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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 68
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,664 949 1,110
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 3.97% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.32% 10.58% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 644 825
10th Percentile £400 £363 £421
25th Percentile £463 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -3.96% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £813 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 9
10th Percentile £13.06 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -21.62%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £80.35 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +8.25% -30.89%

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 14,697 8,969 11,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.14% 37.48% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,011 6,159 8,493
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £508 £508 £525
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 207 324
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.96 £15.96
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.63 £38.28
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -2 872 £575 -4.56% 172
North of England +19 345 £538 +1.90% 103
Yorkshire +8 213 £525 - 20
South East +17 150 £510 -7.27% 95
North West +13 116 £558 +3.24% 69
South West +28 109 £560 +6.67% 42
Midlands -19 86 £475 +6.80% 23
West Midlands -17 66 £477 -20.50% 13
East of England +1 50 £523 +6.09% 6
East Midlands -29 20 £438 +9.38% 10
North East -10 19 £584 +26.22% 14
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
1 109 (6.55%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.43%) Apache
4 39 (2.34%) Confluence
5 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.30%) CMS
6 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,117 (67.13%) Azure
2 1,114 (66.95%) AWS
3 190 (11.42%) GitHub
4 157 (9.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 120 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (6.07%) Power Platform
7 94 (5.65%) Snowflake
8 79 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (4.09%) SaaS
11 66 (3.97%) Serverless
12 57 (3.43%) dbt
13 51 (3.06%) Entra ID
14 50 (3.00%) OpenShift
15 48 (2.88%) Amazon S3
15 48 (2.88%) Vertex AI
16 41 (2.46%) Cloud Run
17 36 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (1.92%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.89%) Firewall
2 92 (5.53%) DNS
3 91 (5.47%) Network Security
4 89 (5.35%) VPN
5 26 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.44%) WAN
7 20 (1.20%) BGP
8 18 (1.08%) HTTP
9 14 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.78%) OSPF
11 12 (0.72%) Internet
11 12 (0.72%) SSL
11 12 (0.72%) VoIP
12 10 (0.60%) DHCP
12 10 (0.60%) LAN
13 9 (0.54%) IPsec
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
14 8 (0.48%) VLAN
14 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (10.94%) BigQuery
2 114 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.99%) Power BI
5 77 (4.63%) Data Lake
5 77 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 71 (4.27%) Big Data
7 54 (3.25%) Metadata
8 49 (2.94%) Tableau
9 48 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.52%) SQL Server
11 36 (2.16%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.80%) MySQL
13 23 (1.38%) Hadoop
13 23 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 21 (1.26%) Looker
15 20 (1.20%) Flink
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.08%) OLAP
18 17 (1.02%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 209 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 155 (9.31%) Git
3 141 (8.47%) GitLab
4 88 (5.29%) JIRA
5 44 (2.64%) Selenium
6 38 (2.28%) JUnit
7 31 (1.86%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.68%) SonarQube
9 27 (1.62%) JMeter
10 24 (1.44%) Postman
11 19 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 18 (1.08%) Maven
13 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
14 13 (0.78%) MLflow
15 10 (0.60%) ERwin
15 10 (0.60%) Gradle
16 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
16 9 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 456 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 377 (22.66%) Finance
3 147 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (8.83%) Banking
4 128 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 59 (3.55%) Retail
6 44 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.04%) Legal
8 31 (1.86%) Front Office
9 29 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (1.50%) Marketing
11 21 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.96%) Military
15 13 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.72%) Billing
17 11 (0.66%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 358 (21.51%) Architect
2 203 (12.20%) Senior
3 179 (10.76%) Developer
4 163 (9.80%) GCP Engineer
4 163 (9.80%) Lead
5 141 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 108 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 100 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 79 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
9 64 (3.85%) Software Engineer
10 62 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
11 60 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 56 (3.37%) Consultant
13 54 (3.25%) Analyst
