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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,874 1,181 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.28% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.86% 11.50% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 814 871
10th Percentile £406 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -7.96% -
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £748 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.48 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.36 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +10.70% +70.34% -50.91%

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 15,802 10,273 11,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.21% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,537 6,977 8,026
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 266 238
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
% change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -3 998 £575 -4.17% 1,090
North of England +14 392 £540 +10.20% 275
Yorkshire +5 245 £538 +14.36% 88
South East +2 178 £550 +1.85% 210
North West +1 132 £560 +9.27% 159
South West +19 124 £575 +10.84% 86
Midlands -32 83 £500 +11.11% 71
West Midlands -23 67 £525 -8.70% 61
East of England +12 52 £530 +6.00% 21
North East -24 19 £525 -3.45% 28
East Midlands -21 16 £500 +25.00% 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
1 112 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 87 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (3.95%) Apache
4 54 (2.88%) Confluence
5 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.053%) JBoss
11 1 (0.053%) Mule
11 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (64.35%) AWS
2 1,181 (63.02%) Azure
3 204 (10.89%) GitHub
4 166 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 132 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (6.51%) Snowflake
7 91 (4.86%) SaaS
8 87 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (4.54%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.11%) dbt
12 72 (3.84%) Serverless
13 57 (3.04%) Vertex AI
14 50 (2.67%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (2.08%) Cloud Run
17 38 (2.03%) Amazon S3
18 36 (1.92%) OpenShift
19 35 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
20 34 (1.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.66%) Firewall
2 101 (5.39%) DNS
2 101 (5.39%) Network Security
3 87 (4.64%) VPN
4 35 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.65%) WAN
6 29 (1.55%) BGP
7 24 (1.28%) HTTP
8 20 (1.07%) DHCP
8 20 (1.07%) OSPF
9 19 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.96%) Internet
11 17 (0.91%) VLAN
12 14 (0.75%) SSL
13 11 (0.59%) IPsec
13 11 (0.59%) LAN
13 11 (0.59%) MPLS
13 11 (0.59%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (11.47%) BigQuery
2 166 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 125 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (4.32%) NoSQL
5 78 (4.16%) Data Lake
6 71 (3.79%) Big Data
7 70 (3.74%) Power BI
8 68 (3.63%) Metadata
8 68 (3.63%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.45%) Tableau
10 35 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 35 (1.87%) Looker
11 32 (1.71%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.65%) SQL Server
13 28 (1.49%) Flink
14 27 (1.44%) MySQL
15 25 (1.33%) Redis
16 23 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (0.96%) Hadoop
18 17 (0.91%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 220 (11.74%) Jenkins
2 205 (10.94%) Git
3 145 (7.74%) GitLab
4 93 (4.96%) JIRA
5 49 (2.61%) JUnit
6 35 (1.87%) Selenium
6 35 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.71%) JMeter
8 26 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.33%) Maven
10 18 (0.96%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.80%) Gradle
12 14 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.69%) Postman
14 12 (0.64%) LoadRunner
15 11 (0.59%) Gatling
15 11 (0.59%) MLflow
16 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 476 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 446 (23.80%) Finance
3 179 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.86%) Banking
5 155 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.58%) Retail
7 58 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 42 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (2.13%) Legal
11 34 (1.81%) Marketing
12 32 (1.71%) Front Office
13 29 (1.55%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.28%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.01%) Billing
18 18 (0.96%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
19 17 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 385 (20.54%) Architect
2 247 (13.18%) Senior
3 223 (11.90%) Developer
4 188 (10.03%) Lead
5 165 (8.80%) GCP Engineer
6 161 (8.59%) Data Engineer
7 126 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.43%) Java Developer
11 75 (4.00%) Consultant
12 68 (3.63%) Analyst
13 66 (3.52%) Security Architect
14 65 (3.47%) Data Architect
14 65 (3.47%) Security Engineer
15 60 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
15 60 (3.20%) Software Engineer
16 58 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 50 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
