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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,843 1,155 1,217
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.11% 4.22% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.75% 11.31% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 790 883
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 £666 £688 £782
90th Percentile £745 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 9
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £34.25
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £69.72 £53.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.32% -2.73% -25.51%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £67.00
90th Percentile £82.48 £101.10 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £53.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +23.83% +42.67% -49.21%

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 15,689 10,212 11,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.35% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,471 6,902 8,342
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -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 557 267 281
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -4 980 £575 -4.17% 644
North of England +11 381 £538 +7.50% 168
Yorkshire +2 236 £525 +10.53% 49
South East +2 176 £550 +2.14% 149
North West +4 130 £550 +3.77% 92
South West +21 121 £560 +6.67% 50
Midlands -35 84 £500 +10.50% 49
West Midlands -28 66 £500 -16.67% 41
East of England +4 53 £533 +6.50% 23
North East -22 19 £550 +1.15% 28
East Midlands -21 18 £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
1 114 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 81 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.69%) Apache
4 50 (2.71%) Confluence
5 13 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.33%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) SAS
9 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.054%) JBoss
12 1 (0.054%) Mule
12 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.43%) 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 (0.054%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) 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
7 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.054%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.054%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,207 (65.49%) AWS
2 1,174 (63.70%) Azure
3 198 (10.74%) GitHub
4 168 (9.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 129 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (6.62%) Snowflake
7 89 (4.83%) SaaS
8 87 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 78 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (3.96%) Serverless
12 71 (3.85%) dbt
13 52 (2.82%) Entra ID
13 52 (2.82%) Vertex AI
14 43 (2.33%) Amazon S3
15 40 (2.17%) Cloud Run
16 37 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (1.95%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (1.79%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.08%) Firewall
2 104 (5.64%) Network Security
3 100 (5.43%) DNS
4 93 (5.05%) VPN
5 35 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.68%) BGP
6 31 (1.68%) WAN
7 23 (1.25%) HTTP
8 22 (1.19%) OSPF
9 20 (1.09%) DHCP
10 18 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.92%) VLAN
12 15 (0.81%) Internet
13 12 (0.65%) IPsec
13 12 (0.65%) LAN
13 12 (0.65%) SSL
13 12 (0.65%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.60%) MPLS
15 9 (0.49%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (11.18%) BigQuery
2 157 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 79 (4.29%) Data Lake
6 76 (4.12%) Big Data
7 71 (3.85%) Power BI
8 67 (3.64%) Metadata
9 64 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 44 (2.39%) Tableau
11 33 (1.79%) SQL Server
12 32 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (1.74%) MongoDB
13 31 (1.68%) MySQL
14 30 (1.63%) Looker
15 23 (1.25%) Flink
15 23 (1.25%) Redis
15 23 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 22 (1.19%) Hadoop
17 14 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 217 (11.77%) Jenkins
2 191 (10.36%) Git
3 138 (7.49%) GitLab
4 84 (4.56%) JIRA
5 51 (2.77%) JUnit
6 37 (2.01%) Selenium
7 35 (1.90%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.68%) JMeter
9 27 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.41%) Maven
11 18 (0.98%) WebDriver
12 16 (0.87%) Postman
13 15 (0.81%) Gradle
14 13 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (0.65%) MLflow
16 11 (0.60%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
17 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
18 8 (0.43%) Mockito
18 8 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 464 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 447 (24.25%) Finance
3 173 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (8.79%) Banking
5 153 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.69%) Retail
7 58 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.33%) Legal
10 37 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.95%) Front Office
12 33 (1.79%) Marketing
13 28 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.25%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.09%) Billing
18 17 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
19 16 (0.87%) Publishing
20 14 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 377 (20.46%) Architect
2 237 (12.86%) Senior
3 225 (12.21%) Developer
4 175 (9.50%) Lead
5 161 (8.74%) GCP Engineer
6 154 (8.36%) Data Engineer
7 125 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 122 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 105 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (4.72%) Java Developer
