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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,877 1,201 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 4.33% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 11.59% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 809 857
10th Percentile £412 £375 £409
25th Percentile £469 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £775
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +40.00% -51.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.15 £100.00 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +31.43% +50.00% -53.18%

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 15,959 10,359 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.33% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,663 7,014 7,872
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 268 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £18.07
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £82.62 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.23% -4.17% -14.29%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -1 986 £575 -4.17% 1,922
North of England +7 400 £545 +12.84% 351
Yorkshire +5 256 £550 +18.47% 100
South East +4 189 £525 +1.99% 215
North West -14 130 £550 +4.76% 212
South West +21 125 £575 +9.52% 200
Midlands -52 67 £525 +16.67% 98
East of England +11 56 £555 +8.61% 40
West Midlands -35 49 £525 -0.94% 73
North East -21 18 £463 -26.00% 40
East Midlands -23 18 £500 +25.00% 25
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 (6.07%) Apache Spark
2 97 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.73%) Apache
4 45 (2.40%) Confluence
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Predix
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Maximo
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (65.69%) AWS
2 1,203 (64.09%) Azure
3 206 (10.97%) GitHub
4 158 (8.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 139 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (7.09%) Snowflake
7 98 (5.22%) SaaS
8 91 (4.85%) dbt
9 79 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.10%) Power Platform
11 75 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 72 (3.84%) Serverless
13 60 (3.20%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.88%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.13%) Amazon S3
17 38 (2.02%) Cloud Run
18 36 (1.92%) OpenShift
19 35 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
20 34 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.33%) Network Security
2 97 (5.17%) Firewall
3 92 (4.90%) DNS
4 77 (4.10%) VPN
5 34 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.33%) BGP
6 25 (1.33%) WAN
7 23 (1.23%) DHCP
8 21 (1.12%) HTTP
9 20 (1.07%) Internet
10 18 (0.96%) VLAN
11 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.75%) OSPF
13 13 (0.69%) SSL
14 11 (0.59%) IPsec
15 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.48%) MPLS
17 8 (0.43%) DKIM
17 8 (0.43%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (11.40%) BigQuery
2 167 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
4 77 (4.10%) Metadata
5 76 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 75 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 71 (3.78%) Big Data
8 69 (3.68%) Power BI
9 48 (2.56%) Tableau
10 45 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (1.86%) Looker
12 32 (1.70%) Flink
13 30 (1.60%) Redis
14 29 (1.55%) SQL Server
15 28 (1.49%) MongoDB
16 26 (1.39%) MySQL
17 20 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (1.01%) Delta Lake
18 19 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 224 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 195 (10.39%) Git
3 150 (7.99%) GitLab
4 86 (4.58%) JIRA
5 41 (2.18%) JUnit
6 40 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.60%) Maven
8 29 (1.55%) Selenium
9 25 (1.33%) JMeter
10 17 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.91%) Gradle
11 16 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.85%) LoadRunner
11 16 (0.85%) Postman
12 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.69%) Gatling
14 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.48%) NeoLoad
15 9 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 519 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 453 (24.13%) Finance
3 178 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (8.90%) Banking
5 153 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.57%) Retail
7 60 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.08%) Legal
10 37 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (1.81%) Marketing
12 31 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.39%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 23 (1.23%) Billing
17 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (0.96%) Publishing
20 17 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 401 (21.36%) Architect
2 256 (13.64%) Senior
3 204 (10.87%) Developer
4 182 (9.70%) Lead
5 157 (8.36%) Data Engineer
6 144 (7.67%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 114 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.74%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.48%) Consultant
12 70 (3.73%) Security Engineer
13 66 (3.52%) Analyst
13 66 (3.52%) Data Architect
14 64 (3.41%) Security Architect
