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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,532 933 955
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.56% 3.61% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.09% 9.64% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 589 716
10th Percentile £363 £366 £425
25th Percentile £447 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £750
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £24.85 £39.97
25th Percentile £21.95 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.50 £41.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.33% -27.83% -14.18%
75th Percentile £69.00 £60.25 £62.00
90th Percentile £69.44 £64.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £41.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -28.45% +5.45%

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 12,675 9,682 12,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.74% 37.46% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,765 6,433 9,183
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 140 305
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.95 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -9.09%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -4 743 £600 -0.54% 341
North of England +34 330 £500 -9.09% 119
Yorkshire +14 195 £500 -4.76% 35
South East +45 187 £450 -21.74% 172
Midlands +20 130 £491 +12.23% 40
North West +38 121 £505 -12.17% 68
West Midlands +23 106 £500 +5.04% 27
South West +27 63 £550 -12.00% 64
East of England -12 39 £594 +85.55% 28
East Midlands -24 23 £447 +25.56% 13
North East -4 14 £525 +61.54% 16
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 82 (5.35%) Apache Spark
2 61 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (3.46%) Apache
4 26 (1.70%) Confluence
5 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.65%) SAS
7 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.33%) Camunda
8 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) CMS
10 2 (0.13%) Documentum
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Mule
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.33%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.13%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.065%) Actimize
7 1 (0.065%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 1,130 (73.76%) AWS
2 1,109 (72.39%) Azure
3 182 (11.88%) GitHub
4 108 (7.05%) Power Platform
5 101 (6.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 91 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (5.29%) Serverless
8 75 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 71 (4.63%) Snowflake
10 67 (4.37%) OpenShift
11 60 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (3.66%) Entra ID
13 47 (3.07%) Amazon S3
14 45 (2.94%) Cloud Run
15 43 (2.81%) dbt
16 38 (2.48%) SaaS
17 34 (2.22%) Vertex AI
18 32 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
19 31 (2.02%) Apigee
20 29 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 127 (8.29%) Firewall
2 64 (4.18%) VPN
3 51 (3.33%) Network Security
4 46 (3.00%) DNS
5 22 (1.44%) WAN
6 21 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.31%) Wireshark
8 17 (1.11%) LAN
8 17 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.91%) BGP
9 14 (0.91%) DHCP
10 13 (0.85%) VoIP
11 12 (0.78%) OSPF
11 12 (0.78%) SSL
11 12 (0.78%) VLAN
12 11 (0.72%) HTTP
12 11 (0.72%) Kerberos
13 10 (0.65%) Wireless
14 9 (0.59%) Internet
15 8 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (10.05%) BigQuery
2 118 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
3 104 (6.79%) NoSQL
4 95 (6.20%) Power BI
5 91 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 53 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 50 (3.26%) Metadata
9 48 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 48 (3.13%) Tableau
10 45 (2.94%) Big Data
11 44 (2.87%) Relational Database
12 40 (2.61%) MySQL
13 30 (1.96%) Looker
14 26 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 19 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
16 18 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (1.17%) OLAP
17 17 (1.11%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 215 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 154 (10.05%) GitLab
3 148 (9.66%) Git
4 77 (5.03%) JIRA
5 26 (1.70%) Liquibase
6 24 (1.57%) Selenium
7 23 (1.50%) CircleCI
7 23 (1.50%) Postman
8 20 (1.31%) JUnit
9 15 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 14 (0.91%) JMeter
10 14 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.85%) ERwin
11 13 (0.85%) Gatling
11 13 (0.85%) Maven
11 13 (0.85%) MLflow
11 13 (0.85%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.65%) ER Studio
13 10 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 551 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 341 (22.26%) Finance
3 181 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (11.03%) Banking
5 132 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 60 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (2.42%) Retail
8 36 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 32 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.63%) Legal
13 23 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.44%) Marketing
15 18 (1.17%) Front Office
16 16 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.04%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.98%) Electronics
18 13 (0.85%) Law
19 10 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 283 (18.47%) Architect
2 183 (11.95%) Senior
3 164 (10.70%) Developer
4 123 (8.03%) Lead
5 118 (7.70%) GCP Engineer
6 103 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 94 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 88 (5.74%) Analyst
9 79 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 76 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 76 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (4.11%) Consultant
12 46 (3.00%) Security Engineer
