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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,891 1,189 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.30% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.87% 11.56% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 819 868
10th Percentile £407 £373 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £615
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -9.76% +0.41%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £747 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.48 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.36 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +10.70% +70.34% -50.91%

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 15,933 10,283 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.22% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,621 6,982 8,009
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 265 240
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.28
Median hourly rate £37.12 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.45 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.33% +14.49% -31.50%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -2 1,009 £575 -4.17% 1,055
North of England +9 394 £540 +8.00% 282
Yorkshire +5 245 £538 +13.76% 88
South East +7 184 £548 +1.39% 164
North West -4 134 £558 +5.69% 165
South West +16 126 £560 +6.67% 75
Midlands -36 79 £513 +13.89% 64
West Midlands -26 63 £525 -8.70% 54
East of England +9 52 £530 +6.00% 18
North East -24 19 £525 -3.45% 29
East Midlands -20 16 £500 +25.00% 10
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 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.70%) Apache
4 55 (2.91%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.053%) JBoss
12 1 (0.053%) Mule
12 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,220 (64.52%) AWS
2 1,195 (63.19%) Azure
3 207 (10.95%) GitHub
4 164 (8.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 134 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
6 125 (6.61%) Snowflake
7 92 (4.87%) SaaS
8 88 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (4.49%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.07%) dbt
12 72 (3.81%) Serverless
13 57 (3.01%) Vertex AI
14 53 (2.80%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.12%) Cloud Run
17 38 (2.01%) Amazon S3
18 37 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.80%) Datadog
19 34 (1.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.61%) Firewall
2 101 (5.34%) DNS
2 101 (5.34%) Network Security
3 87 (4.60%) VPN
4 35 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.64%) WAN
6 29 (1.53%) BGP
7 26 (1.37%) HTTP
8 20 (1.06%) DHCP
8 20 (1.06%) OSPF
9 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.95%) Internet
10 18 (0.95%) VLAN
11 14 (0.74%) SSL
12 11 (0.58%) IPsec
12 11 (0.58%) LAN
12 11 (0.58%) MPLS
12 11 (0.58%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
13 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (11.42%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
3 125 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 79 (4.18%) Data Lake
6 72 (3.81%) Big Data
7 71 (3.75%) Metadata
8 70 (3.70%) Power BI
9 68 (3.60%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.43%) Tableau
11 36 (1.90%) Looker
12 35 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 32 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 31 (1.64%) SQL Server
15 28 (1.48%) Flink
16 27 (1.43%) MySQL
17 25 (1.32%) Redis
18 23 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
19 19 (1.00%) Hadoop
20 16 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 223 (11.79%) Jenkins
2 205 (10.84%) Git
3 146 (7.72%) GitLab
4 94 (4.97%) JIRA
5 49 (2.59%) JUnit
6 36 (1.90%) Selenium
6 36 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.69%) JMeter
8 26 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.37%) Maven
9 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
10 15 (0.79%) Gradle
11 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.74%) Postman
11 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.63%) LoadRunner
13 11 (0.58%) Gatling
13 11 (0.58%) MLflow
14 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 484 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 452 (23.90%) Finance
3 180 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.78%) Banking
5 158 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.60%) Retail
7 59 (3.12%) Telecoms
8 42 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.12%) Legal
10 35 (1.85%) Marketing
11 32 (1.69%) Front Office
12 31 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.06%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.00%) Billing
17 19 (1.00%) Publishing
18 17 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 395 (20.89%) Architect
2 249 (13.17%) Senior
3 224 (11.85%) Developer
4 185 (9.78%) Lead
5 166 (8.78%) GCP Engineer
6 160 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 127 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 118 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 112 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.39%) Java Developer
11 75 (3.97%) Consultant
12 69 (3.65%) Analyst
13 68 (3.60%) Security Architect
14 67 (3.54%) Data Architect
15 65 (3.44%) Security Engineer
16 61 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
