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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 66
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,691 987 1,144
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.96% 4.03% 3.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.32% 10.69% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 664 836
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 9
10th Percentile £13.29 £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% -21.43%
75th Percentile £75.25 £68.19 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.83 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +8.25% -30.71%

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 14,936 9,233 11,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.66% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 6,286 8,600
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 225 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +61.02% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -5 889 £575 -4.56% 239
North of England +21 348 £539 +2.13% 120
Yorkshire +7 217 £525 - 25
South East +6 156 £525 -4.55% 101
North West +12 113 £560 +3.70% 82
South West +36 112 £560 +7.95% 51
Midlands -22 90 £475 +4.97% 28
West Midlands -10 70 £476 -20.67% 18
East of England +5 48 £510 +3.55% 13
North East -16 21 £575 +5.75% 13
East Midlands -25 20 £447 +11.75% 10
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
1 106 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 66 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.19%) Apache
4 39 (2.31%) Confluence
5 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,116 (66.00%) AWS
2 1,101 (65.11%) Azure
3 193 (11.41%) GitHub
4 168 (9.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 126 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (5.97%) Snowflake
7 95 (5.62%) Power Platform
8 74 (4.38%) SaaS
9 73 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (4.08%) Serverless
11 66 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.25%) dbt
13 52 (3.08%) Entra ID
14 49 (2.90%) Vertex AI
15 47 (2.78%) Cloud Run
16 43 (2.54%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.19%) OpenShift
18 35 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
19 33 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (1.83%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 102 (6.03%) Firewall
2 95 (5.62%) DNS
2 95 (5.62%) Network Security
3 88 (5.20%) VPN
4 27 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.54%) WAN
6 23 (1.36%) BGP
7 21 (1.24%) HTTP
8 17 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.89%) Internet
9 15 (0.89%) OSPF
10 14 (0.83%) DHCP
11 13 (0.77%) VoIP
12 12 (0.71%) SSL
13 10 (0.59%) IPsec
13 10 (0.59%) LAN
13 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.53%) VLAN
15 8 (0.47%) DKIM
15 8 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (10.70%) BigQuery
2 121 (7.16%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (4.49%) Power BI
5 75 (4.44%) Data Lake
5 75 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 70 (4.14%) Big Data
7 55 (3.25%) Metadata
8 52 (3.08%) Relational Database
9 47 (2.78%) Tableau
10 42 (2.48%) SQL Server
11 34 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 34 (2.01%) MySQL
12 24 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 22 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (1.30%) Hadoop
14 20 (1.18%) Flink
15 19 (1.12%) Looker
16 18 (1.06%) Redis
17 16 (0.95%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 212 (12.54%) Jenkins
2 161 (9.52%) Git
3 139 (8.22%) GitLab
4 86 (5.09%) JIRA
5 46 (2.72%) JUnit
6 44 (2.60%) Selenium
7 33 (1.95%) Cucumber
8 30 (1.77%) JMeter
8 30 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 22 (1.30%) Postman
10 19 (1.12%) Maven
10 19 (1.12%) WebDriver
11 17 (1.01%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.71%) MLflow
13 9 (0.53%) ERwin
13 9 (0.53%) Gradle
13 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.47%) Gatling
14 8 (0.47%) Mockito
15 7 (0.41%) Snyk
General
1 466 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 393 (23.24%) Finance
3 155 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.05%) Banking
5 132 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.73%) Retail
7 47 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.95%) Front Office
10 32 (1.89%) Legal
11 30 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.42%) Marketing
14 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.18%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.89%) Billing
15 15 (0.89%) Military
16 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 354 (20.93%) Architect
2 214 (12.66%) Senior
3 185 (10.94%) Developer
4 165 (9.76%) Lead
5 162 (9.58%) GCP Engineer
6 141 (8.34%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 105 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 67 (3.96%) Java Developer
11 66 (3.90%) Software Engineer
12 62 (3.67%) Consultant
13 59 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
14 56 (3.31%) Security Architect
14 56 (3.31%) Security Engineer
15 49 (2.90%) Analyst
15 49 (2.90%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.84%) Data Architect
17 44 (2.60%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 43 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (9.52%) REST