13 44 (2.87%) Java Developer
14 41 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
15 40 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 39 (2.55%) Data Scientist
16 39 (2.55%) GCP DevOps
16 39 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (2.42%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (11.55%) REST
2 135 (8.81%) Kafka
3 118 (7.70%) React
4 112 (7.31%) RESTful
5 99 (6.46%) Spring
6 94 (6.14%) Node.js
7 80 (5.22%) LDAP
8 79 (5.16%) Spring Boot
9 60 (3.92%) AngularJS
10 58 (3.79%) PyTorch
11 57 (3.72%) TensorFlow
12 55 (3.59%) SOAP
13 50 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
14 48 (3.13%) OAuth
15 44 (2.87%) OpenID
16 42 (2.74%) .NET
17 36 (2.35%) Middleware
17 36 (2.35%) scikit-learn
18 35 (2.28%) HTML
19 34 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 267 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.01%) Public Cloud
3 82 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
4 81 (5.29%) Security Posture
5 64 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 55 (3.59%) Onboarding
8 38 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.02%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.96%) Data Centre
11 24 (1.57%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.24%) Life Science
15 18 (1.17%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
17 15 (0.98%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 137 (8.94%) Linux
2 65 (4.24%) Windows
3 28 (1.83%) Mac OS
4 24 (1.57%) Unix
5 20 (1.31%) Android
6 17 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.11%) VMS
7 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.59%) CentOS
9 8 (0.52%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
12 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.13%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.065%) Rocky
14 1 (0.065%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (43.60%) CI/CD
2 572 (37.34%) DevOps
3 386 (25.20%) Agile
4 369 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
5 323 (21.08%) Containerisation
6 315 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 290 (18.93%) AI
8 250 (16.32%) Analytics
9 241 (15.73%) Microservices
10 223 (14.56%) Machine Learning
11 168 (10.97%) Software Engineering
12 163 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 161 (10.51%) Observability
14 152 (9.92%) Data Modelling
15 150 (9.79%) Test Automation
16 148 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
17 143 (9.33%) Migration
18 142 (9.27%) DevSecOps
19 141 (9.20%) ETL
20 137 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 669 (43.67%) Python
2 297 (19.39%) SQL
3 255 (16.64%) Java
4 139 (9.07%) PowerShell
5 122 (7.96%) Bash
6 110 (7.18%) JavaScript
7 86 (5.61%) Go
8 85 (5.55%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.94%) C#
10 31 (2.02%) Scala
11 22 (1.44%) R
12 21 (1.37%) Bicep
13 14 (0.91%) Groovy
13 14 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.85%) Ruby
15 11 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.65%) C++
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
16 10 (0.65%) PHP
17 8 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 323 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 265 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 142 (9.27%) Degree
4 96 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.24%) CISSP
6 50 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 46 (3.00%) CISM
8 44 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.28%) DV Cleared
10 29 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (1.04%) CCSP
13 16 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.91%) CCNP
15 13 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.78%) OSCP
17 10 (0.65%) CCIE
17 10 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (9.40%) GDPR
2 110 (7.18%) Data Quality
3 101 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (5.61%) NIST
5 68 (4.44%) QA
6 45 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 24 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.44%) HIPAA
9 19 (1.24%) SOC 2
10 17 (1.11%) GRC
11 16 (1.04%) SLA
12 15 (0.98%) NCSC
13 13 (0.85%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.52%) PSD2
15 7 (0.46%) PERC
16 6 (0.39%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 5 (0.33%) WCAG
18 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 383 (25.00%) Docker
2 108 (7.05%) Active Directory
3 47 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.65%) vSphere
7 8 (0.52%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.39%) GPFS
8 6 (0.39%) KVM
8 6 (0.39%) Lustre
8 6 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.33%) Squid
10 4 (0.26%) Snort
11 3 (0.20%) HDFS
12 2 (0.13%) NFS
12 2 (0.13%) UAG
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.065%) QEMU
13 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 496 (32.38%) Kubernetes
2 364 (23.76%) Terraform
3 159 (10.38%) Ansible
4 107 (6.98%) Grafana
5 102 (6.66%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.96%) Istio
7 27 (1.76%) Argo
8 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.31%) SCCM
10 17 (1.11%) CSIRT
10 17 (1.11%) Puppet
10 17 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.98%) Nessus
12 12 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.65%) Fluentd
13 10 (0.65%) Kibana
14 9 (0.59%) Podman
15 7 (0.46%) Kubeflow
15 7 (0.46%) Nmap
16 6 (0.39%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 509 (33.22%) Google
2 152 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 132 (8.62%) Splunk
4 81 (5.29%) Databricks
5 72 (4.70%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 57 (3.72%) BeyondTrust
8 56 (3.66%) Oracle
9 52 (3.39%) VMware
10 41 (2.68%) OpenAI
10 41 (2.68%) SAP
11 40 (2.61%) Palo Alto
12 36 (2.35%) Cisco
12 36 (2.35%) F5
13 34 (2.22%) Centrify
14 27 (1.76%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.24%) Informatica
16 18 (1.17%) Fortinet
17 17 (1.11%) Okta
18 16 (1.04%) Dynatrace