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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 60 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,454 1,103 1,178
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.74% 3.63% 3.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.37% 10.05% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 710 897
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £447 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £607
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.15% -6.62%
75th Percentile £649 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £888 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £33.96 £24.05 £43.03
25th Percentile £46.85 £33.50 £53.39
Median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -8.87% +103.28%
75th Percentile £70.50 £61.19 £75.38
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.75% -13.08% +134.40%

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 11,753 10,973 13,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.32% 36.16% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,037 7,312 9,893
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 147 271
10th Percentile £15.43 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.67 £56.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +18.18%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -2 749 £575 -8.00% 304
North of England +28 298 £500 - 120
Yorkshire +15 184 £500 -3.61% 33
South East +45 165 £481 -16.30% 255
North West +33 111 £526 -4.43% 77
Midlands +30 109 £500 +5.04% 32
West Midlands +25 87 £525 +8.58% 19
South West +42 61 £538 -14.00% 64
East of England -16 34 £500 +56.25% 25
East Midlands -8 21 £425 +19.38% 12
North East -14 3 £475 - 11
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 86 (5.91%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 42 (2.89%) Apache
4 32 (2.20%) Confluence
5 14 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.69%) SAS
7 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.41%) Mule
9 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.21%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Documentum
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Weka
5 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Maple
6 2 (0.14%) Trello
7 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.069%) Actimize
5 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.069%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (71.87%) AWS
2 990 (68.09%) Azure
3 168 (11.55%) GitHub
4 98 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 90 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 79 (5.43%) Serverless
7 77 (5.30%) Snowflake
8 73 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (4.75%) dbt
10 61 (4.20%) Entra ID
11 57 (3.92%) SaaS
12 56 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 47 (3.23%) OpenShift
15 36 (2.48%) PaaS
16 34 (2.34%) Apigee
17 33 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
17 33 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
18 32 (2.20%) Cloud Run
19 31 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 133 (9.15%) Firewall
2 43 (2.96%) Network Security
3 42 (2.89%) VPN
4 37 (2.54%) DNS
5 23 (1.58%) WAN
6 20 (1.38%) Wireshark
7 19 (1.31%) SD-WAN
7 19 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.96%) VLAN
9 13 (0.89%) BGP
9 13 (0.89%) LAN
9 13 (0.89%) SSL
10 12 (0.83%) DHCP
11 11 (0.76%) OSPF
12 10 (0.69%) HTTP
13 9 (0.62%) SAN
14 8 (0.55%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.55%) VXLAN
14 8 (0.55%) Wireless
15 7 (0.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (11.62%) BigQuery
2 137 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (8.05%) NoSQL
4 106 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
5 84 (5.78%) Power BI
6 51 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 50 (3.44%) Big Data
7 50 (3.44%) Tableau
8 46 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 44 (3.03%) Data Lake
10 41 (2.82%) Metadata
11 40 (2.75%) SQL Server
12 33 (2.27%) Looker
13 32 (2.20%) MySQL
14 29 (1.99%) Hadoop
15 25 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
18 17 (1.17%) Redis
19 16 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 212 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 154 (10.59%) Git
3 137 (9.42%) GitLab
4 77 (5.30%) JIRA
5 40 (2.75%) Liquibase
6 38 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 22 (1.51%) MLflow
9 21 (1.44%) CircleCI
10 19 (1.31%) Gradle
10 19 (1.31%) JUnit
10 19 (1.31%) Maven
10 19 (1.31%) Postman
11 15 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.03%) Selenium
12 13 (0.89%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.83%) ER Studio
13 12 (0.83%) ERwin
13 12 (0.83%) Metasploit
14 11 (0.76%) Artifactory
General
1 542 (37.28%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.87%) Finance
3 186 (12.79%) Banking
4 180 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 51 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 42 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 39 (2.68%) Marketing
10 31 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.99%) Front Office
12 26 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (1.72%) Retail
14 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.31%) Legal
16 17 (1.17%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.10%) Electronics
18 11 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 246 (16.92%) Architect
2 195 (13.41%) Senior
3 183 (12.59%) Developer
4 99 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 99 (6.81%) GCP Engineer
5 95 (6.53%) Analyst
6 94 (6.46%) Data Engineer
7 86 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
8 85 (5.85%) Lead
9 84 (5.78%) Software Engineer
