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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 57 68
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,455 1,122 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.78% 3.63% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.38% 10.10% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 716 932
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% -0.08% -7.62%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £738
90th Percentile £775 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £33.96 £35.75 £49.78
25th Percentile £46.85 £45.75 £56.69
Median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -9.45% +144.23%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.63 £77.06
90th Percentile £82.05 £68.50 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year +3.91% -16.06% +154.98%

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 11,749 11,114 13,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.56% 35.98% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,000 7,372 10,024
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 151 274
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% +14.35% +22.50%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -6 762 £575 -8.00% 340
North of England +27 297 £500 -0.99% 102
Yorkshire +16 186 £500 -6.98% 27
South East +42 157 £479 -23.30% 254
North West +33 107 £522 -5.14% 67
Midlands +22 107 £491 +3.15% 43
West Midlands +25 82 £525 +8.58% 28
South West +34 57 £550 -12.00% 77
East of England -19 33 £491 +53.52% 29
East Midlands -3 24 £425 +19.38% 14
North East -13 4 £495 +4.21% 8
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 89 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 41 (2.82%) Apache
4 36 (2.47%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.69%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.41%) Mule
8 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) Camunda
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
11 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Weka
4 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Maple
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.069%) Actimize
6 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.069%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.069%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (71.55%) AWS
2 979 (67.29%) Azure
3 175 (12.03%) GitHub
4 101 (6.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 91 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.50%) Snowflake
7 79 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (5.29%) Serverless
9 76 (5.22%) dbt
10 62 (4.26%) SaaS
11 59 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (3.92%) Entra ID
13 52 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 45 (3.09%) OpenShift
15 38 (2.61%) PaaS
16 36 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
17 33 (2.27%) Apigee
17 33 (2.27%) Cloud Run
17 33 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (2.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 134 (9.21%) Firewall
2 45 (3.09%) VPN
3 43 (2.96%) Network Security
4 38 (2.61%) DNS
5 25 (1.72%) WAN
6 21 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.37%) Wireshark
8 19 (1.31%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.17%) VLAN
10 16 (1.10%) BGP
10 16 (1.10%) LAN
11 14 (0.96%) OSPF
12 13 (0.89%) SSL
13 12 (0.82%) DHCP
14 10 (0.69%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.62%) HTTP
15 9 (0.62%) SAN
16 8 (0.55%) MPLS
16 8 (0.55%) Wireless
17 7 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.82%) BigQuery
2 144 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
3 118 (8.11%) NoSQL
4 112 (7.70%) Data Warehouse
5 83 (5.70%) Power BI
6 54 (3.71%) MongoDB
7 53 (3.64%) Big Data
8 51 (3.51%) Tableau
9 47 (3.23%) Relational Database
10 46 (3.16%) Data Lake
11 43 (2.96%) Metadata
12 40 (2.75%) SQL Server
13 38 (2.61%) Looker
14 32 (2.20%) MySQL
15 30 (2.06%) Hadoop
16 23 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
18 20 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
19 18 (1.24%) Apache Iceberg
20 17 (1.17%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 220 (15.12%) Jenkins
2 155 (10.65%) Git
3 141 (9.69%) GitLab
4 81 (5.57%) JIRA
5 42 (2.89%) Liquibase
6 38 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.58%) MLflow
7 23 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.51%) Maven
9 21 (1.44%) CircleCI
10 20 (1.37%) Gradle
11 19 (1.31%) JUnit
12 18 (1.24%) Postman
13 16 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 16 (1.10%) ERwin
13 16 (1.10%) Selenium
14 15 (1.03%) ER Studio
15 14 (0.96%) Artifactory
16 13 (0.89%) Burp Suite
17 12 (0.82%) Metasploit
General
1 549 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 354 (24.33%) Finance
3 195 (13.40%) Banking
4 178 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 44 (3.02%) Financial Institution
9 40 (2.75%) Marketing
10 34 (2.34%) Front Office
11 29 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.99%) Retail
12 27 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.37%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.17%) Legal
18 14 (0.96%) Electronics
19 11 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 248 (17.04%) Architect
2 195 (13.40%) Senior
3 186 (12.78%) Developer
4 97 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 97 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 92 (6.32%) Data Engineer
6 90 (6.19%) Analyst
7 88 (6.05%) Lead
7 88 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
8 85 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 69 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 62 (4.26%) Security Engineer
