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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,660 911 1,041
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.10% 3.76% 2.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.61% 10.10% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 625 767
10th Percentile £381 £364 £413
25th Percentile £460 £485 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £545 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.90
25th Percentile £25.59 £25.25 £37.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.74% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £70.75 £59.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.08 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.21% -26.16%

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 14,303 9,016 11,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.30% 37.21% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 6,286 8,486
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £742 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 196 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £18.04 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.62 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.13 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
% change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +4 863 £575 -8.00% 295
North of England +23 329 £538 -2.27% 119
Yorkshire +10 193 £505 -3.81% 34
South East +20 177 £492 -14.43% 109
North West +11 121 £550 -4.35% 65
South West +21 101 £570 +8.57% 47
Midlands -16 92 £475 +3.54% 36
West Midlands -10 70 £488 -7.14% 13
East of England -1 50 £570 +15.74% 19
East Midlands -20 22 £442 +0.63% 23
North East 0 18 £575 +24.32% 20
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
1 101 (6.08%) Apache Spark
2 62 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.31%) Apache
4 38 (2.29%) Confluence
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) JBoss
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
5 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.060%) Actimize
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
4 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,148 (69.16%) Azure
2 1,133 (68.25%) AWS
3 185 (11.14%) GitHub
4 135 (8.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 108 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
5 108 (6.51%) Power Platform
6 83 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 80 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (4.04%) SaaS
9 66 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
10 59 (3.55%) Serverless
11 51 (3.07%) OpenShift
12 50 (3.01%) dbt
13 48 (2.89%) Entra ID
14 47 (2.83%) Amazon S3
15 45 (2.71%) Vertex AI
16 38 (2.29%) Cloud Run
17 32 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
18 30 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 29 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.60%) Firewall
2 85 (5.12%) DNS
3 84 (5.06%) VPN
4 82 (4.94%) Network Security
5 24 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.39%) WAN
7 20 (1.20%) HTTP
8 17 (1.02%) BGP
9 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.78%) VoIP
10 12 (0.72%) Internet
11 11 (0.66%) LAN
11 11 (0.66%) OSPF
12 10 (0.60%) SSL
13 9 (0.54%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.48%) VLAN
15 7 (0.42%) IPsec
15 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
15 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
16 6 (0.36%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (10.48%) BigQuery
2 103 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
4 91 (5.48%) Power BI
5 78 (4.70%) NoSQL
6 69 (4.16%) Big Data
7 64 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 64 (3.86%) Metadata
8 51 (3.07%) Tableau
9 43 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 41 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 36 (2.17%) MongoDB
12 29 (1.75%) MySQL
13 26 (1.57%) Looker
14 24 (1.45%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
16 19 (1.14%) Flink
16 19 (1.14%) OLAP
17 18 (1.08%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 202 (12.17%) Jenkins
2 154 (9.28%) Git
3 130 (7.83%) GitLab
4 79 (4.76%) JIRA
5 42 (2.53%) Selenium
6 38 (2.29%) JUnit
7 28 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.63%) JMeter
9 24 (1.45%) Postman
10 21 (1.27%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
13 15 (0.90%) Maven
14 13 (0.78%) MLflow
15 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) ERwin
15 9 (0.54%) Mockito
16 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 477 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 365 (21.99%) Finance
3 166 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.28%) Banking
5 130 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.19%) Retail
7 49 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (2.29%) Legal
9 32 (1.93%) Front Office
10 31 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.69%) Marketing
12 22 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.96%) Military
17 13 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.66%) Billing
19 11 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 346 (20.84%) Architect
2 198 (11.93%) Senior
3 178 (10.72%) Lead
4 176 (10.60%) Developer
5 157 (9.46%) GCP Engineer
6 136 (8.19%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 96 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 74 (4.46%) Analyst
11 63 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 60 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
13 57 (3.43%) Consultant
13 57 (3.43%) Java Developer
14 49 (2.95%) Security Engineer
15 48 (2.89%) Security Architect
16 47 (2.83%) GCP DevOps
