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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 56 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,450 1,119 1,242
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.77% 3.63% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.35% 10.11% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 708 957
10th Percentile £371 £399 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% - -6.07%
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 11,745 11,070 13,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.65% 35.90% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,996 7,359 10,084
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 140 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% +10.00% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -7 776 £590 -5.60% 1,132
North of England +24 287 £500 - 227
Yorkshire +13 182 £500 -6.98% 48
South East +45 151 £490 -2.05% 228
Midlands +28 109 £490 +2.73% 54
North West +27 101 £513 -2.38% 167
West Midlands +24 80 £525 +7.14% 34
South West +39 55 £563 -10.00% 81
East of England -23 32 £483 +50.78% 47
East Midlands -3 28 £425 +19.38% 19
North East -13 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 90 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.83%) Apache
4 36 (2.48%) Confluence
5 14 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.69%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.41%) Mule
8 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) CICS
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 16 (1.10%) 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 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Maple
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
7 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.069%) Actimize
6 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.069%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.069%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,046 (72.14%) AWS
2 978 (67.45%) Azure
3 181 (12.48%) GitHub
4 95 (6.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 88 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 79 (5.45%) dbt
6 79 (5.45%) Snowflake
7 78 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (5.31%) Serverless
9 62 (4.28%) SaaS
10 56 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (3.86%) Entra ID
11 54 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (3.17%) OpenShift
13 38 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (2.48%) PaaS
15 33 (2.28%) Cloud Run
16 32 (2.21%) IaaS
16 32 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
17 31 (2.14%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 138 (9.52%) Firewall
2 45 (3.10%) Network Security
2 45 (3.10%) VPN
3 37 (2.55%) DNS
4 24 (1.66%) WAN
5 21 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.38%) Wireshark
7 19 (1.31%) VLAN
8 18 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.17%) BGP
10 15 (1.03%) LAN
10 15 (1.03%) OSPF
11 13 (0.90%) SSL
12 12 (0.83%) DHCP
13 11 (0.76%) HTTP
14 10 (0.69%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.62%) MPLS
15 9 (0.62%) SAN
16 8 (0.55%) Wireless
17 7 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (11.59%) BigQuery
2 151 (10.41%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 112 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (5.52%) Power BI
6 54 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.59%) Big Data
8 51 (3.52%) Tableau
9 48 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.17%) Data Lake
11 41 (2.83%) Metadata
12 40 (2.76%) SQL Server
13 38 (2.62%) Looker
14 32 (2.21%) MySQL
15 30 (2.07%) Hadoop
16 24 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (1.31%) Apache Arrow
19 19 (1.31%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 214 (14.76%) Jenkins
2 158 (10.90%) Git
3 142 (9.79%) GitLab
4 84 (5.79%) JIRA
5 46 (3.17%) SonarQube
6 42 (2.90%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.52%) Maven
8 22 (1.52%) MLflow
9 21 (1.45%) Burp Suite
9 21 (1.45%) CircleCI
10 20 (1.38%) Gradle
10 20 (1.38%) JUnit
10 20 (1.38%) Metasploit
11 18 (1.24%) Postman
12 17 (1.17%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.10%) ERwin
13 16 (1.10%) Selenium
14 15 (1.03%) Artifactory
14 15 (1.03%) ER Studio
General
1 551 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 349 (24.07%) Finance
3 192 (13.24%) Banking
4 182 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.10%) Financial Institution
8 41 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 39 (2.69%) Front Office
9 39 (2.69%) Marketing
10 33 (2.28%) Retail
11 28 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.45%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.24%) Legal
17 12 (0.83%) Electronics
18 11 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 254 (17.52%) Architect
2 193 (13.31%) Senior
3 189 (13.03%) Developer
4 98 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 93 (6.41%) GCP Engineer
6 92 (6.34%) Software Engineer
7 91 (6.28%) Data Engineer
8 90 (6.21%) Analyst
9 88 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
10 80 (5.52%) Lead
11 70 (4.83%) Security Engineer
12 65 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
13 56 (3.86%) Consultant
14 51 (3.52%) Java Developer
15 46 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
15 46 (3.17%) Python Engineer
