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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,677 925 1,007
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 3.77% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.81% 10.04% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 631 751
10th Percentile £371 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.90
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £37.01
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +2.42% -26.26%
75th Percentile £70.75 £69.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.34 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.00 £47.28
% change year-on-year +20.75% +12.10% -32.46%

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 14,201 9,209 11,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.91% 37.58% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,785 6,462 8,570
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 191 320
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +64.57% +26.98% -26.33%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £33.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £27.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.58% +31.57% -35.38%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +2 862 £575 -5.35% 402
North of England +30 332 £525 -4.55% 120
Yorkshire +9 187 £500 -9.09% 38
South East +27 186 £492 -14.43% 131
North West +19 131 £550 -2.22% 73
Midlands -9 97 £475 - 45
South West +31 95 £550 -8.33% 54
West Midlands -13 75 £488 +2.20% 25
East of England +4 57 £570 +14.46% 36
East Midlands -19 22 £438 +26.63% 20
North East -2 17 £563 +21.62% 9
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 91 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 61 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.40%) Apache
4 35 (2.09%) Confluence
5 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.42%) SAS
6 7 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.36%) CMS
7 6 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) Documentum
10 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.060%) JBoss
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.24%) Weka
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.060%) Actimize
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
4 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,164 (69.41%) Azure
2 1,140 (67.98%) AWS
3 178 (10.61%) GitHub
4 135 (8.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 116 (6.92%) Power Platform
6 99 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 77 (4.59%) Snowflake
8 62 (3.70%) SaaS
9 61 (3.64%) Serverless
10 58 (3.46%) OpenShift
11 56 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (3.22%) Amazon S3
13 47 (2.80%) dbt
13 47 (2.80%) Entra ID
14 46 (2.74%) Vertex AI
15 39 (2.33%) Cloud Run
16 37 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 32 (1.91%) Google Gemini
18 31 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.32%) Firewall
2 91 (5.43%) VPN
3 86 (5.13%) DNS
4 79 (4.71%) Network Security
5 26 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.55%) WAN
6 22 (1.31%) BGP
7 21 (1.25%) HTTP
8 17 (1.01%) OSPF
9 16 (0.95%) LAN
9 16 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.83%) VoIP
11 13 (0.78%) VLAN
11 13 (0.78%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.72%) Internet
13 10 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.60%) DHCP
13 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.54%) IPv6
14 9 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.67%) BigQuery
2 106 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (5.78%) Power BI
5 80 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 66 (3.94%) Metadata
7 64 (3.82%) Big Data
8 60 (3.58%) Data Lake
9 56 (3.34%) Tableau
10 40 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.39%) SQL Server
11 36 (2.15%) MongoDB
12 34 (2.03%) MySQL
13 26 (1.55%) Looker
14 25 (1.49%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.37%) OLAP
16 21 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
18 18 (1.07%) Mixpanel
18 18 (1.07%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 202 (12.05%) Jenkins
2 152 (9.06%) Git
3 128 (7.63%) GitLab
4 76 (4.53%) JIRA
5 43 (2.56%) Selenium
6 41 (2.44%) JUnit
7 28 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.67%) JMeter
8 26 (1.55%) Postman
9 18 (1.07%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 11 (0.66%) MLflow
12 10 (0.60%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.60%) Maven
13 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.48%) Gatling
14 8 (0.48%) Mockito
15 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 497 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 357 (21.29%) Finance
3 187 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (9.00%) Banking
5 141 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 56 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (3.10%) Retail
8 39 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 38 (2.27%) Legal
10 33 (1.97%) Marketing
11 32 (1.91%) Front Office
12 31 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.95%) Military
16 15 (0.89%) Electronics
16 15 (0.89%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 347 (20.69%) Architect
2 195 (11.63%) Senior
3 177 (10.55%) Developer
4 176 (10.49%) Lead
5 166 (9.90%) GCP Engineer
6 135 (8.05%) Data Engineer
7 101 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 99 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 85 (5.07%) Analyst
10 76 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
