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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 68
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,677 955 1,110
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 3.97% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.35% 10.58% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 646 822
10th Percentile £400 £364 £419
25th Percentile £463 £481 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -2.29% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £819 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 9
10th Percentile £13.06 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -21.62%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £80.35 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +8.25% -30.89%

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 14,776 9,024 11,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.56% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,069 6,187 8,492
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £508 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 210 325
10th Percentile £15.69 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.57 £18.13 £15.98
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £67.63 £69.20
UK median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +1 879 £575 -8.00% 159
North of England +16 347 £538 -0.46% 106
Yorkshire +2 213 £525 -2.33% 21
South East +7 152 £525 -4.55% 94
North West +5 118 £550 +1.85% 69
South West +26 108 £565 +8.92% 41
Midlands -20 88 £475 +6.80% 23
West Midlands -22 68 £477 -20.50% 13
East of England -3 50 £523 +6.09% 6
East Midlands -26 20 £438 +9.38% 10
North East -8 19 £584 +7.36% 16
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
1 109 (6.50%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.40%) Apache
4 40 (2.39%) Confluence
5 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.83%) 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 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) 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
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,125 (67.08%) Azure
2 1,123 (66.96%) AWS
3 192 (11.45%) GitHub
4 159 (9.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (6.02%) Power Platform
7 96 (5.72%) Snowflake
8 79 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (4.05%) SaaS
11 67 (4.00%) Serverless
12 57 (3.40%) dbt
13 51 (3.04%) Entra ID
14 50 (2.98%) OpenShift
15 49 (2.92%) Amazon S3
16 48 (2.86%) Vertex AI
17 41 (2.44%) Cloud Run
18 38 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 36 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
20 32 (1.91%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.96%) Firewall
2 92 (5.49%) DNS
3 91 (5.43%) Network Security
4 90 (5.37%) VPN
5 26 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.49%) WAN
7 21 (1.25%) BGP
8 18 (1.07%) HTTP
9 15 (0.89%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.83%) OSPF
11 12 (0.72%) Internet
11 12 (0.72%) SSL
11 12 (0.72%) VoIP
12 10 (0.60%) DHCP
12 10 (0.60%) LAN
13 9 (0.54%) IPsec
13 9 (0.54%) VXLAN
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
14 8 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (10.85%) BigQuery
2 114 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.95%) Power BI
5 77 (4.59%) Data Lake
5 77 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 71 (4.23%) Big Data
7 55 (3.28%) Metadata
8 49 (2.92%) Relational Database
8 49 (2.92%) Tableau
9 42 (2.50%) SQL Server
10 36 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.79%) MySQL
12 23 (1.37%) Hadoop
12 23 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
13 21 (1.25%) Looker
14 20 (1.19%) Flink
15 19 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.07%) OLAP
17 17 (1.01%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (12.64%) Jenkins
2 157 (9.36%) Git
3 144 (8.59%) GitLab
4 89 (5.31%) JIRA
5 46 (2.74%) Selenium
6 40 (2.39%) JUnit
7 33 (1.97%) Cucumber
8 29 (1.73%) JMeter
9 28 (1.67%) SonarQube
10 24 (1.43%) Postman
11 19 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 18 (1.07%) Maven
12 18 (1.07%) WebDriver
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
1 461 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 380 (22.66%) Finance
3 149 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
3 149 (8.88%) Banking
4 131 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 59 (3.52%) Retail
6 44 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.03%) Legal
8 31 (1.85%) Front Office
9 30 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (1.49%) Marketing
11 21 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 16 (0.95%) Military
14 13 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.72%) Billing
15 12 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 360 (21.47%) Architect
2 207 (12.34%) Senior
3 180 (10.73%) Developer
4 165 (9.84%) Lead
5 163 (9.72%) GCP Engineer
6 141 (8.41%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 102 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 79 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 64 (3.82%) Software Engineer
11 62 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