10 68 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 63 (4.33%) Security Engineer
12 60 (4.13%) Consultant
13 51 (3.51%) Java Developer
14 43 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
14 43 (2.96%) Security Architect
15 41 (2.82%) Python Engineer
16 37 (2.54%) Data Scientist
17 35 (2.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 34 (2.34%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (8.87%) RESTful
2 118 (8.12%) REST
3 106 (7.29%) Kafka
4 102 (7.02%) React
5 92 (6.33%) Node.js
6 89 (6.12%) Spring
7 70 (4.81%) Spring Boot
8 60 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
9 57 (3.92%) AngularJS
10 47 (3.23%) OAuth
11 46 (3.16%) TensorFlow
12 45 (3.09%) PyTorch
13 44 (3.03%) Pandas
14 43 (2.96%) Vue
15 41 (2.82%) HTML
16 37 (2.54%) NumPy
17 35 (2.41%) CSS
17 35 (2.41%) FastAPI
18 32 (2.20%) JSON
18 32 (2.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 262 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 62 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 53 (3.65%) Security Posture
7 39 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 32 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.58%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.44%) Equities
13 21 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (1.38%) Private Cloud
15 19 (1.31%) Life Science
16 18 (1.24%) AI Agents
16 18 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.32%) Linux
2 59 (4.06%) Windows
3 27 (1.86%) Unix
4 21 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.69%) CentOS
7 9 (0.62%) Android
7 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.28%) 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
1 607 (41.75%) CI/CD
2 517 (35.56%) DevOps
3 399 (27.44%) Agile
4 326 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
5 321 (22.08%) Containerisation
6 274 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 243 (16.71%) AI
8 238 (16.37%) Microservices
9 221 (15.20%) Analytics
10 202 (13.89%) Machine Learning
11 171 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 168 (11.55%) Software Engineering
13 151 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
14 145 (9.97%) Data Modelling
15 140 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
16 139 (9.56%) Data Science
17 137 (9.42%) ETL
18 134 (9.22%) Migration
19 133 (9.15%) Cloud Security
19 133 (9.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 632 (43.47%) Python
2 279 (19.19%) SQL
3 258 (17.74%) Java
4 145 (9.97%) Bash
5 120 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 105 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 92 (6.33%) Go
8 87 (5.98%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.06%) C#
10 28 (1.93%) Scala
11 25 (1.72%) R
12 17 (1.17%) C++
12 17 (1.17%) Ruby
13 16 (1.10%) Bicep
13 16 (1.10%) Perl
13 16 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.83%) C
14 12 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.76%) Groovy
16 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 239 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 189 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 150 (10.32%) Degree
4 98 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (5.43%) CISSP
6 70 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 66 (4.54%) Master's Degree
8 51 (3.51%) CISM
9 50 (3.44%) Azure Certification
10 34 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.93%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (1.31%) CCSP
14 18 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (1.24%) OSCP
15 13 (0.89%) CCNP
16 12 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.69%) CCIE
18 10 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (9.35%) GDPR
2 119 (8.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 96 (6.60%) NIST
4 94 (6.46%) Data Quality
5 80 (5.50%) QA
6 47 (3.23%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 22 (1.51%) SOC 2
8 21 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.96%) GRC
10 12 (0.83%) NCSC
11 8 (0.55%) PSD2
12 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.41%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.34%) PERC
15 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 387 (26.62%) Docker
2 77 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.55%) KVM
4 8 (0.55%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.55%) vSphere
5 6 (0.41%) Squid
5 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.34%) GPFS
6 5 (0.34%) Lustre
6 5 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.34%) Snort
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) UAG
9 1 (0.069%) NFS
9 1 (0.069%) SRDF
9 1 (0.069%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.069%) Xen
Systems Management
1 458 (31.50%) Kubernetes
2 310 (21.32%) Terraform
3 143 (9.83%) Ansible
4 94 (6.46%) Grafana
5 91 (6.26%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.06%) Argo
7 29 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.51%) Puppet
9 18 (1.24%) CSIRT
9 18 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (1.17%) Istio
11 16 (1.10%) SCCM
12 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.89%) Kubeflow
13 13 (0.89%) Nmap
14 12 (0.83%) Nessus
15 10 (0.69%) Fluentd
15 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.69%) Podman
16 9 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 482 (33.15%) Google
2 149 (10.25%) Microsoft
3 118 (8.12%) Splunk
4 68 (4.68%) Databricks
5 59 (4.06%) Oracle
6 50 (3.44%) VMware
7 46 (3.16%) CyberArk
8 44 (3.03%) F5
9 43 (2.96%) SAP
10 42 (2.89%) Palo Alto
11 36 (2.48%) Cisco
12 29 (1.99%) ServiceNow
13 27 (1.86%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
15 24 (1.65%) Red Hat
16 21 (1.44%) Citrix
17 18 (1.24%) IBM
17 18 (1.24%) Okta
18 16 (1.10%) Informatica
19 15 (1.03%) Fortinet