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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,947 1,334 1,201
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 4.74% 3.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.03% 12.27% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 908 794
10th Percentile £406 £375 £390
25th Percentile £463 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -9.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £750
90th Percentile £738 £827 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £600
% change year-on-year +2.37% -10.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.11 £35.50
25th Percentile £19.47 £39.12 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% -5.51% -15.38%
75th Percentile £81.25 £67.44 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £88.75 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £51.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +31.26% -5.51% -19.71%

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 16,181 10,869 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.55% 38.64% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,351 7,492
10th Percentile £323 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 260 159
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 1,009 £588 -2.08% 1,742
North of England +1 436 £530 +6.00% 331
Yorkshire -2 275 £528 +5.60% 92
South East -5 184 £525 +5.79% 183
North West -1 144 £530 +6.00% 201
South West +21 136 £550 +4.76% 101
Midlands -74 75 £535 +9.74% 89
West Midlands -62 59 £540 +2.86% 72
East of England -2 52 £553 +10.50% 57
North East -25 20 £600 +21.21% 39
East Midlands -31 16 £500 +20.48% 17
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
1 115 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
1 115 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 78 (4.01%) Apache
3 53 (2.72%) Confluence
4 19 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.41%) SAS
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.051%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.051%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.051%) Houdini
7 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.051%) NUKE
7 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.46%) Cloudability
4 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.051%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.051%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.051%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.051%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (66.20%) AWS
2 1,248 (64.10%) Azure
3 232 (11.92%) GitHub
4 171 (8.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 155 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
6 137 (7.04%) Snowflake
7 107 (5.50%) dbt
8 93 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (4.78%) SaaS
9 81 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 80 (4.11%) Entra ID
11 72 (3.70%) Power Platform
12 65 (3.34%) Serverless
13 59 (3.03%) Cloud Run
14 52 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (2.57%) Vertex AI
16 47 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
17 43 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
18 42 (2.16%) Datadog
19 38 (1.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 104 (5.34%) Firewall
2 100 (5.14%) Network Security
3 76 (3.90%) DNS
4 63 (3.24%) VPN
5 34 (1.75%) BGP
6 32 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.34%) DHCP
7 26 (1.34%) WAN
8 24 (1.23%) Internet
9 22 (1.13%) HTTP
10 20 (1.03%) OSPF
10 20 (1.03%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.92%) VLAN
12 14 (0.72%) SSL
13 12 (0.62%) IPsec
13 12 (0.62%) VoIP
14 11 (0.56%) LAN
14 11 (0.56%) Multicast
15 10 (0.51%) MPLS
16 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (12.58%) BigQuery
2 167 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (4.62%) Metadata
5 86 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 78 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 74 (3.80%) Data Lake
8 63 (3.24%) Power BI
9 57 (2.93%) Big Data
10 52 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 49 (2.52%) Looker
12 46 (2.36%) MySQL
13 43 (2.21%) MongoDB
14 41 (2.11%) SQL Server
15 38 (1.95%) Tableau
16 33 (1.69%) Redis
17 27 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (1.39%) Flink
18 24 (1.23%) Delta Lake
18 24 (1.23%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 249 (12.79%) Git
2 246 (12.63%) Jenkins
3 155 (7.96%) GitLab
4 107 (5.50%) JIRA
5 38 (1.95%) Maven
6 34 (1.75%) JUnit
6 34 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.39%) Gradle
8 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.23%) JMeter
9 23 (1.18%) Selenium
10 22 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (0.92%) Gatling
11 18 (0.92%) LoadRunner
12 16 (0.82%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.82%) Postman
13 14 (0.72%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.72%) Snyk
14 11 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 532 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 491 (25.22%) Finance
3 210 (10.79%) Banking
4 194 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 72 (3.70%) Retail
7 54 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 33 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 33 (1.69%) Legal
11 31 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (1.54%) Billing
13 28 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.39%) Marketing
15 26 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
18 17 (0.87%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 402 (20.65%) Architect
2 268 (13.76%) Senior
3 227 (11.66%) Developer
4 188 (9.66%) Data Engineer
5 177 (9.09%) Lead
6 151 (7.76%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 119 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.57%) Java Developer
