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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 54 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,679 1,008 1,161
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 4.08% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.20% 10.80% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 678 844
10th Percentile £400 £366 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -3.42%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 9
10th Percentile £13.45 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £34.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £76.94 £63.88 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +8.25% -30.71%

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 14,992 9,332 11,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 6,351 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 233 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.10 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -5 882 £575 -4.76% 466
North of England +16 346 £540 +2.86% 353
Yorkshire 0 210 £538 +2.38% 102
South East +16 155 £525 -3.67% 296
North West +4 118 £550 - 197
South West +35 115 £560 +7.95% 132
Midlands -22 87 £477 +3.14% 150
West Midlands -15 68 £477 -31.86% 70
East of England -4 47 £535 +8.63% 164
North East -15 21 £575 +5.75% 54
East Midlands -27 19 £474 +18.38% 80
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
1 105 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.22%) Apache
4 40 (2.38%) Confluence
5 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.060%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (65.28%) AWS
2 1,079 (64.26%) Azure
3 191 (11.38%) GitHub
4 171 (10.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 123 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (6.02%) Snowflake
7 95 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 70 (4.17%) SaaS
9 69 (4.11%) Serverless
10 68 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 62 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.28%) dbt
13 51 (3.04%) Vertex AI
14 50 (2.98%) Entra ID
15 47 (2.80%) Cloud Run
16 43 (2.56%) Amazon S3
17 38 (2.26%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 29 (1.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (6.02%) Firewall
2 96 (5.72%) Network Security
3 94 (5.60%) DNS
4 87 (5.18%) VPN
5 25 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.49%) WAN
6 24 (1.43%) BGP
7 22 (1.31%) HTTP
8 16 (0.95%) DHCP
8 16 (0.95%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.89%) OSPF
10 14 (0.83%) Internet
11 12 (0.71%) SSL
12 10 (0.60%) IPsec
12 10 (0.60%) VLAN
12 10 (0.60%) VoIP
12 10 (0.60%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.54%) LAN
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (10.78%) BigQuery
2 122 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (4.53%) Data Lake
4 76 (4.53%) Power BI
5 73 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 70 (4.17%) Big Data
7 55 (3.28%) Metadata
8 53 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.80%) Tableau
10 37 (2.20%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.79%) MySQL
13 24 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (1.31%) Hadoop
15 20 (1.19%) Flink
15 20 (1.19%) Redis
16 19 (1.13%) Looker
17 16 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 205 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 161 (9.59%) Git
3 131 (7.80%) GitLab
4 78 (4.65%) JIRA
5 46 (2.74%) JUnit
6 38 (2.26%) Selenium
7 32 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.79%) JMeter
9 29 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.13%) Maven
11 18 (1.07%) Postman
11 18 (1.07%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.71%) MLflow
12 12 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 10 (0.60%) Gradle
13 10 (0.60%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.54%) ERwin
14 9 (0.54%) Gatling
15 8 (0.48%) Mockito
16 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 453 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 399 (23.76%) Finance
3 155 (9.23%) Banking
4 151 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.87%) Retail
7 48 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.97%) Front Office
9 33 (1.97%) Legal
10 32 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 25 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.43%) Marketing
13 21 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.89%) Billing
16 14 (0.83%) Military
17 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 348 (20.73%) Architect
2 214 (12.75%) Senior
3 190 (11.32%) Developer
4 164 (9.77%) GCP Engineer
5 159 (9.47%) Lead
6 141 (8.40%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 108 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 81 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.23%) Java Developer
11 65 (3.87%) Software Engineer
12 63 (3.75%) Consultant
13 59 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
14 56 (3.34%) Security Architect
14 56 (3.34%) Security Engineer
15 50 (2.98%) GCP DevOps
16 49 (2.92%) Data Architect
17 47 (2.80%) Analyst
18 45 (2.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.99%) Kafka
2 150 (8.93%) REST
