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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,879 1,229 1,206
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 4.46% 3.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.86% 11.86% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,222 825 821
10th Percentile £406 £378 £405
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £768
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £34.39 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £41.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.10 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +38.30% -4.55% -29.03%

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 15,846 10,363 11,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 37.60% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 7,003 7,768
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -2 983 £575 -4.17% 2,359
North of England +7 405 £539 +10.02% 470
Yorkshire +2 259 £540 +13.68% 128
South East +14 185 £525 +1.55% 297
North West -8 133 £540 +8.00% 310
South West +15 127 £560 +6.67% 192
Midlands -59 66 £525 +13.51% 138
East of England +6 58 £555 +9.79% 72
West Midlands -49 48 £528 -0.47% 105
East Midlands -29 18 £500 +20.48% 33
North East -24 17 £481 -23.00% 33
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
1 116 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (3.99%) Apache
4 50 (2.66%) Confluence
5 17 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.053%) Houdini
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.053%) NUKE
8 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Maximo
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,217 (64.77%) AWS
2 1,196 (63.65%) Azure
3 207 (11.02%) GitHub
4 164 (8.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 139 (7.40%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (7.18%) Snowflake
7 99 (5.27%) dbt
8 95 (5.06%) SaaS
9 83 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 71 (3.78%) Power Platform
12 65 (3.46%) Serverless
13 63 (3.35%) Entra ID
14 55 (2.93%) Vertex AI
15 45 (2.39%) Cloud Run
16 44 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
17 37 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (1.92%) Amazon S3
19 35 (1.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 93 (4.95%) Firewall
2 92 (4.90%) Network Security
3 78 (4.15%) DNS
4 69 (3.67%) VPN
5 29 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.22%) BGP
6 23 (1.22%) WAN
7 22 (1.17%) DHCP
8 19 (1.01%) HTTP
8 19 (1.01%) Internet
9 18 (0.96%) VLAN
10 17 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.80%) SSL
12 14 (0.75%) OSPF
13 11 (0.59%) IPsec
13 11 (0.59%) VoIP
14 10 (0.53%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 8 (0.43%) DKIM
16 8 (0.43%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (12.29%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (4.52%) Metadata
5 77 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 76 (4.04%) Relational Database
7 74 (3.94%) Data Lake
8 67 (3.57%) Big Data
9 64 (3.41%) Power BI
10 45 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 40 (2.13%) Tableau
12 38 (2.02%) Looker
13 35 (1.86%) SQL Server
14 32 (1.70%) Flink
14 32 (1.70%) MongoDB
15 30 (1.60%) Redis
16 29 (1.54%) MySQL
17 21 (1.12%) Delta Lake
17 21 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.06%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 220 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 212 (11.28%) Git
3 148 (7.88%) GitLab
4 91 (4.84%) JIRA
5 39 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.86%) JUnit
7 34 (1.81%) Maven
8 24 (1.28%) Selenium
9 20 (1.06%) Gradle
9 20 (1.06%) JMeter
10 17 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.85%) Postman
12 15 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.75%) LoadRunner
14 13 (0.69%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
15 11 (0.59%) Snyk
16 9 (0.48%) MLflow
16 9 (0.48%) NeoLoad
General
1 514 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 459 (24.43%) Finance
3 183 (9.74%) Banking
4 172 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.78%) Retail
7 55 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.97%) Legal
10 36 (1.92%) Marketing
11 34 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.22%) Billing
16 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.06%) Publishing
18 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 400 (21.29%) Architect
2 258 (13.73%) Senior
3 209 (11.12%) Developer
4 175 (9.31%) Lead
5 168 (8.94%) Data Engineer
6 152 (8.09%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 115 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 105 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.79%) Java Developer
11 85 (4.52%) Consultant
12 76 (4.04%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.62%) Analyst
14 66 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
15 65 (3.46%) Data Architect
16 62 (3.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 61 (3.25%) Security Architect
