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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 70
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,466 1,134 1,195
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.77% 3.63% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.38% 10.08% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 722 913
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £738
90th Percentile £775 £886 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £33.96 £24.45 £43.03
25th Percentile £46.85 £35.00 £53.39
Median hourly rate £59.75 £55.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.66% -10.48% +138.46%
75th Percentile £70.50 £60.75 £75.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £65.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.66% -14.62% +141.95%

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 11,844 11,252 13,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,062 7,474 9,888
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 156 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -6 769 £575 -8.00% 326
North of England +29 297 £500 -0.99% 111
Yorkshire +16 185 £500 -6.98% 25
South East +39 158 £479 -23.30% 255
Midlands +30 109 £496 +4.20% 40
North West +33 108 £525 -4.55% 75
West Midlands +22 84 £525 +8.58% 27
South West +35 56 £544 -13.00% 74
East of England -17 34 £500 +56.25% 30
East Midlands -1 24 £425 +19.38% 13
North East -14 4 £495 +4.21% 11
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 89 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.57%) Apache Spark
3 42 (2.86%) Apache
4 36 (2.46%) Confluence
5 14 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.68%) SAS
7 9 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.41%) Mule
9 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Documentum
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Maple
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
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 1,049 (71.56%) AWS
2 988 (67.39%) Azure
3 175 (11.94%) GitHub
4 102 (6.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 92 (6.28%) Power Platform
6 79 (5.39%) Serverless
7 78 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (5.32%) Snowflake
8 76 (5.18%) dbt
9 63 (4.30%) SaaS
10 60 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (4.02%) Entra ID
12 52 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (3.21%) OpenShift
14 38 (2.59%) PaaS
15 36 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
16 34 (2.32%) Apigee
17 33 (2.25%) Cloud Run
17 33 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (2.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (9.21%) Firewall
2 45 (3.07%) VPN
3 43 (2.93%) Network Security
4 38 (2.59%) DNS
5 25 (1.71%) WAN
6 21 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.36%) Wireshark
8 19 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.16%) VLAN
10 16 (1.09%) BGP
11 15 (1.02%) LAN
12 14 (0.95%) OSPF
13 13 (0.89%) SSL
14 12 (0.82%) DHCP
15 10 (0.68%) HTTP
15 10 (0.68%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.61%) SAN
17 8 (0.55%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.55%) MPLS
17 8 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (11.87%) BigQuery
2 143 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (7.91%) NoSQL
4 112 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
5 85 (5.80%) Power BI
6 52 (3.55%) MongoDB
6 52 (3.55%) Tableau
7 51 (3.48%) Big Data
8 47 (3.21%) Data Lake
9 46 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 43 (2.93%) Metadata
11 40 (2.73%) SQL Server
12 39 (2.66%) Looker
13 32 (2.18%) MySQL
14 30 (2.05%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
18 17 (1.16%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 219 (14.94%) Jenkins
2 156 (10.64%) Git
3 139 (9.48%) GitLab
4 81 (5.53%) JIRA
5 41 (2.80%) Liquibase
6 38 (2.59%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.57%) MLflow
7 23 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (1.43%) CircleCI
9 20 (1.36%) Gradle
9 20 (1.36%) Maven
10 19 (1.30%) JUnit
10 19 (1.30%) Postman
11 16 (1.09%) ERwin
12 15 (1.02%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.02%) ER Studio
12 15 (1.02%) Selenium
13 14 (0.95%) Artifactory
14 13 (0.89%) Burp Suite
15 12 (0.82%) Metasploit
General
1 549 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 352 (24.01%) Finance
3 192 (13.10%) Banking
4 180 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
5 124 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 43 (2.93%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.80%) Marketing
10 34 (2.32%) Front Office
11 29 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.91%) Retail
13 27 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.36%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.23%) Legal
19 15 (1.02%) Electronics
20 11 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 248 (16.92%) Architect
2 195 (13.30%) Senior
3 187 (12.76%) Developer
4 100 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 97 (6.62%) GCP Engineer
6 94 (6.41%) Analyst
7 93 (6.34%) Data Engineer
8 88 (6.00%) Lead
9 87 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (5.87%) Software Engineer
11 69 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 63 (4.30%) Security Engineer
13 59 (4.02%) Consultant
14 51 (3.48%) Java Developer
