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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 47 54
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,927 1,321 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.71% 3.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.09% 12.25% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 894 801
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £669 £667 £750
90th Percentile £738 £829 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.53 £35.50
25th Percentile £19.47 £38.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.44 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.69% -6.47% -19.71%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.88 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £85.40 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £51.44 £55.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% -6.47% -23.61%

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 15,937 10,784 11,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.44% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,280 7,554
10th Percentile £323 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.49%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 256 162
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -1 999 £588 -2.08% 2,327
North of England +1 428 £530 +6.00% 433
Yorkshire -1 268 £532 +7.65% 114
South East -10 183 £525 +6.60% 244
North West -2 144 £530 +5.47% 280
South West +24 136 £550 +4.76% 158
Midlands -64 74 £535 +10.77% 122
West Midlands -60 58 £540 +2.86% 99
East of England -5 53 £553 +10.50% 74
North East -27 19 £588 +18.69% 40
East Midlands -27 16 £500 +20.48% 23
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
1 115 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 114 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
3 78 (4.05%) Apache
4 52 (2.70%) Confluence
5 19 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.36%) SAS
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.052%) JBoss
13 1 (0.052%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.052%) Houdini
7 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.052%) NUKE
7 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.47%) Cloudability
4 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,272 (66.01%) AWS
2 1,235 (64.09%) Azure
3 225 (11.68%) GitHub
4 169 (8.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 153 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (7.01%) Snowflake
7 107 (5.55%) dbt
8 93 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (4.83%) SaaS
9 79 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 79 (4.10%) Entra ID
10 72 (3.74%) Power Platform
11 65 (3.37%) Serverless
12 57 (2.96%) Cloud Run
13 51 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (2.49%) Vertex AI
15 45 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
16 43 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
17 41 (2.13%) Datadog
18 37 (1.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.29%) Firewall
2 99 (5.14%) Network Security
3 75 (3.89%) DNS
4 62 (3.22%) VPN
5 33 (1.71%) BGP
6 31 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.35%) DHCP
8 25 (1.30%) WAN
9 22 (1.14%) HTTP
9 22 (1.14%) Internet
10 20 (1.04%) OSPF
11 19 (0.99%) SD-WAN
12 18 (0.93%) VLAN
13 14 (0.73%) SSL
14 12 (0.62%) IPsec
14 12 (0.62%) VoIP
15 11 (0.57%) LAN
15 11 (0.57%) Multicast
16 10 (0.52%) MPLS
17 9 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (12.56%) BigQuery
2 167 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (4.57%) Metadata
5 86 (4.46%) Relational Database
6 77 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.79%) Data Lake
8 63 (3.27%) Power BI
9 57 (2.96%) Big Data
10 52 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 49 (2.54%) Looker
12 46 (2.39%) MySQL
13 42 (2.18%) MongoDB
14 41 (2.13%) SQL Server
15 38 (1.97%) Tableau
16 33 (1.71%) Redis
17 27 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (1.40%) Flink
18 24 (1.25%) Delta Lake
19 22 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 246 (12.77%) Git
2 244 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 155 (8.04%) GitLab
4 106 (5.50%) JIRA
5 38 (1.97%) Maven
6 34 (1.76%) JUnit
6 34 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.40%) Gradle
8 24 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.25%) JMeter
9 22 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 21 (1.09%) Selenium
11 18 (0.93%) Gatling
11 18 (0.93%) LoadRunner
12 16 (0.83%) Postman
13 15 (0.78%) Claude Code
14 14 (0.73%) Snyk
15 12 (0.62%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 524 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 484 (25.12%) Finance
3 206 (10.69%) Banking
4 192 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 72 (3.74%) Retail
7 54 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 33 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 32 (1.66%) Legal
12 31 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.56%) Billing
14 28 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.40%) Marketing
16 26 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.93%) Publishing
19 16 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 397 (20.60%) Architect
2 265 (13.75%) Senior
3 225 (11.68%) Developer
4 185 (9.60%) Data Engineer
5 176 (9.13%) Lead
6 149 (7.73%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 118 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.57%) Java Developer
11 86 (4.46%) Consultant
11 86 (4.46%) Security Engineer
12 72 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 68 (3.53%) Analyst
