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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 59 73
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 -13
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,506 1,047 1,093
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.81% 3.61% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.61% 9.85% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 674 823
10th Percentile £363 £390 £425
25th Percentile £447 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £640 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £33.96 £24.05 £43.03
25th Percentile £48.94 £33.50 £53.39
Median hourly rate £66.00 £56.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.81% -8.87% +77.14%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.19 £75.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.81% -13.08% +107.24%

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 11,944 10,633 13,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.63% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,209 7,106 9,556
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £640
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 297 138 249
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.94 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +33.12% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.67 £69.71 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%

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 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -3 753 £581 -7.00% 352
North of England +35 320 £500 - 172
Yorkshire +20 200 £500 -3.61% 66
South East +42 175 £479 -26.25% 219
North West +34 117 £513 -6.82% 95
Midlands +22 115 £491 +3.37% 76
West Midlands +22 90 £520 +8.91% 42
South West +33 62 £550 -12.00% 87
East of England -19 40 £500 +56.25% 70
East Midlands -6 24 £427 +19.94% 31
North East -17 3 £475 - 12
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 76 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.72%) Apache
4 33 (2.19%) Confluence
5 15 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.66%) SAS
6 10 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.40%) Mule
8 6 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.20%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.20%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) CMS
11 2 (0.13%) Documentum
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.33%) Weka
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.066%) Actimize
5 1 (0.066%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.066%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (72.64%) AWS
2 1,055 (70.05%) Azure
3 185 (12.28%) GitHub
4 98 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 93 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 85 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (5.38%) Serverless
8 72 (4.78%) Snowflake
9 67 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (3.98%) OpenShift
11 58 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 57 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 57 (3.78%) dbt
13 53 (3.52%) SaaS
14 35 (2.32%) Amazon S3
14 35 (2.32%) Apigee
14 35 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
15 33 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 33 (2.19%) PaaS
16 32 (2.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 145 (9.63%) Firewall
2 50 (3.32%) VPN
3 44 (2.92%) Network Security
4 42 (2.79%) DNS
5 25 (1.66%) WAN
6 22 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.33%) SD-WAN
7 20 (1.33%) Wireshark
8 17 (1.13%) LAN
9 13 (0.86%) SSL
9 13 (0.86%) VLAN
10 12 (0.80%) BGP
10 12 (0.80%) DHCP
11 11 (0.73%) HTTP
12 10 (0.66%) OSPF
12 10 (0.66%) VoIP
12 10 (0.66%) Wireless
13 9 (0.60%) SAN
14 8 (0.53%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (10.62%) BigQuery
2 133 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 98 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
5 92 (6.11%) Power BI
6 53 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 51 (3.39%) Tableau
8 50 (3.32%) Big Data
9 48 (3.19%) Data Lake
9 48 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 48 (3.19%) SQL Server
10 39 (2.59%) Metadata
11 38 (2.52%) MySQL
12 33 (2.19%) Looker
13 27 (1.79%) Hadoop
14 20 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (1.06%) Data Vault
16 16 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 243 (16.14%) Jenkins
2 168 (11.16%) Git
3 159 (10.56%) GitLab
4 90 (5.98%) JIRA
5 41 (2.72%) SonarQube
6 40 (2.66%) Liquibase
7 27 (1.79%) CircleCI
8 26 (1.73%) Postman
9 25 (1.66%) Selenium
10 24 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (1.39%) JUnit
11 21 (1.39%) Maven
12 20 (1.33%) Gradle
13 18 (1.20%) MLflow
14 17 (1.13%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.86%) Burp Suite
15 13 (0.86%) Cucumber
16 12 (0.80%) Metasploit
17 11 (0.73%) Artifactory
17 11 (0.73%) SoapUI
General
1 558 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 344 (22.84%) Finance
3 188 (12.48%) Banking
4 182 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 140 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 40 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 37 (2.46%) Marketing
10 31 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 23 (1.53%) Retail
13 22 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.39%) Front Office
14 21 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (1.39%) Legal
14 21 (1.39%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.20%) Electronics
17 13 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 251 (16.67%) Architect
2 201 (13.35%) Senior
3 179 (11.89%) Developer
4 107 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 103 (6.84%) Lead
6 102 (6.77%) GCP Engineer
7 98 (6.51%) Analyst
8 97 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 82 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
