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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,894 1,191 1,195
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.30% 3.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.87% 11.58% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 816 853
10th Percentile £403 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £613
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -9.18% -
75th Percentile £653 £688 £788
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £41.25 £33.88
25th Percentile £29.84 £50.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £71.25 £53.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.18% +15.68% -37.36%
75th Percentile £78.06 £75.60 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.83 £100.00 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £53.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +28.97% +47.59% -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 15,950 10,289 11,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.17% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,644 6,980 7,945
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
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 559 270 232
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.68 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.66 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -2 996 £568 -5.42% 1,787
North of England +13 405 £538 +7.50% 377
Yorkshire +3 253 £533 +13.35% 102
South East +3 186 £541 +0.46% 208
North West +3 138 £550 +4.02% 242
South West +21 127 £560 +6.67% 135
Midlands -34 77 £500 +13.77% 104
West Midlands -17 61 £525 -10.64% 86
East of England +13 53 £540 +6.76% 38
North East -27 18 £463 -14.94% 34
East Midlands -18 16 £500 +27.39% 18
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
1 110 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 90 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (3.80%) Apache
4 56 (2.96%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
13 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.053%) Luigi
13 1 (0.053%) Mendix
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%) 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 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
1 8 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.053%) Maximo
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,215 (64.15%) AWS
2 1,194 (63.04%) Azure
3 217 (11.46%) GitHub
4 170 (8.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 146 (7.71%) GitHub Actions
6 125 (6.60%) Snowflake
7 90 (4.75%) SaaS
8 87 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 78 (4.12%) Power Platform
11 76 (4.01%) dbt
12 71 (3.75%) Serverless
13 55 (2.90%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.85%) Vertex AI
15 45 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (2.06%) Cloud Run
17 37 (1.95%) Amazon S3
18 35 (1.85%) OpenShift
19 34 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (5.76%) Firewall
2 104 (5.49%) DNS
2 104 (5.49%) Network Security
3 86 (4.54%) VPN
4 36 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.53%) WAN
6 26 (1.37%) BGP
6 26 (1.37%) HTTP
7 22 (1.16%) DHCP
8 19 (1.00%) Internet
8 19 (1.00%) VLAN
9 18 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.90%) OSPF
11 13 (0.69%) SSL
12 10 (0.53%) LAN
12 10 (0.53%) MPLS
12 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
13 9 (0.48%) IPsec
14 8 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.51%) BigQuery
2 166 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 73 (3.85%) Metadata
7 72 (3.80%) Big Data
8 71 (3.75%) Relational Database
9 66 (3.48%) Power BI
10 46 (2.43%) Tableau
11 38 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (1.85%) Looker
13 30 (1.58%) Flink
13 30 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.58%) SQL Server
14 26 (1.37%) MySQL
14 26 (1.37%) Redis
15 23 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
16 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 235 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 212 (11.19%) Git
3 151 (7.97%) GitLab
4 96 (5.07%) JIRA
5 49 (2.59%) JUnit
6 38 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 37 (1.95%) Selenium
8 36 (1.90%) JMeter
9 28 (1.48%) Maven
10 26 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 16 (0.84%) Gradle
12 16 (0.84%) LoadRunner
13 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.79%) Postman
14 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.69%) Gatling
15 13 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 490 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 446 (23.55%) Finance
3 180 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (8.71%) Banking
5 155 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.38%) Retail
7 60 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.06%) Legal
10 35 (1.85%) Marketing
11 30 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.48%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.48%) Front Office
13 24 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.21%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.11%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.00%) Billing
16 19 (1.00%) Publishing
17 18 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 386 (20.38%) Architect
2 252 (13.31%) Senior
3 220 (11.62%) Developer
4 191 (10.08%) Lead
5 169 (8.92%) GCP Engineer
6 161 (8.50%) Data Engineer
7 131 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.38%) Java Developer
11 78 (4.12%) Consultant
