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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 58 70
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,648 918 1,048
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 3.78% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.54% 10.15% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 630 777
10th Percentile £386 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.90
25th Percentile £20.76 £25.25 £37.94
Median hourly rate £52.25 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £70.99 £59.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.65 £78.08 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £47.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.26% -8.21% -26.16%

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 14,281 9,045 11,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.21% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,789 6,305 8,477
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 197 323
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%
75th Percentile £68.33 £40.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +1 860 £575 -8.00% 320
North of England +21 333 £538 -2.27% 123
Yorkshire +8 197 £505 -3.81% 37
South East +22 172 £500 -13.04% 116
North West +15 120 £552 -1.87% 65
South West +22 100 £570 +8.57% 53
Midlands -11 87 £475 +3.54% 49
West Midlands -21 68 £488 -7.14% 15
East of England -1 49 £570 +15.74% 25
North East -1 19 £584 +26.22% 21
East Midlands -29 19 £438 +4.23% 34
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
1 100 (6.07%) Apache Spark
2 62 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.46%) Apache
4 38 (2.31%) Confluence
5 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.18%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.061%) JBoss
11 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.061%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.061%) Trello
6 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.061%) Actimize
4 1 (0.061%) Maximo
4 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.061%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,127 (68.39%) Azure
2 1,118 (67.84%) AWS
3 184 (11.17%) GitHub
4 136 (8.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 109 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
6 107 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 83 (5.04%) Snowflake
8 80 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 68 (4.13%) SaaS
10 67 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (3.64%) Serverless
12 51 (3.09%) dbt
13 50 (3.03%) OpenShift
14 48 (2.91%) Amazon S3
14 48 (2.91%) Entra ID
15 46 (2.79%) Vertex AI
16 39 (2.37%) Cloud Run
17 33 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
18 30 (1.82%) Google Workspace
18 30 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 94 (5.70%) Firewall
2 85 (5.16%) DNS
2 85 (5.16%) VPN
3 83 (5.04%) Network Security
4 23 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.40%) WAN
5 20 (1.21%) HTTP
6 17 (1.03%) BGP
7 14 (0.85%) VoIP
8 13 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.73%) Internet
10 11 (0.67%) LAN
10 11 (0.67%) OSPF
10 11 (0.67%) SSL
11 9 (0.55%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.42%) IPsec
12 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
12 7 (0.42%) VLAN
12 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.36%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.74%) BigQuery
2 101 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
3 97 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
4 90 (5.46%) Power BI
5 76 (4.61%) NoSQL
6 67 (4.07%) Big Data
7 66 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 59 (3.58%) Metadata
9 51 (3.09%) Tableau
10 42 (2.55%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.43%) SQL Server
12 34 (2.06%) MongoDB
13 28 (1.70%) MySQL
14 26 (1.58%) Looker
15 23 (1.40%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
16 19 (1.15%) Flink
16 19 (1.15%) OLAP
17 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 202 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 152 (9.22%) Git
3 129 (7.83%) GitLab
4 79 (4.79%) JIRA
5 42 (2.55%) Selenium
6 38 (2.31%) JUnit
7 28 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.64%) JMeter
9 24 (1.46%) Postman
10 22 (1.33%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.97%) Maven
12 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.79%) MLflow
14 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.55%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.55%) ERwin
14 9 (0.55%) Mockito
15 8 (0.49%) LoadRunner
General
1 470 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 360 (21.84%) Finance
3 158 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.28%) Banking
5 132 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.22%) Retail
7 46 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.18%) Legal
9 31 (1.88%) Front Office
9 31 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 26 (1.58%) Marketing
11 22 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.15%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.03%) Military
14 17 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.67%) Billing
17 11 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 346 (21.00%) Architect
2 196 (11.89%) Senior
3 176 (10.68%) Developer
4 173 (10.50%) Lead
5 158 (9.59%) GCP Engineer
6 137 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 96 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 73 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.31%) Analyst
11 63 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
12 62 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 58 (3.52%) Java Developer
14 56 (3.40%) Consultant