18 52 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
19 50 (2.66%) Software Engineer
20 45 (2.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (25.33%) Terraform
2 210 (11.18%) Kafka
3 176 (9.37%) REST
4 101 (5.38%) React
4 101 (5.38%) Spring
5 95 (5.06%) OAuth
6 94 (5.00%) Spring Boot
7 81 (4.31%) RESTful
8 68 (3.62%) Node.js
9 58 (3.09%) JSON
9 58 (3.09%) OpenID
10 55 (2.93%) SAML
11 52 (2.77%) PySpark
12 50 (2.66%) OAuth2
13 49 (2.61%) LDAP
14 46 (2.45%) SOAP
15 44 (2.34%) LangChain
15 44 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
16 37 (1.97%) JWT
17 36 (1.92%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 397 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (5.16%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 62 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 54 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 52 (2.77%) Public Cloud
10 48 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
12 43 (2.29%) Data Centre
13 40 (2.13%) Data Structures
14 39 (2.08%) Algorithms
15 38 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
15 38 (2.02%) Management Information System
16 33 (1.76%) PKI
17 26 (1.38%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.28%) CMDB
19 23 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.98%) Linux
2 94 (5.00%) Windows
3 39 (2.08%) Unix
4 29 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.17%) Android
7 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (45.29%) CI/CD
2 608 (32.36%) DevOps
3 472 (25.12%) Agile
4 471 (25.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 467 (24.85%) AI
6 330 (17.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 329 (17.51%) Microservices
8 304 (16.18%) Analytics
9 278 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
10 272 (14.48%) Observability
11 271 (14.42%) Software Engineering
12 266 (14.16%) Machine Learning
13 263 (14.00%) Containerisation
14 236 (12.56%) Roadmaps
15 234 (12.45%) Data Pipeline
16 226 (12.03%) Data Modelling
17 222 (11.81%) Cloud Security
18 213 (11.34%) Migration
19 206 (10.96%) Event-Driven
20 202 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 723 (38.48%) Python
2 415 (22.09%) SQL
3 375 (19.96%) Java
4 153 (8.14%) Bash
5 138 (7.34%) PowerShell
6 135 (7.18%) JavaScript
7 90 (4.79%) Go
8 66 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.34%) Scala
10 39 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 34 (1.81%) C#
12 31 (1.65%) Bicep
13 22 (1.17%) Groovy
14 21 (1.12%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.96%) Rust
16 16 (0.85%) R
17 10 (0.53%) Ruby
18 9 (0.48%) C++
18 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 383 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 279 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.08%) Degree
4 109 (5.80%) CISSP
5 97 (5.16%) DV Cleared
6 81 (4.31%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (3.19%) Azure Certification
8 60 (3.19%) CISM
9 59 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 33 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.60%) CCSP
13 25 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.96%) GIAC
15 15 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.69%) CCNP
18 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 94 (5.00%) QA
3 89 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (4.52%) NIST
5 77 (4.10%) GDPR
6 31 (1.65%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.22%) NCSC
9 20 (1.06%) GRC
10 15 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.75%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.59%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.43%) COBIT
13 8 (0.43%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.27%) SLA
17 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 339 (18.04%) Docker
2 82 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.53%) vSphere
7 6 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.16%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 600 (31.93%) Kubernetes
2 141 (7.50%) Ansible
3 114 (6.07%) Grafana
4 110 (5.85%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.65%) Argo
7 28 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.33%) Istio
9 23 (1.22%) Puppet
10 18 (0.96%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 8 (0.43%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) CASB
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.32%) Cilium
16 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 634 (33.74%) Google
2 214 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 123 (6.55%) Databricks
4 77 (4.10%) Splunk
5 72 (3.83%) Oracle
6 57 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.61%) Dynatrace
9 45 (2.39%) VMware
10 44 (2.34%) CyberArk
11 40 (2.13%) SAP
12 39 (2.08%) OpenAI
13 30 (1.60%) IBM
13 30 (1.60%) Informatica
13 30 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.49%) Red Hat
15 25 (1.33%) Cisco
16 21 (1.12%) MuleSoft
17 20 (1.06%) Okta
18 18 (0.96%) New Relic