18 45 (2.40%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (9.18%) Kafka
2 157 (8.38%) REST
3 115 (6.14%) Spring
4 111 (5.92%) React
5 95 (5.07%) Node.js
6 92 (4.91%) Spring Boot
7 82 (4.38%) OAuth
8 67 (3.58%) RESTful
9 48 (2.56%) JSON
10 45 (2.40%) OpenID
11 44 (2.35%) LangChain
11 44 (2.35%) OAuth2
11 44 (2.35%) PyTorch
11 44 (2.35%) SAML
12 43 (2.29%) GraphQL
13 41 (2.19%) AngularJS
13 41 (2.19%) LDAP
13 41 (2.19%) TensorFlow
14 40 (2.13%) PySpark
15 38 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 356 (19.00%) Cloud Native
2 128 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 70 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 52 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 49 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 48 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 48 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
10 43 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.92%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.87%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.71%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.71%) Management Information System
15 29 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 27 (1.44%) Derivative
16 27 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.94%) Linux
2 91 (4.86%) Windows
3 30 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.33%) Android
4 25 (1.33%) Unix
5 22 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.64%) VMS
9 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 589 (31.43%) DevOps
3 481 (25.67%) Agile
4 438 (23.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 433 (23.11%) AI
6 318 (16.97%) Microservices
7 313 (16.70%) Analytics
8 277 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
9 273 (14.57%) Machine Learning
10 266 (14.19%) Observability
11 262 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 252 (13.45%) Containerisation
13 251 (13.39%) Software Engineering
14 235 (12.54%) Data Modelling
14 235 (12.54%) Data Pipeline
15 215 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 208 (11.10%) Roadmaps
17 205 (10.94%) Cloud Security
18 204 (10.89%) Migration
19 194 (10.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 713 (38.05%) Python
2 394 (21.02%) SQL
3 359 (19.16%) Java
4 151 (8.06%) Bash
4 151 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 138 (7.36%) PowerShell
6 88 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 86 (4.59%) Go
8 45 (2.40%) Scala
9 38 (2.03%) C#
10 31 (1.65%) Bicep
11 26 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 25 (1.33%) Groovy
12 25 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 18 (0.96%) Rust
14 16 (0.85%) R
15 13 (0.69%) Ruby
16 10 (0.53%) C++
17 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 371 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 289 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.40%) Degree
4 108 (5.76%) CISSP
5 94 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 86 (4.59%) AWS Certification
7 63 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (3.26%) Azure Certification
9 58 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 56 (2.99%) CISM
11 41 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (1.49%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (1.33%) CCSP
14 23 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (1.07%) CCNP
16 19 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.96%) GIAC
18 14 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
18 14 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.90%) Data Quality
2 88 (4.70%) GDPR
3 86 (4.59%) QA
4 81 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (4.22%) NIST
6 29 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.23%) NCSC
9 18 (0.96%) GRC
10 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.43%) COBIT
13 8 (0.43%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) PSD2
16 5 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 349 (18.62%) Docker
2 72 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.75%) vSphere
7 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 574 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 463 (24.71%) Terraform
3 127 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 126 (6.72%) Grafana
5 119 (6.35%) Ansible
6 37 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.65%) Argo
8 27 (1.44%) Istio
9 25 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.12%) Puppet
11 13 (0.69%) Kubeflow
11 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.64%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.48%) Podman
14 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.27%) linkerd
14 5 (0.27%) QRadar
14 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 610 (32.55%) Google
2 178 (9.50%) Microsoft
3 101 (5.39%) Databricks
4 65 (3.47%) Splunk
5 52 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.45%) Oracle
7 45 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.24%) VMware
9 41 (2.19%) OpenAI
10 40 (2.13%) Dynatrace
11 39 (2.08%) CyberArk
12 34 (1.81%) Palo Alto
13 29 (1.55%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.44%) SAP
15 22 (1.17%) Cisco
16 21 (1.12%) Informatica
17 18 (0.96%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.91%) Okta
19 13 (0.69%) Foundry
19 13 (0.69%) IBM