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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 88
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -24
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,512 939 952
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.54% 3.61% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.06% 9.65% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,064 590 720
10th Percentile £363 £366 £425
25th Percentile £447 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £739
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £24.85 £39.97
25th Percentile £17.45 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.25 £41.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -27.83% -14.18%
75th Percentile £69.13 £60.25 £62.00
90th Percentile £69.50 £64.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £41.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +43.37% -28.45% +5.45%

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 12,534 9,733 12,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.66% 37.41% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,667 6,462 9,209
10th Percentile £305 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 140 306
10th Percentile £14.43 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.81 £27.50 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +30.22% +23.73% -11.10%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -6.25%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -4 731 £600 -0.08% 353
North of England +33 327 £500 -9.09% 113
Yorkshire +14 193 £500 -4.76% 35
South East +44 186 £450 -21.74% 176
Midlands +25 128 £489 +11.71% 40
North West +42 121 £505 -12.17% 64
West Midlands +19 104 £500 +5.04% 26
South West +23 61 £550 -12.00% 65
East of England -14 39 £594 +85.55% 29
East Midlands -20 23 £447 +25.56% 14
North East -8 13 £520 +60.00% 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 79 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 60 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.44%) Apache
4 26 (1.72%) Confluence
5 14 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.66%) SAS
7 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.33%) Camunda
8 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Documentum
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Mule
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.33%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.13%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.066%) Actimize
7 1 (0.066%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 1,116 (73.81%) AWS
2 1,097 (72.55%) Azure
3 180 (11.90%) GitHub
4 104 (6.88%) Power Platform
5 100 (6.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 91 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (5.36%) Serverless
8 73 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.56%) Snowflake
10 67 (4.43%) OpenShift
11 59 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (3.70%) Entra ID
13 46 (3.04%) Amazon S3
14 42 (2.78%) Cloud Run
15 41 (2.71%) dbt
16 38 (2.51%) SaaS
17 32 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (2.05%) Apigee
18 31 (2.05%) Vertex AI
19 29 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 127 (8.40%) Firewall
2 64 (4.23%) VPN
3 51 (3.37%) Network Security
4 46 (3.04%) DNS
5 22 (1.46%) WAN
6 21 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.32%) Wireshark
8 17 (1.12%) LAN
8 17 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.93%) BGP
9 14 (0.93%) DHCP
10 13 (0.86%) VoIP
11 12 (0.79%) OSPF
11 12 (0.79%) SSL
11 12 (0.79%) VLAN
12 11 (0.73%) HTTP
12 11 (0.73%) Kerberos
13 10 (0.66%) Wireless
14 9 (0.60%) Internet
15 8 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (9.99%) BigQuery
2 115 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (6.75%) NoSQL
4 93 (6.15%) Power BI
5 87 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 52 (3.44%) SQL Server
8 48 (3.17%) Metadata
9 47 (3.11%) Tableau
10 46 (3.04%) MongoDB
11 45 (2.98%) Big Data
12 44 (2.91%) Relational Database
13 40 (2.65%) MySQL
14 29 (1.92%) Looker
15 26 (1.72%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (1.12%) Data Vault
17 17 (1.12%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 214 (14.15%) Jenkins
2 153 (10.12%) GitLab
3 146 (9.66%) Git
4 77 (5.09%) JIRA
5 25 (1.65%) Liquibase
6 24 (1.59%) Selenium
7 23 (1.52%) CircleCI
7 23 (1.52%) Postman
8 20 (1.32%) JUnit
9 15 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.93%) JMeter
11 13 (0.86%) ERwin
11 13 (0.86%) Gatling
11 13 (0.86%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.79%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.79%) Maven
13 11 (0.73%) MLflow
14 10 (0.66%) ER Studio
14 10 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 546 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 337 (22.29%) Finance
3 177 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (11.04%) Banking
5 132 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 59 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 33 (2.18%) Retail
9 32 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.65%) Legal
13 23 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.46%) Marketing
15 18 (1.19%) Front Office
16 16 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.06%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.99%) Electronics
18 13 (0.86%) Law
19 10 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 278 (18.39%) Architect
2 181 (11.97%) Senior
3 164 (10.85%) Developer
4 123 (8.13%) Lead
5 115 (7.61%) GCP Engineer
6 99 (6.55%) Data Engineer
7 91 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 87 (5.75%) Analyst
9 76 (5.03%) Software Engineer
10 74 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 74 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (4.10%) Consultant
12 46 (3.04%) Security Engineer
