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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 74
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -14
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,489 997 1,035
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.72% 3.53% 2.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.39% 9.64% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 634 771
10th Percentile £361 £390 £413
25th Percentile £447 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £738
90th Percentile £750 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £33.53 £23.65 £43.03
25th Percentile £44.38 £40.25 £53.39
Median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -7.26% +77.14%
75th Percentile £69.63 £61.63 £75.38
90th Percentile £70.80 £68.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.17% -11.54% +107.24%

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 12,014 10,339 12,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.61% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,287 6,922 9,243
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 136 244
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.74
Median hourly rate £27.21 £28.75 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +18.29% +6.53%
75th Percentile £56.50 £49.06 £53.56
90th Percentile £77.02 £68.75 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -1.05% +6.55% +14.71%

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 December 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 29 December 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 29 December 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 0 739 £600 -4.00% 887
North of England +34 318 £500 -6.98% 744
Yorkshire +19 190 £500 -7.92% 310
South East +48 173 £473 -27.23% 812
North West +41 124 £519 -5.73% 385
Midlands +12 111 £490 +3.16% 555
West Midlands +23 90 £500 +4.82% 286
South West +43 69 £570 -8.80% 341
East of England -13 39 £594 +85.55% 446
East Midlands -16 20 £442 +24.02% 231
North East -13 4 £495 +4.21% 50
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 68 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 42 (2.82%) Apache
4 33 (2.22%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.67%) SAS
7 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.40%) Mule
8 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.34%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Documentum
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.34%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.067%) Actimize
5 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.067%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (73.07%) AWS
2 1,048 (70.38%) Azure
3 191 (12.83%) GitHub
4 97 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 93 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 91 (6.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 85 (5.71%) Serverless
8 68 (4.57%) Snowflake
9 66 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
10 61 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (4.03%) OpenShift
12 55 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 52 (3.49%) dbt
14 41 (2.75%) SaaS
15 39 (2.62%) Amazon S3
16 37 (2.48%) Cloud Run
17 36 (2.42%) Apigee
18 34 (2.28%) Datadog
19 33 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
20 32 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 137 (9.20%) Firewall
2 52 (3.49%) VPN
3 45 (3.02%) Network Security
4 44 (2.96%) DNS
5 25 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.68%) WAN
6 21 (1.41%) Wireshark
7 20 (1.34%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.14%) LAN
9 14 (0.94%) DHCP
9 14 (0.94%) SSL
10 13 (0.87%) VLAN
11 12 (0.81%) BGP
12 11 (0.74%) HTTP
13 10 (0.67%) OSPF
13 10 (0.67%) VoIP
13 10 (0.67%) Wireless
14 9 (0.60%) Internet
15 8 (0.54%) HTTPS
15 8 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (10.95%) BigQuery
2 127 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (7.79%) NoSQL
4 92 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
5 91 (6.11%) Power BI
6 49 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 48 (3.22%) Data Lake
7 48 (3.22%) Tableau
8 47 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 43 (2.89%) Big Data
10 41 (2.75%) Metadata
11 37 (2.48%) MySQL
12 31 (2.08%) Looker
13 24 (1.61%) Hadoop
14 20 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (1.07%) Data Vault
16 16 (1.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 245 (16.45%) Jenkins
2 165 (11.08%) GitLab
3 163 (10.95%) Git
4 88 (5.91%) JIRA
5 38 (2.55%) Liquibase
6 35 (2.35%) SonarQube
7 28 (1.88%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.81%) Postman
9 24 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 23 (1.54%) Selenium
11 21 (1.41%) JUnit
12 20 (1.34%) Maven
13 19 (1.28%) Gradle
14 17 (1.14%) Cypress.io
14 17 (1.14%) MLflow
15 13 (0.87%) Cucumber
16 11 (0.74%) SoapUI
17 10 (0.67%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.67%) ER Studio
17 10 (0.67%) Snyk
General
1 553 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 335 (22.50%) Finance
3 181 (12.16%) Banking
4 180 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 35 (2.35%) Marketing
8 35 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (1.88%) Retail
11 27 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 23 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.48%) Legal
14 21 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.21%) Front Office
17 17 (1.14%) Electronics
17 17 (1.14%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 255 (17.13%) Architect
2 196 (13.16%) Senior
3 173 (11.62%) Developer
4 107 (7.19%) GCP Engineer
5 103 (6.92%) Lead
6 101 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 97 (6.51%) Analyst
8 94 (6.31%) Data Engineer
9 74 (4.97%) Software Engineer
