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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,698 988 1,132
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 4.05% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.42% 10.73% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 666 826
10th Percentile £400 £363 £416
25th Percentile £463 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -3.96% -3.81%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 9
10th Percentile £13.23 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £73.44 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -19.05% +8.25% -30.71%

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 14,873 9,206 11,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.77% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,111 6,274 8,526
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 224 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -1 889 £575 -7.07% 297
North of England +19 352 £538 +1.90% 137
Yorkshire +5 216 £525 - 28
South East +19 157 £518 -5.91% 103
North West +11 119 £554 +2.55% 91
South West +32 110 £570 +8.57% 51
Midlands -20 91 £475 +8.08% 37
West Midlands -10 70 £476 -20.67% 22
East of England -1 50 £510 +3.55% 13
East Midlands -31 21 £438 +10.62% 15
North East -8 20 £584 +7.36% 18
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
1 108 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.24%) Apache
4 39 (2.30%) Confluence
5 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.12%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.059%) Maximo
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,128 (66.43%) AWS
2 1,117 (65.78%) Azure
3 198 (11.66%) GitHub
4 164 (9.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 130 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
6 100 (5.89%) Power Platform
7 98 (5.77%) Snowflake
8 80 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 72 (4.24%) SaaS
10 70 (4.12%) Serverless
11 69 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.24%) dbt
12 55 (3.24%) Entra ID
13 49 (2.89%) Vertex AI
14 47 (2.77%) Amazon S3
15 45 (2.65%) Cloud Run
16 41 (2.41%) OpenShift
17 38 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (1.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.24%) Firewall
2 95 (5.59%) DNS
2 95 (5.59%) Network Security
3 92 (5.42%) VPN
4 26 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.47%) WAN
6 23 (1.35%) BGP
7 20 (1.18%) HTTP
8 15 (0.88%) OSPF
8 15 (0.88%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.82%) DHCP
9 14 (0.82%) Internet
10 12 (0.71%) SSL
10 12 (0.71%) VoIP
11 10 (0.59%) IPsec
11 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.53%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.53%) LAN
12 9 (0.53%) VLAN
13 8 (0.47%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.54%) BigQuery
2 118 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (4.77%) Power BI
5 79 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.42%) NoSQL
7 71 (4.18%) Big Data
8 56 (3.30%) Metadata
9 53 (3.12%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.89%) Tableau
11 44 (2.59%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.06%) MySQL
13 34 (2.00%) MongoDB
14 23 (1.35%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (1.18%) Flink
16 19 (1.12%) Looker
17 17 (1.00%) Delta Lake
18 16 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 217 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 162 (9.54%) Git
3 142 (8.36%) GitLab
4 89 (5.24%) JIRA
5 47 (2.77%) Selenium
6 46 (2.71%) JUnit
7 35 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 30 (1.77%) JMeter
10 24 (1.41%) Postman
11 20 (1.18%) Maven
12 19 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.77%) MLflow
14 10 (0.59%) ERwin
14 10 (0.59%) Gradle
14 10 (0.59%) Snyk
15 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
General
1 463 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 390 (22.97%) Finance
3 155 (9.13%) Banking
4 150 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (7.54%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.71%) Retail
7 46 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (1.94%) Front Office
8 33 (1.94%) Legal
9 32 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (1.47%) Marketing
11 24 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.30%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.94%) Military
15 14 (0.82%) Billing
16 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 361 (21.26%) Architect
2 212 (12.49%) Senior
3 182 (10.72%) Developer
4 169 (9.95%) Lead
5 160 (9.42%) GCP Engineer
6 141 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 103 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 80 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 68 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 64 (3.77%) Java Developer
12 62 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
13 60 (3.53%) Consultant
14 56 (3.30%) Security Engineer
15 55 (3.24%) Security Architect
16 51 (3.00%) Analyst
17 48 (2.83%) Data Architect
17 48 (2.83%) GCP DevOps
