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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 55
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,871 1,187 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.09% 4.30% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.79% 11.54% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 803 863
10th Percentile £413 £375 £413
25th Percentile £470 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -10.20% -
75th Percentile £662 £681 £778
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +40.00% -51.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.15 £100.00 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +31.43% +50.00% -53.18%

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 15,872 10,285 11,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.27% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,606 6,960 7,889
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 275 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
% change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 0 979 £575 -4.17% 994
North of England +14 403 £550 +10.00% 230
Yorkshire +5 254 £550 +18.47% 66
South East +9 190 £530 +2.87% 85
North West -5 135 £550 +4.51% 137
South West +16 123 £575 +9.52% 183
Midlands -58 66 £525 +17.98% 54
East of England +10 56 £555 +9.79% 34
West Midlands -46 48 £525 -2.33% 40
East Midlands -24 18 £500 +25.00% 14
North East -25 18 £463 -26.00% 28
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 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 95 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.69%) Apache
4 45 (2.41%) Confluence
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Cloudability
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Maximo
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,231 (65.79%) AWS
2 1,201 (64.19%) Azure
3 207 (11.06%) GitHub
4 157 (8.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 138 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (7.11%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.18%) SaaS
8 89 (4.76%) dbt
9 81 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.12%) Power Platform
11 75 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (3.79%) Serverless
13 59 (3.15%) Entra ID
14 52 (2.78%) Vertex AI
15 47 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.14%) Amazon S3
17 37 (1.98%) OpenShift
18 35 (1.87%) Cloud Run
18 35 (1.87%) Datadog
19 34 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.24%) Network Security
2 96 (5.13%) Firewall
3 95 (5.08%) DNS
4 78 (4.17%) VPN
5 34 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.34%) WAN
7 24 (1.28%) BGP
7 24 (1.28%) HTTP
8 22 (1.18%) DHCP
9 20 (1.07%) Internet
10 17 (0.91%) VLAN
11 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.75%) OSPF
13 13 (0.69%) SSL
14 11 (0.59%) IPsec
15 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.48%) MPLS
17 8 (0.43%) LAN
17 8 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (11.38%) BigQuery
2 169 (9.03%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.06%) Relational Database
6 75 (4.01%) Metadata
7 74 (3.96%) Data Lake
8 71 (3.79%) Big Data
9 69 (3.69%) Power BI
10 47 (2.51%) Tableau
11 46 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 34 (1.82%) Looker
13 31 (1.66%) Flink
14 30 (1.60%) Redis
15 29 (1.55%) MongoDB
15 29 (1.55%) SQL Server
16 26 (1.39%) MySQL
17 20 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
19 18 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 222 (11.87%) Jenkins
2 197 (10.53%) Git
3 151 (8.07%) GitLab
4 86 (4.60%) JIRA
5 40 (2.14%) JUnit
6 39 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.60%) Maven
8 28 (1.50%) Selenium
9 25 (1.34%) JMeter
10 17 (0.91%) Gradle
11 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.86%) LoadRunner
12 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.80%) Postman
13 14 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.69%) Gatling
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.48%) NeoLoad
16 9 (0.48%) Snyk
General
1 515 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 449 (24.00%) Finance
3 180 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.87%) Banking
5 153 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.53%) Retail
7 60 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.14%) Legal
10 37 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (1.82%) Marketing
12 31 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 22 (1.18%) Billing
16 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
19 16 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 401 (21.43%) Architect
2 261 (13.95%) Senior
3 209 (11.17%) Developer
4 182 (9.73%) Lead
5 155 (8.28%) Data Engineer
6 144 (7.70%) GCP Engineer
7 128 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 82 (4.38%) Consultant
12 73 (3.90%) Security Engineer
13 66 (3.53%) Data Architect
14 64 (3.42%) Analyst
14 64 (3.42%) Security Architect
15 62 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
16 56 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 52 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
