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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,832 1,156 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 4.24% 3.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.70% 11.35% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 786 882
10th Percentile £407 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £615
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.50% +0.41%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £786
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £34.63
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.72 £53.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.32% +3.38% -29.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.48 £101.10 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £53.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +23.83% +24.42% -41.76%

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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -5 965 £573 -4.58% 641
North of England +14 382 £538 +7.50% 171
Yorkshire -2 235 £525 +10.53% 50
South East 0 176 £550 +2.14% 151
North West +4 131 £550 +3.77% 98
South West +15 121 £560 +6.67% 53
Midlands -21 87 £500 +10.50% 45
West Midlands -19 68 £494 -17.71% 37
East of England +6 52 £535 +7.00% 20
North East -25 20 £550 +1.15% 24
East Midlands -20 19 £500 +21.95% 8
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
1 113 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 83 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.77%) Apache
4 48 (2.62%) Confluence
5 13 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.27%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.055%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.055%) Camunda
11 1 (0.055%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.11%) Trello
7 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.055%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
1 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Maximo
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.055%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.055%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.055%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.055%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.055%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.055%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.055%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,204 (65.72%) AWS
2 1,174 (64.08%) Azure
3 191 (10.43%) GitHub
4 167 (9.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 125 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 123 (6.71%) Snowflake
7 89 (4.86%) Power Platform
7 89 (4.86%) SaaS
8 78 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (3.98%) Serverless
10 70 (3.82%) dbt
11 54 (2.95%) Entra ID
12 52 (2.84%) Vertex AI
13 42 (2.29%) Cloud Run
14 41 (2.24%) Amazon S3
15 37 (2.02%) OpenShift
16 35 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.11%) Firewall
2 106 (5.79%) Network Security
3 102 (5.57%) DNS
4 92 (5.02%) VPN
5 34 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.69%) BGP
7 30 (1.64%) WAN
8 24 (1.31%) HTTP
9 22 (1.20%) OSPF
10 20 (1.09%) DHCP
11 17 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.93%) VLAN
12 15 (0.82%) Internet
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
13 12 (0.66%) SSL
13 12 (0.66%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.60%) IPsec
15 10 (0.55%) MPLS
16 9 (0.49%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (11.08%) BigQuery
2 154 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (4.20%) Data Lake
4 77 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 75 (4.09%) Big Data
6 72 (3.93%) Power BI
7 67 (3.66%) Metadata
8 63 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.51%) Tableau
10 34 (1.86%) SQL Server
11 31 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (1.64%) MySQL
13 29 (1.58%) Looker
14 24 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (1.26%) Flink
16 22 (1.20%) Redis
17 21 (1.15%) Hadoop
18 14 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 208 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 184 (10.04%) Git
3 133 (7.26%) GitLab
4 82 (4.48%) JIRA
5 49 (2.67%) JUnit
6 36 (1.97%) Selenium
7 34 (1.86%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.64%) JMeter
9 27 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 25 (1.36%) Maven
11 18 (0.98%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.82%) Postman
13 14 (0.76%) Gradle
14 12 (0.66%) MLflow
15 11 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.55%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
17 9 (0.49%) Cypress.io
18 8 (0.44%) Mockito
19 7 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 460 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 439 (23.96%) Finance
3 169 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (8.95%) Banking
5 147 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.71%) Retail
7 54 (2.95%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.29%) Legal
10 37 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.97%) Front Office
12 32 (1.75%) Marketing
13 28 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.09%) Billing
17 17 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.87%) Publishing
19 14 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 379 (20.69%) Architect
2 233 (12.72%) Senior
3 222 (12.12%) Developer
4 174 (9.50%) Lead
5 158 (8.62%) GCP Engineer
6 150 (8.19%) Data Engineer
7 123 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 121 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