18 43 (2.53%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 42 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (9.66%) REST
2 148 (8.72%) Kafka
3 116 (6.83%) Spring
4 114 (6.71%) React
5 96 (5.65%) Node.js
5 96 (5.65%) Spring Boot
6 86 (5.06%) LDAP
7 78 (4.59%) OAuth
8 56 (3.30%) OpenID
8 56 (3.30%) RESTful
9 55 (3.24%) SOAP
10 47 (2.77%) PyTorch
11 46 (2.71%) AngularJS
12 45 (2.65%) TensorFlow
13 42 (2.47%) .NET
13 42 (2.47%) OAuth2
14 41 (2.41%) SAML
15 36 (2.12%) LangChain
16 33 (1.94%) Middleware
17 32 (1.88%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 323 (19.02%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.48%) Security Posture
4 67 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (3.12%) AI Agents
7 51 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 35 (2.06%) Fixed Income
12 27 (1.59%) Derivative
12 27 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
12 27 (1.59%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.41%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.35%) Clustering
15 23 (1.35%) Equities
16 20 (1.18%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.12%) Linux
2 85 (5.01%) Windows
3 31 (1.83%) Android
4 25 (1.47%) Unix
5 23 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.30%) VMS
7 16 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.059%) Rocky
12 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (46.05%) CI/CD
2 565 (33.27%) DevOps
3 395 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 376 (22.14%) Agile
5 357 (21.02%) AI
6 283 (16.67%) Analytics
7 281 (16.55%) Microservices
8 274 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (15.31%) Observability
10 239 (14.08%) Containerisation
11 227 (13.37%) Machine Learning
12 204 (12.01%) Software Engineering
13 201 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
13 201 (11.84%) Migration
14 192 (11.31%) Data Modelling
15 190 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 175 (10.31%) Cloud Security
16 175 (10.31%) Data Engineering
17 172 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 171 (10.07%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 663 (39.05%) Python
2 348 (20.49%) SQL
3 313 (18.43%) Java
4 148 (8.72%) PowerShell
5 127 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 117 (6.89%) Bash
7 85 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 84 (4.95%) Go
9 41 (2.41%) C#
10 38 (2.24%) Scala
11 20 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.00%) Bicep
12 17 (1.00%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.65%) Ruby
15 10 (0.59%) R
16 9 (0.53%) PHP
17 8 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.47%) Rust
18 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 370 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 299 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.77%) Degree
4 95 (5.59%) CISSP
5 64 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 62 (3.65%) AWS Certification
7 56 (3.30%) CISM
8 54 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (3.00%) Azure Certification
10 38 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 26 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.47%) CCSP
13 22 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 17 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.94%) GIAC
16 15 (0.88%) CCNP
16 15 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 111 (6.54%) GDPR
3 90 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 87 (5.12%) NIST
5 70 (4.12%) QA
6 32 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.35%) NCSC
8 22 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.06%) GRC
9 18 (1.06%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.65%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.59%) WCAG
13 9 (0.53%) COBIT
13 9 (0.53%) PSD2
14 8 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 324 (19.08%) Docker
2 102 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.82%) vSphere
7 12 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 508 (29.92%) Kubernetes
2 444 (26.15%) Terraform
3 120 (7.07%) Grafana
4 116 (6.83%) Ansible
5 112 (6.60%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.06%) Istio
7 33 (1.94%) Argo
8 30 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.06%) Puppet
11 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
13 10 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.53%) Kustomize
15 8 (0.47%) SCCM
16 7 (0.41%) Podman
17 6 (0.35%) linkerd
18 5 (0.29%) Kibana
18 5 (0.29%) Nessus
18 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 528 (31.10%) Google
2 151 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 83 (4.89%) Databricks
4 67 (3.95%) CyberArk
5 65 (3.83%) Splunk
6 60 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.83%) BeyondTrust
8 43 (2.53%) Oracle
8 43 (2.53%) VMware
9 38 (2.24%) Salesforce
10 36 (2.12%) Centrify
11 35 (2.06%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.65%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.59%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.24%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.12%) Okta
16 18 (1.06%) Cisco
16 18 (1.06%) SAP
17 17 (1.00%) Foundry
18 16 (0.94%) Informatica