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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,442 1,133 1,279
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.77% 3.63% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.32% 10.15% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 721 991
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -2.04% -3.92%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £738
90th Percentile £785 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £33.53 £35.75 £49.03
25th Percentile £42.99 £45.75 £58.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -11.54% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.00 £61.63 £78.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £68.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +12.17% -20.14% +176.92%

All Cloud 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 11,701 11,168 14,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.73% 35.82% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 7,441 10,265
10th Percentile £304 £313 £296
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 143 284
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.66 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%
75th Percentile £44.09 £60.91 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.00
% change year-on-year -25.45% +5.42% +45.45%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -6 778 £595 -4.80% 1,066
North of England +29 287 £500 - 208
Yorkshire +15 184 £500 -1.96% 47
South East +39 139 £492 -1.60% 246
Midlands +32 110 £489 +2.46% 49
North West +28 99 £519 -1.19% 146
West Midlands +23 80 £525 +7.14% 29
South West +37 55 £563 -10.00% 74
East of England -25 32 £483 +50.78% 45
East Midlands +4 28 £425 +19.38% 19
North East -17 4 £495 +4.21% 15
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 92 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.84%) Apache
4 35 (2.43%) Confluence
5 14 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.69%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.42%) Mule
9 6 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.35%) nginx
11 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) Camunda
13 2 (0.14%) Drupal
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 16 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.35%) Weka
4 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Maple
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.069%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.069%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (71.84%) AWS
2 964 (66.85%) Azure
3 182 (12.62%) GitHub
4 97 (6.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 87 (6.03%) Power Platform
6 81 (5.62%) dbt
7 79 (5.48%) Snowflake
8 78 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
9 76 (5.27%) Serverless
10 62 (4.30%) SaaS
11 57 (3.95%) Entra ID
12 56 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 46 (3.19%) OpenShift
15 38 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (2.50%) PaaS
17 32 (2.22%) Amazon S3
17 32 (2.22%) Cloud Run
17 32 (2.22%) IaaS
17 32 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 136 (9.43%) Firewall
2 44 (3.05%) Network Security
2 44 (3.05%) VPN
3 37 (2.57%) DNS
4 24 (1.66%) WAN
5 21 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.39%) Wireshark
7 19 (1.32%) VLAN
8 18 (1.25%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.18%) BGP
10 15 (1.04%) LAN
10 15 (1.04%) OSPF
11 13 (0.90%) SSL
12 12 (0.83%) DHCP
13 11 (0.76%) HTTP
14 10 (0.69%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.62%) MPLS
15 9 (0.62%) SAN
16 8 (0.55%) Wireless
17 7 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (11.72%) BigQuery
2 153 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (8.32%) NoSQL
4 116 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
5 79 (5.48%) Power BI
6 54 (3.74%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.61%) Big Data
8 51 (3.54%) Tableau
9 48 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 47 (3.26%) Data Lake
11 40 (2.77%) Metadata
12 38 (2.64%) SQL Server
13 37 (2.57%) Looker
14 32 (2.22%) MySQL
15 30 (2.08%) Hadoop
16 26 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
18 21 (1.46%) Apache Arrow
18 21 (1.46%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 214 (14.84%) Jenkins
2 158 (10.96%) Git
3 140 (9.71%) GitLab
4 83 (5.76%) JIRA
5 47 (3.26%) SonarQube
6 42 (2.91%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.53%) Maven
8 22 (1.53%) MLflow
9 21 (1.46%) Burp Suite
9 21 (1.46%) CircleCI
9 21 (1.46%) JUnit
10 20 (1.39%) Gradle
10 20 (1.39%) Metasploit
11 18 (1.25%) ER Studio
11 18 (1.25%) Postman
12 17 (1.18%) Cypress.io
12 17 (1.18%) Selenium
13 16 (1.11%) Artifactory
13 16 (1.11%) ERwin
General
1 543 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 349 (24.20%) Finance
3 194 (13.45%) Banking
4 179 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 47 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.05%) Financial Institution
8 43 (2.98%) Front Office
9 41 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 39 (2.70%) Marketing
11 32 (2.22%) Retail
12 28 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 21 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 21 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.18%) Legal
18 11 (0.76%) Electronics
18 11 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 258 (17.89%) Architect
2 193 (13.38%) Developer
3 192 (13.31%) Senior
4 96 (6.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 96 (6.66%) Software Engineer
5 92 (6.38%) Data Engineer
6 90 (6.24%) GCP Engineer
7 89 (6.17%) Analyst
7 89 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
8 75 (5.20%) Lead
9 68 (4.72%) Security Engineer
10 63 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 54 (3.74%) Consultant
