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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 51 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,914 1,251 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 4.51% 3.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.92% 11.97% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 839 813
10th Percentile £407 £378 £401
25th Percentile £469 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.49%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £768
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £34.39 £35.50
25th Percentile £17.70 £41.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -26.42%
75th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.10 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +38.30% -4.55% -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 16,052 10,455 11,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.58% 37.65% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,713 7,071 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 252 177
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.37 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 1,005 £575 -4.17% 2,620
North of England +2 409 £538 +11.43% 512
Yorkshire -1 265 £540 +14.29% 137
South East +4 186 £525 +2.94% 326
South West +26 131 £550 +4.76% 200
North West -3 131 £535 +7.00% 340
Midlands -64 67 £525 +10.53% 168
East of England +5 58 £555 +9.79% 84
West Midlands -57 49 £525 - 139
East Midlands -21 18 £500 +20.48% 29
North East -26 17 £481 -23.00% 37
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
1 116 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (3.87%) Apache
4 51 (2.66%) Confluence
5 18 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.31%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) Mule
12 1 (0.052%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.052%) Houdini
7 1 (0.052%) NUKE
7 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.052%) Maximo
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,240 (64.79%) AWS
2 1,215 (63.48%) Azure
3 212 (11.08%) GitHub
4 166 (8.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 143 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (7.00%) Snowflake
7 101 (5.28%) dbt
8 96 (5.02%) SaaS
9 84 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (3.66%) Power Platform
12 65 (3.40%) Serverless
13 64 (3.34%) Entra ID
14 55 (2.87%) Vertex AI
15 47 (2.46%) Cloud Run
16 46 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
17 39 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
17 39 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (1.88%) OpenShift
19 35 (1.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.91%) Firewall
2 93 (4.86%) Network Security
3 77 (4.02%) DNS
4 69 (3.61%) VPN
5 29 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.25%) BGP
6 24 (1.25%) WAN
7 22 (1.15%) DHCP
8 20 (1.04%) HTTP
9 19 (0.99%) Internet
10 18 (0.94%) VLAN
11 17 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.84%) SSL
13 15 (0.78%) OSPF
14 11 (0.57%) IPsec
14 11 (0.57%) VoIP
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
16 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.47%) LAN
17 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (12.54%) BigQuery
2 170 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (4.70%) Metadata
5 78 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 77 (4.02%) NoSQL
7 74 (3.87%) Data Lake
8 67 (3.50%) Big Data
9 63 (3.29%) Power BI
10 46 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (2.14%) Tableau
12 39 (2.04%) Looker
13 36 (1.88%) SQL Server
14 32 (1.67%) Flink
14 32 (1.67%) MongoDB
15 30 (1.57%) Redis
16 29 (1.52%) MySQL
17 22 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
18 21 (1.10%) Delta Lake
19 20 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 225 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 220 (11.49%) Git
3 152 (7.94%) GitLab
4 95 (4.96%) JIRA
5 39 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.83%) JUnit
7 34 (1.78%) Maven
8 24 (1.25%) Selenium
9 21 (1.10%) JMeter
10 20 (1.04%) Gradle
11 18 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
12 17 (0.89%) Postman
13 15 (0.78%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.78%) LoadRunner
14 14 (0.73%) Gatling
15 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.57%) Snyk
17 10 (0.52%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 521 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 479 (25.03%) Finance
3 191 (9.98%) Banking
4 184 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 153 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.71%) Retail
7 55 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (1.99%) Legal
10 36 (1.88%) Marketing
11 34 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.36%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 25 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.25%) Billing
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.04%) Publishing
18 19 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 402 (21.00%) Architect
2 261 (13.64%) Senior
3 212 (11.08%) Developer
4 179 (9.35%) Lead
5 172 (8.99%) Data Engineer
6 152 (7.94%) GCP Engineer
7 129 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 85 (4.44%) Consultant
12 79 (4.13%) Security Engineer
13 69 (3.61%) Analyst
