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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,883 1,189 1,229
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 4.32% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.86% 11.57% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 804 861
10th Percentile £413 £375 £411
25th Percentile £469 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -
75th Percentile £658 £683 £775
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £27.56 £45.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +40.00% -51.61%
75th Percentile £79.13 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% +50.00% -53.18%

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 15,873 10,277 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.31% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,951 7,884
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 274 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 0 983 £575 -4.17% 339
North of England +12 400 £540 +8.00% 147
Yorkshire +4 247 £538 +14.44% 48
South East +4 189 £530 +2.42% 127
North West -4 139 £550 +2.09% 74
South West +17 125 £575 +9.52% 141
Midlands -58 73 £525 +19.32% 33
East of England +12 56 £555 +9.79% 16
West Midlands -34 55 £525 - 23
North East -23 18 £463 -26.00% 26
East Midlands -27 18 £500 +25.00% 10
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
1 115 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 97 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.72%) Apache
4 47 (2.50%) Confluence
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Cloudability
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Maximo
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (65.96%) AWS
2 1,211 (64.31%) Azure
3 211 (11.21%) GitHub
4 159 (8.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 143 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (7.17%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.15%) SaaS
8 89 (4.73%) dbt
9 84 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (4.14%) Power Platform
11 76 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (3.82%) Serverless
13 58 (3.08%) Entra ID
14 52 (2.76%) Vertex AI
15 50 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.12%) Amazon S3
17 36 (1.91%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.86%) Cloud Run
18 35 (1.86%) Datadog
19 34 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 99 (5.26%) Firewall
2 98 (5.20%) DNS
2 98 (5.20%) Network Security
3 82 (4.35%) VPN
4 37 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.38%) BGP
5 26 (1.38%) HTTP
5 26 (1.38%) WAN
6 22 (1.17%) DHCP
7 20 (1.06%) Internet
8 18 (0.96%) VLAN
9 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 15 (0.80%) OSPF
11 13 (0.69%) SSL
12 10 (0.53%) IPsec
12 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
13 9 (0.48%) MPLS
14 8 (0.42%) LAN
14 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (11.47%) BigQuery
2 170 (9.03%) Data Warehouse
3 105 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.04%) Data Lake
6 75 (3.98%) Metadata
6 75 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 72 (3.82%) Big Data
8 69 (3.66%) Power BI
9 47 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (2.50%) Tableau
10 34 (1.81%) Looker
11 32 (1.70%) Flink
12 30 (1.59%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.59%) Redis
13 29 (1.54%) SQL Server
14 26 (1.38%) MySQL
15 20 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
16 19 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
17 18 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 225 (11.95%) Jenkins
2 201 (10.67%) Git
3 153 (8.13%) GitLab
4 90 (4.78%) JIRA
5 42 (2.23%) JUnit
6 38 (2.02%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.59%) Selenium
8 28 (1.49%) JMeter
8 28 (1.49%) Maven
9 18 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.85%) Gradle
10 16 (0.85%) LoadRunner
11 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.80%) Postman
12 13 (0.69%) Gatling
12 13 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
13 10 (0.53%) WebDriver
14 9 (0.48%) NeoLoad
General
1 514 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 444 (23.58%) Finance
3 183 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (8.76%) Banking
5 156 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.61%) Retail
7 61 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.12%) Legal
10 38 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.91%) Marketing
12 31 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 23 (1.22%) Billing
17 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.96%) Publishing
20 16 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 406 (21.56%) Architect
2 261 (13.86%) Senior
3 209 (11.10%) Developer
4 185 (9.82%) Lead
5 157 (8.34%) Data Engineer
6 148 (7.86%) GCP Engineer
7 127 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 116 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 110 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (4.62%) Java Developer
11 79 (4.20%) Consultant
12 71 (3.77%) Security Engineer
13 67 (3.56%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.51%) Analyst
14 66 (3.51%) Security Architect
15 61 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
