1.42%) Istio
9 26 (1.36%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.10%) Puppet
11 14 (0.73%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.63%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.47%) Podman
14 6 (0.31%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) linkerd
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 618 (32.42%) Google
2 186 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 105 (5.51%) Databricks
4 67 (3.52%) Splunk
5 55 (2.89%) Oracle
6 52 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.36%) VMware
9 43 (2.26%) Dynatrace
10 42 (2.20%) CyberArk
11 38 (1.99%) OpenAI
12 31 (1.63%) SAP
13 30 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 30 (1.57%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.21%) IBM
14 23 (1.21%) Informatica
15 21 (1.10%) MuleSoft
16 20 (1.05%) Cisco
17 18 (0.94%) Okta
18 17 (0.89%) New Relic