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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,916 1,257 1,211
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.53% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.08% 11.89% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 851 806
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £663 £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 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £15.93 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -38.13%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -35.76%

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 15,857 10,575 11,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.37% 38.12% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,574 7,170 7,575
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 246 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.38 £15.98
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £69.75 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
% change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -1 980 £575 -4.17% 1,701
North of England +4 424 £538 +7.50% 348
Yorkshire +1 277 £538 +13.23% 100
South East 0 188 £525 +5.00% 194
South West +24 135 £550 -5.38% 146
North West -7 133 £535 +7.00% 219
Midlands -57 74 £530 +11.58% 104
East of England +18 63 £558 +1.36% 51
West Midlands -52 56 £551 +5.00% 88
North East -22 20 £575 +11.65% 31
East Midlands -28 18 £500 +20.48% 16
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
1 112 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 104 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.81%) Apache
4 51 (2.66%) Confluence
5 18 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) 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 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
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 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
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 16 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.16%) 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%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,248 (65.14%) AWS
2 1,213 (63.31%) Azure
3 213 (11.12%) GitHub
4 171 (8.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 141 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (6.89%) Snowflake
7 101 (5.27%) dbt
8 97 (5.06%) SaaS
9 90 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.02%) Power Platform
12 71 (3.71%) Entra ID
13 66 (3.44%) Serverless
14 58 (3.03%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.87%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
17 42 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (1.93%) Amazon S3
19 37 (1.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 95 (4.96%) Firewall
2 93 (4.85%) Network Security
3 72 (3.76%) DNS
4 63 (3.29%) VPN
5 27 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.36%) BGP
7 24 (1.25%) DHCP
7 24 (1.25%) WAN
8 19 (0.99%) HTTP
8 19 (0.99%) Internet
9 18 (0.94%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.84%) VLAN
11 15 (0.78%) OSPF
12 14 (0.73%) SSL
13 13 (0.68%) VoIP
14 12 (0.63%) IPsec
15 10 (0.52%) LAN
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
16 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
17 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (13.05%) BigQuery
2 172 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (4.54%) Metadata
5 82 (4.28%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.97%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.91%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.55%) Power BI
9 59 (3.08%) Big Data
10 46 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (2.40%) Looker
11 39 (2.04%) Tableau
12 37 (1.93%) MongoDB
12 37 (1.93%) SQL Server
13 36 (1.88%) MySQL
14 32 (1.67%) Redis
15 28 (1.46%) Flink
16 23 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (1.04%) Delta Lake
17 20 (1.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 225 (11.74%) Git
2 218 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 148 (7.72%) GitLab
4 101 (5.27%) JIRA
5 36 (1.88%) JUnit
5 36 (1.88%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.67%) Maven
7 24 (1.25%) JMeter
8 22 (1.15%) Selenium
9 21 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 21 (1.10%) Gradle
10 20 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (0.94%) LoadRunner
11 18 (0.94%) Postman
12 17 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.89%) Gatling
13 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.63%) Snyk
15 11 (0.57%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 524 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 479 (25.00%) Finance
3 199 (10.39%) Banking
4 191 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 153 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 73 (3.81%) Retail
7 53 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 46 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 34 (1.77%) Legal
11 32 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.46%) Investment Banking
12 28 (1.46%) Marketing
13 26 (1.36%) Billing
14 25 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.94%) Publishing
18 17 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 397 (20.72%) Architect
2 266 (13.88%) Senior
3 223 (11.64%) Developer
4 176 (9.19%) Data Engineer
5 172 (8.98%) Lead
6 149 (7.78%) GCP Engineer