17 45 (2.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.53%) Data Architect
19 39 (2.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (9.76%) REST
2 151 (9.10%) Kafka
3 117 (7.05%) Spring
4 108 (6.51%) React
5 98 (5.90%) Node.js
6 94 (5.66%) Spring Boot
7 89 (5.36%) LDAP
8 70 (4.22%) OAuth
9 65 (3.92%) RESTful
10 54 (3.25%) SOAP
11 53 (3.19%) OpenID
12 49 (2.95%) AngularJS
12 49 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 48 (2.89%) TensorFlow
14 46 (2.77%) .NET
15 39 (2.35%) LangChain
15 39 (2.35%) SAML
16 38 (2.29%) OAuth2
17 34 (2.05%) Middleware
18 32 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 288 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 89 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.86%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.73%) Security Posture
5 58 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 46 (2.77%) AI Agents
8 42 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 38 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 32 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (1.87%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.51%) Derivative
14 22 (1.33%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.33%) Clustering
14 22 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
14 22 (1.33%) Equities
15 21 (1.27%) Management Information System
16 20 (1.20%) Private Cloud
17 19 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.36%) Linux
2 68 (4.10%) Windows
3 27 (1.63%) Android
4 25 (1.51%) Mac OS
5 23 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.20%) VMS
7 17 (1.02%) Unix
8 11 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.48%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.060%) CentOS
14 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.060%) Rocky
14 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (44.22%) CI/CD
2 554 (33.37%) DevOps
3 349 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 346 (20.84%) Agile
5 336 (20.24%) AI
6 297 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 288 (17.35%) Analytics
8 266 (16.02%) Microservices
9 262 (15.78%) Containerisation
10 226 (13.61%) Machine Learning
11 223 (13.43%) Observability
12 198 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
13 190 (11.45%) Data Modelling
13 190 (11.45%) Software Engineering
14 188 (11.33%) Migration
15 184 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 176 (10.60%) Data Engineering
17 165 (9.94%) ETL
18 163 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
19 147 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 659 (39.70%) Python
2 322 (19.40%) SQL
3 296 (17.83%) Java
4 139 (8.37%) PowerShell
5 130 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 108 (6.51%) Bash
7 81 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 70 (4.22%) Go
9 51 (3.07%) C#
10 38 (2.29%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
11 19 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.02%) Bicep
13 14 (0.84%) R
14 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.48%) PHP
16 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
16 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 373 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 307 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.12%) Degree
4 82 (4.94%) CISSP
5 54 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.19%) CISM
7 52 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 49 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.65%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 23 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.20%) CCSP
14 18 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 17 (1.02%) CCNP
16 16 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (8.37%) GDPR
2 122 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 95 (5.72%) NIST
4 94 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 70 (4.22%) QA
6 40 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.14%) GRC
8 19 (1.14%) NCSC
9 18 (1.08%) SLA
10 15 (0.90%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.54%) PSD2
12 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.42%) COBIT
13 7 (0.42%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.42%) PERC
13 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 328 (19.76%) Docker
2 99 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.30%) HDFS
7 5 (0.30%) NFS
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.18%) GPFS
9 3 (0.18%) KVM
9 3 (0.18%) Lustre
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.060%) iptables
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 501 (30.18%) Kubernetes
2 403 (24.28%) Terraform
3 113 (6.81%) Ansible
4 106 (6.39%) Grafana
5 97 (5.84%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.05%) Istio
7 28 (1.69%) Argo
8 23 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.84%) Kubeflow
9 14 (0.84%) Puppet
10 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.54%) SCCM
12 7 (0.42%) Kibana
13 6 (0.36%) Nessus
13 6 (0.36%) Podman
14 5 (0.30%) linkerd
14 5 (0.30%) QRadar
14 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 521 (31.39%) Google
2 141 (8.49%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.88%) Databricks
4 72 (4.34%) CyberArk
4 72 (4.34%) Splunk
5 63 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 56 (3.37%) BeyondTrust
7 41 (2.47%) Oracle
8 38 (2.29%) VMware
9 36 (2.17%) Centrify
9 36 (2.17%) OpenAI
10 32 (1.93%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.87%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.57%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.51%) Cisco
14 24 (1.45%) SAP
15 21 (1.27%) Informatica
16 18 (1.08%) Foundry
16 18 (1.08%) Red Hat
17 17 (1.02%) Okta