10 75 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 71 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 65 (4.32%) Security Engineer
13 62 (4.12%) Consultant
14 48 (3.19%) Java Developer
15 40 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
15 40 (2.66%) Python Engineer
16 39 (2.59%) Data Scientist
17 37 (2.46%) Security Architect
18 36 (2.39%) Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (9.03%) REST
2 133 (8.83%) RESTful
3 108 (7.17%) Kafka
4 98 (6.51%) React
5 89 (5.91%) Node.js
6 88 (5.84%) Spring
7 72 (4.78%) Spring Boot
8 66 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
9 53 (3.52%) AngularJS
10 50 (3.32%) TensorFlow
11 48 (3.19%) LDAP
12 47 (3.12%) PyTorch
13 43 (2.86%) Pandas
14 42 (2.79%) OAuth
15 41 (2.72%) HTML
16 40 (2.66%) .NET
17 37 (2.46%) Vue
18 36 (2.39%) FastAPI
19 35 (2.32%) CSS
20 34 (2.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 260 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 79 (5.25%) Public Cloud
3 78 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 56 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 48 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.32%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.86%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.39%) Life Science
14 20 (1.33%) Private Cloud
15 18 (1.20%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (1.13%) Genomics
16 17 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.42%) Linux
2 70 (4.65%) Windows
3 30 (1.99%) Unix
4 29 (1.93%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.86%) Android
5 13 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.66%) CentOS
7 10 (0.66%) VMS
7 10 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.13%) zOS
12 1 (0.066%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (43.36%) CI/CD
2 552 (36.65%) DevOps
3 396 (26.29%) Agile
4 353 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
5 337 (22.38%) Containerisation
6 292 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 248 (16.47%) Microservices
8 243 (16.14%) AI
9 231 (15.34%) Analytics
10 204 (13.55%) Machine Learning
11 176 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 161 (10.69%) Software Engineering
13 149 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
14 148 (9.83%) Test Automation
15 145 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
16 140 (9.30%) Data Modelling
17 139 (9.23%) ETL
18 138 (9.16%) DevSecOps
19 137 (9.10%) Data Science
20 136 (9.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 653 (43.36%) Python
2 294 (19.52%) SQL
3 267 (17.73%) Java
4 156 (10.36%) Bash
5 123 (8.17%) PowerShell
6 117 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 94 (6.24%) Go
8 79 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 34 (2.26%) C#
10 27 (1.79%) R
10 27 (1.79%) Scala
11 19 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.13%) Bicep
12 17 (1.13%) Ruby
13 16 (1.06%) C++
13 16 (1.06%) Perl
14 14 (0.93%) Groovy
15 12 (0.80%) C
15 12 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 273 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 213 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.96%) Degree
4 100 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (5.18%) CISSP
6 67 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 65 (4.32%) Master's Degree
8 51 (3.39%) Azure Certification
9 49 (3.25%) CISM
10 37 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (1.33%) CCSP
14 18 (1.20%) OSCP
15 17 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (0.93%) CCNP
18 11 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.66%) CCIE
19 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.43%) GDPR
2 117 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 99 (6.57%) Data Quality
4 92 (6.11%) NIST
5 83 (5.51%) QA
6 49 (3.25%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 19 (1.26%) SOC 2
9 14 (0.93%) GRC
10 11 (0.73%) NCSC
11 8 (0.53%) PSD2
12 7 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.46%) PERC
12 7 (0.46%) SLA
13 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.40%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 408 (27.09%) Docker
2 87 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 48 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.53%) KVM
4 8 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.53%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.53%) vSphere
5 7 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.40%) Squid
7 5 (0.33%) GPFS
7 5 (0.33%) Lustre
7 5 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.33%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) HDFS
8 2 (0.13%) UAG
9 1 (0.066%) NFS
9 1 (0.066%) SRDF
9 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 485 (32.20%) Kubernetes
2 337 (22.38%) Terraform
3 168 (11.16%) Ansible
4 104 (6.91%) Grafana
5 102 (6.77%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.86%) Argo
7 25 (1.66%) Puppet
8 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.39%) SCCM
10 19 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (1.20%) CSIRT
12 17 (1.13%) Istio
12 17 (1.13%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.86%) Nmap
14 12 (0.80%) Nessus
15 11 (0.73%) Podman
16 10 (0.66%) Fluentd
16 10 (0.66%) Kibana
16 10 (0.66%) NetBackup
17 9 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 491 (32.60%) Google
2 163 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 130 (8.63%) Splunk
4 74 (4.91%) Databricks
5 65 (4.32%) Oracle
6 58 (3.85%) VMware
7 53 (3.52%) CyberArk
8 44 (2.92%) F5
8 44 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 43 (2.86%) SAP
10 42 (2.79%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.52%) Cisco
12 35 (2.32%) BeyondTrust
13 29 (1.93%) OpenAI
14 27 (1.79%) Citrix
15 26 (1.73%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.20%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.20%) IBM
17 16 (1.06%) Informatica
17 16 (1.06%) Salesforce