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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,658 937 1,091
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 3.94% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.34% 10.52% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 639 813
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 8
10th Percentile £13.00 £25.25 £33.88
25th Percentile £14.12 £30.94 £43.81
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% -21.62%
75th Percentile £72.25 £68.19 £69.00
90th Percentile £80.80 £80.83 £78.90
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -26.26%

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 14,623 8,910 11,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.48% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,970 6,152 8,466
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £508 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 196 321
10th Percentile £15.59 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.75 £37.56 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.08 £68.75 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -1 866 £588 -6.00% 407
North of England +19 344 £538 +1.90% 155
Yorkshire +8 214 £520 -0.95% 28
South East +19 155 £509 -7.45% 115
North West +8 114 £568 +3.18% 106
South West +30 113 £560 +6.67% 64
Midlands -31 85 £475 +4.97% 34
West Midlands -17 66 £494 -17.71% 19
East of England +1 50 £523 +6.09% 15
North East -7 19 £584 +26.22% 21
East Midlands -32 19 £438 +11.89% 15
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
1 108 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.44%) Apache
4 38 (2.29%) 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 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
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
3 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
4 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (67.19%) Azure
2 1,109 (66.89%) AWS
3 187 (11.28%) GitHub
4 150 (9.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 116 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (6.09%) Power Platform
7 91 (5.49%) Snowflake
8 79 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (4.10%) SaaS
11 65 (3.92%) Serverless
12 55 (3.32%) dbt
13 51 (3.08%) OpenShift
14 50 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 49 (2.96%) Vertex AI
16 46 (2.77%) Amazon S3
17 41 (2.47%) Cloud Run
18 36 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
19 30 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 29 (1.75%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 94 (5.67%) Firewall
2 91 (5.49%) Network Security
3 90 (5.43%) DNS
4 89 (5.37%) VPN
5 26 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.45%) WAN
7 20 (1.21%) BGP
8 18 (1.09%) HTTP
9 14 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.78%) OSPF
11 12 (0.72%) SSL
11 12 (0.72%) VoIP
12 10 (0.60%) Internet
12 10 (0.60%) LAN
13 9 (0.54%) IPsec
14 8 (0.48%) DHCP
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
14 8 (0.48%) VLAN
14 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (11.04%) BigQuery
2 114 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (5.01%) Power BI
5 78 (4.70%) NoSQL
6 76 (4.58%) Data Lake
7 70 (4.22%) Big Data
8 56 (3.38%) Metadata
9 50 (3.02%) Tableau
10 48 (2.90%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.47%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.11%) MongoDB
13 29 (1.75%) MySQL
14 23 (1.39%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.39%) Looker
14 23 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.21%) Flink
16 19 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.09%) OLAP
18 17 (1.03%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 208 (12.55%) Jenkins
2 160 (9.65%) Git
3 139 (8.38%) GitLab
4 86 (5.19%) JIRA
5 44 (2.65%) Selenium
6 38 (2.29%) JUnit
7 31 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.63%) JMeter
8 27 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.45%) Postman
10 19 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 18 (1.09%) Maven
12 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 10 (0.60%) ERwin
14 10 (0.60%) Gradle
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 460 (27.74%) Social Skills
2 365 (22.01%) Finance
3 148 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 148 (8.93%) Banking
4 128 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 58 (3.50%) Retail
6 43 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.11%) Legal
8 31 (1.87%) Front Office
9 29 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (1.51%) Marketing
12 21 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (0.97%) Military
16 14 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.72%) Billing
18 11 (0.66%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 356 (21.47%) Architect
2 197 (11.88%) Senior
3 180 (10.86%) Developer
4 164 (9.89%) GCP Engineer
5 163 (9.83%) Lead
6 139 (8.38%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 95 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 80 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
10 66 (3.98%) Software Engineer
11 61 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
12 60 (3.62%) Java Developer
13 58 (3.50%) Analyst
14 56 (3.38%) Consultant
15 52 (3.14%) Security Architect
16 51 (3.08%) GCP DevOps
