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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,660 940 1,099
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 3.94% 3.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.31% 10.50% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 638 819
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £480 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £813 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 9
10th Percentile £13.06 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £30.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -21.62%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £80.35 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +8.25% -30.89%

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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -2 874 £575 -4.56% 437
North of England +19 343 £538 +1.42% 156
Yorkshire +3 213 £515 -1.90% 32
South East +11 152 £505 -8.18% 120
North West +10 114 £568 +3.18% 106
South West +32 110 £565 +7.62% 65
Midlands -22 85 £475 +4.97% 35
West Midlands -19 65 £494 -17.71% 19
East of England 0 50 £523 +6.09% 16
East Midlands -26 20 £438 +11.89% 16
North East -11 19 £584 +26.22% 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
1 108 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.37%) Apache
4 38 (2.29%) Confluence
5 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.30%) CMS
6 5 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
7 1 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) Maximo
5 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,112 (66.99%) Azure
2 1,109 (66.81%) AWS
3 187 (11.27%) GitHub
4 153 (9.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 117 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (6.14%) Power Platform
7 92 (5.54%) Snowflake
8 78 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
10 68 (4.10%) SaaS
11 64 (3.86%) Serverless
12 55 (3.31%) dbt
13 50 (3.01%) Entra ID
13 50 (3.01%) OpenShift
14 49 (2.95%) Vertex AI
15 46 (2.77%) Amazon S3
16 41 (2.47%) Cloud Run
17 36 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (1.93%) Google Workspace
18 32 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 97 (5.84%) Firewall
2 91 (5.48%) DNS
2 91 (5.48%) Network Security
3 89 (5.36%) VPN
4 26 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.45%) WAN
6 20 (1.20%) BGP
7 18 (1.08%) HTTP
8 14 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.78%) OSPF
10 12 (0.72%) Internet
10 12 (0.72%) SSL
10 12 (0.72%) VoIP
11 10 (0.60%) LAN
12 9 (0.54%) DHCP
12 9 (0.54%) IPsec
13 8 (0.48%) DKIM
13 8 (0.48%) DMARC
13 8 (0.48%) VLAN
13 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (11.08%) BigQuery
2 115 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (5.06%) Power BI
5 79 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 77 (4.64%) Data Lake
7 71 (4.28%) Big Data
8 55 (3.31%) Metadata
9 50 (3.01%) Tableau
10 48 (2.89%) Relational Database
11 42 (2.53%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.11%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.81%) MySQL
14 23 (1.39%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.39%) Looker
14 23 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.20%) Flink
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.08%) OLAP
18 17 (1.02%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 208 (12.53%) Jenkins
2 158 (9.52%) Git
3 139 (8.37%) GitLab
4 88 (5.30%) JIRA
5 44 (2.65%) Selenium
6 38 (2.29%) JUnit
7 31 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.63%) JMeter
8 27 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 24 (1.45%) Postman
10 19 (1.14%) REST Assured
11 18 (1.08%) Maven
12 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 10 (0.60%) ERwin
14 10 (0.60%) Gradle
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.54%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 459 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 371 (22.35%) Finance
3 149 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.86%) Banking
5 129 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 59 (3.55%) Retail
7 43 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.05%) Legal
9 31 (1.87%) Front Office
10 29 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.51%) Marketing
13 21 (1.27%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.96%) Military
17 13 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.72%) Billing
19 11 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 356 (21.45%) Architect
2 199 (11.99%) Senior
3 181 (10.90%) Developer
4 165 (9.94%) Lead
5 162 (9.76%) GCP Engineer
6 139 (8.37%) Data Engineer
7 108 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 98 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 79 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
10 65 (3.92%) Software Engineer
11 62 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
12 61 (3.67%) Java Developer
13 57 (3.43%) Analyst
14 55 (3.31%) Consultant
15 53 (3.19%) Security Architect
16 51 (3.07%) Security Engineer
17 50 (3.01%) GCP DevOps
18 47 (2.83%) Data Architect
19 46 (2.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
20 39 (2.35%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (9.52%) REST
2 147 (8.86%) Kafka
3 113 (6.81%) React
4 109 (6.57%) Spring
5 97 (5.84%) Node.js
6 92 (5.54%) Spring Boot