7 124 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 110 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 105 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.59%) Java Developer
11 86 (4.49%) Security Engineer
12 82 (4.28%) Consultant
13 71 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 68 (3.55%) Analyst
15 63 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
15 63 (3.29%) Data Architect
16 60 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
17 53 (2.77%) Software Engineer
18 51 (2.66%) Security Architect
19 48 (2.51%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (26.25%) Terraform
2 212 (11.06%) Kafka
3 193 (10.07%) REST
4 110 (5.74%) React
5 102 (5.32%) OAuth
6 92 (4.80%) Spring
7 89 (4.65%) RESTful
8 85 (4.44%) Spring Boot
9 70 (3.65%) Node.js
10 64 (3.34%) JSON
11 63 (3.29%) OpenID
12 58 (3.03%) SAML
13 56 (2.92%) SOAP
14 51 (2.66%) OAuth2
15 48 (2.51%) PySpark
16 47 (2.45%) LDAP
17 46 (2.40%) LangChain
18 43 (2.24%) JWT
18 43 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
19 41 (2.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 414 (21.61%) Cloud Native
2 138 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.64%) AI Agents
4 80 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 77 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 68 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 65 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
8 63 (3.29%) Public Cloud
9 61 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 53 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 49 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
12 45 (2.35%) Data Structures
12 45 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 43 (2.24%) Management Information System
14 42 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (2.09%) Algorithms
16 35 (1.83%) PKI
17 29 (1.51%) CMDB
17 29 (1.51%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 165 (8.61%) Linux
2 104 (5.43%) Windows
3 49 (2.56%) Unix
4 33 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.25%) Android
6 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.16%) 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
1 875 (45.67%) CI/CD
2 620 (32.36%) DevOps
3 490 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 480 (25.05%) Agile
5 479 (25.00%) AI
6 351 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 327 (17.07%) Microservices
8 309 (16.13%) Analytics
9 290 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
10 282 (14.72%) Software Engineering
11 278 (14.51%) Observability
12 268 (13.99%) Containerisation
13 255 (13.31%) Machine Learning
14 251 (13.10%) Roadmaps
15 246 (12.84%) Data Modelling
16 236 (12.32%) Cloud Security
17 230 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
18 224 (11.69%) Event-Driven
19 223 (11.64%) Migration
20 220 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 747 (38.99%) Python
2 441 (23.02%) SQL
3 370 (19.31%) Java
4 153 (7.99%) Bash
5 146 (7.62%) PowerShell
6 145 (7.57%) JavaScript
7 103 (5.38%) Go
8 71 (3.71%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.19%) Scala
11 38 (1.98%) C#
12 32 (1.67%) Bicep
13 22 (1.15%) Groovy
14 21 (1.10%) Kotlin
15 19 (0.99%) R
16 18 (0.94%) Rust
17 12 (0.63%) ABAP
18 11 (0.57%) C++
19 9 (0.47%) Perl
19 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 382 (19.94%) Security Cleared
2 278 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 143 (7.46%) Degree
4 108 (5.64%) CISSP
5 101 (5.27%) DV Cleared
6 96 (5.01%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.34%) CISM
7 64 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.29%) Azure Certification
9 57 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 35 (1.83%) Master's Degree
12 33 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (1.62%) CCSP
14 20 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.84%) CISA
16 15 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.68%) GIAC
17 13 (0.68%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.17%) QA
3 98 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (4.70%) NIST
5 68 (3.55%) GDPR
6 33 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.46%) GRC
9 22 (1.15%) NCSC
10 19 (0.99%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.52%) COBIT
14 9 (0.47%) SLA
15 7 (0.37%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) Basel III
18 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 336 (17.54%) Docker
2 83 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.68%) vSphere
6 12 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.052%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 606 (31.63%) Kubernetes
2 152 (7.93%) Ansible
3 115 (6.00%) Grafana
4 109 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.67%) Argo
7 30 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 26 (1.36%) Puppet
9 24 (1.25%) Istio
10 18 (0.94%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 8 (0.42%) CASB
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) Control-M
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 675 (35.23%) Google
2 236 (12.32%) Microsoft
3 121 (6.32%) Databricks
4 88 (4.59%) Splunk
5 72 (3.76%) Oracle
6 62 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.51%) VMware
10 47 (2.45%) CyberArk
11 45 (2.35%) SAP
12 41 (2.14%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.88%) IBM
14 32 (1.67%) Palo Alto
15 29 (1.51%) Cisco
15 29 (1.51%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.41%) Informatica
17 24 (1.25%) Okta
18 20 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
19 19 (0.99%) MuleSoft