15 62 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
16 60 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 55 (2.93%) Software Engineer
18 52 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
19 41 (2.18%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 470 (25.04%) Terraform
2 201 (10.71%) Kafka
3 164 (8.74%) REST
4 104 (5.54%) Spring
5 102 (5.43%) React
6 94 (5.01%) OAuth
7 92 (4.90%) Spring Boot
8 79 (4.21%) RESTful
9 77 (4.10%) Node.js
10 57 (3.04%) JSON
11 54 (2.88%) OpenID
11 54 (2.88%) SAML
12 50 (2.66%) LDAP
13 48 (2.56%) OAuth2
14 47 (2.50%) PySpark
15 44 (2.34%) LangChain
16 41 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
17 40 (2.13%) SOAP
18 38 (2.02%) GraphQL
18 38 (2.02%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 383 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 133 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.01%) AI Agents
4 65 (3.46%) Security Posture
5 64 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 57 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 48 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
9 46 (2.45%) Data Centre
10 45 (2.40%) Public Cloud
11 44 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 41 (2.18%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.97%) Data Structures
14 36 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (1.86%) Management Information System
16 31 (1.65%) PKI
17 26 (1.39%) CMDB
18 24 (1.28%) Private Cloud
19 23 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 142 (7.57%) Linux
2 88 (4.69%) Windows
3 33 (1.76%) Unix
4 29 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.053%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (44.43%) CI/CD
2 597 (31.81%) DevOps
3 475 (25.31%) Agile
4 459 (24.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 445 (23.71%) AI
6 320 (17.05%) Microservices
7 312 (16.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 294 (15.66%) Analytics
9 282 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (14.54%) Observability
11 270 (14.38%) Machine Learning
12 266 (14.17%) Software Engineering
13 257 (13.69%) Containerisation
14 228 (12.15%) Roadmaps
15 227 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
16 222 (11.83%) Data Modelling
17 221 (11.77%) Cloud Security
18 211 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 207 (11.03%) Migration
20 195 (10.39%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 715 (38.09%) Python
2 388 (20.67%) SQL
3 369 (19.66%) Java
4 155 (8.26%) Bash
5 144 (7.67%) JavaScript
6 138 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.79%) Go
8 72 (3.84%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.45%) Scala
10 36 (1.92%) C#
11 35 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.60%) Bicep
13 24 (1.28%) Groovy
14 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.96%) R
14 18 (0.96%) Rust
15 10 (0.53%) C++
15 10 (0.53%) Ruby
16 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 385 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 285 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.93%) Degree
4 109 (5.81%) CISSP
5 95 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 81 (4.32%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (3.25%) CISM
9 58 (3.09%) Azure Certification
10 56 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 33 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.33%) CCSP
14 23 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.91%) GIAC
16 15 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.75%) CCNP
17 14 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 11 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (8.04%) Data Quality
2 94 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (4.95%) QA
4 90 (4.79%) NIST
5 89 (4.74%) GDPR
6 30 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.23%) NCSC
8 18 (0.96%) GRC
9 14 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.43%) COBIT
12 8 (0.43%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.32%) SLA
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 340 (18.11%) Docker
2 83 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.59%) vSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.053%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 584 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 132 (7.03%) Ansible
3 122 (6.50%) Grafana
4 121 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.65%) Argo
7 27 (1.44%) Istio
8 25 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.12%) Puppet
10 16 (0.85%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.59%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.48%) Podman
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 5 (0.27%) Cilium
15 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 615 (32.77%) Google
2 202 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 116 (6.18%) Databricks
4 74 (3.94%) Splunk
5 67 (3.57%) Oracle
6 55 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 49 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.45%) CyberArk
9 46 (2.45%) VMware
10 39 (2.08%) OpenAI
11 36 (1.92%) SAP
12 31 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.55%) Informatica
14 27 (1.44%) IBM
14 27 (1.44%) Red Hat
15 22 (1.17%) Cisco
16 20 (1.07%) MuleSoft
17 19 (1.01%) Okta
18 18 (0.96%) New Relic