12 61 (3.64%) Java Developer
13 57 (3.40%) Consultant
14 56 (3.34%) Security Engineer
15 54 (3.22%) Analyst
15 54 (3.22%) Security Architect
16 49 (2.92%) GCP DevOps
17 48 (2.86%) Data Architect
18 45 (2.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 39 (2.33%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (9.48%) REST
2 148 (8.83%) Kafka
3 111 (6.62%) React
3 111 (6.62%) Spring
4 95 (5.66%) Node.js
5 93 (5.55%) Spring Boot
6 84 (5.01%) LDAP
7 74 (4.41%) OAuth
8 58 (3.46%) RESTful
9 54 (3.22%) OpenID
9 54 (3.22%) SOAP
10 47 (2.80%) PyTorch
11 46 (2.74%) AngularJS
11 46 (2.74%) TensorFlow
12 43 (2.56%) .NET
13 40 (2.39%) OAuth2
14 36 (2.15%) SAML
15 35 (2.09%) LangChain
16 32 (1.91%) Middleware
17 31 (1.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 324 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.41%) Security Posture
4 65 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 50 (2.98%) AI Agents
8 49 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 48 (2.86%) Data Centre
10 36 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (2.15%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.97%) Fixed Income
12 27 (1.61%) Derivative
12 27 (1.61%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
14 24 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.43%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.37%) Equities
16 21 (1.25%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.25%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.14%) Linux
2 79 (4.71%) Windows
3 29 (1.73%) Android
4 23 (1.37%) Mac OS
4 23 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.25%) VMS
7 18 (1.07%) Unix
8 13 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (45.68%) CI/CD
2 567 (33.81%) DevOps
3 388 (23.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 368 (21.94%) Agile
5 340 (20.27%) AI
6 282 (16.82%) Analytics
6 282 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (16.28%) Microservices
8 254 (15.15%) Observability
9 247 (14.73%) Containerisation
10 223 (13.30%) Machine Learning
11 201 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
12 199 (11.87%) Software Engineering
13 195 (11.63%) Migration
14 194 (11.57%) Data Modelling
15 185 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 177 (10.55%) Data Engineering
17 170 (10.14%) Cloud Security
17 170 (10.14%) ETL
18 168 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 659 (39.30%) Python
2 339 (20.21%) SQL
3 305 (18.19%) Java
4 146 (8.71%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.51%) JavaScript
6 119 (7.10%) Bash
7 84 (5.01%) Go
8 80 (4.77%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.68%) C#
10 40 (2.39%) Scala
11 19 (1.13%) Groovy
12 18 (1.07%) Bicep
12 18 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.66%) R
14 10 (0.60%) Ruby
15 9 (0.54%) PHP
15 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 363 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 293 (17.47%) SC Cleared
3 94 (5.61%) CISSP
4 93 (5.55%) Degree
5 62 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 60 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 55 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (3.28%) CISM
8 53 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (3.04%) Azure Certification
10 37 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 25 (1.49%) CCSP
12 23 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.31%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.95%) CCNP
15 16 (0.95%) GIAC
15 16 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 117 (6.98%) GDPR
3 90 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (5.31%) NIST
5 69 (4.11%) QA
6 34 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.31%) NCSC
8 21 (1.25%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 18 (1.07%) SLA
10 15 (0.89%) 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
1 323 (19.26%) Docker
2 96 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.01%) 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
1 516 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 436 (26.00%) Terraform
3 121 (7.22%) Ansible
4 119 (7.10%) Grafana
5 111 (6.62%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.09%) Istio
7 31 (1.85%) Argo
8 29 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (1.25%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.01%) 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
14 6 (0.36%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
14 6 (0.36%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 514 (30.65%) Google
2 147 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.95%) Databricks
4 70 (4.17%) Splunk
5 67 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 64 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
8 41 (2.44%) VMware
9 38 (2.27%) Oracle
10 36 (2.15%) Centrify
11 35 (2.09%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.97%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.61%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.61%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.31%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.13%) Cisco
15 19 (1.13%) Okta
16 17 (1.01%) Foundry
16 17 (1.01%) Informatica
17 16 (0.95%) SAP