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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,753 1,072 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.01% 4.20% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.43% 11.17% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 721 876
10th Percentile £400 £370 £413
25th Percentile £466 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -2.00%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £775
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £15.33 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.22 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.85% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.13 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,331 9,600 12,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.64% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,486 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 247 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -7 910 £575 -4.17% 313
North of England +16 376 £540 +2.86% 118
Yorkshire -2 229 £539 +7.75% 25
South East +9 167 £550 +4.07% 110
North West +9 128 £530 -1.85% 82
South West +32 117 £560 +7.95% 49
Midlands -32 87 £500 +8.99% 31
West Midlands -18 66 £494 -25.47% 25
East of England -3 46 £510 +3.55% 15
North East -15 22 £584 +7.36% 11
East Midlands -21 21 £500 +21.95% 6
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
1 113 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 75 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (3.42%) Apache
4 41 (2.34%) Confluence
5 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.23%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.057%) Luigi
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.057%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.29%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) Maximo
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.057%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.057%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.057%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,150 (65.60%) AWS
2 1,132 (64.58%) Azure
3 186 (10.61%) GitHub
4 173 (9.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 121 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (6.56%) Snowflake
7 96 (5.48%) Power Platform
8 81 (4.62%) SaaS
9 74 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 72 (4.11%) Serverless
11 66 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.42%) dbt
13 56 (3.19%) Entra ID
14 55 (3.14%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.51%) Cloud Run
16 42 (2.40%) Amazon S3
17 36 (2.05%) OpenShift
18 32 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 31 (1.77%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (6.05%) Network Security
2 105 (5.99%) Firewall
3 97 (5.53%) DNS
4 88 (5.02%) VPN
5 31 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.71%) WAN
7 28 (1.60%) BGP
8 21 (1.20%) HTTP
9 19 (1.08%) OSPF
10 18 (1.03%) DHCP
11 17 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.80%) VLAN
13 12 (0.68%) LAN
13 12 (0.68%) SSL
14 11 (0.63%) Internet
14 11 (0.63%) IPsec
15 10 (0.57%) VoIP
15 10 (0.57%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.51%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (10.67%) BigQuery
2 134 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 80 (4.56%) Data Lake
5 77 (4.39%) Power BI
6 74 (4.22%) Big Data
6 74 (4.22%) NoSQL
7 63 (3.59%) Metadata
8 55 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.85%) Tableau
10 42 (2.40%) SQL Server
11 33 (1.88%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.77%) MySQL
13 28 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.37%) Hadoop
14 24 (1.37%) Looker
14 24 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (1.20%) Flink
16 19 (1.08%) Redis
17 16 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 209 (11.92%) Jenkins
2 170 (9.70%) Git
3 130 (7.42%) GitLab
4 78 (4.45%) JIRA
5 47 (2.68%) JUnit
6 39 (2.22%) Selenium
7 32 (1.83%) JMeter
7 32 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.08%) Maven
9 19 (1.08%) Postman
10 18 (1.03%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.74%) MLflow
11 13 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.57%) ERwin
13 10 (0.57%) Gradle
13 10 (0.57%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.51%) Gatling
15 8 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 459 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 425 (24.24%) Finance
3 162 (9.24%) Banking
4 160 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.11%) Retail
7 51 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 37 (2.11%) Legal
10 36 (2.05%) Front Office
10 36 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.48%) Marketing
13 24 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 23 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.08%) Billing
15 19 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.74%) Military
16 13 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 369 (21.05%) Architect
2 222 (12.66%) Senior
3 201 (11.47%) Developer
4 166 (9.47%) Lead
5 157 (8.96%) GCP Engineer
6 147 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 113 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 112 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 73 (4.16%) Java Developer
11 69 (3.94%) Consultant
12 64 (3.65%) Security Architect
12 64 (3.65%) Software Engineer
13 62 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
14 60 (3.42%) Security Engineer
15 56 (3.19%) Data Architect
16 55 (3.14%) Analyst
17 50 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 48 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
