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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 56 69
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,462 1,134 1,224
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.80% 3.65% 3.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.41% 10.17% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 719 939
10th Percentile £366 £400 £411
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £738
90th Percentile £775 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £33.96 £35.75 £49.03
25th Percentile £46.85 £45.75 £58.00
Median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -11.54% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.63 £78.75
90th Percentile £82.05 £68.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -20.14% +168.01%

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 11,778 11,153 13,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.65% 35.91% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,015 7,428 9,990
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £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 309 141 273
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.60 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.61% +9.17% +36.36%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -8 780 £590 -5.60% 1,058
North of England +25 288 £500 - 217
Yorkshire +14 183 £500 -6.98% 47
South East +41 156 £481 -3.75% 214
Midlands +33 109 £490 +2.73% 53
North West +26 101 £525 - 158
West Midlands +19 80 £525 +7.14% 34
South West +34 55 £563 -10.00% 79
East of England -26 32 £483 +50.78% 45
East Midlands -1 28 £425 +19.38% 18
North East -16 4 £495 +4.21% 12
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 91 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.80%) Apache
4 36 (2.46%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.68%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.41%) Mule
8 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Weka
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Maple
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
7 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.068%) Actimize
6 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.068%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (72.09%) AWS
2 984 (67.31%) Azure
3 182 (12.45%) GitHub
4 97 (6.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 88 (6.02%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.47%) Snowflake
7 79 (5.40%) dbt
8 78 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
9 77 (5.27%) Serverless
10 62 (4.24%) SaaS
11 56 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (3.83%) Entra ID
12 54 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 46 (3.15%) OpenShift
14 38 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (2.46%) PaaS
16 33 (2.26%) Cloud Run
17 32 (2.19%) IaaS
17 32 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (2.12%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 137 (9.37%) Firewall
2 44 (3.01%) Network Security
2 44 (3.01%) VPN
3 37 (2.53%) DNS
4 24 (1.64%) WAN
5 21 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.37%) Wireshark
7 18 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.16%) VLAN
9 16 (1.09%) BGP
10 15 (1.03%) LAN
11 14 (0.96%) OSPF
12 13 (0.89%) SSL
13 12 (0.82%) DHCP
14 11 (0.75%) HTTP
15 10 (0.68%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.62%) SAN
17 8 (0.55%) MPLS
17 8 (0.55%) Wireless
18 7 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 151 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (8.14%) NoSQL
4 114 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (5.47%) Power BI
6 54 (3.69%) MongoDB
7 52 (3.56%) Big Data
8 51 (3.49%) Tableau
9 48 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 43 (2.94%) Metadata
12 40 (2.74%) SQL Server
13 38 (2.60%) Looker
14 32 (2.19%) MySQL
15 30 (2.05%) Hadoop
16 24 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
19 19 (1.30%) Apache Arrow
19 19 (1.30%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 215 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 158 (10.81%) Git
3 142 (9.71%) GitLab
4 84 (5.75%) JIRA
5 46 (3.15%) SonarQube
6 43 (2.94%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.50%) Maven
8 22 (1.50%) MLflow
9 21 (1.44%) Burp Suite
9 21 (1.44%) CircleCI
10 20 (1.37%) Gradle
10 20 (1.37%) Metasploit
11 19 (1.30%) JUnit
12 18 (1.23%) Postman
13 17 (1.16%) Cypress.io
14 16 (1.09%) ERwin
14 16 (1.09%) Selenium
15 15 (1.03%) Artifactory
15 15 (1.03%) ER Studio
General
1 556 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 355 (24.28%) Finance
3 197 (13.47%) Banking
4 182 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (8.34%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 41 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 39 (2.67%) Front Office
9 39 (2.67%) Marketing
10 33 (2.26%) Retail
11 28 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.23%) Legal
17 12 (0.82%) Electronics
18 11 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 253 (17.31%) Architect
2 193 (13.20%) Senior
3 190 (13.00%) Developer
4 98 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (6.43%) GCP Engineer
6 93 (6.36%) Data Engineer
7 92 (6.29%) Analyst
7 92 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 88 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
9 84 (5.75%) Lead
10 70 (4.79%) Security Engineer
11 67 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 57 (3.90%) Consultant
13 50 (3.42%) Java Developer
14 47 (3.21%) Python Engineer
15 46 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