11 73 (3.96%) Consultant
12 68 (3.69%) Software Engineer
13 66 (3.58%) Analyst
14 64 (3.47%) Security Architect
15 63 (3.42%) Security Engineer
16 62 (3.36%) Data Architect
17 56 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 56 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
18 51 (2.77%) GCP DevOps
19 46 (2.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (9.60%) Kafka
2 152 (8.25%) REST
3 123 (6.67%) Spring
4 120 (6.51%) React
5 101 (5.48%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.15%) Node.js
7 78 (4.23%) OAuth
8 66 (3.58%) RESTful
9 44 (2.39%) JSON
9 44 (2.39%) LangChain
10 43 (2.33%) OAuth2
10 43 (2.33%) PyTorch
11 42 (2.28%) GraphQL
12 41 (2.22%) AngularJS
12 41 (2.22%) LDAP
13 40 (2.17%) OpenID
13 40 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
13 40 (2.17%) SAML
13 40 (2.17%) TensorFlow
14 33 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 342 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 129 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.07%) AI Agents
4 63 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 54 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 52 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 51 (2.77%) Onboarding
9 50 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.90%) Fixed Income
12 34 (1.84%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 34 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.68%) Management Information System
14 30 (1.63%) Derivative
14 30 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 29 (1.57%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.67%) Linux
2 89 (4.83%) Windows
3 30 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.41%) Android
5 25 (1.36%) Unix
6 20 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.65%) VMS
9 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.11%) CentOS
14 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.054%) Rocky
14 1 (0.054%) Solaris
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (44.33%) CI/CD
2 581 (31.52%) DevOps
3 480 (26.04%) Agile
4 429 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 428 (23.22%) AI
6 330 (17.91%) Microservices
7 305 (16.55%) Analytics
8 268 (14.54%) Machine Learning
9 267 (14.49%) Observability
10 264 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
11 257 (13.94%) Containerisation
12 247 (13.40%) Software Engineering
13 237 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 227 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
15 226 (12.26%) Data Modelling
16 209 (11.34%) Migration
17 203 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 198 (10.74%) Cloud Security
19 195 (10.58%) Roadmaps
20 189 (10.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 698 (37.87%) Python
2 383 (20.78%) SQL
3 352 (19.10%) Java
4 144 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 142 (7.70%) Bash
6 134 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 94 (5.10%) Go
8 91 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 38 (2.06%) Scala
10 36 (1.95%) C#
11 30 (1.63%) Bicep
12 25 (1.36%) Groovy
12 25 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.98%) Rust
15 14 (0.76%) R
16 13 (0.71%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
18 9 (0.49%) C++
18 9 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 353 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 275 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.40%) Degree
4 111 (6.02%) CISSP
5 88 (4.77%) DV Cleared
6 80 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.20%) CISM
9 58 (3.15%) Azure Certification
9 58 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.47%) CCSP
13 22 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 21 (1.14%) CCNP
15 19 (1.03%) GIAC
16 14 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.53%) GDPR
3 87 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (4.72%) NIST
4 82 (4.45%) QA
5 33 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 27 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.30%) NCSC
8 21 (1.14%) GRC
9 12 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.49%) COBIT
12 8 (0.43%) PSD2
12 8 (0.43%) WCAG
13 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 338 (18.34%) Docker
2 71 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.76%) vSphere
7 13 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) 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
1 547 (29.68%) Kubernetes
2 459 (24.91%) Terraform
3 130 (7.05%) Prometheus
4 129 (7.00%) Grafana
5 110 (5.97%) Ansible
6 38 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.57%) Argo
8 28 (1.52%) Istio
9 24 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 19 (1.03%) Puppet
11 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.65%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.65%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.49%) Podman
14 7 (0.38%) linkerd
15 6 (0.33%) QRadar
16 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 579 (31.42%) Google
2 173 (9.39%) Microsoft
3 93 (5.05%) Databricks
4 67 (3.64%) Splunk
5 52 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 47 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 44 (2.39%) Oracle
8 40 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.12%) CyberArk
9 39 (2.12%) VMware
10 36 (1.95%) Dynatrace
11 34 (1.84%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.52%) Red Hat
13 27 (1.47%) SAP
14 24 (1.30%) Informatica
15 22 (1.19%) Cisco
16 20 (1.09%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.98%) Okta
18 14 (0.76%) Tenable
19 13 (0.71%) Talend