15 44 (3.00%) Python Engineer
16 43 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
17 42 (2.86%) Security Architect
18 37 (2.52%) Data Scientist
19 34 (2.32%) Data Architect
19 34 (2.32%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (8.66%) RESTful
2 115 (7.84%) REST
3 109 (7.44%) Kafka
4 104 (7.09%) React
5 95 (6.48%) Node.js
6 91 (6.21%) Spring
7 69 (4.71%) Spring Boot
8 59 (4.02%) AngularJS
8 59 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
9 50 (3.41%) OAuth
10 46 (3.14%) Pandas
10 46 (3.14%) TensorFlow
10 46 (3.14%) Vue
11 44 (3.00%) PyTorch
12 39 (2.66%) HTML
12 39 (2.66%) NumPy
13 35 (2.39%) FastAPI
13 35 (2.39%) LDAP
14 34 (2.32%) SAML
15 33 (2.25%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 260 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.59%) Public Cloud
3 81 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 55 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 52 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 40 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 37 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 36 (2.46%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.91%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.84%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.71%) Equities
14 25 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.36%) Life Science
17 18 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (1.16%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.23%) Linux
2 59 (4.02%) Windows
3 27 (1.84%) Unix
4 21 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.68%) CentOS
7 9 (0.61%) Android
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) 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 (41.75%) CI/CD
2 518 (35.33%) DevOps
3 404 (27.56%) Agile
4 330 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
5 324 (22.10%) Containerisation
6 279 (19.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 240 (16.37%) AI
8 237 (16.17%) Microservices
9 225 (15.35%) Analytics
10 203 (13.85%) Machine Learning
11 170 (11.60%) Software Engineering
11 170 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 151 (10.30%) Data Modelling
13 148 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
14 147 (10.03%) Data Pipeline
15 144 (9.82%) ETL
16 143 (9.75%) Data Science
17 136 (9.28%) Migration
18 135 (9.21%) Test Automation
19 134 (9.14%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 644 (43.93%) Python
2 284 (19.37%) SQL
3 262 (17.87%) Java
4 147 (10.03%) Bash
5 127 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 107 (7.30%) PowerShell
7 96 (6.55%) Go
8 92 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.11%) C#
10 29 (1.98%) Scala
11 25 (1.71%) R
12 19 (1.30%) C++
13 17 (1.16%) Perl
13 17 (1.16%) Ruby
14 16 (1.09%) Bicep
14 16 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.95%) Groovy
16 12 (0.82%) C
16 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 231 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 151 (10.30%) Degree
4 100 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (5.39%) CISSP
6 70 (4.77%) AWS Certification
7 68 (4.64%) Master's Degree
8 50 (3.41%) Azure Certification
8 50 (3.41%) CISM
9 36 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (1.36%) CCSP
13 18 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (1.23%) OSCP
14 14 (0.95%) CCNP
15 13 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.75%) CCIE
16 11 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (9.41%) GDPR
2 121 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 101 (6.89%) Data Quality
4 94 (6.41%) NIST
5 76 (5.18%) QA
6 44 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 24 (1.64%) HIPAA
8 23 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.57%) SOC 2
9 14 (0.95%) GRC
10 13 (0.89%) NCSC
11 8 (0.55%) PSD2
12 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.34%) HL7
14 5 (0.34%) WCAG
15 4 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 390 (26.60%) Docker
2 78 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Squid
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%) Snort
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) UAG
10 1 (0.068%) Ceph
10 1 (0.068%) HDFS
10 1 (0.068%) SRDF
10 1 (0.068%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 462 (31.51%) Kubernetes
2 313 (21.35%) Terraform
3 147 (10.03%) Ansible
4 94 (6.41%) Grafana
5 91 (6.21%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.25%) Argo
7 29 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.71%) Puppet
9 18 (1.23%) CSIRT
9 18 (1.23%) Istio
9 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (1.09%) SCCM
11 14 (0.95%) Kubeflow
11 14 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.89%) Nmap
13 12 (0.82%) Nessus
14 10 (0.68%) Fluentd
14 10 (0.68%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
15 9 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 486 (33.15%) Google
2 154 (10.50%) Microsoft
3 117 (7.98%) Splunk
4 69 (4.71%) Databricks
5 61 (4.16%) Oracle
6 51 (3.48%) VMware
7 47 (3.21%) F5
8 46 (3.14%) CyberArk
9 44 (3.00%) Palo Alto
10 42 (2.86%) SAP
11 38 (2.59%) Cisco
12 26 (1.77%) BeyondTrust
12 26 (1.77%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.71%) ServiceNow
14 23 (1.57%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.50%) IBM
16 21 (1.43%) Citrix
17 19 (1.30%) Okta
18 16 (1.09%) Fortinet
18 16 (1.09%) Informatica