19 45 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (9.41%) Kafka
2 139 (7.93%) REST
3 120 (6.85%) Spring
4 111 (6.33%) React
5 100 (5.70%) Spring Boot
6 92 (5.25%) Node.js
7 79 (4.51%) OAuth
8 61 (3.48%) RESTful
9 52 (2.97%) OpenID
10 51 (2.91%) LDAP
11 48 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.62%) OAuth2
12 46 (2.62%) TensorFlow
13 44 (2.51%) SAML
14 39 (2.22%) LangChain
15 38 (2.17%) GraphQL
16 37 (2.11%) .NET
16 37 (2.11%) AngularJS
17 33 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
18 30 (1.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 334 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.71%) Public Cloud
4 61 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 55 (3.14%) Security Posture
6 54 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 53 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (2.62%) Onboarding
10 41 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
11 39 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (2.05%) Fixed Income
13 32 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 31 (1.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 30 (1.71%) Derivative
16 29 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (1.54%) Clustering
17 27 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
18 26 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
19 25 (1.43%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.27%) Linux
2 82 (4.68%) Windows
3 28 (1.60%) Android
4 25 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.37%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.80%) VMS
8 6 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.17%) AIX
10 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.057%) Rocky
12 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (45.18%) CI/CD
2 558 (31.83%) DevOps
3 421 (24.02%) Agile
4 417 (23.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 396 (22.59%) AI
6 297 (16.94%) Microservices
7 290 (16.54%) Analytics
8 258 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (14.55%) Observability
10 252 (14.38%) Containerisation
10 252 (14.38%) Machine Learning
11 217 (12.38%) Data Pipeline
12 214 (12.21%) Software Engineering
13 206 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 203 (11.58%) Data Modelling
15 197 (11.24%) Migration
16 195 (11.12%) Cloud Security
17 186 (10.61%) Data Engineering
18 184 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
19 182 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 695 (39.65%) Python
2 349 (19.91%) SQL
3 330 (18.82%) Java
4 129 (7.36%) PowerShell
5 128 (7.30%) Bash
5 128 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 95 (5.42%) Go
7 92 (5.25%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.45%) Scala
9 41 (2.34%) C#
10 23 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 22 (1.25%) Bicep
12 21 (1.20%) Groovy
13 17 (0.97%) Rust
14 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.74%) R
16 12 (0.68%) Ruby
17 9 (0.51%) C++
17 9 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 347 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 275 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 111 (6.33%) Degree
4 110 (6.27%) CISSP
5 79 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 70 (3.99%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.42%) CISM
9 59 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 51 (2.91%) Azure Certification
11 43 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.65%) CCSP
13 26 (1.48%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (1.08%) GIAC
17 18 (1.03%) CCNP
18 12 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
19 9 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.05%) GDPR
3 92 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (5.19%) NIST
5 66 (3.76%) QA
6 37 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.60%) NCSC
8 25 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.08%) GRC
10 14 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.74%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.63%) SLA
13 9 (0.51%) COBIT
13 9 (0.51%) PSD2
13 9 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.51%) WCAG
14 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 328 (18.71%) Docker
2 70 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.80%) vSphere
7 13 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 528 (30.12%) Kubernetes
2 465 (26.53%) Terraform
3 116 (6.62%) Grafana
3 116 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 110 (6.27%) Ansible
5 37 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.77%) Istio
7 28 (1.60%) Argo
8 20 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.08%) Puppet
10 13 (0.74%) Kubeflow
11 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.57%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.46%) Podman
15 7 (0.40%) linkerd
16 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.29%) Nessus
16 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 547 (31.20%) Google
2 160 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 89 (5.08%) Databricks
4 60 (3.42%) Splunk
5 55 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 44 (2.51%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.34%) VMware
9 39 (2.22%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.11%) Oracle
11 31 (1.77%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.77%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.37%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.25%) Okta
14 21 (1.20%) Informatica
15 20 (1.14%) SAP
16 19 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
16 19 (1.08%) Cisco
17 15 (0.86%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.80%) Rapid7