16 45 (3.10%) Security Architect
17 35 (2.41%) Data Architect
17 35 (2.41%) Data Scientist
17 35 (2.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.55%) RESTful
2 112 (7.72%) React
3 109 (7.52%) REST
4 108 (7.45%) Kafka
5 98 (6.76%) Node.js
6 87 (6.00%) Spring
7 69 (4.76%) Spring Boot
8 64 (4.41%) AngularJS
9 59 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
10 49 (3.38%) Vue
11 47 (3.24%) OAuth
12 46 (3.17%) Pandas
13 43 (2.97%) TensorFlow
14 41 (2.83%) HTML
14 41 (2.83%) PyTorch
15 39 (2.69%) NumPy
16 38 (2.62%) LDAP
17 35 (2.41%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.34%) CSS
19 32 (2.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 253 (17.45%) Cloud Native
2 80 (5.52%) Public Cloud
3 76 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 41 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (2.28%) Fixed Income
12 31 (2.14%) Algorithms
13 30 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
14 29 (2.00%) Equities
14 29 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 26 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.52%) Private Cloud
17 20 (1.38%) Life Science
18 18 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
19 17 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.34%) Linux
2 60 (4.14%) Windows
3 29 (2.00%) Unix
4 22 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.90%) Android
5 13 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.69%) CentOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.28%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.069%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (41.86%) CI/CD
2 501 (34.55%) DevOps
3 407 (28.07%) Agile
4 334 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
5 304 (20.97%) Containerisation
6 283 (19.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 236 (16.28%) AI
8 232 (16.00%) Microservices
9 219 (15.10%) Analytics
10 200 (13.79%) Machine Learning
11 172 (11.86%) Software Engineering
12 163 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 160 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
14 146 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
15 145 (10.00%) Cloud Security
15 145 (10.00%) Data Modelling
16 142 (9.79%) Data Science
17 138 (9.52%) ETL
17 138 (9.52%) Test Automation
18 136 (9.38%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 645 (44.48%) Python
2 284 (19.59%) SQL
3 259 (17.86%) Java
4 153 (10.55%) Bash
5 132 (9.10%) JavaScript
6 104 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 98 (6.76%) Go
8 97 (6.69%) TypeScript
9 33 (2.28%) Scala
10 29 (2.00%) C#
11 25 (1.72%) R
12 20 (1.38%) C++
12 20 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.31%) Perl
14 17 (1.17%) Ruby
15 15 (1.03%) Groovy
16 14 (0.97%) Bicep
16 14 (0.97%) C
17 12 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 222 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 173 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 149 (10.28%) Degree
4 100 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (5.52%) CISSP
6 70 (4.83%) Master's Degree
7 67 (4.62%) AWS Certification
8 50 (3.45%) CISM
9 44 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 37 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (2.00%) DV Cleared
12 26 (1.79%) OSCP
13 24 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (1.45%) CCSP
15 17 (1.17%) CREST Certified
16 15 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (0.97%) CCNP
18 12 (0.83%) Tigerscheme
19 11 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (9.52%) GDPR
2 122 (8.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (6.69%) NIST
4 96 (6.62%) Data Quality
5 82 (5.66%) QA
6 44 (3.03%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.59%) HIPAA
7 23 (1.59%) SOC 2
8 19 (1.31%) NCSC
9 12 (0.83%) GRC
10 9 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.55%) 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 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 374 (25.79%) Docker
2 78 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 7 (0.48%) 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 (0.28%) Firmware
8 4 (0.28%) Snort
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) UAG
11 1 (0.069%) Ceph
11 1 (0.069%) HDFS
11 1 (0.069%) QEMU
11 1 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 443 (30.55%) Kubernetes
2 308 (21.24%) Terraform
3 144 (9.93%) Ansible
4 94 (6.48%) Grafana
5 90 (6.21%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.28%) Argo
7 30 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.72%) Puppet
9 21 (1.45%) Nmap
10 18 (1.24%) CSIRT
10 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (1.10%) Istio
11 16 (1.10%) SCCM
12 14 (0.97%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.90%) Kubeflow
14 11 (0.76%) Nessus
15 10 (0.69%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 469 (32.34%) Google
2 150 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 117 (8.07%) Splunk
4 70 (4.83%) Databricks
5 61 (4.21%) Oracle
6 50 (3.45%) VMware
7 48 (3.31%) F5
8 45 (3.10%) CyberArk
9 42 (2.90%) Palo Alto
10 39 (2.69%) Cisco
10 39 (2.69%) SAP
11 26 (1.79%) IBM
12 25 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
13 23 (1.59%) OpenAI
14 22 (1.52%) ServiceNow
15 21 (1.45%) Citrix
15 21 (1.45%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.31%) Okta
17 16 (1.10%) Informatica
17 16 (1.10%) Salesforce