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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,668 974 1,108
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 4.06% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.37% 10.77% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 655 817
10th Percentile £400 £363 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.75% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 9
10th Percentile £13.23 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -4.55% -21.53%
75th Percentile £72.25 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.25% -30.80%

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 14,667 9,041 11,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.11% 37.69% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,973 6,174 8,462
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 218 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £17.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.26 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +56.40% +18.18% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.63 £37.69 £39.50
90th Percentile £81.65 £68.75 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £35.81 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +27.89% +30.23% -42.67%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -2 872 £575 -8.00% 530
North of England +14 345 £538 +1.90% 177
Yorkshire +1 211 £525 - 36
South East +17 154 £525 -4.55% 131
North West +11 118 £550 - 121
South West +28 108 £560 +6.67% 66
Midlands -20 90 £475 +6.80% 41
West Midlands -14 68 £476 -20.67% 25
East of England -3 49 £523 +6.09% 21
East Midlands -26 22 £438 +9.38% 16
North East -12 19 £584 +7.36% 20
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 (6.47%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.24%) Apache
4 40 (2.40%) 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 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.42%) 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%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
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 1,110 (66.55%) AWS
2 1,107 (66.37%) Azure
3 192 (11.51%) GitHub
4 161 (9.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (5.94%) Power Platform
7 95 (5.70%) Snowflake
8 78 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (4.26%) SaaS
10 69 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (4.08%) Serverless
12 56 (3.36%) dbt
13 52 (3.12%) Entra ID
14 49 (2.94%) Vertex AI
15 46 (2.76%) Amazon S3
16 42 (2.52%) OpenShift
17 41 (2.46%) Cloud Run
18 37 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 36 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
20 32 (1.92%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.00%) Firewall
2 93 (5.58%) Network Security
3 92 (5.52%) DNS
4 89 (5.34%) VPN
5 26 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.44%) WAN
7 22 (1.32%) BGP
8 19 (1.14%) HTTP
9 14 (0.84%) OSPF
9 14 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.78%) Internet
11 12 (0.72%) SSL
11 12 (0.72%) VoIP
12 10 (0.60%) DHCP
12 10 (0.60%) IPsec
13 9 (0.54%) LAN
13 9 (0.54%) VXLAN
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
14 8 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (10.55%) BigQuery
2 116 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (4.86%) Power BI
5 78 (4.68%) Data Lake
6 77 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 71 (4.26%) Big Data
8 54 (3.24%) Metadata
9 48 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.88%) Tableau
10 44 (2.64%) SQL Server
11 35 (2.10%) MongoDB
12 33 (1.98%) MySQL
13 23 (1.38%) Hadoop
13 23 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (1.14%) Flink
14 19 (1.14%) Looker
15 18 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.02%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 211 (12.65%) Jenkins
2 162 (9.71%) Git
3 140 (8.39%) GitLab
4 90 (5.40%) JIRA
5 47 (2.82%) Selenium
6 44 (2.64%) JUnit
7 34 (2.04%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.80%) JMeter
9 29 (1.74%) SonarQube
10 24 (1.44%) Postman
11 19 (1.14%) REST Assured
11 19 (1.14%) WebDriver
12 18 (1.08%) Maven
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 10 (0.60%) ERwin
14 10 (0.60%) Gradle
15 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 455 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 382 (22.90%) Finance
3 153 (9.17%) Banking
4 149 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.66%) Retail
7 45 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (1.98%) Legal
9 32 (1.92%) Front Office
10 29 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.44%) Marketing
13 22 (1.32%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.96%) Military
17 12 (0.72%) Billing
17 12 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 356 (21.34%) Architect
2 209 (12.53%) Senior
3 178 (10.67%) Developer
4 163 (9.77%) Lead
5 161 (9.65%) GCP Engineer
6 137 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 102 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 77 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (3.78%) Software Engineer
10 61 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
