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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,719 1,028 1,185
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.97% 4.12% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.32% 10.92% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 693 866
10th Percentile £400 £365 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 11 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.25 £34.63
25th Percentile £14.12 £34.38 £35.31
Median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.62% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.48 £78.70 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,187 9,412 12,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.68% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,395 8,605
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 235 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -4 900 £575 -4.17% 331
North of England +16 355 £540 +2.86% 126
Yorkshire -3 214 £538 +2.38% 28
South East +21 163 £541 -1.59% 102
North West +10 122 £540 -1.82% 84
South West +30 116 £565 +8.92% 50
Midlands -21 89 £488 +4.00% 28
West Midlands -20 68 £482 -22.84% 21
East of England -2 46 £535 +10.31% 16
North East -16 22 £575 +5.75% 14
East Midlands -22 21 £500 +23.46% 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
1 112 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 71 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.32%) Apache
4 41 (2.39%) Confluence
5 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.23%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.058%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.058%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.058%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.058%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.058%) Maximo
5 1 (0.058%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.058%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.058%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.058%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,137 (66.14%) AWS
2 1,120 (65.15%) Azure
3 185 (10.76%) GitHub
4 171 (9.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 120 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
6 107 (6.22%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.64%) Power Platform
8 78 (4.54%) SaaS
9 71 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 68 (3.96%) Serverless
11 62 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (3.43%) dbt
13 53 (3.08%) Entra ID
14 51 (2.97%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.50%) Cloud Run
16 40 (2.33%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.15%) OpenShift
18 31 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.05%) Firewall
2 101 (5.88%) Network Security
3 96 (5.58%) DNS
4 86 (5.00%) VPN
5 29 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.51%) WAN
7 25 (1.45%) BGP
8 22 (1.28%) HTTP
9 17 (0.99%) DHCP
10 16 (0.93%) OSPF
10 16 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.64%) Internet
11 11 (0.64%) SSL
11 11 (0.64%) VLAN
12 10 (0.58%) VoIP
12 10 (0.58%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.52%) IPsec
13 9 (0.52%) LAN
14 8 (0.47%) DKIM
14 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.30%) BigQuery
2 128 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.54%) Data Lake
4 78 (4.54%) Power BI
5 75 (4.36%) NoSQL
6 72 (4.19%) Big Data
7 61 (3.55%) Metadata
8 55 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.91%) Tableau
10 38 (2.21%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.86%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.75%) MySQL
13 25 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (1.34%) Hadoop
16 22 (1.28%) Looker
17 21 (1.22%) Flink
18 19 (1.11%) Redis
19 16 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 205 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 165 (9.60%) Git
3 130 (7.56%) GitLab
4 78 (4.54%) JIRA
5 47 (2.73%) JUnit
6 39 (2.27%) Selenium
7 32 (1.86%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.80%) JMeter
9 30 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.11%) Maven
11 18 (1.05%) Postman
11 18 (1.05%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.70%) MLflow
14 10 (0.58%) ERwin
14 10 (0.58%) Gradle
14 10 (0.58%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.52%) Gatling
16 8 (0.47%) Mockito
17 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 461 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 417 (24.26%) Finance
3 162 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (9.19%) Banking
5 139 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.96%) Retail
7 52 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.09%) Legal
8 36 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 34 (1.98%) Front Office
10 33 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.40%) Marketing
13 22 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 17 (0.99%) Billing
17 14 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.76%) Military
19 12 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 362 (21.06%) Architect
2 219 (12.74%) Senior
3 194 (11.29%) Developer
4 165 (9.60%) Lead
5 158 (9.19%) GCP Engineer
6 143 (8.32%) Data Engineer
7 110 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 106 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 87 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.13%) Java Developer
11 69 (4.01%) Consultant
12 64 (3.72%) Software Engineer
13 61 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