12 52 (3.61%) Java Developer
13 48 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
14 47 (3.26%) Python Engineer
15 45 (3.12%) Security Architect
16 39 (2.70%) Data Architect
17 38 (2.64%) GCP Architect
18 36 (2.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (8.53%) RESTful
2 116 (8.04%) React
3 111 (7.70%) Kafka
4 107 (7.42%) REST
5 100 (6.93%) Node.js
6 86 (5.96%) Spring
7 69 (4.79%) Spring Boot
8 67 (4.65%) AngularJS
9 59 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (3.61%) Vue
11 49 (3.40%) Pandas
12 46 (3.19%) OAuth
13 43 (2.98%) TensorFlow
14 41 (2.84%) HTML
14 41 (2.84%) NumPy
14 41 (2.84%) PyTorch
15 36 (2.50%) FastAPI
16 34 (2.36%) CSS
16 34 (2.36%) LDAP
17 32 (2.22%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.62%) Public Cloud
3 77 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 51 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 50 (3.47%) Security Posture
7 43 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 37 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 35 (2.43%) Data Centre
11 34 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (2.29%) Equities
12 33 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 31 (2.15%) Algorithms
14 30 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
16 24 (1.66%) Private Cloud
17 20 (1.39%) Life Science
18 18 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
18 18 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 152 (10.54%) Linux
2 58 (4.02%) Windows
3 30 (2.08%) Unix
4 21 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.83%) Android
6 12 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.69%) CentOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.35%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.28%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.069%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (41.89%) CI/CD
2 496 (34.40%) DevOps
3 414 (28.71%) Agile
4 325 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (21.15%) Containerisation
6 282 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 235 (16.30%) AI
8 231 (16.02%) Microservices
9 223 (15.46%) Analytics
10 200 (13.87%) Machine Learning
11 177 (12.27%) Software Engineering
12 160 (11.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 156 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
14 148 (10.26%) Data Modelling
15 146 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
16 143 (9.92%) Cloud Security
17 141 (9.78%) Data Science
18 139 (9.64%) ETL
19 138 (9.57%) Test Automation
20 134 (9.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 647 (44.87%) Python
2 286 (19.83%) SQL
3 256 (17.75%) Java
4 153 (10.61%) Bash
5 135 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 102 (7.07%) Go
7 100 (6.93%) PowerShell
7 100 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 33 (2.29%) Scala
9 27 (1.87%) C#
10 25 (1.73%) R
11 23 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.39%) C++
13 19 (1.32%) Perl
14 17 (1.18%) Ruby
15 16 (1.11%) Groovy
16 15 (1.04%) Bicep
17 14 (0.97%) C
18 12 (0.83%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 215 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.40%) Degree
4 101 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (5.20%) CISSP
6 70 (4.85%) Master's Degree
7 67 (4.65%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.19%) CISM
9 45 (3.12%) Azure Certification
10 35 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.73%) OSCP
13 23 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (1.39%) CCSP
15 17 (1.18%) CREST Certified
16 15 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (0.90%) CCNP
19 12 (0.83%) Tigerscheme
20 11 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.08%) GDPR
2 117 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 96 (6.66%) Data Quality
4 92 (6.38%) NIST
5 81 (5.62%) QA
6 43 (2.98%) PCI DSS
7 24 (1.66%) HIPAA
8 23 (1.60%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.60%) SOC 2
9 18 (1.25%) NCSC
10 11 (0.76%) GRC
11 9 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.55%) PSD2
13 7 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.42%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.35%) SLA
15 5 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 374 (25.94%) Docker
2 75 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.35%) GPFS
7 5 (0.35%) Lustre
7 5 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.35%) Squid
8 4 (0.28%) Firmware
8 4 (0.28%) Snort
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) UAG
11 1 (0.069%) Ceph
11 1 (0.069%) QEMU
11 1 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 446 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 306 (21.22%) Terraform
3 145 (10.06%) Ansible
4 95 (6.59%) Grafana
5 90 (6.24%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.36%) Argo
7 31 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.80%) Puppet
9 21 (1.46%) Nmap
10 18 (1.25%) CSIRT
10 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (1.11%) Istio
11 16 (1.11%) SCCM
12 14 (0.97%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.90%) Kubeflow
14 11 (0.76%) Nessus
15 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.62%) Fluentd
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 465 (32.25%) Google
2 148 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 116 (8.04%) Splunk
4 70 (4.85%) Databricks
5 59 (4.09%) Oracle
6 48 (3.33%) F5
6 48 (3.33%) VMware
7 41 (2.84%) CyberArk
7 41 (2.84%) Palo Alto
8 39 (2.70%) SAP
9 38 (2.64%) Cisco
10 25 (1.73%) IBM
11 23 (1.60%) OpenAI
12 22 (1.53%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.46%) BeyondTrust
13 21 (1.46%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.39%) Citrix
15 19 (1.32%) Okta
16 16 (1.11%) Fortinet
17 15 (1.04%) Salesforce