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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 69
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,470 1,127 1,230
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.81% 3.63% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.46% 10.11% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 713 944
10th Percentile £367 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -0.04% -6.21%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £738
90th Percentile £775 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £33.96 £35.75 £49.03
25th Percentile £46.85 £45.75 £58.00
Median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -11.54% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.63 £78.75
90th Percentile £82.05 £68.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -20.14% +168.01%

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 11,794 11,147 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.62% 35.89% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,413 10,057
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 144 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -8 780 £590 -5.60% 1,128
North of England +25 294 £500 - 224
Yorkshire +13 185 £500 -6.98% 53
South East +41 157 £481 -3.75% 277
Midlands +33 108 £491 +2.94% 56
North West +34 105 £526 +0.12% 159
West Midlands +27 80 £525 +7.14% 37
South West +37 56 £550 -12.00% 84
East of England -16 32 £483 +50.78% 48
East Midlands +2 27 £425 +19.38% 18
North East -15 4 £495 +4.21% 12
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 92 (6.26%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.79%) Apache
4 36 (2.45%) Confluence
5 14 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.68%) SAS
7 9 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.41%) Mule
8 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Weka
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Maple
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
7 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.068%) Actimize
6 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.068%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (71.97%) AWS
2 994 (67.62%) Azure
3 184 (12.52%) GitHub
4 99 (6.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 88 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.44%) dbt
6 80 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
6 80 (5.44%) Snowflake
7 77 (5.24%) Serverless
8 63 (4.29%) SaaS
9 59 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (3.81%) Entra ID
11 54 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (3.13%) OpenShift
13 38 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (2.52%) PaaS
15 33 (2.24%) Apigee
15 33 (2.24%) Cloud Run
16 32 (2.18%) IaaS
16 32 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 137 (9.32%) Firewall
2 44 (2.99%) VPN
3 43 (2.93%) Network Security
4 37 (2.52%) DNS
5 24 (1.63%) WAN
6 21 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.36%) Wireshark
8 18 (1.22%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.16%) VLAN
10 16 (1.09%) BGP
11 15 (1.02%) LAN
12 14 (0.95%) OSPF
13 13 (0.88%) SSL
14 12 (0.82%) DHCP
15 11 (0.75%) HTTP
16 10 (0.68%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.61%) SAN
18 8 (0.54%) MPLS
18 8 (0.54%) Wireless
19 7 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.70%) BigQuery
2 149 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (8.10%) NoSQL
4 114 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (5.44%) Power BI
6 54 (3.67%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.54%) Big Data
8 51 (3.47%) Tableau
9 48 (3.27%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.13%) Data Lake
11 43 (2.93%) Metadata
12 40 (2.72%) SQL Server
13 38 (2.59%) Looker
14 32 (2.18%) MySQL
15 30 (2.04%) Hadoop
16 24 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.36%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (1.29%) Apache Arrow
19 19 (1.29%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 217 (14.76%) Jenkins
2 158 (10.75%) Git
3 143 (9.73%) GitLab
4 84 (5.71%) JIRA
5 46 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 42 (2.86%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (1.56%) MLflow
9 22 (1.50%) Maven
10 21 (1.43%) Burp Suite
10 21 (1.43%) CircleCI
11 20 (1.36%) Gradle
11 20 (1.36%) Metasploit
12 19 (1.29%) JUnit
13 18 (1.22%) Postman
14 17 (1.16%) Cypress.io
15 16 (1.09%) ERwin
15 16 (1.09%) Selenium
16 15 (1.02%) Artifactory
16 15 (1.02%) ER Studio
General
1 557 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 359 (24.42%) Finance
3 198 (13.47%) Banking
4 183 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.06%) Financial Institution
8 44 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.79%) Marketing
10 38 (2.59%) Front Office
11 33 (2.24%) Retail
12 29 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.43%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.22%) Legal
18 14 (0.95%) Electronics
19 11 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 254 (17.28%) Architect
2 194 (13.20%) Senior
3 190 (12.93%) Developer
4 97 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (6.53%) GCP Engineer
6 93 (6.33%) Data Engineer
7 92 (6.26%) Analyst
8 91 (6.19%) Software Engineer
9 89 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
10 84 (5.71%) Lead
11 70 (4.76%) Security Engineer
12 69 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (3.88%) Consultant
14 51 (3.47%) Java Developer
15 47 (3.20%) Python Engineer
