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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,895 1,183 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.30% 3.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.95% 11.53% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 811 862
10th Percentile £402 £370 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -8.16% -
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +11.34% +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 15,864 10,262 11,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.29% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,589 6,956 8,088
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £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 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 250
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
% change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -3 1,011 £575 -4.17% 692
North of England +17 395 £538 +13.16% 197
Yorkshire +3 249 £520 +12.43% 64
South East -4 181 £541 +0.79% 158
North West -3 130 £560 +9.27% 108
South West +21 123 £560 +7.95% 67
Midlands -29 87 £500 +12.42% 49
West Midlands -23 71 £502 -14.64% 42
East of England +11 53 £533 +6.50% 16
North East -26 20 £525 -3.45% 25
East Midlands -25 16 £500 +25.00% 7
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 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 87 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (3.91%) Apache
4 54 (2.85%) Confluence
5 14 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.053%) JBoss
11 1 (0.053%) Mule
11 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Trello
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,227 (64.75%) AWS
2 1,202 (63.43%) Azure
3 205 (10.82%) GitHub
4 167 (8.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 133 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
6 120 (6.33%) Snowflake
7 91 (4.80%) SaaS
8 85 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (4.49%) Power Platform
9 80 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (4.06%) dbt
11 74 (3.91%) Serverless
12 57 (3.01%) Vertex AI
13 51 (2.69%) Entra ID
14 42 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (2.16%) Cloud Run
16 40 (2.11%) Amazon S3
17 36 (1.90%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.96%) Firewall
2 103 (5.44%) Network Security
3 102 (5.38%) DNS
4 92 (4.85%) VPN
5 35 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.69%) WAN
7 30 (1.58%) BGP
8 24 (1.27%) HTTP
9 21 (1.11%) OSPF
10 20 (1.06%) DHCP
11 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.95%) Internet
13 17 (0.90%) VLAN
14 13 (0.69%) SSL
15 12 (0.63%) LAN
15 12 (0.63%) VXLAN
16 11 (0.58%) IPsec
16 11 (0.58%) MPLS
17 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (11.45%) BigQuery
2 166 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (4.33%) NoSQL
5 81 (4.27%) Data Lake
6 73 (3.85%) Big Data
7 70 (3.69%) Metadata
7 70 (3.69%) Power BI
8 66 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.43%) Tableau
10 35 (1.85%) Looker
11 34 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (1.74%) SQL Server
13 31 (1.64%) MongoDB
14 30 (1.58%) MySQL
15 28 (1.48%) Flink
16 25 (1.32%) Redis
17 23 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.11%) Hadoop
19 16 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 225 (11.87%) Jenkins
2 200 (10.55%) Git
3 145 (7.65%) GitLab
4 92 (4.85%) JIRA
5 50 (2.64%) JUnit
6 35 (1.85%) Selenium
6 35 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.58%) JMeter
8 27 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.37%) Maven
10 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.79%) Gradle
12 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.69%) Postman
14 12 (0.63%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.63%) MLflow
14 12 (0.63%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.53%) LoadRunner
16 9 (0.47%) Gatling
General
1 472 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 461 (24.33%) Finance
3 176 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (8.87%) Banking
5 155 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.59%) Retail
7 60 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.16%) Legal
10 40 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.90%) Front Office
12 34 (1.79%) Marketing
13 29 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 26 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.06%) Billing
18 18 (0.95%) Publishing
19 17 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
20 16 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 389 (20.53%) Architect
2 241 (12.72%) Senior
3 229 (12.08%) Developer
4 187 (9.87%) Lead
5 167 (8.81%) GCP Engineer
6 161 (8.50%) Data Engineer
7 126 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 121 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 73 (3.85%) Consultant
12 70 (3.69%) Analyst
13 67 (3.54%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.48%) Security Architect
14 66 (3.48%) Security Engineer
14 66 (3.48%) Software Engineer
15 60 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
16 57 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 49 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