16 57 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 52 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
18 50 (2.66%) Software Engineer
19 41 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (24.54%) Terraform
2 194 (10.30%) Kafka
3 168 (8.92%) REST
4 106 (5.63%) Spring
5 103 (5.47%) React
6 95 (5.05%) OAuth
7 91 (4.83%) Spring Boot
8 80 (4.25%) RESTful
9 79 (4.20%) Node.js
10 57 (3.03%) JSON
11 55 (2.92%) OpenID
12 51 (2.71%) OAuth2
12 51 (2.71%) SAML
13 49 (2.60%) LDAP
14 45 (2.39%) PySpark
15 43 (2.28%) LangChain
16 42 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
17 39 (2.07%) GraphQL
17 39 (2.07%) PyTorch
17 39 (2.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 377 (20.02%) Cloud Native
2 135 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (4.73%) AI Agents
4 69 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 62 (3.29%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
9 47 (2.50%) Data Centre
10 44 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 44 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 43 (2.28%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.96%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
14 34 (1.81%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.59%) PKI
16 27 (1.43%) CMDB
16 27 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 24 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.43%) Linux
2 88 (4.67%) Windows
3 32 (1.70%) Unix
4 29 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.053%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (44.50%) CI/CD
2 598 (31.76%) DevOps
3 471 (25.01%) Agile
4 458 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 441 (23.42%) AI
6 322 (17.10%) Microservices
7 304 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 300 (15.93%) Analytics
9 284 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
10 275 (14.60%) Machine Learning
11 270 (14.34%) Observability
12 264 (14.02%) Containerisation
13 258 (13.70%) Software Engineering
14 228 (12.11%) Data Modelling
14 228 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
15 223 (11.84%) Roadmaps
16 216 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 213 (11.31%) Cloud Security
18 210 (11.15%) Migration
19 192 (10.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 719 (38.18%) Python
2 388 (20.61%) SQL
3 367 (19.49%) Java
4 157 (8.34%) Bash
5 147 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 141 (7.49%) PowerShell
7 88 (4.67%) Go
8 74 (3.93%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.44%) Scala
10 35 (1.86%) C#
10 35 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 32 (1.70%) Bicep
12 24 (1.27%) Groovy
13 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 18 (0.96%) R
13 18 (0.96%) Rust
14 11 (0.58%) C++
15 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.48%) Ruby
16 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 382 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 284 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.74%) Degree
4 107 (5.68%) CISSP
5 92 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 58 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (3.03%) CISM
11 40 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 33 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.22%) CCSP
14 22 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.01%) GIAC
16 17 (0.90%) CCNP
17 15 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 14 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
19 12 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.83%) GDPR
2 91 (4.83%) QA
3 90 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (4.62%) NIST
5 30 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.22%) NCSC
8 19 (1.01%) GRC
9 14 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
13 7 (0.37%) SLA
14 6 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 347 (18.43%) Docker
2 82 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.64%) vSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.053%) zsh
Systems Management
1 582 (30.91%) Kubernetes
2 127 (6.74%) Grafana
3 126 (6.69%) Ansible
4 125 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.70%) Argo
7 30 (1.59%) Istio
8 25 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.17%) Puppet
10 15 (0.80%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.74%) Kubeflow
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.48%) Podman
13 7 (0.37%) QRadar
14 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.27%) linkerd
14 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.21%) CASB
15 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 614 (32.61%) Google
2 199 (10.57%) Microsoft
3 114 (6.05%) Databricks
4 72 (3.82%) Splunk
5 67 (3.56%) Oracle
6 56 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 54 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 48 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.44%) VMware
10 45 (2.39%) CyberArk
11 39 (2.07%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.96%) SAP
13 31 (1.65%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.49%) Informatica
15 27 (1.43%) Red Hat
16 26 (1.38%) IBM
17 22 (1.17%) Cisco
18 21 (1.12%) MuleSoft
19 19 (1.01%) New Relic
19 19 (1.01%) Okta