11 67 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 53 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
12 53 (3.16%) Consultant
13 51 (3.04%) Security Engineer
14 50 (2.98%) Security Architect
15 48 (2.86%) Java Developer
16 46 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
17 45 (2.68%) Data Architect
18 44 (2.62%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 43 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.08%) REST
2 151 (9.00%) Kafka
3 121 (7.22%) Spring
4 114 (6.80%) React
5 99 (5.90%) Node.js
6 94 (5.61%) Spring Boot
7 84 (5.01%) LDAP
8 76 (4.53%) RESTful
9 68 (4.05%) OAuth
10 56 (3.34%) SOAP
11 54 (3.22%) PyTorch
11 54 (3.22%) TensorFlow
12 52 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 50 (2.98%) OpenID
14 48 (2.86%) .NET
15 40 (2.39%) LangChain
16 39 (2.33%) scikit-learn
17 36 (2.15%) OAuth2
17 36 (2.15%) SAML
18 35 (2.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 273 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 89 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 64 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (3.76%) Security Posture
6 60 (3.58%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 43 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 26 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.31%) Clustering
13 22 (1.31%) Derivative
13 22 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 20 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.19%) Equities
15 19 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.37%) Linux
2 73 (4.35%) Windows
3 26 (1.55%) Mac OS
4 25 (1.49%) Android
5 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.31%) VMS
6 15 (0.89%) Unix
7 13 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (43.05%) CI/CD
2 544 (32.44%) DevOps
3 360 (21.47%) Agile
4 344 (20.51%) AI
5 340 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 319 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (17.77%) Analytics
8 269 (16.04%) Containerisation
9 259 (15.44%) Microservices
10 236 (14.07%) Machine Learning
11 220 (13.12%) Observability
12 192 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
12 192 (11.45%) Migration
13 189 (11.27%) Data Modelling
14 184 (10.97%) Software Engineering
15 178 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 166 (9.90%) Data Engineering
17 160 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 158 (9.42%) ETL
19 153 (9.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 681 (40.61%) Python
2 318 (18.96%) SQL
3 287 (17.11%) Java
4 134 (7.99%) PowerShell
5 130 (7.75%) JavaScript
6 108 (6.44%) Bash
7 81 (4.83%) TypeScript
8 68 (4.05%) Go
9 51 (3.04%) C#
10 35 (2.09%) Scala
11 18 (1.07%) Bicep
11 18 (1.07%) Groovy
12 17 (1.01%) R
13 14 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 8 (0.48%) PHP
15 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.42%) C++
17 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 382 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 312 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.02%) Degree
4 88 (5.25%) CISSP
5 61 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.34%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.22%) Azure Certification
8 53 (3.16%) CISM
9 50 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (2.56%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.31%) CCNP
14 22 (1.31%) CCSP
15 18 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.72%) CCIE
17 12 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (9.06%) GDPR
2 125 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 103 (6.14%) NIST
4 102 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (4.05%) QA
6 49 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 21 (1.25%) NCSC
9 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 18 (1.07%) SLA
10 15 (0.89%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.83%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.72%) PSD2
13 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) COBIT
14 7 (0.42%) PERC
15 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.30%) HL7
16 5 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 341 (20.33%) Docker
2 96 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.48%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) GPFS
9 5 (0.30%) HDFS
9 5 (0.30%) Lustre
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.060%) iptables
11 1 (0.060%) UAG
11 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 511 (30.47%) Kubernetes
2 398 (23.73%) Terraform
3 123 (7.33%) Ansible
4 104 (6.20%) Grafana
5 97 (5.78%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.21%) Istio
7 27 (1.61%) Argo
8 19 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.95%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.78%) Puppet
11 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.60%) SCCM
14 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
15 8 (0.48%) Nessus
16 7 (0.42%) Podman
17 6 (0.36%) Kibana
17 6 (0.36%) Rancher
18 5 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 539 (32.14%) Google
2 136 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 87 (5.19%) Splunk
4 80 (4.77%) Databricks
5 72 (4.29%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.22%) BeyondTrust
8 41 (2.44%) VMware
9 40 (2.39%) Oracle
10 39 (2.33%) OpenAI
11 36 (2.15%) Centrify
12 34 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 31 (1.85%) Cisco
14 29 (1.73%) Salesforce
15 28 (1.67%) SAP
16 26 (1.55%) Dynatrace
17 22 (1.31%) Foundry
17 22 (1.31%) Informatica
18 20 (1.19%) Red Hat
19 16 (0.95%) Okta