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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 67
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,685 989 1,153
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 4.02% 3.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.27% 10.66% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 666 839
10th Percentile £400 £364 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 10 9
10th Percentile £13.34 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £76.81 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -30.71%

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 14,955 9,274 12,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.71% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 6,320 8,595
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 225 333
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
% change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -3 885 £581 -3.33% 317
North of England +19 345 £540 +1.89% 141
Yorkshire +1 212 £533 +1.48% 32
South East +14 155 £531 -3.41% 104
South West +39 115 £570 +9.88% 63
North West +9 115 £558 +3.24% 96
Midlands -14 91 £476 +5.19% 29
West Midlands -4 71 £477 -20.50% 20
East of England -1 47 £523 +6.09% 16
North East -16 21 £575 +5.75% 13
East Midlands -22 20 £447 +11.75% 9
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
1 105 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (3.15%) Apache
4 39 (2.31%) Confluence
5 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (65.88%) AWS
2 1,093 (64.87%) Azure
3 193 (11.45%) GitHub
4 169 (10.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 125 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (5.99%) Snowflake
7 94 (5.58%) Power Platform
8 74 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.09%) SaaS
9 69 (4.09%) Serverless
10 66 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (3.26%) dbt
12 51 (3.03%) Vertex AI
13 50 (2.97%) Entra ID
14 47 (2.79%) Cloud Run
15 43 (2.55%) Amazon S3
16 37 (2.20%) OpenShift
17 34 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 29 (1.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 102 (6.05%) Firewall
2 96 (5.70%) Network Security
3 94 (5.58%) DNS
4 87 (5.16%) VPN
5 27 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.54%) WAN
7 23 (1.36%) BGP
8 22 (1.31%) HTTP
9 17 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.89%) OSPF
11 14 (0.83%) DHCP
11 14 (0.83%) Internet
12 12 (0.71%) SSL
13 11 (0.65%) VoIP
14 10 (0.59%) IPsec
14 10 (0.59%) LAN
14 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.53%) VLAN
16 8 (0.47%) DKIM
16 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (10.68%) BigQuery
2 122 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (4.51%) Data Lake
5 75 (4.45%) Power BI
6 74 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 70 (4.15%) Big Data
8 55 (3.26%) Metadata
9 53 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 47 (2.79%) Tableau
11 39 (2.31%) SQL Server
12 34 (2.02%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.78%) MySQL
14 24 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.31%) Hadoop
16 20 (1.19%) Flink
17 19 (1.13%) Looker
17 19 (1.13%) Redis
18 16 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 208 (12.34%) Jenkins
2 161 (9.55%) Git
3 136 (8.07%) GitLab
4 81 (4.81%) JIRA
5 46 (2.73%) JUnit
6 40 (2.37%) Selenium
7 32 (1.90%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.84%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.78%) JMeter
10 18 (1.07%) Maven
10 18 (1.07%) Postman
10 18 (1.07%) WebDriver
11 14 (0.83%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.71%) MLflow
13 10 (0.59%) Gradle
13 10 (0.59%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.53%) ERwin
14 9 (0.53%) Gatling
15 8 (0.47%) Mockito
16 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 462 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 398 (23.62%) Finance
3 156 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 156 (9.26%) Banking
4 134 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 63 (3.74%) Retail
6 47 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 33 (1.96%) Front Office
9 32 (1.90%) Legal
10 31 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.42%) Marketing
13 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 20 (1.19%) Investment Banking
14 15 (0.89%) Billing
15 14 (0.83%) Military
16 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.71%) Law
17 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 353 (20.95%) Architect
2 215 (12.76%) Senior
3 187 (11.10%) Developer
4 164 (9.73%) GCP Engineer
5 162 (9.61%) Lead
6 140 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 108 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 106 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
10 69 (4.09%) Java Developer
11 66 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 62 (3.68%) Consultant
13 59 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
14 56 (3.32%) Security Architect
14 56 (3.32%) Security Engineer
15 50 (2.97%) GCP DevOps
16 49 (2.91%) Data Architect
17 47 (2.79%) Analyst
