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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,910 1,185 1,193
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.29% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.90% 11.54% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 813 851
10th Percentile £403 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £618
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -8.91% +0.82%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £745 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.48 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.36 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +10.70% +70.34% -50.91%

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 16,045 10,267 11,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.19% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,703 6,965 7,967
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 267 241
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.17
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.34% -30.96%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -3 1,019 £575 -4.17% 1,095
North of England +11 396 £538 +7.57% 274
Yorkshire +7 247 £538 +14.36% 86
South East +8 187 £533 -1.25% 163
North West +1 134 £558 +5.44% 160
South West +14 127 £560 +6.67% 82
Midlands -34 78 £513 +15.23% 65
West Midlands -22 62 £525 -10.64% 54
East of England +13 54 £530 +6.00% 18
North East -27 19 £481 -11.49% 28
East Midlands -23 16 £500 +25.00% 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
1 114 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.66%) Apache
4 55 (2.88%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.31%) CMS
9 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) nginx
13 1 (0.052%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.052%) JBoss
13 1 (0.052%) Mule
13 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.052%) Houdini
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) NUKE
6 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.10%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.10%) Maximo
6 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.052%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (64.40%) AWS
2 1,208 (63.25%) Azure
3 216 (11.31%) GitHub
4 166 (8.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 141 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
6 126 (6.60%) Snowflake
7 92 (4.82%) SaaS
8 90 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.40%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.03%) dbt
12 72 (3.77%) Serverless
13 57 (2.98%) Vertex AI
14 53 (2.77%) Entra ID
15 43 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (2.15%) Cloud Run
17 39 (2.04%) Amazon S3
18 37 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.78%) Datadog
19 34 (1.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.65%) Firewall
2 103 (5.39%) DNS
3 101 (5.29%) Network Security
4 88 (4.61%) VPN
5 36 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.62%) WAN
7 29 (1.52%) BGP
8 26 (1.36%) HTTP
9 21 (1.10%) DHCP
10 20 (1.05%) OSPF
11 19 (0.99%) Internet
11 19 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.99%) VLAN
12 14 (0.73%) SSL
13 11 (0.58%) IPsec
13 11 (0.58%) LAN
13 11 (0.58%) MPLS
13 11 (0.58%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.41%) BigQuery
2 170 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 79 (4.14%) Data Lake
6 72 (3.77%) Big Data
6 72 (3.77%) Metadata
7 70 (3.66%) Power BI
7 70 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 48 (2.51%) Tableau
9 37 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (1.94%) Looker
10 31 (1.62%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.62%) SQL Server
11 28 (1.47%) Flink
12 27 (1.41%) MySQL
13 25 (1.31%) Redis
14 23 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 16 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 229 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 214 (11.20%) Git
3 150 (7.85%) GitLab
4 94 (4.92%) JIRA
5 49 (2.57%) JUnit
6 37 (1.94%) Selenium
6 37 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.78%) JMeter
8 26 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.36%) Maven
9 18 (0.94%) WebDriver
10 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 15 (0.79%) Gradle
10 15 (0.79%) Postman
11 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.73%) LoadRunner
11 14 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.68%) Gatling
13 11 (0.58%) MLflow
14 10 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 491 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 454 (23.77%) Finance
3 183 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (8.85%) Banking
5 160 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.56%) Retail
7 60 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.04%) Legal
11 35 (1.83%) Marketing
12 31 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.57%) Front Office
14 28 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.99%) Billing
17 19 (0.99%) Publishing
18 17 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 397 (20.79%) Architect
2 255 (13.35%) Senior
3 226 (11.83%) Developer
4 187 (9.79%) Lead
5 168 (8.80%) GCP Engineer
6 161 (8.43%) Data Engineer
7 129 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 118 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 112 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.35%) Java Developer
11 76 (3.98%) Consultant
12 69 (3.61%) Security Architect
13 68 (3.56%) Analyst
14 67 (3.51%) Data Architect
