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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 51 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,945 1,291 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.20% 4.60% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.20% 12.03% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,286 880 799
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £668 £671 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £543 £600
% change year-on-year +1.34% -9.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £17.70 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -35.76%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.38 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +39.71% +12.37% -35.76%

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 15,941 10,729 11,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.41% 38.21% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,608 7,259 7,549
10th Percentile £322 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 256 166
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.38 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.71% -25.71% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 0 1,001 £580 -3.33% 2,170
North of England +4 429 £533 +8.23% 656
Yorkshire +2 277 £538 +13.16% 210
South East -3 187 £525 +6.60% 504
North West +3 137 £530 +6.00% 331
South West +30 136 £550 - 302
Midlands -60 74 £530 +11.58% 296
East of England +16 62 £558 +1.36% 198
West Midlands -53 56 £551 +5.00% 176
North East -23 21 £588 +18.69% 119
East Midlands -22 18 £500 +20.48% 121
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
1 114 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 110 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.96%) Apache
4 53 (2.72%) Confluence
5 19 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.67%) 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%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.051%) JBoss
12 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Houdini
8 1 (0.051%) NUKE
8 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Cloudability
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.051%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.051%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,270 (65.30%) AWS
2 1,238 (63.65%) Azure
3 222 (11.41%) GitHub
4 172 (8.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 145 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (6.84%) Snowflake
7 105 (5.40%) dbt
8 99 (5.09%) SaaS
9 93 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.96%) Power Platform
12 76 (3.91%) Entra ID
13 65 (3.34%) Serverless
14 56 (2.88%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.83%) Cloud Run
16 50 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
18 40 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
19 39 (2.01%) Datadog
20 37 (1.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.24%) Firewall
2 99 (5.09%) Network Security
3 75 (3.86%) DNS
4 66 (3.39%) VPN
5 31 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.44%) BGP
7 26 (1.34%) DHCP
8 25 (1.29%) WAN
9 20 (1.03%) HTTP
9 20 (1.03%) Internet
10 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.93%) VLAN
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) SSL
14 12 (0.62%) VoIP
15 11 (0.57%) IPsec
15 11 (0.57%) LAN
16 10 (0.51%) MPLS
17 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (12.85%) BigQuery
2 171 (8.79%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (4.52%) Metadata
5 82 (4.22%) Relational Database
6 74 (3.80%) Data Lake
6 74 (3.80%) NoSQL
7 68 (3.50%) Power BI
8 57 (2.93%) Big Data
9 51 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 48 (2.47%) Looker
11 39 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 39 (2.01%) MySQL
11 39 (2.01%) SQL Server
12 38 (1.95%) Tableau
13 33 (1.70%) Redis
14 28 (1.44%) Flink
15 25 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (1.18%) Delta Lake
17 21 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 234 (12.03%) Git
2 230 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 152 (7.81%) GitLab
4 106 (5.45%) JIRA
5 36 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.80%) JUnit
6 35 (1.80%) Maven
7 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.23%) Gradle
8 23 (1.18%) JMeter
9 22 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 20 (1.03%) Selenium
11 19 (0.98%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.87%) Gatling
12 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
13 16 (0.82%) Postman
14 13 (0.67%) Snyk
15 11 (0.57%) Claude Code
15 11 (0.57%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 534 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 485 (24.94%) Finance
3 209 (10.75%) Banking
4 195 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.65%) Retail
7 55 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 47 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.80%) Legal
11 32 (1.65%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.49%) Billing
13 29 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.39%) Marketing
15 26 (1.34%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 401 (20.62%) Architect
2 272 (13.98%) Senior
3 225 (11.57%) Developer
4 182 (9.36%) Data Engineer
5 173 (8.89%) Lead
6 150 (7.71%) GCP Engineer
7 129 (6.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (4.47%) Consultant