15 49 (2.97%) Security Architect
16 48 (2.91%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.91%) Security Engineer
17 45 (2.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.55%) Data Architect
19 39 (2.37%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (9.71%) REST
2 146 (8.86%) Kafka
3 116 (7.04%) Spring
4 108 (6.55%) React
5 96 (5.83%) Node.js
6 94 (5.70%) Spring Boot
7 87 (5.28%) LDAP
8 70 (4.25%) OAuth
9 65 (3.94%) RESTful
10 54 (3.28%) SOAP
11 52 (3.16%) OpenID
12 49 (2.97%) AngularJS
12 49 (2.97%) PyTorch
13 47 (2.85%) TensorFlow
14 45 (2.73%) .NET
15 39 (2.37%) LangChain
16 38 (2.31%) OAuth2
17 37 (2.25%) SAML
18 33 (2.00%) Middleware
19 31 (1.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 287 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (3.76%) Public Cloud
3 62 (3.76%) Security Posture
4 58 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.85%) AI Agents
7 43 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 38 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 32 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.88%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.46%) Derivative
12 22 (1.33%) Clustering
12 22 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 22 (1.33%) Equities
13 21 (1.27%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.15%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.22%) Linux
2 66 (4.00%) Windows
3 28 (1.70%) Android
4 25 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 24 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.21%) VMS
7 17 (1.03%) Unix
8 11 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.061%) CentOS
14 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Rocky
14 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (44.24%) CI/CD
2 554 (33.62%) DevOps
3 351 (21.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 344 (20.87%) Agile
5 336 (20.39%) AI
6 285 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
7 282 (17.11%) Analytics
8 264 (16.02%) Microservices
9 261 (15.84%) Containerisation
10 225 (13.65%) Observability
11 223 (13.53%) Machine Learning
12 193 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
13 190 (11.53%) Software Engineering
14 189 (11.47%) Data Modelling
15 185 (11.23%) Migration
16 181 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 172 (10.44%) Data Engineering
18 163 (9.89%) ETL
19 159 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
20 148 (8.98%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 645 (39.14%) Python
2 319 (19.36%) SQL
3 292 (17.72%) Java
4 137 (8.31%) PowerShell
5 129 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 106 (6.43%) Bash
7 81 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 71 (4.31%) Go
9 50 (3.03%) C#
10 37 (2.25%) Scala
11 19 (1.15%) Groovy
12 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.03%) Bicep
14 11 (0.67%) R
15 9 (0.55%) Ruby
16 8 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.49%) PHP
17 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 371 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 305 (18.51%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.10%) Degree
4 82 (4.98%) CISSP
5 54 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.22%) CISM
7 52 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (3.09%) Azure Certification
9 49 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (2.79%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 24 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.21%) CCSP
14 19 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (1.03%) CCNP
15 17 (1.03%) Master's Degree
16 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.79%) GIAC
18 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 11 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (8.13%) GDPR
2 118 (7.16%) Data Quality
3 95 (5.76%) NIST
4 94 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (4.19%) QA
6 40 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.15%) GRC
8 19 (1.15%) NCSC
9 18 (1.09%) SLA
10 15 (0.91%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.55%) PSD2
12 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.42%) COBIT
13 7 (0.42%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.36%) PERC
14 6 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 322 (19.54%) Docker
2 96 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.49%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) HDFS
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.12%) GPFS
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.061%) iptables
11 1 (0.061%) Varnish
11 1 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 496 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 404 (24.51%) Terraform
3 112 (6.80%) Ansible
4 105 (6.37%) Grafana
5 96 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.06%) Istio
7 27 (1.64%) Argo
8 24 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.85%) Kubeflow
9 14 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.49%) SCCM
13 7 (0.42%) Kibana
14 6 (0.36%) Nessus
14 6 (0.36%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) QRadar
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 520 (31.55%) Google
2 138 (8.37%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.85%) Databricks
4 72 (4.37%) Splunk
5 68 (4.13%) CyberArk
6 63 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 53 (3.22%) BeyondTrust
8 40 (2.43%) Oracle
9 37 (2.25%) OpenAI
9 37 (2.25%) VMware
10 36 (2.18%) Centrify
11 31 (1.88%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.82%) Salesforce
13 26 (1.58%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.46%) Cisco
15 23 (1.40%) SAP
16 18 (1.09%) Foundry
16 18 (1.09%) Informatica
16 18 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 16 (0.97%) MuleSoft