GCP Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 72 69
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 911 1,032 1,682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.74% 2.77% 3.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.05% 8.71% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 761 1,293
10th Percentile £372 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile - £30.90 £62.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £37.94 £64.69
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%
75th Percentile £55.75 £64.94 £83.44
90th Percentile £77.46 £76.30 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £51.75 £70.18
% change year-on-year +1.45% -26.26% +47.74%

All Cloud 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in England.

Daily rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 0 611 £625 -3.85% 1,088
North of England +39 121 £550 +4.76% 255
South East +71 63 £575 +24.32% 362
Yorkshire +17 61 £525 -2.33% 75
North West +36 58 £575 +15.00% 168
Midlands +28 35 £465 -20.85% 111
South West +39 34 £548 -0.45% 87
West Midlands +11 22 £500 -14.89% 67
East of England +24 21 £500 - 77
East Midlands +19 13 £396 -32.68% 35
North East -1 2 £463 -22.92% 12
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 83 (9.11%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (6.59%) Apache
3 44 (4.83%) Apache Spark
4 29 (3.18%) Confluence
5 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.44%) CMS
7 4 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.33%) Luigi
8 3 (0.33%) nginx
8 3 (0.33%) SAS
9 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) 1Password
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Shopify
2 5 (0.55%) Kondor
2 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.33%) Unica
4 2 (0.22%) assyst
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 655 (71.90%) AWS
2 552 (60.59%) Azure
3 77 (8.45%) Snowflake
4 74 (8.12%) dbt
5 55 (6.04%) GitHub
6 48 (5.27%) Power Platform
7 41 (4.50%) PaaS
8 40 (4.39%) SaaS
9 37 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (3.95%) IaaS
11 28 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (2.96%) Dagster
13 26 (2.85%) OpenShift
14 24 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.63%) Entra ID
14 24 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (2.63%) Serverless
15 22 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.37%) Firewall
2 43 (4.72%) VPN
3 40 (4.39%) Network Security
4 36 (3.95%) DNS
5 28 (3.07%) TCP/IP
6 25 (2.74%) DHCP
7 14 (1.54%) VLAN
8 12 (1.32%) BGP
8 12 (1.32%) HTTP
8 12 (1.32%) SMTP
9 11 (1.21%) MPLS
10 8 (0.88%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.77%) SSL
12 6 (0.66%) NGFW
12 6 (0.66%) OSPF
12 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.66%) WAN
13 5 (0.55%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.44%) Internet
14 4 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (10.98%) BigQuery
2 92 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (7.68%) Data Lake
5 57 (6.26%) Amazon Athena
6 53 (5.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 53 (5.82%) Dremio
7 45 (4.94%) Big Data
8 44 (4.83%) Apache Arrow
9 42 (4.61%) Power BI
10 41 (4.50%) Tableau
11 36 (3.95%) Looker
12 35 (3.84%) NoSQL
13 31 (3.40%) MongoDB
14 29 (3.18%) Hadoop
15 28 (3.07%) Apache Ignite
16 25 (2.74%) Relational Database
17 24 (2.63%) SQL Server
18 23 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
19 22 (2.41%) Flink
Development Applications
1 86 (9.44%) Jenkins
2 61 (6.70%) GitLab
3 57 (6.26%) JIRA
4 56 (6.15%) Git
5 11 (1.21%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.88%) ERwin
8 7 (0.77%) Maven
8 7 (0.77%) MLflow
8 7 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.66%) JMeter
10 5 (0.55%) JUnit
10 5 (0.55%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.44%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.44%) Gradle
11 4 (0.44%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 254 (27.88%) Finance
2 243 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 130 (14.27%) Banking
4 115 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (11.75%) Front Office
6 56 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 38 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 33 (3.62%) Marketing
9 31 (3.40%) Investment Banking
10 28 (3.07%) Retail
11 22 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.09%) Legal
13 18 (1.98%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.88%) Electronics
16 6 (0.66%) Advertising
16 6 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.55%) Military
17 5 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 202 (22.17%) Architect
2 175 (19.21%) Developer
3 118 (12.95%) Software Engineer
4 96 (10.54%) Senior
5 78 (8.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 73 (8.01%) Data Engineer
7 60 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
8 55 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 54 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
10 52 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
11 46 (5.05%) Analyst
12 44 (4.83%) AWS Software Engineer
12 44 (4.83%) Python Engineer
13 43 (4.72%) React Developer
14 42 (4.61%) Lead
15 41 (4.50%) Data Architect
16 39 (4.28%) Python Developer
16 39 (4.28%) Security Architect
17 32 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
17 32 (3.51%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (12.51%) React
2 79 (8.67%) Node.js