12 71 (3.75%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.59%) Security Architect
14 66 (3.48%) Analyst
15 63 (3.33%) Data Architect
16 62 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 55 (2.90%) Software Engineer
19 54 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
20 45 (2.38%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (9.45%) Kafka
2 161 (8.50%) REST
3 112 (5.91%) Spring
4 111 (5.86%) React
5 90 (4.75%) Node.js
5 90 (4.75%) OAuth
6 89 (4.70%) Spring Boot
7 74 (3.91%) RESTful
8 53 (2.80%) JSON
9 50 (2.64%) OpenID
10 48 (2.53%) OAuth2
11 47 (2.48%) SAML
12 44 (2.32%) LDAP
13 43 (2.27%) LangChain
14 42 (2.22%) GraphQL
14 42 (2.22%) PySpark
15 41 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (2.11%) PyTorch
17 39 (2.06%) AngularJS
18 38 (2.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 369 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 131 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (4.59%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.38%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 49 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
10 45 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 44 (2.32%) Public Cloud
12 42 (2.22%) Algorithms
13 40 (2.11%) Data Structures
13 40 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
14 35 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
15 33 (1.74%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 28 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
17 28 (1.48%) Fixed Income
18 27 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 133 (7.02%) Linux
2 88 (4.65%) Windows
3 30 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.37%) Unix
5 23 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.11%) Android
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.48%) VMS
10 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) CentOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (44.40%) CI/CD
2 601 (31.73%) DevOps
3 490 (25.87%) Agile
4 450 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 437 (23.07%) AI
6 322 (17.00%) Microservices
7 304 (16.05%) Analytics
8 279 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 276 (14.57%) Machine Learning
10 275 (14.52%) Observability
10 275 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
11 261 (13.78%) Containerisation
12 257 (13.57%) Software Engineering
13 240 (12.67%) Data Pipeline
14 228 (12.04%) Data Modelling
15 223 (11.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 212 (11.19%) Roadmaps
17 211 (11.14%) Cloud Security
18 210 (11.09%) Migration
19 189 (9.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 721 (38.07%) Python
2 386 (20.38%) SQL
3 361 (19.06%) Java
4 163 (8.61%) JavaScript
5 156 (8.24%) Bash
6 139 (7.34%) PowerShell
7 89 (4.70%) Go
7 89 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.32%) Scala
9 39 (2.06%) C#
10 31 (1.64%) Bicep
11 27 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.37%) Groovy
13 19 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.95%) Rust
15 17 (0.90%) R
16 12 (0.63%) Ruby
17 11 (0.58%) C++
18 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 380 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.39%) Degree
4 109 (5.76%) CISSP
5 95 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 84 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 62 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 61 (3.22%) Azure Certification
8 61 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
9 58 (3.06%) CISM
10 41 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 31 (1.64%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.27%) CCSP
13 23 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (0.95%) CCNP
15 18 (0.95%) GIAC
16 15 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.80%) GDPR
3 87 (4.59%) QA
4 85 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 83 (4.38%) NIST
6 28 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.21%) NCSC
9 18 (0.95%) GRC
10 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) COBIT
12 8 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.32%) PSD2
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 359 (18.95%) Docker
2 75 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.69%) vSphere
6 11 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) 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%) NFS
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
Systems Management
1 587 (30.99%) Kubernetes
2 470 (24.82%) Terraform
3 130 (6.86%) Prometheus
4 129 (6.81%) Grafana
5 121 (6.39%) Ansible
6 40 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.64%) Argo
8 29 (1.53%) Istio
9 26 (1.37%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.11%) Puppet
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.63%) Kubeflow
14 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.48%) Podman
15 6 (0.32%) QRadar
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) linkerd
16 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
17 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 616 (32.52%) Google
2 181 (9.56%) Microsoft
3 104 (5.49%) Databricks
4 66 (3.48%) Splunk
5 52 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.64%) Oracle
7 48 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 43 (2.27%) VMware
10 41 (2.16%) CyberArk
11 38 (2.01%) OpenAI
12 31 (1.64%) Palo Alto
13 30 (1.58%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.48%) SAP
15 23 (1.21%) Informatica
16 21 (1.11%) Cisco
16 21 (1.11%) IBM
16 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.95%) Okta
18 17 (0.90%) New Relic