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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,958 1,285 1,209
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.21% 4.59% 3.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.19% 12.02% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 871 801
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -3.42%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £15.93 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -40.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -38.13%

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 16,065 10,693 11,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.21% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,236 7,555
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 253 164
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.84
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £81.85 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 1,002 £575 -4.17% 2,271
North of England +5 438 £538 +7.50% 424
Yorkshire -1 284 £538 +12.92% 116
South East -8 189 £525 +5.00% 299
North West -2 139 £530 +6.00% 270
South West +28 138 £550 - 179
Midlands -67 74 £530 +11.58% 123
East of England +14 63 £555 +0.91% 74
West Midlands -49 56 £551 +5.00% 103
North East -25 21 £588 +14.08% 40
East Midlands -27 18 £500 +20.48% 20
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 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 108 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 76 (3.88%) Apache
4 53 (2.71%) Confluence
5 19 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.051%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.20%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Houdini
8 1 (0.051%) NUKE
8 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.36%) Cloudability
5 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.051%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.051%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.051%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.051%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,277 (65.22%) AWS
2 1,242 (63.43%) Azure
3 223 (11.39%) GitHub
4 173 (8.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 145 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 132 (6.74%) Snowflake
7 104 (5.31%) dbt
8 101 (5.16%) SaaS
9 93 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
10 80 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.93%) Power Platform
12 76 (3.88%) Entra ID
13 67 (3.42%) Serverless
14 58 (2.96%) Vertex AI
15 56 (2.86%) Cloud Run
16 49 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
18 41 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
19 39 (1.99%) Datadog
20 38 (1.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 100 (5.11%) Firewall
2 98 (5.01%) Network Security
3 75 (3.83%) DNS
4 65 (3.32%) VPN
5 30 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.38%) BGP
7 26 (1.33%) DHCP
8 24 (1.23%) WAN
9 20 (1.02%) HTTP
10 19 (0.97%) Internet
11 18 (0.92%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.92%) VLAN
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) SSL
14 13 (0.66%) VoIP
15 11 (0.56%) IPsec
15 11 (0.56%) LAN
16 10 (0.51%) MPLS
17 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (12.82%) BigQuery
2 171 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (4.49%) Metadata
5 85 (4.34%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.83%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.47%) Power BI
9 59 (3.01%) Big Data
10 49 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.45%) Looker
12 39 (1.99%) MongoDB
12 39 (1.99%) MySQL
12 39 (1.99%) SQL Server
13 38 (1.94%) Tableau
14 33 (1.69%) Redis
15 28 (1.43%) Flink
16 25 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (1.12%) Delta Lake
18 21 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 234 (11.95%) Git
2 228 (11.64%) Jenkins
3 152 (7.76%) GitLab
4 106 (5.41%) JIRA
5 37 (1.89%) JUnit
5 37 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.79%) Maven
7 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.23%) Gradle
7 24 (1.23%) JMeter
8 22 (1.12%) Selenium
8 22 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.87%) Gatling
10 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
10 17 (0.87%) Postman
11 13 (0.66%) Snyk
12 12 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.56%) Claude Code
13 11 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 533 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 492 (25.13%) Finance
3 209 (10.67%) Banking
4 196 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
5 158 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 73 (3.73%) Retail
7 55 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 47 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.79%) Legal
11 32 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.43%) Billing
14 28 (1.43%) Marketing
15 26 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 401 (20.48%) Architect
2 273 (13.94%) Senior
3 228 (11.64%) Developer
4 181 (9.24%) Data Engineer
5 175 (8.94%) Lead
6 152 (7.76%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 114 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 89 (4.55%) Security Engineer
11 88 (4.49%) Consultant
12 74 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 70 (3.58%) Analyst
14 62 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