10 87 (4.47%) Java Developer
10 87 (4.47%) Security Engineer
11 74 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 69 (3.55%) Analyst
13 62 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
14 60 (3.08%) Data Architect
14 60 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
15 53 (2.72%) Security Architect
15 53 (2.72%) Software Engineer
16 50 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (26.58%) Terraform
2 218 (11.21%) Kafka
3 197 (10.13%) REST
4 108 (5.55%) React
5 100 (5.14%) OAuth
6 89 (4.58%) RESTful
6 89 (4.58%) Spring
7 82 (4.22%) Spring Boot
8 66 (3.39%) Node.js
9 64 (3.29%) JSON
10 62 (3.19%) OpenID
11 57 (2.93%) SOAP
12 56 (2.88%) SAML
13 51 (2.62%) PySpark
14 49 (2.52%) OAuth2
15 48 (2.47%) LangChain
16 47 (2.42%) LDAP
17 42 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (2.11%) HTML
18 41 (2.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 428 (22.01%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.55%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.16%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 73 (3.75%) Public Cloud
7 67 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (3.44%) Security Posture
8 63 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 56 (2.88%) Data Centre
10 54 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
11 49 (2.52%) Data Structures
12 45 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (2.26%) Management Information System
14 43 (2.21%) Algorithms
14 43 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (1.80%) PKI
16 29 (1.49%) CMDB
16 29 (1.49%) Private Cloud
17 25 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 176 (9.05%) Linux
2 108 (5.55%) Windows
3 51 (2.62%) Unix
4 35 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.23%) Android
7 16 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.36%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.15%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.051%) Solaris
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 896 (46.07%) CI/CD
2 638 (32.80%) DevOps
3 502 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 495 (25.45%) Agile
5 484 (24.88%) AI
6 362 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 333 (17.12%) Microservices
8 318 (16.35%) Analytics
9 292 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
10 286 (14.70%) Software Engineering
11 281 (14.45%) Observability
12 268 (13.78%) Containerisation
13 267 (13.73%) Machine Learning
14 253 (13.01%) Roadmaps
15 247 (12.70%) Data Modelling
16 241 (12.39%) Cloud Security
17 237 (12.19%) Data Pipeline
18 231 (11.88%) Event-Driven
19 228 (11.72%) Migration
20 222 (11.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 767 (39.43%) Python
2 454 (23.34%) SQL
3 367 (18.87%) Java
4 159 (8.17%) Bash
5 151 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 151 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 102 (5.24%) Go
7 71 (3.65%) TypeScript
8 50 (2.57%) Shell Script
9 42 (2.16%) C#
9 42 (2.16%) Scala
10 33 (1.70%) Bicep
11 25 (1.29%) Kotlin
12 23 (1.18%) Groovy
13 19 (0.98%) R
14 18 (0.93%) Rust
15 13 (0.67%) C++
16 12 (0.62%) ABAP
17 11 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 388 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 281 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 146 (7.51%) Degree
4 109 (5.60%) CISSP
5 106 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 98 (5.04%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (3.34%) Azure Certification
8 65 (3.34%) CISM
9 57 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (1.59%) CCSP
14 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.87%) CISA
16 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.72%) GIAC
18 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.09%) QA
3 96 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.58%) NIST
5 66 (3.39%) GDPR
6 34 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.49%) GRC
9 25 (1.29%) NCSC
10 20 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.72%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.51%) COBIT
14 9 (0.46%) 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
1 343 (17.63%) Docker
2 85 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.10%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) KVM
13 1 (0.051%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 615 (31.62%) Kubernetes
2 162 (8.33%) Ansible
3 121 (6.22%) Grafana
4 113 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.70%) Argo
7 31 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.39%) Puppet
9 26 (1.34%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.51%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Control-M
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.21%) Kibana
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 692 (35.58%) Google
2 249 (12.80%) Microsoft
3 123 (6.32%) Databricks
4 91 (4.68%) Splunk
5 75 (3.86%) Oracle
6 63 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.57%) Salesforce
9 49 (2.52%) VMware
10 48 (2.47%) SAP
11 47 (2.42%) CyberArk
12 42 (2.16%) OpenAI
13 36 (1.85%) IBM
14 35 (1.80%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.59%) Cisco
16 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
17 28 (1.44%) Informatica
18 24 (1.23%) Okta
19 21 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
20 19 (0.98%) MuleSoft