3 121 (7.21%) Spring
4 112 (6.67%) React
5 101 (6.02%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.66%) Node.js
7 79 (4.71%) OAuth
8 68 (4.05%) LDAP
9 61 (3.63%) RESTful
10 49 (2.92%) OpenID
11 48 (2.86%) PyTorch
11 48 (2.86%) SOAP
12 45 (2.68%) TensorFlow
13 44 (2.62%) AngularJS
13 44 (2.62%) OAuth2
14 41 (2.44%) SAML
15 39 (2.32%) LangChain
16 34 (2.03%) .NET
17 33 (1.97%) GraphQL
18 32 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 332 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 67 (3.99%) Public Cloud
5 57 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.28%) AI Agents
7 53 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 40 (2.38%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.08%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.61%) Derivative
14 27 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.49%) Clustering
16 23 (1.37%) Algorithms
16 23 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (1.37%) Private Cloud
17 22 (1.31%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.37%) Linux
2 78 (4.65%) Windows
3 27 (1.61%) Android
4 25 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.49%) Unix
5 18 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.01%) VMS
7 14 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.060%) Rocky
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (45.62%) CI/CD
2 556 (33.11%) DevOps
3 389 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 387 (23.05%) Agile
5 372 (22.16%) AI
6 284 (16.91%) Microservices
7 271 (16.14%) Analytics
8 264 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
9 258 (15.37%) Observability
10 242 (14.41%) Containerisation
11 231 (13.76%) Machine Learning
12 204 (12.15%) Software Engineering
13 201 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
14 196 (11.67%) Migration
15 191 (11.38%) Data Modelling
16 188 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 180 (10.72%) Cloud Security
18 172 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 171 (10.18%) Data Engineering
20 166 (9.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 661 (39.37%) Python
2 335 (19.95%) SQL
3 313 (18.64%) Java
4 134 (7.98%) PowerShell
5 121 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 113 (6.73%) Bash
7 88 (5.24%) Go
8 85 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.38%) C#
10 37 (2.20%) Scala
11 21 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.07%) Groovy
13 17 (1.01%) Bicep
14 13 (0.77%) Rust
14 13 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.71%) Ruby
16 10 (0.60%) R
17 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
19 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 352 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 285 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.96%) Degree
4 98 (5.84%) CISSP
5 73 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 67 (3.99%) AWS Certification
7 57 (3.39%) CISM
8 54 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 52 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 26 (1.55%) CCSP
13 25 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 18 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.95%) GIAC
17 15 (0.89%) CCNP
18 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 11 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
20 10 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.25%) GDPR
3 87 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (5.18%) NIST
4 64 (3.81%) QA
5 35 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.49%) NCSC
7 21 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 15 (0.89%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.54%) COBIT
13 9 (0.54%) PSD2
13 9 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.54%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.36%) MiFID
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 322 (19.18%) Docker
2 88 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) vSphere
7 13 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.24%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 509 (30.32%) Kubernetes
2 438 (26.09%) Terraform
3 118 (7.03%) Grafana
4 115 (6.85%) Prometheus
5 108 (6.43%) Ansible
6 38 (2.26%) Istio
7 34 (2.03%) Argo
8 33 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.13%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.07%) Puppet
11 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.60%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.42%) linkerd
15 7 (0.42%) Podman
16 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.30%) Nessus
16 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 530 (31.57%) Google
2 148 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 80 (4.76%) Databricks
4 62 (3.69%) Splunk
5 61 (3.63%) CyberArk
6 53 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.38%) VMware
8 39 (2.32%) BeyondTrust
8 39 (2.32%) Oracle
9 37 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 36 (2.14%) OpenAI
11 31 (1.85%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.67%) Centrify
13 27 (1.61%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.37%) Red Hat
15 20 (1.19%) Okta
16 19 (1.13%) Cisco
16 19 (1.13%) SAP
17 16 (0.95%) Informatica
18 15 (0.89%) Foundry