16 44 (3.01%) Security Architect
17 36 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
18 35 (2.39%) Data Architect
18 35 (2.39%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.48%) RESTful
2 112 (7.66%) React
3 110 (7.52%) REST
4 109 (7.46%) Kafka
5 98 (6.70%) Node.js
6 86 (5.88%) Spring
7 68 (4.65%) Spring Boot
8 64 (4.38%) AngularJS
9 59 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
10 49 (3.35%) Vue
11 47 (3.21%) OAuth
11 47 (3.21%) Pandas
12 44 (3.01%) TensorFlow
13 42 (2.87%) PyTorch
14 41 (2.80%) HTML
15 40 (2.74%) NumPy
16 39 (2.67%) LDAP
17 35 (2.39%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.33%) CSS
19 32 (2.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 254 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.68%) Public Cloud
3 77 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 40 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (2.26%) Fixed Income
12 30 (2.05%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.98%) Equities
13 29 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 29 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
14 27 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.50%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.37%) Life Science
17 18 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.19%) Linux
2 60 (4.10%) Windows
3 29 (1.98%) Unix
4 22 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.89%) Android
5 13 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.68%) CentOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.068%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (41.66%) CI/CD
2 504 (34.47%) DevOps
3 407 (27.84%) Agile
4 335 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
5 307 (21.00%) Containerisation
6 286 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 237 (16.21%) AI
8 231 (15.80%) Microservices
9 220 (15.05%) Analytics
10 201 (13.75%) Machine Learning
11 174 (11.90%) Software Engineering
12 163 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 162 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
14 148 (10.12%) Data Modelling
14 148 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
15 145 (9.92%) Cloud Security
16 142 (9.71%) Data Science
17 141 (9.64%) ETL
18 138 (9.44%) Test Automation
19 136 (9.30%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 653 (44.66%) Python
2 286 (19.56%) SQL
3 262 (17.92%) Java
4 153 (10.47%) Bash
5 132 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 106 (7.25%) PowerShell
7 100 (6.84%) Go
8 98 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 33 (2.26%) Scala
10 29 (1.98%) C#
11 25 (1.71%) R
12 20 (1.37%) C++
12 20 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.30%) Perl
14 17 (1.16%) Ruby
15 15 (1.03%) Groovy
16 14 (0.96%) Bicep
16 14 (0.96%) C
17 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 227 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 178 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 148 (10.12%) Degree
4 99 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (5.47%) CISSP
6 69 (4.72%) Master's Degree
7 67 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 51 (3.49%) CISM
9 45 (3.08%) Azure Certification
10 35 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.98%) DV Cleared
12 26 (1.78%) OSCP
13 23 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (1.37%) CCSP
15 16 (1.09%) CREST Certified
16 15 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (0.89%) CCNP
19 12 (0.82%) Tigerscheme
20 11 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (9.51%) GDPR
2 122 (8.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 98 (6.70%) Data Quality
4 97 (6.63%) NIST
5 82 (5.61%) QA
6 44 (3.01%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 23 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 18 (1.23%) NCSC
9 12 (0.82%) GRC
10 9 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.55%) PSD2
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) WCAG
15 4 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 377 (25.79%) Docker
2 78 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.34%) GPFS
7 5 (0.34%) Lustre
7 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.34%) Squid
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Snort
9 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.14%) UAG
11 1 (0.068%) Ceph
11 1 (0.068%) HDFS
11 1 (0.068%) SRDF
11 1 (0.068%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 447 (30.57%) Kubernetes
2 310 (21.20%) Terraform
3 144 (9.85%) Ansible
4 93 (6.36%) Grafana
5 90 (6.16%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.26%) Argo
7 30 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.71%) Puppet
9 21 (1.44%) Nmap
10 18 (1.23%) CSIRT
10 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (1.16%) Istio
12 16 (1.09%) SCCM
13 14 (0.96%) Kubeflow
13 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.75%) Nessus
15 10 (0.68%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.68%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
16 9 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 476 (32.56%) Google
2 151 (10.33%) Microsoft
3 116 (7.93%) Splunk
4 70 (4.79%) Databricks
5 61 (4.17%) Oracle
6 50 (3.42%) VMware
7 47 (3.21%) F5
8 46 (3.15%) CyberArk
9 42 (2.87%) Palo Alto
10 39 (2.67%) SAP
11 37 (2.53%) Cisco
12 26 (1.78%) BeyondTrust
12 26 (1.78%) IBM
13 24 (1.64%) OpenAI
14 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
15 21 (1.44%) Citrix
15 21 (1.44%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.30%) Okta
17 16 (1.09%) Informatica
17 16 (1.09%) Salesforce