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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,938 1,260 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.16% 4.52% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.08% 11.92% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 851 809
10th Percentile £406 £378 £400
25th Percentile £463 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.50
25th Percentile £15.93 £39.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% -5.51% -26.42%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.45 £101.65 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +48.16% -5.51% -23.61%

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 16,046 10,572 11,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.96% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,158 7,642
10th Percentile £319 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 254 166
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 1,002 £575 -4.17% 2,090
North of England +9 421 £534 +6.75% 391
Yorkshire +1 275 £538 +13.16% 112
South East -8 190 £525 +5.00% 283
South West +28 136 £550 +4.76% 161
North West -6 132 £530 +6.00% 245
Midlands -65 69 £525 +10.53% 117
East of England +8 65 £558 +1.36% 59
West Midlands -50 51 £525 - 97
East Midlands -25 18 £500 +20.48% 20
North East -29 18 £500 -2.91% 36
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 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 107 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.97%) Apache
4 54 (2.79%) Confluence
5 18 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) Camunda
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.052%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.052%) Houdini
8 1 (0.052%) NUKE
8 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 17 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.052%) Maximo
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (65.22%) AWS
2 1,232 (63.57%) Azure
3 215 (11.09%) GitHub
4 172 (8.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 142 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (6.91%) Snowflake
7 103 (5.31%) dbt
8 98 (5.06%) SaaS
9 91 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (3.87%) Entra ID
12 74 (3.82%) Power Platform
13 67 (3.46%) Serverless
14 58 (2.99%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.84%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.91%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 96 (4.95%) Firewall
2 93 (4.80%) Network Security
3 76 (3.92%) DNS
4 67 (3.46%) VPN
5 29 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.34%) BGP
7 25 (1.29%) WAN
8 24 (1.24%) DHCP
9 19 (0.98%) HTTP
9 19 (0.98%) Internet
9 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.93%) VLAN
11 17 (0.88%) SSL
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 13 (0.67%) VoIP
14 12 (0.62%) IPsec
15 10 (0.52%) LAN
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
16 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 8 (0.41%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (12.90%) BigQuery
2 173 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
4 95 (4.90%) Metadata
5 82 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.87%) Data Lake
8 65 (3.35%) Power BI
9 60 (3.10%) Big Data
10 46 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 44 (2.27%) Looker
12 40 (2.06%) Tableau
13 37 (1.91%) SQL Server
14 36 (1.86%) MongoDB
15 35 (1.81%) MySQL
16 31 (1.60%) Flink
16 31 (1.60%) Redis
17 23 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (1.03%) Delta Lake
18 20 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 226 (11.66%) Git
2 222 (11.46%) Jenkins
3 149 (7.69%) GitLab
4 100 (5.16%) JIRA
5 39 (2.01%) SonarQube
6 36 (1.86%) JUnit
7 35 (1.81%) Maven
8 24 (1.24%) JMeter
9 22 (1.14%) Gradle
9 22 (1.14%) Selenium
10 20 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 20 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (0.93%) LoadRunner
11 18 (0.93%) Postman
12 17 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.88%) Gatling
13 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.62%) Snyk
15 11 (0.57%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 531 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 487 (25.13%) Finance
3 199 (10.27%) Banking
4 194 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.82%) Retail
7 54 (2.79%) Telecoms
8 46 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.86%) Legal
10 35 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (1.50%) Marketing
13 27 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 26 (1.34%) Billing
14 26 (1.34%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.03%) Publishing
18 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 404 (20.85%) Architect
2 266 (13.73%) Senior
3 227 (11.71%) Developer
4 178 (9.18%) Lead
5 175 (9.03%) Data Engineer
6 152 (7.84%) GCP Engineer
7 124 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 112 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.33%) Security Engineer
12 83 (4.28%) Consultant
13 70 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 67 (3.46%) Analyst
15 66 (3.41%) Data Architect
16 63 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