15 60 (3.06%) Data Architect
15 60 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
16 54 (2.76%) Software Engineer
17 52 (2.66%) Security Architect
18 49 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (26.46%) Terraform
2 219 (11.18%) Kafka
3 200 (10.21%) REST
4 110 (5.62%) React
5 100 (5.11%) OAuth
6 94 (4.80%) Spring
7 91 (4.65%) RESTful
8 87 (4.44%) Spring Boot
9 68 (3.47%) Node.js
10 63 (3.22%) JSON
11 61 (3.12%) OpenID
12 57 (2.91%) SOAP
13 55 (2.81%) SAML
14 50 (2.55%) PySpark
15 49 (2.50%) OAuth2
16 47 (2.40%) LangChain
16 47 (2.40%) LDAP
17 42 (2.15%) GraphQL
17 42 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (2.09%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 428 (21.86%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.57%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.14%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 69 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 67 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 62 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 55 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 54 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
11 47 (2.40%) Data Structures
12 46 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.25%) Management Information System
14 43 (2.20%) Algorithms
15 42 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
16 34 (1.74%) PKI
17 29 (1.48%) CMDB
17 29 (1.48%) Private Cloud
18 25 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 175 (8.94%) Linux
2 109 (5.57%) Windows
3 52 (2.66%) Unix
4 35 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.28%) Android
7 17 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.66%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.36%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.15%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.051%) Solaris
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (46.17%) CI/CD
2 641 (32.74%) DevOps
3 504 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 496 (25.33%) Agile
5 488 (24.92%) AI
6 360 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 336 (17.16%) Microservices
8 317 (16.19%) Analytics
9 295 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
10 290 (14.81%) Software Engineering
11 284 (14.50%) Observability
12 273 (13.94%) Containerisation
13 267 (13.64%) Machine Learning
14 254 (12.97%) Roadmaps
15 245 (12.51%) Data Modelling
16 241 (12.31%) Cloud Security
17 235 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
18 232 (11.85%) Event-Driven
19 228 (11.64%) Migration
20 223 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 770 (39.33%) Python
2 455 (23.24%) SQL
3 376 (19.20%) Java
4 159 (8.12%) Bash
5 152 (7.76%) JavaScript
6 151 (7.71%) PowerShell
7 103 (5.26%) Go
8 72 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 49 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.15%) C#
10 42 (2.15%) Scala
11 33 (1.69%) Bicep
12 24 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.17%) Groovy
14 19 (0.97%) R
15 18 (0.92%) Rust
16 13 (0.66%) C++
17 12 (0.61%) ABAP
18 10 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 391 (19.97%) Security Cleared
2 285 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 146 (7.46%) Degree
4 108 (5.52%) CISSP
5 105 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 98 (5.01%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 65 (3.32%) CISM
9 57 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.89%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 32 (1.63%) CCSP
14 20 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.87%) CISA
16 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.66%) GIAC
17 13 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (9.60%) Data Quality
2 101 (5.16%) QA
3 96 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.55%) NIST
5 67 (3.42%) GDPR
6 34 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.48%) GRC
9 24 (1.23%) NCSC
10 20 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.51%) COBIT
14 9 (0.46%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 346 (17.67%) Docker
2 86 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.66%) vSphere
6 12 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.051%) zsh
Systems Management
1 619 (31.61%) Kubernetes
2 162 (8.27%) Ansible
3 120 (6.13%) Grafana
4 112 (5.72%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.69%) Argo
7 31 (1.58%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.38%) Puppet
9 26 (1.33%) Istio
10 18 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.51%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.20%) Control-M
17 4 (0.20%) Kibana
17 4 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 694 (35.44%) Google
2 250 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.23%) Databricks
4 91 (4.65%) Splunk
5 74 (3.78%) Oracle
6 63 (3.22%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.06%) Dynatrace
8 51 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 49 (2.50%) VMware
10 48 (2.45%) CyberArk
10 48 (2.45%) SAP
11 41 (2.09%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.89%) IBM
13 34 (1.74%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.53%) Cisco
15 29 (1.48%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.38%) Informatica
17 24 (1.23%) Okta
18 21 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
19 19 (0.97%) MuleSoft