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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,660 919 989
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 3.77% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 10.01% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 622 739
10th Percentile £375 £390 £425
25th Percentile £452 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.90
25th Percentile £36.75 £25.81 £37.01
Median hourly rate £59.75 £53.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% +2.42% -26.26%
75th Percentile £71.13 £69.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.65 £78.34 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +20.75% +9.28% -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 14,115 9,184 11,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.65% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,742 6,440 8,523
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 187 318
10th Percentile £15.77 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +64.57% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.49 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.78% +31.05% -30.91%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -1 854 £588 -4.08% 296
North of England +31 327 £525 -4.55% 101
South East +29 185 £496 -13.74% 117
Yorkshire +6 185 £500 -6.98% 32
North West +19 128 £550 -4.35% 56
Midlands -1 98 £475 - 41
South West +24 88 £550 -8.33% 38
West Midlands -9 76 £488 +2.20% 24
East of England +6 55 £570 +17.53% 27
East Midlands -19 22 £438 +26.63% 17
North East -4 17 £563 +21.62% 13
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 93 (5.60%) Apache Spark
2 63 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (3.55%) Apache
4 35 (2.11%) Confluence
5 10 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.42%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.12%) Documentum
12 2 (0.12%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.060%) Drupal
13 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.24%) Weka
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.060%) Actimize
4 1 (0.060%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
4 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,159 (69.82%) Azure
2 1,143 (68.86%) AWS
3 177 (10.66%) GitHub
4 131 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 119 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (4.64%) Snowflake
9 61 (3.67%) Serverless
10 57 (3.43%) OpenShift
11 56 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (3.37%) SaaS
12 55 (3.31%) Amazon S3
13 48 (2.89%) dbt
14 47 (2.83%) Entra ID
15 44 (2.65%) Vertex AI
16 38 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 36 (2.17%) Cloud Run
18 31 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (1.87%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.63%) Firewall
2 87 (5.24%) VPN
3 81 (4.88%) DNS
4 77 (4.64%) Network Security
5 26 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.51%) WAN
7 23 (1.39%) BGP
8 21 (1.27%) HTTP
9 17 (1.02%) LAN
9 17 (1.02%) OSPF
10 15 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.84%) VLAN
11 14 (0.84%) VoIP
12 13 (0.78%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.72%) Internet
14 11 (0.66%) DHCP
15 10 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.60%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.54%) IPv6
16 9 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.78%) BigQuery
2 107 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (6.02%) Power BI
5 82 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 66 (3.98%) Metadata
7 65 (3.92%) Big Data
8 61 (3.67%) Data Lake
9 57 (3.43%) Tableau
10 39 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 39 (2.35%) SQL Server
11 37 (2.23%) MongoDB
12 35 (2.11%) MySQL
13 25 (1.51%) Hadoop
13 25 (1.51%) Looker
14 23 (1.39%) OLAP
15 20 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
17 18 (1.08%) Mixpanel
17 18 (1.08%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 203 (12.23%) Jenkins
2 151 (9.10%) Git
3 131 (7.89%) GitLab
4 73 (4.40%) JIRA
5 42 (2.53%) Selenium
6 41 (2.47%) JUnit
7 28 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.69%) JMeter
8 25 (1.51%) Postman
9 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.72%) MLflow
12 10 (0.60%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
13 9 (0.54%) Maven
14 8 (0.48%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.48%) Gatling
14 8 (0.48%) Mockito
15 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 499 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 355 (21.39%) Finance
3 186 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (9.16%) Banking
5 138 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 57 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (3.01%) Retail
8 41 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 36 (2.17%) Legal
10 33 (1.99%) Marketing
11 32 (1.93%) Front Office
12 31 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (0.96%) Electronics
16 14 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.84%) Military
17 12 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 343 (20.66%) Architect
2 191 (11.51%) Senior
3 179 (10.78%) Developer
4 176 (10.60%) Lead
5 162 (9.76%) GCP Engineer
6 135 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 99 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 98 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 83 (5.00%) Analyst
10 75 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
11 66 (3.98%) Software Engineer
