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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 89
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 -25
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,533 957 914
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.59% 3.64% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.16% 9.76% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 599 691
10th Percentile £363 £367 £425
25th Percentile £447 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £741
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 10 10 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £24.85 £39.97
25th Percentile £17.45 £25.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.25 £41.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -27.83% -14.18%
75th Percentile £69.13 £60.25 £62.00
90th Percentile £69.50 £64.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £41.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +43.37% -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 12,602 9,804 12,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 37.31% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,724 6,501 9,106
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £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 329 144 302
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.75 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -4 742 £600 -1.52% 366
North of England +39 337 £500 -8.85% 118
Yorkshire +13 195 £500 -4.76% 38
South East +43 184 £450 -21.74% 167
North West +43 130 £518 -9.91% 64
Midlands +20 123 £489 +11.71% 39
West Midlands +25 99 £500 +4.82% 26
South West +31 66 £550 -12.00% 56
East of England -15 39 £594 +85.55% 21
East Midlands -16 23 £447 +25.56% 13
North East -7 12 £515 +58.46% 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 77 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 59 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (3.00%) Apache
4 27 (1.76%) 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%) Mule
9 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) Documentum
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
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 1,129 (73.65%) AWS
2 1,107 (72.21%) Azure
3 193 (12.59%) GitHub
4 103 (6.72%) Power Platform
5 101 (6.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 94 (6.13%) GitHub Actions
7 90 (5.87%) Serverless
8 74 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.50%) Snowflake
10 67 (4.37%) OpenShift
11 59 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (3.65%) Entra ID
13 46 (3.00%) Amazon S3
14 44 (2.87%) Cloud Run
15 42 (2.74%) SaaS
16 41 (2.67%) dbt
17 38 (2.48%) Apigee
18 32 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
18 32 (2.09%) Datadog
19 31 (2.02%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 129 (8.41%) Firewall
2 64 (4.17%) 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 (1.30%) Wireshark
8 17 (1.11%) LAN
8 17 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.91%) BGP
9 14 (0.91%) DHCP
10 12 (0.78%) HTTP
10 12 (0.78%) OSPF
10 12 (0.78%) SSL
10 12 (0.78%) VLAN
10 12 (0.78%) VoIP
11 11 (0.72%) Kerberos
12 10 (0.65%) Wireless
13 9 (0.59%) Internet
14 8 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (9.98%) BigQuery
2 125 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (7.18%) NoSQL
4 93 (6.07%) Power BI
5 86 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.59%) SQL Server
7 54 (3.52%) Data Lake
8 50 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.13%) Metadata
9 48 (3.13%) Tableau
10 46 (3.00%) Big Data
10 46 (3.00%) MongoDB
11 45 (2.94%) MySQL
12 29 (1.89%) Looker
13 26 (1.70%) Hadoop
14 19 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
16 17 (1.11%) Data Vault
16 17 (1.11%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 231 (15.07%) Jenkins
2 159 (10.37%) Git
3 154 (10.05%) GitLab
4 79 (5.15%) JIRA
5 26 (1.70%) Selenium
6 25 (1.63%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.57%) CircleCI
8 23 (1.50%) Postman
9 22 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 20 (1.30%) JUnit
11 18 (1.17%) Maven
12 16 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.98%) Gradle
13 15 (0.98%) JMeter
14 14 (0.91%) Gatling
14 14 (0.91%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.85%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.85%) ERwin
15 13 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 556 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 338 (22.05%) Finance
3 178 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (11.22%) Banking
5 138 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 34 (2.22%) Retail
9 31 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.63%) Legal
12 25 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (1.44%) Marketing
14 17 (1.11%) Front Office
14 17 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.98%) Electronics
17 13 (0.85%) Law
18 11 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (18.66%) Architect
2 189 (12.33%) Senior
3 168 (10.96%) Developer
4 119 (7.76%) Lead
5 116 (7.57%) GCP Engineer
6 100 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 93 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 86 (5.61%) Analyst
9 77 (5.02%) Software Engineer
10 75 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 74 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (4.04%) Consultant
13 46 (3.00%) Security Engineer