18 48 (2.53%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (9.34%) Kafka
2 162 (8.55%) REST
3 120 (6.33%) React
4 118 (6.23%) Spring
5 100 (5.28%) Node.js
6 96 (5.07%) Spring Boot
7 82 (4.33%) OAuth
8 65 (3.43%) RESTful
9 48 (2.53%) JSON
10 46 (2.43%) LangChain
10 46 (2.43%) OpenID
11 45 (2.37%) OAuth2
11 45 (2.37%) PyTorch
12 44 (2.32%) SAML
13 43 (2.27%) AngularJS
13 43 (2.27%) GraphQL
14 42 (2.22%) TensorFlow
15 40 (2.11%) LDAP
16 39 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
17 38 (2.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 357 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 129 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (4.49%) AI Agents
4 69 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.06%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 53 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
8 49 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 43 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 36 (1.90%) Algorithms
11 36 (1.90%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
13 33 (1.74%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.69%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.64%) Derivative
16 30 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 28 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.70%) Linux
2 92 (4.85%) Windows
3 30 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.32%) Android
4 25 (1.32%) Unix
5 22 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.63%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (44.27%) CI/CD
2 594 (31.35%) DevOps
3 491 (25.91%) Agile
4 444 (23.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 442 (23.32%) AI
6 328 (17.31%) Microservices
7 313 (16.52%) Analytics
8 280 (14.78%) Machine Learning
9 274 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
10 271 (14.30%) Observability
11 260 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 257 (13.56%) Software Engineering
13 255 (13.46%) Containerisation
14 236 (12.45%) Data Modelling
15 235 (12.40%) Data Pipeline
16 213 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 212 (11.19%) Migration
18 208 (10.98%) Cloud Security
19 207 (10.92%) Roadmaps
20 195 (10.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 724 (38.21%) Python
2 394 (20.79%) SQL
3 364 (19.21%) Java
4 154 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.97%) Bash
6 136 (7.18%) PowerShell
7 92 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 89 (4.70%) Go
9 43 (2.27%) Scala
10 39 (2.06%) C#
11 32 (1.69%) Bicep
12 26 (1.37%) Groovy
12 26 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 25 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.95%) Rust
15 16 (0.84%) R
16 13 (0.69%) Ruby
17 10 (0.53%) C++
17 10 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
18 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 372 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 292 (15.41%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.54%) Degree
4 109 (5.75%) CISSP
5 95 (5.01%) DV Cleared
6 85 (4.49%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 57 (3.01%) CISM
11 41 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.53%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 25 (1.32%) CCSP
15 22 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 21 (1.11%) CCNP
17 19 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 18 (0.95%) GIAC
19 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
19 14 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 90 (4.75%) GDPR
3 88 (4.64%) QA
4 80 (4.22%) NIST
5 79 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.21%) NCSC
9 20 (1.06%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.32%) PSD2
14 6 (0.32%) SLA
15 5 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 351 (18.52%) Docker
2 70 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.74%) vSphere
7 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.26%) NFS
9 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.21%) HDFS
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 575 (30.34%) Kubernetes
2 471 (24.85%) Terraform
3 129 (6.81%) Grafana
3 129 (6.81%) Prometheus
4 118 (6.23%) Ansible
5 37 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.64%) Argo
7 28 (1.48%) Istio
8 24 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.06%) Puppet
10 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.63%) Kubeflow
11 12 (0.63%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 6 (0.32%) linkerd
13 6 (0.32%) QRadar
14 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.26%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 612 (32.30%) Google
2 178 (9.39%) Microsoft
3 98 (5.17%) Databricks
4 68 (3.59%) Splunk
5 52 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.53%) Oracle
8 44 (2.32%) OpenAI
9 41 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 41 (2.16%) VMware
10 38 (2.01%) CyberArk
11 36 (1.90%) Palo Alto
12 29 (1.53%) SAP
13 28 (1.48%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.27%) Informatica
15 23 (1.21%) Cisco
16 19 (1.00%) Okta
17 18 (0.95%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.74%) IBM
19 13 (0.69%) Foundry