12 53 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
13 52 (3.13%) Consultant
14 49 (2.95%) Security Architect
14 49 (2.95%) Security Engineer
15 48 (2.89%) Java Developer
16 47 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
17 46 (2.77%) GCP DevOps
18 45 (2.71%) Data Architect
19 43 (2.59%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.18%) REST
2 153 (9.22%) Kafka
3 120 (7.23%) Spring
4 107 (6.45%) React
5 98 (5.90%) Node.js
6 93 (5.60%) Spring Boot
7 84 (5.06%) LDAP
8 78 (4.70%) RESTful
9 61 (3.67%) OAuth
10 58 (3.49%) PyTorch
10 58 (3.49%) TensorFlow
11 56 (3.37%) SOAP
12 51 (3.07%) AngularJS
13 50 (3.01%) OpenID
14 48 (2.89%) .NET
15 43 (2.59%) scikit-learn
16 37 (2.23%) LangChain
17 35 (2.11%) OAuth2
17 35 (2.11%) Pandas
17 35 (2.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 271 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.52%) Public Cloud
4 63 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 62 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 61 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 41 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 40 (2.41%) AI Agents
11 32 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.75%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.69%) Algorithms
14 23 (1.39%) Clustering
15 22 (1.33%) Derivative
16 20 (1.20%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.20%) Equities
17 19 (1.14%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
18 18 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.78%) Linux
2 73 (4.40%) Windows
3 25 (1.51%) Mac OS
4 24 (1.45%) Android
5 22 (1.33%) VMS
6 21 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.84%) Unix
8 13 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (43.01%) CI/CD
2 549 (33.07%) DevOps
3 361 (21.75%) Agile
4 343 (20.66%) AI
5 342 (20.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 322 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (18.13%) Analytics
8 274 (16.51%) Containerisation
9 258 (15.54%) Microservices
10 243 (14.64%) Machine Learning
11 226 (13.61%) Observability
12 192 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
13 189 (11.39%) Data Modelling
14 187 (11.27%) Migration
15 180 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 177 (10.66%) Software Engineering
17 163 (9.82%) Data Engineering
18 161 (9.70%) ETL
19 152 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
19 152 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 683 (41.14%) Python
2 320 (19.28%) SQL
3 282 (16.99%) Java
4 129 (7.77%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 109 (6.57%) Bash
7 76 (4.58%) TypeScript
8 68 (4.10%) Go
9 51 (3.07%) C#
10 36 (2.17%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) R
12 18 (1.08%) Bicep
13 17 (1.02%) Groovy
14 14 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.60%) Ruby
16 9 (0.54%) PHP
16 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.42%) C++
19 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 380 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 311 (18.73%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.02%) Degree
4 83 (5.00%) CISSP
5 62 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (3.43%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 50 (3.01%) CISM
9 49 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (2.53%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 25 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.45%) Master's Degree
14 23 (1.39%) CCNP
15 20 (1.20%) CCSP
16 17 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.72%) CCIE
18 12 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
19 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.98%) GDPR
2 124 (7.47%) Data Quality
3 98 (5.90%) NIST
4 97 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (4.16%) QA
6 46 (2.77%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 21 (1.27%) NCSC
9 18 (1.08%) GRC
9 18 (1.08%) SLA
10 15 (0.90%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.84%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.72%) PSD2
13 10 (0.60%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.42%) PERC
15 6 (0.36%) COBIT
15 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.36%) WCAG
16 5 (0.30%) HL7
System Software
1 350 (21.08%) Docker
2 91 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.72%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) GPFS
9 5 (0.30%) HDFS
9 5 (0.30%) Lustre
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.060%) iptables
11 1 (0.060%) UAG
11 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 512 (30.84%) Kubernetes
2 399 (24.04%) Terraform
3 122 (7.35%) Ansible
4 108 (6.51%) Grafana
5 100 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.17%) Istio
7 25 (1.51%) Argo
8 17 (1.02%) Kubeflow
9 14 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.78%) Puppet
11 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.60%) SCCM
14 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.48%) Fluentd
15 8 (0.48%) Nessus
16 6 (0.36%) Kibana
16 6 (0.36%) Podman
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 532 (32.05%) Google
2 133 (8.01%) Microsoft
3 89 (5.36%) Splunk
4 81 (4.88%) Databricks
5 72 (4.34%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.25%) BeyondTrust
8 42 (2.53%) VMware
9 40 (2.41%) Oracle
10 38 (2.29%) OpenAI
11 37 (2.23%) Palo Alto
12 36 (2.17%) Centrify
13 31 (1.87%) Cisco
14 29 (1.75%) SAP
15 26 (1.57%) Salesforce
16 24 (1.45%) Dynatrace
17 22 (1.33%) Foundry
17 22 (1.33%) Informatica
18 20 (1.20%) Red Hat
19 15 (0.90%) Juniper