17 48 (2.90%) Security Engineer
18 47 (2.83%) Data Architect
18 47 (2.83%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 39 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (9.59%) REST
2 148 (8.93%) Kafka
3 113 (6.82%) React
4 107 (6.45%) Spring
5 98 (5.91%) Node.js
6 90 (5.43%) Spring Boot
7 83 (5.01%) LDAP
8 73 (4.40%) OAuth
9 58 (3.50%) RESTful
10 54 (3.26%) SOAP
11 52 (3.14%) OpenID
12 48 (2.90%) PyTorch
13 47 (2.83%) AngularJS
14 46 (2.77%) TensorFlow
15 42 (2.53%) .NET
16 39 (2.35%) OAuth2
17 38 (2.29%) LangChain
18 36 (2.17%) SAML
19 33 (1.99%) Middleware
20 31 (1.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 308 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 92 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.86%) Security Posture
4 63 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (3.80%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 51 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 46 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.93%) Fixed Income
11 27 (1.63%) Derivative
12 25 (1.51%) Private Cloud
13 24 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.39%) Equities
14 23 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (1.27%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.21%) Clustering
17 19 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.55%) Linux
2 67 (4.04%) Windows
3 28 (1.69%) Android
4 23 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.27%) VMS
7 18 (1.09%) Unix
8 13 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.48%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.060%) CentOS
14 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.060%) Rocky
14 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (45.42%) CI/CD
2 558 (33.66%) DevOps
3 375 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 362 (21.83%) Agile
5 343 (20.69%) AI
6 283 (17.07%) Analytics
7 281 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (16.34%) Microservices
9 246 (14.84%) Containerisation
9 246 (14.84%) Observability
10 224 (13.51%) Machine Learning
11 203 (12.24%) Software Engineering
12 198 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
13 194 (11.70%) Data Modelling
14 189 (11.40%) Migration
15 180 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 178 (10.74%) Data Engineering
17 167 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 167 (10.07%) ETL
18 156 (9.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 646 (38.96%) Python
2 337 (20.33%) SQL
3 292 (17.61%) Java
4 134 (8.08%) PowerShell
5 127 (7.66%) JavaScript
6 110 (6.63%) Bash
7 84 (5.07%) Go
8 79 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.71%) C#
10 39 (2.35%) Scala
11 19 (1.15%) Groovy
12 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.90%) Bicep
14 11 (0.66%) R
15 10 (0.60%) Ruby
16 9 (0.54%) PHP
16 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 367 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 300 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.07%) CISSP
3 84 (5.07%) Degree
4 62 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
5 54 (3.26%) CISM
6 51 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (2.65%) Azure Certification
9 36 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 24 (1.45%) CCSP
11 23 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.97%) CCNP
13 16 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.90%) GIAC
15 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.30%) GDPR
2 119 (7.18%) Data Quality
3 89 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 89 (5.37%) NIST
4 70 (4.22%) QA
5 37 (2.23%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.33%) NCSC
7 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.09%) SLA
9 16 (0.97%) GRC
10 14 (0.84%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.54%) COBIT
12 9 (0.54%) PSD2
12 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.48%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 313 (18.88%) Docker
2 94 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.66%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
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
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.060%) iptables
13 1 (0.060%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 503 (30.34%) Kubernetes
2 423 (25.51%) Terraform
3 117 (7.06%) Ansible
3 117 (7.06%) Grafana
4 108 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 34 (2.05%) Istio
6 30 (1.81%) Argo
7 28 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.03%) Puppet
9 13 (0.78%) Kubeflow
9 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.48%) SCCM
11 7 (0.42%) Kibana
11 7 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.42%) Podman
12 6 (0.36%) linkerd
13 5 (0.30%) Nessus
13 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 507 (30.58%) Google
2 142 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 83 (5.01%) Databricks
4 69 (4.16%) Splunk
5 67 (4.04%) CyberArk
5 67 (4.04%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.90%) BeyondTrust
7 39 (2.35%) VMware
8 38 (2.29%) Oracle
9 36 (2.17%) Centrify
9 36 (2.17%) OpenAI
10 34 (2.05%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 27 (1.63%) Palo Alto
12 20 (1.21%) Cisco
13 19 (1.15%) SAP
14 17 (1.03%) Foundry
14 17 (1.03%) Informatica
14 17 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.97%) Okta