10 61 (3.66%) Java Developer
11 59 (3.54%) Consultant
12 56 (3.36%) Security Engineer
13 54 (3.24%) Security Architect
14 51 (3.06%) Analyst
15 49 (2.94%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.88%) Data Architect
17 44 (2.64%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 41 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (9.41%) REST
2 146 (8.75%) Kafka
3 113 (6.77%) Spring
4 109 (6.53%) React
5 94 (5.64%) Node.js
6 93 (5.58%) Spring Boot
7 84 (5.04%) LDAP
8 74 (4.44%) OAuth
9 56 (3.36%) RESTful
10 54 (3.24%) OpenID
11 53 (3.18%) SOAP
12 48 (2.88%) PyTorch
13 47 (2.82%) TensorFlow
14 45 (2.70%) AngularJS
15 42 (2.52%) .NET
16 40 (2.40%) OAuth2
17 37 (2.22%) SAML
18 36 (2.16%) LangChain
19 32 (1.92%) Middleware
20 31 (1.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 319 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.50%) Security Posture
4 66 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (3.18%) AI Agents
7 48 (2.88%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 45 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.98%) Fixed Income
12 27 (1.62%) Derivative
12 27 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 27 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 23 (1.38%) Equities
15 21 (1.26%) Algorithms
15 21 (1.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.06%) Linux
2 82 (4.92%) Windows
3 31 (1.86%) Android
4 23 (1.38%) Mac OS
4 23 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.32%) Unix
6 20 (1.20%) VMS
7 13 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.060%) CentOS
12 1 (0.060%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (45.68%) CI/CD
2 556 (33.33%) DevOps
3 387 (23.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 366 (21.94%) Agile
5 344 (20.62%) AI
6 282 (16.91%) Analytics
7 272 (16.31%) Microservices
8 271 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
9 253 (15.17%) Observability
10 238 (14.27%) Containerisation
11 223 (13.37%) Machine Learning
12 200 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
13 199 (11.93%) Software Engineering
14 197 (11.81%) Migration
15 191 (11.45%) Data Modelling
16 184 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 175 (10.49%) Data Engineering
18 174 (10.43%) Cloud Security
19 171 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
20 168 (10.07%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 656 (39.33%) Python
2 343 (20.56%) SQL
3 302 (18.11%) Java
4 146 (8.75%) PowerShell
5 125 (7.49%) JavaScript
6 117 (7.01%) Bash
7 82 (4.92%) Go
8 81 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 42 (2.52%) C#
10 38 (2.28%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.02%) Bicep
13 15 (0.90%) Groovy
14 14 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.66%) R
16 10 (0.60%) Ruby
17 9 (0.54%) PHP
18 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.48%) Rust
19 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 360 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 292 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 95 (5.70%) CISSP
4 93 (5.58%) Degree
5 61 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 61 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 56 (3.36%) CISM
7 54 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
8 53 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (3.06%) Azure Certification
10 38 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (1.50%) CCSP
12 24 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.32%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.96%) GIAC
16 15 (0.90%) CCNP
16 15 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 112 (6.71%) GDPR
3 89 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (5.16%) NIST
5 69 (4.14%) QA
6 33 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.32%) NCSC
8 20 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.08%) GRC
9 18 (1.08%) SLA
10 13 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.54%) COBIT
13 9 (0.54%) PSD2
14 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.48%) WCAG
15 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 318 (19.06%) Docker
2 96 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.96%) 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
1 503 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 430 (25.78%) Terraform
3 119 (7.13%) Grafana
4 113 (6.77%) Ansible
5 110 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.10%) Istio
7 31 (1.86%) Argo
8 30 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (1.20%) 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
13 7 (0.42%) Podman
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 518 (31.06%) Google
2 143 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.98%) Databricks
4 67 (4.02%) CyberArk
4 67 (4.02%) Splunk
5 59 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
7 40 (2.40%) Oracle
8 39 (2.34%) VMware
9 36 (2.16%) Centrify
10 35 (2.10%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.62%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.62%) Palo Alto
13 21 (1.26%) Red Hat
14 19 (1.14%) Okta
15 18 (1.08%) Cisco
16 17 (1.02%) Foundry
16 17 (1.02%) SAP
17 16 (0.96%) Informatica