17 61 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
18 54 (2.79%) Software Engineer
19 53 (2.73%) Security Architect
20 47 (2.43%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 508 (26.21%) Terraform
2 217 (11.20%) Kafka
3 194 (10.01%) REST
4 110 (5.68%) React
5 106 (5.47%) OAuth
6 97 (5.01%) Spring
7 90 (4.64%) Spring Boot
8 88 (4.54%) RESTful
9 75 (3.87%) Node.js
10 66 (3.41%) OpenID
11 63 (3.25%) JSON
12 61 (3.15%) SAML
13 56 (2.89%) SOAP
14 55 (2.84%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.58%) LDAP
16 49 (2.53%) PySpark
17 47 (2.43%) LangChain
18 45 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
19 44 (2.27%) JWT
20 41 (2.12%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 417 (21.52%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.62%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 74 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 69 (3.56%) Security Posture
7 65 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (3.30%) Public Cloud
9 61 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 53 (2.73%) Data Centre
11 52 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
12 45 (2.32%) Data Structures
13 44 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 43 (2.22%) Management Information System
15 42 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (2.12%) Algorithms
17 36 (1.86%) PKI
18 29 (1.50%) CMDB
18 29 (1.50%) Private Cloud
19 25 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 163 (8.41%) Linux
2 102 (5.26%) Windows
3 47 (2.43%) Unix
4 33 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.24%) Android
6 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.15%) CentOS
11 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (45.77%) CI/CD
2 630 (32.51%) DevOps
3 495 (25.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (25.13%) AI
5 483 (24.92%) Agile
6 352 (18.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 336 (17.34%) Microservices
8 314 (16.20%) Analytics
9 293 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
10 285 (14.71%) Software Engineering
11 284 (14.65%) Observability
12 274 (14.14%) Containerisation
13 264 (13.62%) Machine Learning
14 254 (13.11%) Roadmaps
15 249 (12.85%) Data Modelling
16 237 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
17 236 (12.18%) Cloud Security
18 232 (11.97%) Migration
19 231 (11.92%) Event-Driven
20 223 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 755 (38.96%) Python
2 442 (22.81%) SQL
3 383 (19.76%) Java
4 156 (8.05%) Bash
5 147 (7.59%) PowerShell
6 146 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 102 (5.26%) Go
8 70 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.32%) Shell Script
10 43 (2.22%) Scala
11 38 (1.96%) C#
12 32 (1.65%) Bicep
13 24 (1.24%) Groovy
14 22 (1.14%) Kotlin
15 20 (1.03%) R
16 18 (0.93%) Rust
17 12 (0.62%) ABAP
18 11 (0.57%) C++
19 10 (0.52%) Ruby
20 9 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 386 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 281 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.59%) Degree
4 109 (5.62%) CISSP
5 101 (5.21%) DV Cleared
6 94 (4.85%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (3.41%) Azure Certification
9 63 (3.25%) CISM
10 60 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
11 47 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 36 (1.86%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.65%) CCSP
14 31 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (0.77%) GIAC
16 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.67%) PMP
18 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 97 (5.01%) QA
3 93 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (4.44%) NIST
5 74 (3.82%) GDPR
6 33 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.24%) GRC
9 23 (1.19%) NCSC
10 19 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.46%) SLA
14 7 (0.36%) COBIT
14 7 (0.36%) MiFID
15 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.31%) WCAG
16 5 (0.26%) Basel III
17 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 343 (17.70%) Docker
2 85 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 617 (31.84%) Kubernetes
2 153 (7.89%) Ansible
3 114 (5.88%) Grafana
4 108 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.65%) Argo
7 30 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.34%) Puppet
9 24 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.46%) Podman
13 8 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.41%) CASB
14 7 (0.36%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
15 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) Control-M
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 677 (34.93%) Google
2 237 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 124 (6.40%) Databricks
4 83 (4.28%) Splunk
5 73 (3.77%) Oracle
6 63 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.94%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.48%) VMware
10 47 (2.43%) CyberArk
11 46 (2.37%) SAP
12 41 (2.12%) OpenAI
13 37 (1.91%) IBM
14 30 (1.55%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.50%) Informatica
15 29 (1.50%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.39%) Cisco
17 24 (1.24%) Okta
18 21 (1.08%) MuleSoft
19 20 (1.03%) New Relic