14 68 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 66 (3.45%) Data Architect
16 65 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.08%) Security Architect
18 54 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
19 52 (2.72%) Software Engineer
20 46 (2.40%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (25.50%) Terraform
2 215 (11.23%) Kafka
3 180 (9.40%) REST
4 104 (5.43%) React
5 102 (5.33%) Spring
6 98 (5.12%) OAuth
7 94 (4.91%) Spring Boot
8 85 (4.44%) RESTful
9 71 (3.71%) Node.js
10 61 (3.19%) JSON
11 60 (3.13%) OpenID
12 56 (2.93%) SAML
13 51 (2.66%) OAuth2
13 51 (2.66%) PySpark
14 49 (2.56%) LDAP
15 47 (2.46%) SOAP
16 46 (2.40%) LangChain
16 46 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
17 40 (2.09%) JWT
18 37 (1.93%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 411 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 142 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.43%) AI Agents
4 76 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 66 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 64 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (3.34%) Security Posture
7 56 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 52 (2.72%) Public Cloud
9 51 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
10 45 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 45 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 44 (2.30%) Data Structures
12 42 (2.19%) Algorithms
13 40 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (2.09%) Management Information System
14 35 (1.83%) PKI
15 27 (1.41%) Private Cloud
16 24 (1.25%) CMDB
17 23 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 156 (8.15%) Linux
2 96 (5.02%) Windows
3 42 (2.19%) Unix
4 30 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.20%) Android
7 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.052%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 617 (32.24%) DevOps
3 482 (25.18%) AI
4 479 (25.03%) Agile
4 479 (25.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 335 (17.50%) Microservices
5 335 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 311 (16.25%) Analytics
7 283 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (14.52%) Observability
9 277 (14.47%) Software Engineering
10 273 (14.26%) Machine Learning
11 271 (14.16%) Containerisation
12 242 (12.64%) Roadmaps
13 241 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
14 234 (12.23%) Data Modelling
15 226 (11.81%) Cloud Security
16 222 (11.60%) Migration
17 216 (11.29%) Event-Driven
18 210 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 744 (38.87%) Python
2 428 (22.36%) SQL
3 381 (19.91%) Java
4 154 (8.05%) Bash
5 140 (7.31%) PowerShell
6 137 (7.16%) JavaScript
7 94 (4.91%) Go
8 67 (3.50%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.35%) Scala
10 42 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 35 (1.83%) C#
12 31 (1.62%) Bicep
13 23 (1.20%) Groovy
14 21 (1.10%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.94%) Rust
16 17 (0.89%) R
17 10 (0.52%) Ruby
18 9 (0.47%) C++
18 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 387 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 283 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.21%) Degree
4 108 (5.64%) CISSP
5 98 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.29%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
9 59 (3.08%) CISM
10 45 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 35 (1.83%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.57%) CCSP
13 29 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.89%) GIAC
15 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.68%) CCNP
16 13 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 97 (5.07%) QA
3 87 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 82 (4.28%) NIST
5 76 (3.97%) GDPR
6 34 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.15%) GRC
8 22 (1.15%) NCSC
9 15 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.31%) COBIT
14 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.26%) SLA
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 346 (18.08%) Docker
2 81 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (0.63%) vSphere
6 10 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.16%) ISA Server
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.10%) HDFS
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 611 (31.92%) Kubernetes
2 147 (7.68%) Ansible
3 118 (6.17%) Grafana
4 112 (5.85%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.62%) Argo
7 28 (1.46%) Progress Chef
8 24 (1.25%) Istio
9 23 (1.20%) Puppet
10 18 (0.94%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 8 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.42%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.37%) CASB
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) Control-M
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 645 (33.70%) Google
2 219 (11.44%) Microsoft
3 124 (6.48%) Databricks
4 82 (4.28%) Splunk
5 75 (3.92%) Oracle
6 57 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 47 (2.46%) VMware
10 43 (2.25%) CyberArk
11 41 (2.14%) SAP
12 39 (2.04%) OpenAI
13 32 (1.67%) IBM
14 31 (1.62%) Informatica
14 31 (1.62%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.52%) Red Hat
16 26 (1.36%) Cisco
17 22 (1.15%) MuleSoft
18 20 (1.04%) Okta
19 19 (0.99%) New Relic