11 57 (3.92%) Consultant
12 50 (3.44%) Java Developer
13 44 (3.02%) Python Engineer
14 43 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
15 42 (2.89%) Security Architect
16 37 (2.54%) Data Scientist
17 36 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
18 34 (2.34%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (8.59%) RESTful
2 114 (7.84%) REST
3 109 (7.49%) Kafka
4 105 (7.22%) React
5 95 (6.53%) Node.js
6 86 (5.91%) Spring
7 68 (4.67%) Spring Boot
8 60 (4.12%) AngularJS
9 59 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
10 48 (3.30%) OAuth
11 46 (3.16%) Pandas
11 46 (3.16%) TensorFlow
12 45 (3.09%) Vue
13 44 (3.02%) PyTorch
14 40 (2.75%) HTML
15 39 (2.68%) NumPy
16 35 (2.41%) FastAPI
16 35 (2.41%) LDAP
17 33 (2.27%) CSS
17 33 (2.27%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 255 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.64%) Public Cloud
3 81 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 55 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 40 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.92%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.92%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (1.72%) Equities
14 25 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (1.51%) Private Cloud
16 20 (1.37%) Life Science
17 18 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (1.17%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.31%) Linux
2 59 (4.05%) Windows
3 28 (1.92%) Unix
4 21 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.76%) Android
6 11 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.69%) CentOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.27%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.069%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (41.65%) CI/CD
2 513 (35.26%) DevOps
3 406 (27.90%) Agile
4 333 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
5 316 (21.72%) Containerisation
6 278 (19.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 239 (16.43%) AI
8 229 (15.74%) Microservices
9 223 (15.33%) Analytics
10 204 (14.02%) Machine Learning
11 169 (11.62%) Software Engineering
12 167 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 149 (10.24%) Data Modelling
14 148 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
15 147 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
16 144 (9.90%) Data Science
17 142 (9.76%) ETL
18 137 (9.42%) Test Automation
19 135 (9.28%) Migration
20 133 (9.14%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 643 (44.19%) Python
2 283 (19.45%) SQL
3 255 (17.53%) Java
4 147 (10.10%) Bash
5 127 (8.73%) JavaScript
6 106 (7.29%) PowerShell
7 97 (6.67%) Go
8 92 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.13%) C#
10 29 (1.99%) Scala
11 25 (1.72%) R
12 19 (1.31%) C++
12 19 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.24%) Perl
14 17 (1.17%) Ruby
15 16 (1.10%) Bicep
16 14 (0.96%) Groovy
17 13 (0.89%) C
18 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 225 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 176 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.31%) Degree
4 99 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (5.43%) CISSP
6 70 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 68 (4.67%) Master's Degree
8 50 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 50 (3.44%) CISM
9 36 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (1.37%) CCSP
13 18 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (1.24%) OSCP
14 14 (0.96%) CCNP
15 12 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.76%) CCIE
16 11 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.35%) GDPR
2 120 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 99 (6.80%) Data Quality
4 93 (6.39%) NIST
5 77 (5.29%) QA
6 43 (2.96%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.58%) HIPAA
7 23 (1.58%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.96%) GRC
9 12 (0.82%) NCSC
10 8 (0.55%) PSD2
11 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.34%) HL7
13 5 (0.34%) WCAG
14 4 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 386 (26.53%) Docker
2 76 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.55%) KVM
5 8 (0.55%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.34%) GPFS
7 5 (0.34%) Lustre
7 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.34%) Squid
8 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.27%) Snort
9 2 (0.14%) UAG
10 1 (0.069%) Ceph
10 1 (0.069%) HDFS
10 1 (0.069%) SRDF
10 1 (0.069%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 455 (31.27%) Kubernetes
2 311 (21.37%) Terraform
3 145 (9.97%) Ansible
4 93 (6.39%) Grafana
5 90 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.27%) Argo
7 29 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.65%) Puppet
9 20 (1.37%) Istio
10 18 (1.24%) CSIRT
10 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (1.10%) SCCM
12 14 (0.96%) Kubeflow
12 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.89%) Nmap
14 11 (0.76%) Nessus
15 10 (0.69%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
17 8 (0.55%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 481 (33.06%) Google
2 153 (10.52%) Microsoft
3 115 (7.90%) Splunk
4 69 (4.74%) Databricks
5 61 (4.19%) Oracle
6 51 (3.51%) VMware
7 47 (3.23%) F5
8 46 (3.16%) CyberArk
9 43 (2.96%) Palo Alto
10 41 (2.82%) SAP
11 37 (2.54%) Cisco
12 26 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
13 25 (1.72%) IBM
13 25 (1.72%) OpenAI
13 25 (1.72%) ServiceNow
14 21 (1.44%) Citrix
14 21 (1.44%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.17%) Okta
16 16 (1.10%) Fortinet
16 16 (1.10%) Informatica