9 74 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 72 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 62 (4.16%) Consultant
12 53 (3.56%) Security Engineer
13 47 (3.16%) Java Developer
14 40 (2.69%) Data Scientist
15 38 (2.55%) Python Engineer
16 37 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
17 36 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
18 35 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 35 (2.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (10.41%) REST
2 127 (8.53%) RESTful
3 105 (7.05%) Kafka
4 102 (6.85%) React
5 92 (6.18%) Node.js
6 89 (5.98%) Spring
7 75 (5.04%) Spring Boot
8 65 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
9 63 (4.23%) LDAP
10 58 (3.90%) AngularJS
11 50 (3.36%) TensorFlow
12 48 (3.22%) PyTorch
13 45 (3.02%) SOAP
14 41 (2.75%) Pandas
15 40 (2.69%) .NET
16 39 (2.62%) HTML
17 36 (2.42%) scikit-learn
18 35 (2.35%) OAuth
18 35 (2.35%) Vue
19 33 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 269 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.57%) Public Cloud
3 78 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (5.17%) Security Posture
5 63 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 56 (3.76%) Onboarding
7 41 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.41%) Life Science
13 18 (1.21%) Private Cloud
14 17 (1.14%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.14%) Genomics
14 17 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 149 (10.01%) Linux
2 71 (4.77%) Windows
3 29 (1.95%) Mac OS
4 27 (1.81%) Unix
5 13 (0.87%) Android
5 13 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.87%) VMS
6 10 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.60%) CentOS
8 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.13%) zOS
13 1 (0.067%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 553 (37.14%) DevOps
3 376 (25.25%) Agile
4 368 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
5 317 (21.29%) Containerisation
6 292 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 245 (16.45%) Microservices
8 244 (16.39%) AI
9 228 (15.31%) Analytics
10 204 (13.70%) Machine Learning
11 169 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (10.95%) Software Engineering
13 145 (9.74%) Test Automation
14 139 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
15 138 (9.27%) Data Modelling
15 138 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
15 138 (9.27%) DevSecOps
16 137 (9.20%) Data Science
17 134 (9.00%) Migration
17 134 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 644 (43.25%) Python
2 288 (19.34%) SQL
3 256 (17.19%) Java
4 143 (9.60%) Bash
5 134 (9.00%) PowerShell
6 112 (7.52%) JavaScript
7 89 (5.98%) Go
8 77 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 37 (2.48%) C#
10 25 (1.68%) R
11 24 (1.61%) Scala
12 18 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.14%) Ruby
14 16 (1.07%) Bicep
15 14 (0.94%) Perl
16 13 (0.87%) C++
16 13 (0.87%) Groovy
17 11 (0.74%) PHP
18 10 (0.67%) C
18 10 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 293 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 236 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.74%) Degree
4 99 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (5.10%) CISSP
6 63 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 61 (4.10%) Master's Degree
8 49 (3.29%) Azure Certification
8 49 (3.29%) CISM
9 35 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.08%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (1.34%) CCSP
13 17 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.94%) CCNP
15 13 (0.87%) OSCP
16 12 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (9.07%) GDPR
2 108 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 95 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 89 (5.98%) NIST
5 79 (5.31%) QA
6 48 (3.22%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.21%) HIPAA
9 17 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 14 (0.94%) GRC
11 11 (0.74%) SLA
12 10 (0.67%) PSD2
13 9 (0.60%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.54%) NCSC
15 7 (0.47%) PERC
16 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.40%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.27%) WCAG
19 3 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 401 (26.93%) Docker
2 103 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 47 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.54%) KVM
5 8 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.54%) vSphere
6 5 (0.34%) GPFS
6 5 (0.34%) Lustre
6 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.34%) Squid
7 4 (0.27%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) HDFS
8 2 (0.13%) UAG
9 1 (0.067%) Ceph
9 1 (0.067%) NFS
9 1 (0.067%) QEMU
9 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 481 (32.30%) Kubernetes
2 343 (23.04%) Terraform
3 175 (11.75%) Ansible
4 109 (7.32%) Grafana
5 105 (7.05%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.01%) Argo
7 24 (1.61%) Istio
7 24 (1.61%) SCCM
8 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.41%) Puppet
10 18 (1.21%) CSIRT
11 15 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.94%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.74%) Kibana
13 11 (0.74%) Nessus
14 10 (0.67%) Fluentd
14 10 (0.67%) Podman
15 9 (0.60%) Kubeflow
16 8 (0.54%) Nmap
17 7 (0.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 496 (33.31%) Google
2 162 (10.88%) Microsoft
3 136 (9.13%) Splunk
4 68 (4.57%) Databricks
5 67 (4.50%) CyberArk
6 58 (3.90%) Oracle
7 53 (3.56%) VMware
8 52 (3.49%) BeyondTrust
9 45 (3.02%) ServiceNow
10 42 (2.82%) SAP
11 40 (2.69%) F5
11 40 (2.69%) Palo Alto
12 38 (2.55%) Cisco
13 29 (1.95%) OpenAI
14 27 (1.81%) Centrify
15 26 (1.75%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.28%) Citrix
17 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
18 16 (1.07%) Salesforce
19 15 (1.01%) Okta