15 66 (3.46%) Security Engineer
16 62 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
17 60 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 60 (3.14%) Software Engineer
18 54 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
19 45 (2.36%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (9.06%) Kafka
2 164 (8.59%) REST
3 116 (6.07%) Spring
4 114 (5.97%) React
5 95 (4.97%) Node.js
6 93 (4.87%) Spring Boot
7 88 (4.61%) OAuth
8 73 (3.82%) RESTful
9 52 (2.72%) JSON
10 48 (2.51%) OpenID
11 47 (2.46%) OAuth2
11 47 (2.46%) SAML
12 45 (2.36%) LangChain
13 44 (2.30%) PyTorch
14 43 (2.25%) GraphQL
15 41 (2.15%) AngularJS
15 41 (2.15%) LDAP
16 40 (2.09%) PySpark
16 40 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (2.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 370 (19.37%) Cloud Native
2 130 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.50%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 52 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 50 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 48 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 47 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
9 47 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.04%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
13 32 (1.68%) Management Information System
14 30 (1.57%) Fixed Income
15 29 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 27 (1.41%) Derivative
16 27 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.81%) Linux
2 91 (4.76%) Windows
3 28 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.36%) Unix
5 23 (1.20%) Android
5 23 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.52%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.052%) CentOS
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (44.24%) CI/CD
2 606 (31.73%) DevOps
3 491 (25.71%) Agile
4 450 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 444 (23.25%) AI
6 329 (17.23%) Microservices
7 315 (16.49%) Analytics
8 282 (14.76%) Machine Learning
9 279 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 272 (14.24%) Observability
11 271 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 265 (13.87%) Containerisation
13 261 (13.66%) Software Engineering
14 240 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
15 237 (12.41%) Data Modelling
16 221 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 209 (10.94%) Cloud Security
17 209 (10.94%) Roadmaps
18 208 (10.89%) Migration
19 197 (10.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 730 (38.22%) Python
2 396 (20.73%) SQL
3 363 (19.01%) Java
4 160 (8.38%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.91%) Bash
6 139 (7.28%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 85 (4.45%) Go
9 46 (2.41%) Scala
10 43 (2.25%) C#
11 30 (1.57%) Bicep
12 27 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 26 (1.36%) Groovy
14 25 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.94%) Rust
16 17 (0.89%) R
17 13 (0.68%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) C++
19 10 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
20 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 383 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 297 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.39%) Degree
4 110 (5.76%) CISSP
5 98 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 87 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
8 63 (3.30%) Azure Certification
9 61 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (2.98%) CISM
11 42 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.52%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (1.31%) CCSP
14 24 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (1.05%) CCNP
16 19 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.94%) GIAC
18 14 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
19 13 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 90 (4.71%) QA
3 89 (4.66%) GDPR
4 83 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (4.19%) NIST
6 30 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.20%) NCSC
9 18 (0.94%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.42%) COBIT
13 8 (0.42%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.31%) PSD2
16 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 361 (18.90%) Docker
2 74 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.63%) vSphere
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 586 (30.68%) Kubernetes
2 470 (24.61%) Terraform
3 128 (6.70%) Grafana
4 127 (6.65%) Prometheus
5 121 (6.34%) Ansible
6 39 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.62%) Argo
8 28 (1.47%) Istio
9 25 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.10%) Puppet
11 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.68%) Kubeflow
12 13 (0.68%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.47%) Podman
14 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.26%) linkerd
14 5 (0.26%) QRadar
14 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 624 (32.67%) Google
2 185 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 105 (5.50%) Databricks
4 67 (3.51%) Splunk
5 52 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.57%) Oracle
7 47 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 42 (2.20%) OpenAI
8 42 (2.20%) VMware
9 39 (2.04%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.41%) Red Hat
11 27 (1.41%) SAP
12 23 (1.20%) Informatica
13 22 (1.15%) Cisco
14 21 (1.10%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.89%) IBM
15 17 (0.89%) Okta
16 14 (0.73%) New Relic