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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 60 69
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,462 1,114 1,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.79% 3.61% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.46% 9.99% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 716 915
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -0.08% -7.62%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £738
90th Percentile £769 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £33.96 £24.05 £43.03
25th Percentile £46.85 £33.50 £53.39
Median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -8.87% +138.46%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.19 £75.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.75% -13.08% +141.95%

All Cloud 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 11,731 11,147 13,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.40% 36.15% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,018 7,425 9,977
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
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 290 150 269
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.45
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +25.74% +13.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £57.44 £58.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +20.45%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -3 755 £575 -8.00% 291
North of England +30 299 £500 - 82
Yorkshire +16 186 £500 -3.61% 19
South East +42 165 £481 -16.30% 239
North West +37 110 £526 -4.43% 53
Midlands +30 109 £500 +5.04% 34
West Midlands +27 87 £525 +8.58% 19
South West +50 61 £538 -14.00% 64
East of England -14 34 £500 +56.25% 21
East Midlands -10 21 £425 +19.38% 14
North East -15 3 £475 - 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 89 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 40 (2.74%) Apache
4 33 (2.26%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.68%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.41%) Mule
9 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Documentum
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Weka
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Maple
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 2 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.068%) Actimize
5 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.068%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,050 (71.82%) AWS
2 992 (67.85%) Azure
3 171 (11.70%) GitHub
4 98 (6.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 92 (6.29%) Power Platform
6 79 (5.40%) Serverless
7 78 (5.34%) Snowflake
8 74 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
9 73 (4.99%) dbt
10 61 (4.17%) Entra ID
11 60 (4.10%) SaaS
12 56 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 47 (3.21%) OpenShift
15 36 (2.46%) PaaS
16 34 (2.33%) Apigee
17 33 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
17 33 (2.26%) Cloud Run
17 33 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (2.12%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 135 (9.23%) Firewall
2 44 (3.01%) VPN
3 43 (2.94%) Network Security
4 38 (2.60%) DNS
5 25 (1.71%) WAN
6 21 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.37%) Wireshark
8 19 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 16 (1.09%) VLAN
10 15 (1.03%) BGP
10 15 (1.03%) LAN
11 13 (0.89%) OSPF
11 13 (0.89%) SSL
12 12 (0.82%) DHCP
13 10 (0.68%) HTTP
13 10 (0.68%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.62%) SAN
15 8 (0.55%) HTTPS
15 8 (0.55%) Wireless
16 7 (0.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.70%) BigQuery
2 140 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 108 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
5 86 (5.88%) Power BI
6 54 (3.69%) Tableau
7 51 (3.49%) MongoDB
8 49 (3.35%) Big Data
9 46 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.87%) Data Lake
11 41 (2.80%) Metadata
12 40 (2.74%) SQL Server
13 36 (2.46%) Looker
14 32 (2.19%) MySQL
15 29 (1.98%) Hadoop
16 25 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
20 17 (1.16%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 213 (14.57%) Jenkins
2 157 (10.74%) Git
3 139 (9.51%) GitLab
4 78 (5.34%) JIRA
5 40 (2.74%) Liquibase
6 38 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.50%) MLflow
9 21 (1.44%) CircleCI
10 19 (1.30%) Gradle
10 19 (1.30%) JUnit
10 19 (1.30%) Maven
10 19 (1.30%) Postman
11 15 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.03%) Selenium
12 13 (0.89%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.82%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.82%) ERwin
13 12 (0.82%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.75%) Artifactory
General
1 547 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 351 (24.01%) Finance
3 187 (12.79%) Banking
4 179 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (8.69%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 42 (2.87%) Telecoms
9 39 (2.67%) Marketing
10 33 (2.26%) Front Office
11 31 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (1.71%) Retail
14 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.30%) Legal
16 17 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.09%) Electronics
18 11 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 248 (16.96%) Architect
2 195 (13.34%) Senior
3 187 (12.79%) Developer
4 98 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 97 (6.63%) Analyst
5 97 (6.63%) GCP Engineer
6 91 (6.22%) Data Engineer
7 87 (5.95%) Lead
7 87 (5.95%) Software Engineer
7 87 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 68 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 63 (4.31%) Security Engineer