13 44 (2.91%) Java Developer
14 40 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
15 39 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 39 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
16 37 (2.45%) Data Scientist
16 37 (2.45%) GCP DevOps
17 35 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (11.38%) REST
2 132 (8.73%) Kafka
3 116 (7.67%) React
4 112 (7.41%) RESTful
5 96 (6.35%) Spring
6 93 (6.15%) Node.js
7 80 (5.29%) LDAP
8 76 (5.03%) Spring Boot
9 58 (3.84%) AngularJS
10 56 (3.70%) PyTorch
11 55 (3.64%) SOAP
11 55 (3.64%) TensorFlow
12 49 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
13 48 (3.17%) OAuth
14 44 (2.91%) OpenID
15 42 (2.78%) .NET
16 36 (2.38%) Middleware
16 36 (2.38%) scikit-learn
17 35 (2.31%) HTML
18 34 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 262 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 90 (5.95%) Public Cloud
3 81 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (5.36%) Security Posture
4 64 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 38 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.98%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.32%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.26%) Life Science
14 18 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (0.99%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 134 (8.86%) Linux
2 63 (4.17%) Windows
3 28 (1.85%) Mac OS
4 24 (1.59%) Unix
5 18 (1.19%) Android
6 17 (1.12%) VMS
7 15 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.60%) CentOS
10 8 (0.53%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
13 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
14 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.066%) Rocky
15 1 (0.066%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (43.58%) CI/CD
2 563 (37.24%) DevOps
3 385 (25.46%) Agile
4 363 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
5 320 (21.16%) Containerisation
6 308 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 285 (18.85%) AI
8 240 (15.87%) Analytics
9 239 (15.81%) Microservices
10 220 (14.55%) Machine Learning
11 164 (10.85%) Software Engineering
12 159 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 156 (10.32%) Observability
14 150 (9.92%) Test Automation
15 147 (9.72%) Data Modelling
16 146 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
17 143 (9.46%) Migration
18 141 (9.33%) DevSecOps
19 137 (9.06%) Cybersecurity
19 137 (9.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 657 (43.45%) Python
2 289 (19.11%) SQL
3 250 (16.53%) Java
4 138 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 122 (8.07%) Bash
6 109 (7.21%) JavaScript
7 85 (5.62%) Go
7 85 (5.62%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.84%) C#
9 31 (2.05%) Scala
10 22 (1.46%) R
11 21 (1.39%) Bicep
12 14 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.86%) Groovy
13 13 (0.86%) Ruby
14 10 (0.66%) C++
14 10 (0.66%) Perl
14 10 (0.66%) PHP
15 8 (0.53%) C
16 7 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 320 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 262 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 138 (9.13%) Degree
4 95 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.30%) CISSP
6 50 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 48 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.04%) CISM
9 42 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 34 (2.25%) DV Cleared
11 29 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (1.06%) CCSP
14 16 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.93%) CCNP
16 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.79%) OSCP
17 10 (0.66%) CCIE
17 10 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (9.46%) GDPR
2 106 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 100 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (5.62%) NIST
5 68 (4.50%) QA
6 45 (2.98%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.46%) HIPAA
9 19 (1.26%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.12%) GRC
11 16 (1.06%) SLA
12 15 (0.99%) NCSC
13 13 (0.86%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.53%) PSD2
15 7 (0.46%) PERC
16 6 (0.40%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 5 (0.33%) WCAG
18 4 (0.26%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 379 (25.07%) Docker
2 108 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 47 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.66%) vSphere
7 8 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.40%) GPFS
8 6 (0.40%) KVM
8 6 (0.40%) Lustre
8 6 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.33%) Squid
10 4 (0.26%) Snort
11 3 (0.20%) HDFS
12 2 (0.13%) NFS
12 2 (0.13%) UAG
13 1 (0.066%) Ceph
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 488 (32.28%) Kubernetes
2 356 (23.54%) Terraform
3 158 (10.45%) Ansible
4 103 (6.81%) Grafana
5 101 (6.68%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.98%) Istio
7 27 (1.79%) Argo
8 21 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.32%) SCCM
10 17 (1.12%) CSIRT
10 17 (1.12%) Puppet
10 17 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.93%) Nessus
12 12 (0.79%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.66%) Fluentd
13 10 (0.66%) Kibana
14 9 (0.60%) Podman
15 7 (0.46%) Nmap
16 6 (0.40%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 501 (33.13%) Google
2 152 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 128 (8.47%) Splunk
4 76 (5.03%) Databricks
5 72 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 61 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 57 (3.77%) BeyondTrust
8 55 (3.64%) Oracle
9 52 (3.44%) VMware
10 41 (2.71%) Palo Alto
10 41 (2.71%) SAP
11 39 (2.58%) OpenAI
12 36 (2.38%) Cisco
12 36 (2.38%) F5
13 34 (2.25%) Centrify
14 27 (1.79%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.26%) Informatica
16 18 (1.19%) Fortinet
17 17 (1.12%) Okta
18 16 (1.06%) Dynatrace