10 85 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.88%) Consultant
12 70 (3.82%) Software Engineer
13 66 (3.60%) Analyst
14 65 (3.55%) Security Engineer
15 63 (3.44%) Security Architect
16 61 (3.33%) Data Architect
17 58 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
18 53 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 49 (2.67%) GCP DevOps
20 46 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.55%) Kafka
2 150 (8.19%) REST
3 122 (6.66%) Spring
4 117 (6.39%) React
5 100 (5.46%) Spring Boot
6 94 (5.13%) Node.js
7 81 (4.42%) OAuth
8 64 (3.49%) RESTful
9 44 (2.40%) OpenID
10 43 (2.35%) GraphQL
10 43 (2.35%) OAuth2
10 43 (2.35%) PyTorch
10 43 (2.35%) SAML
11 42 (2.29%) LangChain
12 41 (2.24%) JSON
13 40 (2.18%) LDAP
13 40 (2.18%) TensorFlow
14 38 (2.07%) AngularJS
15 37 (2.02%) RabbitMQ
16 33 (1.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 338 (18.45%) Cloud Native
2 124 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (3.98%) AI Agents
4 64 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 55 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 53 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 49 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 35 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.91%) Fixed Income
10 35 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
12 31 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 31 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.64%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.64%) Derivative
14 27 (1.47%) Clustering
14 27 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 119 (6.50%) Linux
2 88 (4.80%) Windows
3 29 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.42%) Android
5 24 (1.31%) Unix
6 20 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.66%) VMS
9 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Rocky
13 1 (0.055%) Solaris
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (44.21%) CI/CD
2 570 (31.11%) DevOps
3 472 (25.76%) Agile
4 425 (23.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 424 (23.14%) AI
6 323 (17.63%) Microservices
7 302 (16.48%) Analytics
8 265 (14.47%) Machine Learning
9 263 (14.36%) Observability
10 262 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
11 258 (14.08%) Containerisation
12 246 (13.43%) Software Engineering
13 239 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 226 (12.34%) Data Pipeline
15 223 (12.17%) Data Modelling
16 208 (11.35%) Migration
17 199 (10.86%) Cloud Security
17 199 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 194 (10.59%) Roadmaps
19 187 (10.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 697 (38.05%) Python
2 378 (20.63%) SQL
3 345 (18.83%) Java
4 142 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 137 (7.48%) Bash
6 132 (7.21%) PowerShell
7 94 (5.13%) Go
8 91 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 39 (2.13%) Scala
10 36 (1.97%) C#
11 31 (1.69%) Bicep
12 25 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.31%) Groovy
14 21 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.98%) Rust
16 14 (0.76%) R
17 12 (0.66%) Ruby
18 10 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
19 9 (0.49%) C++
19 9 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 347 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 273 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.17%) Degree
4 111 (6.06%) CISSP
5 86 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.48%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.22%) Azure Certification
8 59 (3.22%) CISM
9 55 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 28 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.47%) CCSP
13 22 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (1.15%) CCNP
15 19 (1.04%) GIAC
16 14 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.57%) GDPR
3 88 (4.80%) NIST
4 87 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 80 (4.37%) QA
6 35 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.26%) NCSC
9 22 (1.20%) GRC
10 13 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.49%) COBIT
14 8 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.44%) WCAG
15 7 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 341 (18.61%) Docker
2 70 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.76%) vSphere
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
11 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 549 (29.97%) Kubernetes
2 462 (25.22%) Terraform
3 124 (6.77%) Grafana
4 123 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 107 (5.84%) Ansible
6 39 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.58%) Argo
8 28 (1.53%) Istio
9 23 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.98%) Puppet
11 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.71%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.66%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.44%) Podman
16 7 (0.38%) linkerd
17 6 (0.33%) QRadar
18 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
18 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
18 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 572 (31.22%) Google
2 174 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 94 (5.13%) Databricks
4 66 (3.60%) Splunk
5 50 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 50 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.29%) Oracle
7 39 (2.13%) CyberArk
8 38 (2.07%) OpenAI
9 37 (2.02%) VMware
10 34 (1.86%) Palo Alto
11 33 (1.80%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.53%) Red Hat
13 26 (1.42%) SAP
14 23 (1.26%) Informatica
15 22 (1.20%) Cisco
16 20 (1.09%) MuleSoft
17 19 (1.04%) Okta
18 14 (0.76%) Tenable
19 12 (0.66%) IBM