10 60 (4.10%) Consultant
11 52 (3.56%) Java Developer
12 45 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
13 43 (2.94%) Security Architect
14 42 (2.87%) Python Engineer
15 37 (2.53%) Data Scientist
16 35 (2.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 34 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.76%) RESTful
2 119 (8.14%) REST
3 107 (7.32%) Kafka
4 106 (7.25%) React
5 95 (6.50%) Node.js
6 88 (6.02%) Spring
7 69 (4.72%) Spring Boot
8 60 (4.10%) AngularJS
8 60 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
9 47 (3.21%) OAuth
10 46 (3.15%) Pandas
10 46 (3.15%) TensorFlow
10 46 (3.15%) Vue
11 45 (3.08%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.80%) HTML
13 39 (2.67%) NumPy
14 35 (2.39%) CSS
14 35 (2.39%) FastAPI
15 32 (2.19%) JSON
15 32 (2.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 261 (17.85%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
2 81 (5.54%) Public Cloud
3 62 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 53 (3.63%) Security Posture
6 39 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 32 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.85%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.85%) Fixed Income
11 27 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.71%) Equities
12 25 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (1.50%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.30%) Life Science
15 18 (1.23%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.16%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.26%) Linux
2 59 (4.04%) Windows
3 27 (1.85%) Unix
4 21 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.68%) CentOS
7 9 (0.62%) Android
7 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.27%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.068%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (41.59%) CI/CD
2 515 (35.23%) DevOps
3 405 (27.70%) Agile
4 327 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 321 (21.96%) Containerisation
6 273 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 242 (16.55%) AI
8 238 (16.28%) Microservices
9 222 (15.18%) Analytics
10 202 (13.82%) Machine Learning
11 173 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 171 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 151 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
14 144 (9.85%) Data Modelling
15 139 (9.51%) Data Pipeline
15 139 (9.51%) Data Science
16 138 (9.44%) ETL
17 134 (9.17%) Migration
17 134 (9.17%) Test Automation
18 133 (9.10%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 639 (43.71%) Python
2 282 (19.29%) SQL
3 257 (17.58%) Java
4 145 (9.92%) Bash
5 124 (8.48%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.18%) PowerShell
7 92 (6.29%) Go
8 91 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 29 (1.98%) C#
10 27 (1.85%) Scala
11 25 (1.71%) R
12 17 (1.16%) C++
12 17 (1.16%) Ruby
13 16 (1.09%) Bicep
13 16 (1.09%) Perl
13 16 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.82%) C
14 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.75%) Groovy
16 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 189 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.26%) Degree
4 98 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (5.40%) CISSP
6 70 (4.79%) AWS Certification
7 66 (4.51%) Master's Degree
8 51 (3.49%) CISM
9 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
10 34 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.05%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (1.30%) CCSP
14 18 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (1.23%) OSCP
15 13 (0.89%) CCNP
16 12 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.68%) CCIE
18 10 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (9.23%) GDPR
2 120 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 96 (6.57%) NIST
4 95 (6.50%) Data Quality
5 81 (5.54%) QA
6 47 (3.21%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.50%) HIPAA
9 14 (0.96%) GRC
10 12 (0.82%) NCSC
11 8 (0.55%) PSD2
12 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.34%) HL7
14 5 (0.34%) PERC
14 5 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 386 (26.40%) Docker
2 77 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Squid
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.34%) GPFS
7 5 (0.34%) Lustre
7 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.34%) Snort
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) UAG
10 1 (0.068%) Ceph
10 1 (0.068%) HDFS
10 1 (0.068%) SRDF
10 1 (0.068%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 455 (31.12%) Kubernetes
2 309 (21.14%) Terraform
3 145 (9.92%) Ansible
4 94 (6.43%) Grafana
5 91 (6.22%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.05%) Argo
7 29 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.50%) Puppet
9 18 (1.23%) CSIRT
9 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.16%) Istio
11 16 (1.09%) SCCM
12 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.89%) Kubeflow
13 13 (0.89%) Nmap
14 12 (0.82%) Nessus
15 10 (0.68%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.68%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.68%) Podman
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 486 (33.24%) Google
2 151 (10.33%) Microsoft
3 118 (8.07%) Splunk
4 68 (4.65%) Databricks
5 60 (4.10%) Oracle
6 52 (3.56%) VMware
7 46 (3.15%) CyberArk
7 46 (3.15%) F5
8 44 (3.01%) Palo Alto
9 43 (2.94%) SAP
10 38 (2.60%) Cisco
11 29 (1.98%) ServiceNow
12 27 (1.85%) OpenAI
13 26 (1.78%) BeyondTrust
14 24 (1.64%) Red Hat
15 21 (1.44%) Citrix
16 18 (1.23%) IBM
16 18 (1.23%) Okta
17 16 (1.09%) Informatica
18 15 (1.03%) Fortinet