14 45 (2.94%) Java Developer
15 40 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 40 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
15 40 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
16 38 (2.48%) GCP DevOps
17 37 (2.41%) Data Scientist
18 36 (2.35%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (11.29%) REST
2 126 (8.22%) Kafka
3 122 (7.96%) RESTful
4 115 (7.50%) React
5 98 (6.39%) Spring
6 92 (6.00%) Node.js
7 84 (5.48%) Spring Boot
8 80 (5.22%) LDAP
9 58 (3.78%) PyTorch
10 57 (3.72%) TensorFlow
11 55 (3.59%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.59%) SOAP
12 50 (3.26%) OAuth
13 49 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
14 46 (3.00%) .NET
15 45 (2.94%) OpenID
16 37 (2.41%) scikit-learn
17 36 (2.35%) HTML
17 36 (2.35%) LangChain
17 36 (2.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 274 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 90 (5.87%) Public Cloud
3 81 (5.28%) Security Posture
4 78 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
5 65 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 65 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 54 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.30%) Life Science
13 20 (1.30%) Private Cloud
14 18 (1.17%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.04%) Genomics
15 16 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 131 (8.55%) Linux
2 62 (4.04%) Windows
3 27 (1.76%) Mac OS
4 24 (1.57%) Unix
5 16 (1.04%) Android
6 15 (0.98%) VMS
7 13 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.59%) CentOS
9 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) 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
1 671 (43.77%) CI/CD
2 574 (37.44%) DevOps
3 395 (25.77%) Agile
4 372 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
5 334 (21.79%) Containerisation
6 312 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 291 (18.98%) AI
8 251 (16.37%) Microservices
9 235 (15.33%) Analytics
10 221 (14.42%) Machine Learning
11 172 (11.22%) Software Engineering
12 166 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 156 (10.18%) Observability
14 154 (10.05%) Test Automation
15 145 (9.46%) Data Modelling
15 145 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
15 145 (9.46%) Migration
16 142 (9.26%) DevSecOps
17 137 (8.94%) ETL
18 136 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 669 (43.64%) Python
2 289 (18.85%) SQL
3 261 (17.03%) Java
4 138 (9.00%) PowerShell
5 124 (8.09%) Bash
6 109 (7.11%) JavaScript
7 85 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 83 (5.41%) Go
9 45 (2.94%) C#
10 33 (2.15%) Scala
11 22 (1.44%) R
12 20 (1.30%) Bicep
13 16 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.91%) Ruby
15 13 (0.85%) Groovy
16 10 (0.65%) C++
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
16 10 (0.65%) PHP
17 8 (0.52%) C
17 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 323 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 261 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 140 (9.13%) Degree
4 96 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.24%) CISSP
6 52 (3.39%) Master's Degree
7 51 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.00%) CISM
9 43 (2.80%) Azure Certification
10 34 (2.22%) DV Cleared
11 29 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (1.04%) CCSP
15 15 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.91%) CCNP
17 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.78%) OSCP
18 10 (0.65%) CCIE
18 10 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (9.33%) GDPR
2 103 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 100 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (5.54%) NIST
5 68 (4.44%) QA
6 45 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.50%) 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%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 400 (26.09%) Docker
2 108 (7.05%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.52%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) GPFS
7 6 (0.39%) KVM
7 6 (0.39%) Lustre
7 6 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.33%) Squid
9 4 (0.26%) Snort
10 3 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.13%) UAG
12 1 (0.065%) Ceph
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.065%) QEMU
12 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 504 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 367 (23.94%) Terraform
3 160 (10.44%) Ansible
4 103 (6.72%) Grafana
5 101 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.96%) Istio
7 28 (1.83%) Argo
8 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.30%) SCCM
10 17 (1.11%) CSIRT
10 17 (1.11%) Puppet
10 17 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.91%) 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%) Nmap
16 6 (0.39%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 507 (33.07%) Google
2 151 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 129 (8.41%) Splunk
4 74 (4.83%) Databricks
5 73 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 60 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 57 (3.72%) BeyondTrust
8 56 (3.65%) Oracle
9 50 (3.26%) VMware
10 41 (2.67%) Palo Alto
11 40 (2.61%) SAP
12 39 (2.54%) OpenAI
13 37 (2.41%) F5
14 36 (2.35%) Cisco
15 34 (2.22%) Centrify
16 25 (1.63%) Red Hat
17 19 (1.24%) Informatica
18 18 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 18 (1.17%) Okta
19 17 (1.11%) Dynatrace