14 61 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
15 59 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
16 57 (2.96%) Data Architect
17 53 (2.75%) Software Engineer
18 52 (2.70%) Security Architect
19 50 (2.59%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (26.93%) Terraform
2 226 (11.73%) Kafka
3 202 (10.48%) REST
4 113 (5.86%) React
5 99 (5.14%) OAuth
6 90 (4.67%) RESTful
7 89 (4.62%) Spring
8 82 (4.26%) Spring Boot
9 66 (3.43%) Node.js
10 63 (3.27%) JSON
11 61 (3.17%) OpenID
12 59 (3.06%) SOAP
13 56 (2.91%) SAML
14 53 (2.75%) PySpark
15 49 (2.54%) OAuth2
16 47 (2.44%) LangChain
17 46 (2.39%) HTML
18 43 (2.23%) LDAP
19 42 (2.18%) GraphQL
19 42 (2.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 429 (22.26%) Cloud Native
2 136 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.29%) AI Agents
4 83 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 81 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 75 (3.89%) Public Cloud
7 66 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 66 (3.43%) Security Posture
8 65 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (3.11%) Data Centre
10 52 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
11 51 (2.65%) Data Structures
12 47 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.28%) Management Information System
14 43 (2.23%) Algorithms
15 42 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (2.02%) PKI
17 29 (1.50%) CMDB
18 26 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (9.34%) Linux
2 100 (5.19%) Windows
3 53 (2.75%) Unix
4 35 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.93%) Android
7 10 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.36%) VMS
10 6 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
11 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.052%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.052%) Solaris
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE
12 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (46.96%) CI/CD
2 653 (33.89%) DevOps
3 508 (26.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 499 (25.90%) Agile
5 478 (24.81%) AI
6 362 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 327 (16.97%) Microservices
8 311 (16.14%) Analytics
9 291 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
10 287 (14.89%) Software Engineering
11 283 (14.69%) Observability
12 269 (13.96%) Containerisation
13 260 (13.49%) Machine Learning
14 247 (12.82%) Roadmaps
15 243 (12.61%) Data Modelling
16 241 (12.51%) Cloud Security
17 232 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
18 231 (11.99%) Migration
19 228 (11.83%) Event-Driven
20 226 (11.73%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 772 (40.06%) Python
2 457 (23.72%) SQL
3 357 (18.53%) Java
4 165 (8.56%) Bash
5 158 (8.20%) PowerShell
6 152 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 97 (5.03%) Go
8 72 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 50 (2.59%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.18%) C#
11 37 (1.92%) Scala
12 34 (1.76%) Bicep
13 27 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 24 (1.25%) Groovy
15 18 (0.93%) R
16 17 (0.88%) Rust
17 14 (0.73%) C++
18 12 (0.62%) ABAP
19 10 (0.52%) Perl
19 10 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 384 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 283 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.68%) Degree
4 110 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 108 (5.60%) CISSP
6 101 (5.24%) AWS Certification
7 68 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (3.43%) Azure Certification
9 64 (3.32%) CISM
10 56 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 37 (1.92%) Master's Degree
13 35 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (1.56%) CCSP
15 21 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.83%) CISA
18 14 (0.73%) GIAC
19 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (9.86%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.29%) QA
3 94 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (4.57%) NIST
5 65 (3.37%) GDPR
6 32 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.40%) NCSC
9 26 (1.35%) GRC
10 23 (1.19%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.52%) COBIT
14 8 (0.42%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 353 (18.32%) Docker
2 85 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.052%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 618 (32.07%) Kubernetes
2 169 (8.77%) Ansible
3 119 (6.18%) Grafana
4 108 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.71%) Argo
7 32 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 28 (1.45%) Puppet
9 26 (1.35%) Istio
10 19 (0.99%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.57%) Podman
13 9 (0.47%) CASB
14 8 (0.42%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.26%) Control-M
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) Kibana
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 696 (36.12%) Google
2 259 (13.44%) Microsoft
3 125 (6.49%) Databricks
4 91 (4.72%) Splunk
5 83 (4.31%) Oracle
6 64 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.06%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.59%) SAP
9 49 (2.54%) Salesforce
10 48 (2.49%) VMware
11 43 (2.23%) CyberArk
11 43 (2.23%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.92%) IBM
13 33 (1.71%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.50%) Cisco
14 29 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.45%) Informatica
16 23 (1.19%) Okta
17 22 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (0.99%) MuleSoft