7 83 (5.00%) LDAP
8 73 (4.40%) OAuth
9 58 (3.49%) RESTful
10 52 (3.13%) OpenID
10 52 (3.13%) SOAP
11 48 (2.89%) PyTorch
12 47 (2.83%) AngularJS
13 46 (2.77%) TensorFlow
14 42 (2.53%) .NET
15 39 (2.35%) OAuth2
16 36 (2.17%) LangChain
16 36 (2.17%) SAML
17 31 (1.87%) Middleware
17 31 (1.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 312 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 93 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (4.16%) Security Posture
4 64 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 63 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 50 (3.01%) AI Agents
8 47 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (2.77%) Data Centre
10 37 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 34 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
12 32 (1.93%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.63%) Derivative
14 25 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
15 24 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.45%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.39%) Equities
16 23 (1.39%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.27%) Algorithms
18 20 (1.20%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.78%) Linux
2 73 (4.40%) Windows
3 29 (1.75%) Android
4 23 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.27%) VMS
7 18 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.08%) Unix
8 11 (0.66%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (45.18%) CI/CD
2 556 (33.49%) DevOps
3 376 (22.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 361 (21.75%) Agile
5 337 (20.30%) AI
6 281 (16.93%) Analytics
7 279 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (16.27%) Microservices
9 247 (14.88%) Observability
10 245 (14.76%) Containerisation
11 222 (13.37%) Machine Learning
12 202 (12.17%) Software Engineering
13 199 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
14 192 (11.57%) Data Modelling
14 192 (11.57%) Migration
15 181 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 176 (10.60%) Data Engineering
17 167 (10.06%) ETL
18 166 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
19 160 (9.64%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 649 (39.10%) Python
2 338 (20.36%) SQL
3 297 (17.89%) Java
4 139 (8.37%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 113 (6.81%) Bash
7 84 (5.06%) Go
8 79 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.71%) C#
10 40 (2.41%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
12 18 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.02%) Bicep
14 11 (0.66%) R
15 10 (0.60%) Ruby
16 9 (0.54%) PHP
16 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
18 7 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 363 (21.87%) Security Cleared
2 296 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 89 (5.36%) CISSP
4 86 (5.18%) Degree
5 61 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 56 (3.37%) CISM
7 55 (3.31%) AWS Certification
8 54 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (2.77%) Azure Certification
11 36 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 24 (1.45%) CCSP
13 23 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.20%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.96%) CCNP
15 16 (0.96%) GIAC
15 16 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.54%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (7.23%) Data Quality
1 120 (7.23%) GDPR
2 90 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (5.42%) NIST
3 68 (4.10%) QA
4 37 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 22 (1.33%) NCSC
6 20 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.08%) SLA
8 16 (0.96%) GRC
8 16 (0.96%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.54%) COBIT
11 9 (0.54%) PSD2
12 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.48%) WCAG
13 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 316 (19.04%) Docker
2 95 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.72%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
9 4 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.12%) GPFS
11 2 (0.12%) Lustre
11 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.060%) iptables
12 1 (0.060%) Varnish
12 1 (0.060%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 504 (30.36%) Kubernetes
2 423 (25.48%) Terraform
3 117 (7.05%) Ansible
3 117 (7.05%) Grafana
4 108 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 34 (2.05%) Istio
6 30 (1.81%) Argo
7 29 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.96%) Puppet
9 13 (0.78%) Kubeflow
9 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.48%) SCCM
11 7 (0.42%) Kibana
11 7 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.36%) linkerd
12 6 (0.36%) Podman
13 5 (0.30%) Nessus
13 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 516 (31.08%) Google
2 145 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 82 (4.94%) Databricks
4 69 (4.16%) Splunk
5 67 (4.04%) CyberArk
6 63 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.89%) BeyondTrust
8 39 (2.35%) VMware
9 38 (2.29%) Oracle
10 36 (2.17%) Centrify
11 35 (2.11%) OpenAI
12 34 (2.05%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.63%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.14%) Cisco
15 18 (1.08%) Okta
15 18 (1.08%) Red Hat
16 17 (1.02%) Foundry
16 17 (1.02%) Informatica
17 16 (0.96%) SAP