18 45 (2.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 43 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (9.20%) REST
2 153 (9.08%) Kafka
3 119 (7.06%) Spring
4 113 (6.71%) React
5 99 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.64%) Node.js
7 78 (4.63%) OAuth
8 75 (4.45%) LDAP
9 61 (3.62%) RESTful
10 53 (3.15%) SOAP
11 50 (2.97%) OpenID
12 48 (2.85%) PyTorch
13 46 (2.73%) TensorFlow
14 44 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 43 (2.55%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.43%) SAML
17 39 (2.31%) LangChain
18 37 (2.20%) .NET
19 32 (1.90%) GraphQL
19 32 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 327 (19.41%) Cloud Native
2 101 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.33%) Security Posture
4 66 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.26%) AI Agents
7 51 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (2.31%) Onboarding
11 37 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.08%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.60%) Derivative
13 27 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
13 27 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.42%) Clustering
16 23 (1.36%) Private Cloud
17 22 (1.31%) Algorithms
17 22 (1.31%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.29%) Linux
2 79 (4.69%) Windows
3 28 (1.66%) Android
4 26 (1.54%) Unix
5 24 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.01%) VMS
7 17 (1.01%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (45.82%) CI/CD
2 560 (33.23%) DevOps
3 392 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 383 (22.73%) Agile
5 367 (21.78%) AI
6 287 (17.03%) Microservices
7 273 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (16.02%) Analytics
9 260 (15.43%) Observability
10 243 (14.42%) Containerisation
11 230 (13.65%) Machine Learning
12 204 (12.11%) Software Engineering
13 201 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
14 197 (11.69%) Migration
15 191 (11.34%) Data Modelling
16 190 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 178 (10.56%) Cloud Security
18 173 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 170 (10.09%) Data Engineering
20 165 (9.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 663 (39.35%) Python
2 338 (20.06%) SQL
3 315 (18.69%) Java
4 140 (8.31%) PowerShell
5 121 (7.18%) JavaScript
6 116 (6.88%) Bash
7 89 (5.28%) Go
8 84 (4.99%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.43%) C#
10 37 (2.20%) Scala
11 20 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.07%) Groovy
13 17 (1.01%) Bicep
14 15 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.71%) Rust
16 11 (0.65%) R
16 11 (0.65%) Ruby
17 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
18 6 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 363 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 295 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.82%) Degree
4 96 (5.70%) CISSP
5 70 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 65 (3.86%) AWS Certification
7 57 (3.38%) CISM
8 53 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 51 (3.03%) Azure Certification
11 38 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.54%) CCSP
14 22 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 18 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.95%) GIAC
17 14 (0.83%) CCNP
18 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
19 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.23%) GDPR
3 87 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (5.16%) NIST
4 64 (3.80%) QA
5 35 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.48%) NCSC
7 21 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 17 (1.01%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.53%) COBIT
13 9 (0.53%) PSD2
13 9 (0.53%) WCAG
14 8 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.36%) MiFID
15 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 324 (19.23%) Docker
2 93 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) vSphere
7 12 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 510 (30.27%) Kubernetes
2 440 (26.11%) Terraform
3 122 (7.24%) Grafana
4 117 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 109 (6.47%) Ansible
6 38 (2.26%) Istio
7 34 (2.02%) Argo
8 33 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.01%) Puppet
11 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.59%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.42%) linkerd
15 7 (0.42%) Podman
16 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.30%) Nessus
16 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
17 4 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 524 (31.10%) Google
2 146 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.75%) Databricks
4 66 (3.92%) CyberArk
4 66 (3.92%) Splunk
5 56 (3.32%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.61%) BeyondTrust
7 42 (2.49%) Oracle
8 39 (2.31%) VMware
9 37 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 36 (2.14%) OpenAI
11 34 (2.02%) Dynatrace
12 33 (1.96%) Centrify
13 26 (1.54%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.31%) Red Hat
15 20 (1.19%) Cisco
15 20 (1.19%) Okta
16 18 (1.07%) SAP
17 16 (0.95%) Informatica
18 15 (0.89%) Foundry