2 151 (8.93%) Kafka
3 118 (6.98%) Spring
4 112 (6.62%) React
5 98 (5.80%) Spring Boot
6 93 (5.50%) Node.js
7 83 (4.91%) LDAP
8 79 (4.67%) OAuth
9 60 (3.55%) RESTful
10 56 (3.31%) OpenID
11 54 (3.19%) SOAP
12 47 (2.78%) PyTorch
13 45 (2.66%) AngularJS
13 45 (2.66%) TensorFlow
14 43 (2.54%) OAuth2
14 43 (2.54%) SAML
15 41 (2.42%) .NET
16 38 (2.25%) LangChain
17 32 (1.89%) GraphQL
17 32 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 326 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 99 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.38%) Security Posture
4 66 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.25%) AI Agents
7 51 (3.02%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 41 (2.42%) Onboarding
11 37 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.07%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.60%) Derivative
13 27 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
13 27 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.36%) Clustering
15 23 (1.36%) Private Cloud
16 22 (1.30%) Equities
17 21 (1.24%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.15%) Linux
2 81 (4.79%) Windows
3 30 (1.77%) Android
4 25 (1.48%) Unix
5 24 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.18%) VMS
8 17 (1.01%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.01%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 561 (33.18%) DevOps
3 392 (23.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 385 (22.77%) Agile
5 363 (21.47%) AI
6 284 (16.79%) Microservices
7 277 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (16.03%) Analytics
9 259 (15.32%) Observability
10 243 (14.37%) Containerisation
11 229 (13.54%) Machine Learning
12 202 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
12 202 (11.95%) Software Engineering
13 201 (11.89%) Migration
14 192 (11.35%) Data Modelling
15 191 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 179 (10.59%) Cloud Security
17 172 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 172 (10.17%) Data Engineering
18 171 (10.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 667 (39.44%) Python
2 342 (20.22%) SQL
3 318 (18.81%) Java
4 141 (8.34%) PowerShell
5 126 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 115 (6.80%) Bash
7 88 (5.20%) Go
8 84 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.42%) C#
10 37 (2.19%) Scala
11 20 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.06%) Groovy
13 17 (1.01%) Bicep
14 15 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.65%) R
15 11 (0.65%) Ruby
15 11 (0.65%) Rust
16 8 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.47%) PHP
17 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 365 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 296 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.80%) Degree
4 96 (5.68%) CISSP
5 68 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 65 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 57 (3.37%) CISM
8 53 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (3.08%) Azure Certification
9 52 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 27 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.54%) CCSP
13 22 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.95%) GIAC
16 14 (0.83%) CCNP
16 14 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.21%) GDPR
3 87 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (5.14%) NIST
4 68 (4.02%) QA
5 35 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.48%) NCSC
7 21 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.12%) GRC
9 17 (1.01%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.53%) COBIT
13 9 (0.53%) PSD2
13 9 (0.53%) WCAG
14 8 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.35%) MiFID
15 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 322 (19.04%) Docker
2 96 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) vSphere
7 12 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.18%) HDFS
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.18%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.12%) GPFS
11 2 (0.12%) Lustre
11 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 509 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 439 (25.96%) Terraform
3 121 (7.16%) Grafana
4 115 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 109 (6.45%) Ansible
6 36 (2.13%) Istio
7 34 (2.01%) Argo
8 32 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 17 (1.01%) Puppet
11 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (0.59%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.41%) linkerd
14 7 (0.41%) Podman
15 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
16 4 (0.24%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 525 (31.05%) Google
2 149 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.79%) Databricks
4 67 (3.96%) CyberArk
5 65 (3.84%) Splunk
6 61 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.66%) BeyondTrust
8 42 (2.48%) Oracle
9 40 (2.37%) VMware
10 37 (2.19%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.07%) OpenAI
12 34 (2.01%) Centrify
13 31 (1.83%) Dynatrace
14 26 (1.54%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.30%) Red Hat
16 20 (1.18%) Cisco
16 20 (1.18%) Okta
17 18 (1.06%) SAP
18 16 (0.95%) Informatica
19 15 (0.89%) Foundry