16 61 (3.23%) Software Engineer
17 60 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 50 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
19 45 (2.38%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (9.04%) Kafka
2 161 (8.51%) REST
3 115 (6.08%) Spring
4 113 (5.98%) React
5 96 (5.08%) Node.js
6 92 (4.87%) Spring Boot
7 86 (4.55%) OAuth
8 69 (3.65%) RESTful
9 52 (2.75%) JSON
10 46 (2.43%) OpenID
10 46 (2.43%) SAML
11 45 (2.38%) GraphQL
11 45 (2.38%) OAuth2
11 45 (2.38%) PyTorch
12 44 (2.33%) LangChain
13 43 (2.27%) AngularJS
14 41 (2.17%) LDAP
14 41 (2.17%) TensorFlow
15 40 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (2.06%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 360 (19.04%) Cloud Native
2 128 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (4.49%) AI Agents
4 70 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.12%) Security Posture
6 52 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 48 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 48 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
10 46 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 38 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
12 37 (1.96%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.69%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.69%) Management Information System
15 29 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 27 (1.43%) Derivative
16 27 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.82%) Linux
2 93 (4.92%) Windows
3 28 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.32%) Android
4 25 (1.32%) Unix
5 23 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.53%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 596 (31.52%) DevOps
3 487 (25.75%) Agile
4 443 (23.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 441 (23.32%) AI
6 322 (17.03%) Microservices
7 315 (16.66%) Analytics
8 279 (14.75%) Machine Learning
9 277 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
10 266 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 265 (14.01%) Observability
12 256 (13.54%) Containerisation
12 256 (13.54%) Software Engineering
13 238 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
14 236 (12.48%) Data Modelling
15 217 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 207 (10.95%) Roadmaps
17 206 (10.89%) Cloud Security
17 206 (10.89%) Migration
18 195 (10.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 721 (38.13%) Python
2 396 (20.94%) SQL
3 359 (18.98%) Java
4 154 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.99%) Bash
6 138 (7.30%) PowerShell
7 89 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 86 (4.55%) Go
9 45 (2.38%) Scala
10 41 (2.17%) C#
11 31 (1.64%) Bicep
12 27 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 26 (1.37%) Groovy
14 25 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 17 (0.90%) R
17 13 (0.69%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) C++
19 10 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
20 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 378 (19.99%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.35%) Degree
4 110 (5.82%) CISSP
5 95 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 87 (4.60%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 63 (3.33%) Azure Certification
9 58 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (3.01%) CISM
11 42 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (1.48%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (1.32%) CCSP
14 24 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (1.06%) CCNP
16 19 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.95%) GIAC
18 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 14 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 88 (4.65%) GDPR
2 88 (4.65%) QA
3 81 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (4.18%) NIST
5 29 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.22%) NCSC
8 18 (0.95%) GRC
9 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) PSD2
15 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 351 (18.56%) Docker
2 74 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.63%) vSphere
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 576 (30.46%) Kubernetes
2 463 (24.48%) Terraform
3 126 (6.66%) Prometheus
4 125 (6.61%) Grafana
5 119 (6.29%) Ansible
6 39 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.64%) Argo
8 27 (1.43%) Istio
9 25 (1.32%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.11%) Puppet
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.69%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.63%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.48%) Podman
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) linkerd
15 5 (0.26%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 616 (32.58%) Google
2 184 (9.73%) Microsoft
3 104 (5.50%) Databricks
4 65 (3.44%) Splunk
5 52 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.59%) Oracle
7 46 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.22%) OpenAI
9 41 (2.17%) VMware
10 40 (2.12%) Dynatrace
11 39 (2.06%) CyberArk
12 34 (1.80%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.48%) SAP
14 27 (1.43%) Red Hat
15 23 (1.22%) Informatica
16 22 (1.16%) Cisco
17 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.90%) Okta
19 16 (0.85%) IBM
20 13 (0.69%) Foundry