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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,829 1,150 1,230
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.06% 4.22% 3.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.62% 11.29% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 783 893
10th Percentile £403 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -
75th Percentile £655 £688 £780
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 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -3 966 £568 -5.42% 421
North of England +9 382 £538 +7.50% 108
Yorkshire 0 239 £527 +11.43% 23
South East +12 174 £541 +0.79% 141
North West -5 126 £539 +1.65% 71
South West +17 121 £560 +6.67% 37
Midlands -29 89 £500 +11.11% 33
West Midlands -24 70 £500 -16.67% 28
East of England +8 52 £535 +7.00% 17
North East -15 21 £550 +1.15% 15
East Midlands -21 19 £500 +23.46% 5
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 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 82 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.83%) 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%) Camunda
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%) 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 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
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
2 6 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
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
Cloud Services
1 1,202 (65.72%) AWS
2 1,175 (64.24%) Azure
3 189 (10.33%) GitHub
4 168 (9.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 124 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (6.62%) Snowflake
7 91 (4.98%) Power Platform
8 88 (4.81%) SaaS
9 77 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (3.99%) Serverless
12 70 (3.83%) dbt
13 54 (2.95%) Entra ID
13 54 (2.95%) Vertex AI
14 43 (2.35%) Cloud Run
15 42 (2.30%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.91%) OpenShift
17 34 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (1.69%) Google Workspace
18 31 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.96%) Firewall
2 102 (5.58%) Network Security
3 99 (5.41%) DNS
4 89 (4.87%) VPN
5 33 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.69%) WAN
7 29 (1.59%) BGP
8 24 (1.31%) HTTP
9 20 (1.09%) OSPF
10 18 (0.98%) DHCP
11 17 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.82%) VLAN
13 14 (0.77%) Internet
14 13 (0.71%) LAN
15 12 (0.66%) SSL
16 11 (0.60%) IPsec
17 10 (0.55%) MPLS
17 10 (0.55%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.49%) DNSSEC
19 8 (0.44%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (11.10%) BigQuery
2 152 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (4.21%) Data Lake
4 77 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.16%) Big Data
6 73 (3.99%) Power BI
7 66 (3.61%) Metadata
8 63 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.52%) Tableau
10 35 (1.91%) SQL Server
11 31 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 31 (1.69%) MySQL
12 29 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (1.53%) Looker
14 24 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (1.26%) Flink
16 22 (1.20%) Hadoop
16 22 (1.20%) Redis
17 14 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 207 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 185 (10.11%) Git
3 133 (7.27%) GitLab
4 82 (4.48%) JIRA
5 49 (2.68%) JUnit
6 36 (1.97%) Selenium
7 32 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.64%) JMeter
9 27 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.26%) Maven
11 18 (0.98%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.82%) Postman
13 14 (0.77%) 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%) ERwin
18 8 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 472 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 439 (24.00%) Finance
3 171 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.02%) Banking
5 149 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.77%) Retail
7 55 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.30%) Legal
10 36 (1.97%) Front Office
10 36 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.69%) Marketing
12 28 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.26%) Billing
14 23 (1.26%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.26%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 373 (20.39%) Architect
2 229 (12.52%) Senior
3 226 (12.36%) Developer
4 175 (9.57%) Lead
5 159 (8.69%) GCP Engineer
6 150 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 122 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 118 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 103 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.88%) Consultant
12 70 (3.83%) Software Engineer
13 65 (3.55%) Analyst
14 62 (3.39%) Security Architect
15 61 (3.34%) Security Engineer
16 59 (3.23%) Data Architect
17 58 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
18 53 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 51 (2.79%) GCP DevOps
20 48 (2.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (9.68%) Kafka
2 151 (8.26%) REST
3 125 (6.83%) Spring
4 119 (6.51%) React
5 103 (5.63%) Spring Boot
6 94 (5.14%) Node.js
7 80 (4.37%) OAuth
8 67 (3.66%) RESTful
9 45 (2.46%) OpenID
10 44 (2.41%) PyTorch
11 43 (2.35%) OAuth2
12 42 (2.30%) GraphQL
12 42 (2.30%) SAML
13 41 (2.24%) AngularJS
13 41 (2.24%) TensorFlow
14 40 (2.19%) LangChain
14 40 (2.19%) LDAP
15 36 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (1.86%) JSON
17 33 (1.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 333 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 124 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (3.83%) AI Agents
4 63 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 55 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 54 (2.95%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 48 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 46 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.91%) Fixed Income
12 33 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 31 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
13 31 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 30 (1.64%) Derivative
15 27 (1.48%) Clustering
15 27 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
16 26 (1.42%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 116 (6.34%) Linux
2 84 (4.59%) Windows
3 27 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.42%) Android
5 24 (1.31%) Unix
6 19 (1.04%) 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
1 812 (44.40%) CI/CD
2 578 (31.60%) DevOps
3 473 (25.86%) Agile
4 421 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 419 (22.91%) AI
6 322 (17.61%) Microservices
7 300 (16.40%) Analytics
8 267 (14.60%) Observability
8 267 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
9 265 (14.49%) Machine Learning
10 257 (14.05%) Containerisation
11 246 (13.45%) Software Engineering
12 238 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 227 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
14 223 (12.19%) Data Modelling
15 207 (11.32%) Migration
16 199 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 196 (10.72%) Cloud Security
18 194 (10.61%) Roadmaps
19 190 (10.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 692 (37.83%) Python
2 377 (20.61%) SQL
3 349 (19.08%) Java
4 142 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 135 (7.38%) Bash
6 128 (7.00%) PowerShell
7 97 (5.30%) Go
8 93 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.24%) Scala
10 39 (2.13%) C#
11 26 (1.42%) Bicep
12 25 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.20%) Groovy
14 21 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.98%) Rust
16 14 (0.77%) 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
1 350 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 275 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 111 (6.07%) Degree
4 107 (5.85%) CISSP
5 87 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 81 (4.43%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (3.17%) Azure Certification
8 58 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (3.12%) CISM
10 42 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.59%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.48%) CCSP
13 22 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (1.04%) CCNP
14 19 (1.04%) GIAC
15 14 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 103 (5.63%) GDPR
3 87 (4.76%) NIST
4 86 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (4.32%) QA
6 34 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.26%) NCSC
9 21 (1.15%) GRC
10 13 (0.71%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.49%) COBIT
13 9 (0.49%) SLA
14 8 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.44%) WCAG
15 7 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 342 (18.70%) Docker
2 68 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.77%) 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
1 546 (29.85%) Kubernetes
2 459 (25.10%) Terraform
3 126 (6.89%) Grafana
4 125 (6.83%) Prometheus
5 107 (5.85%) Ansible
6 39 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.59%) Argo
8 28 (1.53%) Istio
9 22 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.98%) Puppet
11 14 (0.77%) 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
1 569 (31.11%) Google
2 174 (9.51%) Microsoft
3 94 (5.14%) Databricks
4 67 (3.66%) Splunk
5 50 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 50 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 41 (2.24%) Oracle
7 39 (2.13%) CyberArk
8 37 (2.02%) VMware
9 36 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 33 (1.80%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.75%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 25 (1.37%) SAP
14 22 (1.20%) Informatica
15 21 (1.15%) Cisco
16 20 (1.09%) Okta
17 18 (0.98%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.77%) Tenable
19 13 (0.71%) Foundry