14 60 (3.49%) Security Architect
15 57 (3.32%) Security Engineer
16 52 (3.03%) Data Architect
17 51 (2.97%) Analyst
18 49 (2.85%) GCP DevOps
19 45 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 44 (2.56%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (9.08%) Kafka
2 142 (8.26%) REST
3 116 (6.75%) Spring
4 110 (6.40%) React
5 96 (5.58%) Spring Boot
6 90 (5.24%) Node.js
7 80 (4.65%) OAuth
8 60 (3.49%) RESTful
9 59 (3.43%) LDAP
10 52 (3.03%) OpenID
11 48 (2.79%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.68%) OAuth2
12 46 (2.68%) TensorFlow
13 44 (2.56%) SAML
14 38 (2.21%) SOAP
15 37 (2.15%) AngularJS
15 37 (2.15%) LangChain
16 36 (2.09%) GraphQL
17 35 (2.04%) .NET
18 33 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 333 (19.37%) Cloud Native
2 111 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.61%) Security Posture
5 57 (3.32%) AI Agents
6 52 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 51 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 41 (2.39%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.04%) Fixed Income
13 31 (1.80%) Management Information System
14 28 (1.63%) Derivative
14 28 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 28 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
16 25 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.45%) Clustering
16 25 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.17%) Linux
2 79 (4.60%) Windows
3 27 (1.57%) Android
4 25 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.40%) Unix
6 18 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.99%) VMS
7 17 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.17%) AIX
11 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.058%) Rocky
13 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (45.32%) CI/CD
2 555 (32.29%) DevOps
3 410 (23.85%) Agile
4 404 (23.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 380 (22.11%) AI
6 288 (16.75%) Microservices
7 283 (16.46%) Analytics
8 259 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 252 (14.66%) Observability
10 244 (14.19%) Containerisation
11 243 (14.14%) Machine Learning
12 211 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
13 209 (12.16%) Software Engineering
14 202 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 198 (11.52%) Migration
16 197 (11.46%) Data Modelling
17 184 (10.70%) Cloud Security
18 183 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
19 180 (10.47%) Data Engineering
20 179 (10.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 677 (39.38%) Python
2 344 (20.01%) SQL
3 322 (18.73%) Java
4 129 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 119 (6.92%) Bash
7 93 (5.41%) Go
8 89 (5.18%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.33%) C#
10 38 (2.21%) Scala
11 22 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.11%) Bicep
13 18 (1.05%) Groovy
14 15 (0.87%) Rust
15 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.70%) R
16 12 (0.70%) Ruby
17 9 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.47%) C++
19 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 350 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 279 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 107 (6.22%) Degree
4 106 (6.17%) CISSP
5 75 (4.36%) DV Cleared
6 70 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.43%) CISM
8 56 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (3.08%) Azure Certification
10 41 (2.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 27 (1.57%) CCSP
12 24 (1.40%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (1.05%) GIAC
16 14 (0.81%) CCNP
17 12 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.11%) GDPR
3 91 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (5.24%) NIST
5 66 (3.84%) QA
6 35 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.57%) NCSC
8 24 (1.40%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.11%) GRC
10 14 (0.81%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.76%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.76%) SLA
12 10 (0.58%) PSD2
13 9 (0.52%) COBIT
13 9 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.52%) WCAG
14 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 322 (18.73%) Docker
2 78 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.81%) vSphere
7 13 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
10 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 518 (30.13%) Kubernetes
2 451 (26.24%) Terraform
3 118 (6.86%) Grafana
4 117 (6.81%) Prometheus
5 110 (6.40%) Ansible
6 36 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.86%) Istio
8 28 (1.63%) Argo
9 19 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.05%) Puppet
11 13 (0.76%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.58%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.41%) linkerd
14 7 (0.41%) Podman
15 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.29%) Nessus
15 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 526 (30.60%) Google
2 155 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 85 (4.94%) Databricks
4 60 (3.49%) Splunk
5 54 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.03%) CyberArk
7 46 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.33%) VMware
9 39 (2.27%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.15%) Oracle
11 28 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
11 28 (1.63%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.28%) Okta
15 20 (1.16%) Informatica
16 19 (1.11%) SAP
17 18 (1.05%) Cisco
18 17 (0.99%) Centrify
19 15 (0.87%) Foundry