18 51 (2.73%) Software Engineer
19 41 (2.19%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (24.69%) Terraform
2 196 (10.48%) Kafka
3 166 (8.87%) REST
4 104 (5.56%) React
4 104 (5.56%) Spring
5 96 (5.13%) OAuth
6 92 (4.92%) Spring Boot
7 81 (4.33%) RESTful
8 80 (4.28%) Node.js
9 57 (3.05%) JSON
10 55 (2.94%) OpenID
11 53 (2.83%) SAML
12 50 (2.67%) LDAP
12 50 (2.67%) OAuth2
13 45 (2.41%) PySpark
14 43 (2.30%) LangChain
15 41 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (2.14%) SOAP
17 38 (2.03%) GraphQL
18 36 (1.92%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 377 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 132 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (4.81%) AI Agents
4 69 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.42%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
9 46 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 44 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 44 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 41 (2.19%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.98%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
14 34 (1.82%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.66%) PKI
16 27 (1.44%) CMDB
17 26 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 24 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.54%) Linux
2 88 (4.70%) Windows
3 32 (1.71%) Unix
4 29 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.053%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (44.41%) CI/CD
2 597 (31.91%) DevOps
3 473 (25.28%) Agile
4 454 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 439 (23.46%) AI
6 320 (17.10%) Microservices
7 307 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 297 (15.87%) Analytics
9 282 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (14.38%) Machine Learning
11 268 (14.32%) Observability
12 261 (13.95%) Containerisation
13 258 (13.79%) Software Engineering
14 226 (12.08%) Data Modelling
15 225 (12.03%) Roadmaps
16 224 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
17 216 (11.54%) Cloud Security
18 212 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 210 (11.22%) Migration
20 192 (10.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 713 (38.11%) Python
2 386 (20.63%) SQL
3 369 (19.72%) Java
4 156 (8.34%) Bash
5 148 (7.91%) JavaScript
6 139 (7.43%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.81%) Go
8 74 (3.96%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.46%) Scala
10 36 (1.92%) C#
11 34 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.60%) Bicep
13 24 (1.28%) Groovy
14 18 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.96%) R
14 18 (0.96%) Rust
15 10 (0.53%) C++
15 10 (0.53%) Ruby
16 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 381 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 282 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.84%) Degree
4 107 (5.72%) CISSP
5 94 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 80 (4.28%) AWS Certification
7 66 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (3.10%) Azure Certification
8 58 (3.10%) CISM
9 55 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 33 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.28%) CCSP
13 23 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.96%) GIAC
15 14 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.75%) CCNP
15 14 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (4.92%) QA
3 90 (4.81%) GDPR
4 89 (4.76%) NIST
5 30 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.18%) NCSC
7 19 (1.02%) GRC
8 14 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.43%) COBIT
11 8 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.32%) SLA
14 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 340 (18.17%) Docker
2 83 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.64%) vSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.053%) zsh
Systems Management
1 581 (31.05%) Kubernetes
2 130 (6.95%) Ansible
3 123 (6.57%) Grafana
4 121 (6.47%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (1.66%) Argo
7 28 (1.50%) Istio
8 25 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.12%) Puppet
10 15 (0.80%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.64%) Kubeflow
13 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.48%) Podman
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 5 (0.27%) Cilium
15 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) CASB
16 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 610 (32.60%) Google
2 199 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 114 (6.09%) Databricks
4 73 (3.90%) Splunk
5 66 (3.53%) Oracle
6 55 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 53 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.51%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.46%) CyberArk
9 46 (2.46%) VMware
10 39 (2.08%) OpenAI
11 36 (1.92%) SAP
12 31 (1.66%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.50%) Informatica
14 27 (1.44%) Red Hat
15 26 (1.39%) IBM
16 22 (1.18%) Cisco
17 20 (1.07%) MuleSoft
18 19 (1.02%) New Relic
18 19 (1.02%) Okta