16 46 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
17 43 (2.93%) Security Architect
18 38 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.38%) Data Architect
19 35 (2.38%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (8.50%) RESTful
2 112 (7.62%) REST
3 111 (7.55%) Kafka
3 111 (7.55%) React
4 99 (6.73%) Node.js
5 86 (5.85%) Spring
6 69 (4.69%) Spring Boot
7 64 (4.35%) AngularJS
8 59 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
9 49 (3.33%) Vue
10 47 (3.20%) Pandas
11 46 (3.13%) OAuth
12 44 (2.99%) TensorFlow
13 42 (2.86%) PyTorch
14 41 (2.79%) HTML
15 40 (2.72%) NumPy
16 38 (2.59%) LDAP
17 35 (2.38%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.31%) CSS
19 32 (2.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.65%) Public Cloud
3 78 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.47%) Security Posture
7 40 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (2.18%) Fixed Income
12 30 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 30 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.97%) Equities
13 29 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 27 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.36%) Life Science
17 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.14%) Linux
2 60 (4.08%) Windows
3 29 (1.97%) Unix
4 22 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.88%) Android
5 13 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.68%) CentOS
8 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.27%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.068%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (41.63%) CI/CD
2 511 (34.76%) DevOps
3 408 (27.76%) Agile
4 334 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
5 312 (21.22%) Containerisation
6 288 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 239 (16.26%) AI
8 232 (15.78%) Microservices
9 221 (15.03%) Analytics
10 202 (13.74%) Machine Learning
11 173 (11.77%) Software Engineering
12 166 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 161 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
14 149 (10.14%) Data Pipeline
15 148 (10.07%) Data Modelling
16 144 (9.80%) Cloud Security
17 143 (9.73%) Data Science
18 142 (9.66%) ETL
19 138 (9.39%) Test Automation
20 136 (9.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 656 (44.63%) Python
2 288 (19.59%) SQL
3 263 (17.89%) Java
4 154 (10.48%) Bash
5 131 (8.91%) JavaScript
6 108 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 99 (6.73%) Go
8 97 (6.60%) TypeScript
9 33 (2.24%) Scala
10 31 (2.11%) C#
11 25 (1.70%) R
12 20 (1.36%) C++
12 20 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.22%) Perl
14 17 (1.16%) Ruby
15 16 (1.09%) Bicep
16 15 (1.02%) Groovy
17 14 (0.95%) C
18 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 230 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 149 (10.14%) Degree
4 99 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (5.44%) CISSP
6 69 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 69 (4.69%) Master's Degree
7 51 (3.47%) CISM
8 49 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.77%) OSCP
12 23 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (1.36%) CCSP
14 17 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (1.09%) CREST Certified
16 14 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (0.88%) CCNP
18 12 (0.82%) Tigerscheme
19 11 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (9.46%) GDPR
2 121 (8.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 98 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 96 (6.53%) NIST
5 82 (5.58%) QA
6 43 (2.93%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.56%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.56%) HIPAA
7 23 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 18 (1.22%) NCSC
9 12 (0.82%) GRC
10 9 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.54%) PSD2
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) WCAG
15 4 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 381 (25.92%) Docker
2 78 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.54%) KVM
5 8 (0.54%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.34%) GPFS
7 5 (0.34%) Lustre
7 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.34%) Squid
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Snort
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) UAG
11 1 (0.068%) Ceph
11 1 (0.068%) HDFS
11 1 (0.068%) SRDF
11 1 (0.068%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 451 (30.68%) Kubernetes
2 312 (21.22%) Terraform
3 144 (9.80%) Ansible
4 93 (6.33%) Grafana
5 90 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.24%) Argo
7 30 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.70%) Puppet
9 21 (1.43%) Nmap
10 19 (1.29%) Istio
11 18 (1.22%) CSIRT
11 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (1.09%) SCCM
13 14 (0.95%) Kubeflow
13 14 (0.95%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.75%) Nessus
15 10 (0.68%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.68%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 478 (32.52%) Google
2 151 (10.27%) Microsoft
3 116 (7.89%) Splunk
4 71 (4.83%) Databricks
5 61 (4.15%) Oracle
6 50 (3.40%) VMware
7 47 (3.20%) F5
8 46 (3.13%) CyberArk
9 42 (2.86%) Palo Alto
9 42 (2.86%) SAP
10 37 (2.52%) Cisco
11 26 (1.77%) BeyondTrust
12 25 (1.70%) IBM
13 24 (1.63%) OpenAI
14 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
15 21 (1.43%) Citrix
15 21 (1.43%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.29%) Okta
17 16 (1.09%) Informatica
17 16 (1.09%) Salesforce