3 65 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 64 (7.03%) Pandas
5 63 (6.92%) Redux
6 62 (6.81%) NumPy
7 54 (5.93%) Kafka
8 53 (5.82%) SciPy
9 47 (5.16%) Vue
10 40 (4.39%) PySpark
11 35 (3.84%) gRPC
12 34 (3.73%) .NET
13 31 (3.40%) HTML
14 30 (3.29%) REST
15 29 (3.18%) Protocol Buffers
15 29 (3.18%) RESTful
16 28 (3.07%) Spring
17 26 (2.85%) CSS
17 26 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
18 18 (1.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.87%) Fixed Income
2 61 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 46 (5.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 44 (4.83%) Equities
5 39 (4.28%) Management Information System
6 38 (4.17%) Hedge funds
7 29 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (3.07%) Public Cloud
9 23 (2.52%) Derivative
9 23 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 19 (2.09%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.76%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.76%) PKI
12 16 (1.76%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.54%) Clustering
15 12 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.33%) Linux
2 60 (6.59%) Windows
3 27 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.20%) Unix
5 11 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.77%) Rocky
7 6 (0.66%) Android
7 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.55%) Solaris
9 4 (0.44%) AIX
9 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.33%) CentOS
11 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.22%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (28.98%) Agile
2 244 (26.78%) CI/CD
3 237 (26.02%) DevOps
4 209 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
5 203 (22.28%) Software Engineering
6 136 (14.93%) Analytics
7 130 (14.27%) Containerisation
8 124 (13.61%) Migration
9 119 (13.06%) ETL
10 107 (11.75%) Asset Management
10 107 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 99 (10.87%) Data Modelling
12 96 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
12 96 (10.54%) Microservices
13 94 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 92 (10.10%) Machine Learning
15 91 (9.99%) Fintech
16 90 (9.88%) Data Engineering
17 87 (9.55%) Investment Management
18 76 (8.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 427 (46.87%) Python
2 178 (19.54%) SQL
3 169 (18.55%) Java
4 162 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 116 (12.73%) TypeScript
6 69 (7.57%) Bash
7 56 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 37 (4.06%) Go
9 30 (3.29%) C#
10 28 (3.07%) Scala
11 14 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.43%) Bicep
13 11 (1.21%) Perl
13 11 (1.21%) R
14 10 (1.10%) C
15 8 (0.88%) C++
15 8 (0.88%) Groovy
15 8 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 121 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 93 (10.21%) Degree
3 86 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 57 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (5.27%) Azure Certification
6 35 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.62%) DV Cleared
8 30 (3.29%) CISSP
9 21 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.20%) CISM
11 18 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 17 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.65%) CEH
14 11 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (1.10%) CCNP
16 8 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.88%) PMP
17 7 (0.77%) OSCP
18 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 60 (6.59%) GDPR
3 50 (5.49%) QA
4 41 (4.50%) NIST
5 39 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.98%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.77%) Basel III
10 7 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.66%) GRC
11 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.55%) MiFID
12 5 (0.55%) NCSC
13 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.22%) IFRS
15 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 162 (17.78%) Docker
2 39 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.99%) BitLocker
6 9 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (0.99%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.44%) Lustre
7 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) NFS
8 2 (0.22%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 212 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 166 (18.22%) Terraform
3 101 (11.09%) Ansible
4 34 (3.73%) Grafana
5 28 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.52%) Puppet
7 15 (1.65%) Nagios
8 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.99%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.99%) vMotion
10 8 (0.88%) logstash
10 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.77%) Istio
12 6 (0.66%) Kibana
12 6 (0.66%) QRadar
13 5 (0.55%) Argo
13 5 (0.55%) Control-M
13 5 (0.55%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 324 (35.57%) Google
2 98 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.27%) Databricks
4 40 (4.39%) Oracle
5 35 (3.84%) Splunk
6 32 (3.51%) VMware
7 27 (2.96%) IBM
8 22 (2.41%) SAP
9 19 (2.09%) Red Hat
10 14 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 13 (1.43%) Cisco
11 13 (1.43%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.32%) Citrix
13 10 (1.10%) Adobe
13 10 (1.10%) HP
13 10 (1.10%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.99%) Fortinet
14 9 (0.99%) Symantec
15 8 (0.88%) Informatica
15 8 (0.88%) Salesforce