13 54 (3.25%) Security Architect
14 53 (3.19%) Security Engineer
15 49 (2.94%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.88%) Data Architect
17 45 (2.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.34%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (9.44%) REST
2 147 (8.83%) Kafka
3 110 (6.61%) React
4 109 (6.55%) Spring
5 95 (5.71%) Node.js
6 92 (5.53%) Spring Boot
7 84 (5.05%) LDAP
8 73 (4.39%) OAuth
9 57 (3.43%) RESTful
10 53 (3.19%) OpenID
11 52 (3.13%) SOAP
12 47 (2.82%) PyTorch
13 46 (2.76%) AngularJS
13 46 (2.76%) TensorFlow
14 42 (2.52%) .NET
15 39 (2.34%) OAuth2
16 36 (2.16%) SAML
17 35 (2.10%) LangChain
18 31 (1.86%) Middleware
18 31 (1.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 319 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (4.27%) Security Posture
4 65 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 63 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 50 (3.00%) AI Agents
8 49 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 47 (2.82%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 35 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.92%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.62%) Derivative
14 25 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
14 25 (1.50%) Management Information System
15 24 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.44%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.38%) Equities
17 21 (1.26%) Algorithms
17 21 (1.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.07%) Linux
2 77 (4.63%) Windows
3 29 (1.74%) Android
4 23 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.26%) VMS
7 18 (1.08%) Unix
8 13 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (45.49%) CI/CD
2 563 (33.83%) DevOps
3 386 (23.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (21.69%) Agile
5 338 (20.31%) AI
6 281 (16.89%) Analytics
7 278 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
8 268 (16.11%) Microservices
9 249 (14.96%) Observability
10 243 (14.60%) Containerisation
11 222 (13.34%) Machine Learning
12 201 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
13 199 (11.96%) Software Engineering
14 195 (11.72%) Migration
15 193 (11.60%) Data Modelling
16 182 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 177 (10.64%) Data Engineering
18 168 (10.10%) ETL
19 166 (9.98%) Cloud Security
19 166 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 655 (39.36%) Python
2 338 (20.31%) SQL
3 300 (18.03%) Java
4 144 (8.65%) PowerShell
5 125 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 116 (6.97%) Bash
7 84 (5.05%) Go
8 80 (4.81%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.70%) C#
10 40 (2.40%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
12 18 (1.08%) Bicep
12 18 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.66%) R
14 10 (0.60%) Ruby
15 9 (0.54%) PHP
15 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 362 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 292 (17.55%) SC Cleared
3 92 (5.53%) CISSP
4 88 (5.29%) Degree
5 60 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 59 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 55 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (3.31%) CISM
8 50 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (2.94%) Azure Certification
10 37 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (1.50%) CCSP
12 23 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.96%) CCNP
14 16 (0.96%) GIAC
14 16 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.03%) GDPR
3 90 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (5.35%) NIST
5 67 (4.03%) QA
6 34 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.32%) NCSC
8 20 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.08%) SLA
10 16 (0.96%) GRC
11 15 (0.90%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.54%) COBIT
14 9 (0.54%) PSD2
15 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.48%) WCAG
16 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 317 (19.05%) Docker
2 96 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.78%) vSphere
7 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
13 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.060%) iptables
13 1 (0.060%) Varnish
13 1 (0.060%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 508 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 432 (25.96%) Terraform
3 120 (7.21%) Ansible
4 118 (7.09%) Grafana
5 109 (6.55%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.10%) Istio
7 31 (1.86%) Argo
8 29 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.02%) Puppet
11 13 (0.78%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.48%) SCCM
13 7 (0.42%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
14 6 (0.36%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 512 (30.77%) Google
2 147 (8.83%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.99%) Databricks
4 70 (4.21%) Splunk
5 67 (4.03%) CyberArk
6 63 (3.79%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
8 41 (2.46%) VMware
9 38 (2.28%) Oracle
10 36 (2.16%) Centrify
11 35 (2.10%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.98%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.62%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.20%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.14%) Cisco
15 19 (1.14%) Okta
16 17 (1.02%) Foundry
16 17 (1.02%) Informatica
17 16 (0.96%) SAP