11 88 (4.52%) Security Engineer
12 86 (4.42%) Consultant
13 72 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 68 (3.49%) Analyst
15 61 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
15 61 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
16 58 (2.98%) Data Architect
17 54 (2.77%) Security Architect
17 54 (2.77%) Software Engineer
18 50 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (27.17%) Terraform
2 227 (11.66%) Kafka
3 205 (10.53%) REST
4 115 (5.91%) React
5 99 (5.08%) OAuth
6 92 (4.73%) RESTful
7 90 (4.62%) Spring
8 83 (4.26%) Spring Boot
9 68 (3.49%) Node.js
10 63 (3.24%) JSON
11 62 (3.18%) OpenID
12 59 (3.03%) SOAP
13 57 (2.93%) SAML
14 53 (2.72%) PySpark
15 49 (2.52%) OAuth2
16 47 (2.41%) LangChain
17 46 (2.36%) HTML
18 44 (2.26%) LDAP
19 42 (2.16%) GraphQL
19 42 (2.16%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 432 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.34%) AI Agents
4 83 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 81 (4.16%) Product Ownership
6 78 (4.01%) Public Cloud
7 68 (3.49%) Security Posture
8 67 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 65 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
10 61 (3.13%) Data Centre
11 53 (2.72%) Data Structures
12 52 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
13 47 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
14 45 (2.31%) Management Information System
15 44 (2.26%) Algorithms
16 42 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
17 39 (2.00%) PKI
18 30 (1.54%) CMDB
19 26 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
19 26 (1.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 183 (9.40%) Linux
2 102 (5.24%) Windows
3 53 (2.72%) Unix
4 36 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.92%) Android
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.46%) macOS
9 7 (0.36%) VMS
10 4 (0.21%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) CentOS
12 1 (0.051%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.051%) Solaris
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE
12 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (47.10%) CI/CD
2 662 (34.00%) DevOps
3 517 (26.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 502 (25.78%) Agile
5 484 (24.86%) AI
6 367 (18.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 332 (17.05%) Microservices
8 315 (16.18%) Analytics
9 292 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (14.84%) Software Engineering
11 286 (14.69%) Observability
12 271 (13.92%) Containerisation
13 265 (13.61%) Machine Learning
14 251 (12.89%) Roadmaps
15 245 (12.58%) Data Modelling
16 244 (12.53%) Cloud Security
17 234 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
18 233 (11.97%) Migration
19 230 (11.81%) Data Engineering
19 230 (11.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 782 (40.16%) Python
2 464 (23.83%) SQL
3 358 (18.39%) Java
4 165 (8.47%) Bash
5 159 (8.17%) PowerShell
6 154 (7.91%) JavaScript
7 98 (5.03%) Go
8 74 (3.80%) TypeScript
9 51 (2.62%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.16%) C#
11 38 (1.95%) Scala
12 36 (1.85%) Bicep
13 29 (1.49%) Kotlin
14 24 (1.23%) Groovy
15 18 (0.92%) R
16 17 (0.87%) Rust
17 15 (0.77%) C++
18 12 (0.62%) ABAP
19 10 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 10 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 385 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 284 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.60%) Degree
4 110 (5.65%) CISSP
4 110 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 103 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 68 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 67 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (3.34%) CISM
9 56 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 36 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.54%) CCSP
14 21 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.82%) CISA
17 14 (0.72%) GIAC
17 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 103 (5.29%) QA
3 95 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.57%) NIST
5 66 (3.39%) GDPR
6 32 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.39%) NCSC
9 26 (1.34%) GRC
10 24 (1.23%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.67%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.51%) COBIT
14 8 (0.41%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 355 (18.23%) Docker
2 85 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.051%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 624 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 172 (8.83%) Ansible
3 121 (6.21%) Grafana
4 110 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.69%) Argo
6 33 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 28 (1.44%) Puppet
8 26 (1.34%) Istio
9 19 (0.98%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.62%) Podman
12 9 (0.46%) CASB
13 8 (0.41%) QRadar
14 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.26%) Control-M
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) Kibana
16 4 (0.21%) Nagios
16 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 707 (36.31%) Google
2 261 (13.41%) Microsoft
3 126 (6.47%) Databricks
4 93 (4.78%) Splunk
5 83 (4.26%) Oracle
6 66 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 61 (3.13%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.57%) SAP
9 49 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 48 (2.47%) VMware
11 43 (2.21%) CyberArk
11 43 (2.21%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.90%) IBM
13 34 (1.75%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.49%) Cisco
14 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.44%) Informatica
16 24 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
16 24 (1.23%) Okta
17 19 (0.98%) MuleSoft