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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,949 1,317 1,210
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.21% 4.71% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.23% 12.26% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 888 800
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £663 £672 £750
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £543 £600
% change year-on-year +1.34% -9.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.53 £35.38
25th Percentile £17.70 £38.25 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.44 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +49.69% +11.22% -32.48%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.88 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.38 £85.40 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £72.61 £51.44 £46.25
% change year-on-year +41.15% +11.22% -35.76%

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 15,939 10,738 11,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.37% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,248 7,525
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 253 161
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.04 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 0 1,000 £583 -2.92% 2,111
North of England +4 439 £530 +6.00% 357
Yorkshire 0 278 £535 +7.00% 98
South East -4 186 £525 +5.79% 292
North West +4 145 £530 +6.00% 218
South West +25 136 £550 +4.76% 129
Midlands -66 75 £530 +8.72% 100
East of England +1 60 £555 +0.91% 59
West Midlands -55 58 £540 +2.86% 86
North East -22 21 £588 +18.69% 42
East Midlands -25 17 £500 +20.48% 14
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
1 113 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 112 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.95%) Apache
4 52 (2.67%) Confluence
5 19 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.36%) SAS
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.26%) IIS
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 4 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.051%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.051%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.051%) Houdini
6 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.051%) NUKE
6 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Cloudability
3 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.051%) Maximo
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.051%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.051%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,283 (65.83%) AWS
2 1,244 (63.83%) Azure
3 226 (11.60%) GitHub
4 170 (8.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 150 (7.70%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 105 (5.39%) dbt
8 94 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (4.62%) SaaS
10 81 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 78 (4.00%) Entra ID
12 75 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 65 (3.34%) Serverless
14 56 (2.87%) Cloud Run
15 53 (2.72%) Vertex AI
16 52 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
18 39 (2.00%) Datadog
18 39 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
19 38 (1.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.23%) Firewall
2 100 (5.13%) Network Security
3 73 (3.75%) DNS
4 63 (3.23%) VPN
5 31 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.44%) BGP
7 26 (1.33%) DHCP
8 25 (1.28%) WAN
9 21 (1.08%) HTTP
10 19 (0.97%) Internet
10 19 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.92%) VLAN
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
13 14 (0.72%) SSL
14 12 (0.62%) VoIP
15 11 (0.56%) IPsec
15 11 (0.56%) LAN
16 10 (0.51%) MPLS
17 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (12.72%) BigQuery
2 170 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (4.57%) Metadata
5 84 (4.31%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 74 (3.80%) Data Lake
8 66 (3.39%) Power BI
9 57 (2.92%) Big Data
10 51 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 50 (2.57%) Looker
12 44 (2.26%) MySQL
13 41 (2.10%) MongoDB
13 41 (2.10%) SQL Server
14 39 (2.00%) Tableau
15 34 (1.74%) Redis
16 27 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.39%) Flink
17 23 (1.18%) Delta Lake
18 22 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 247 (12.67%) Git
2 240 (12.31%) Jenkins
3 157 (8.06%) GitLab
4 106 (5.44%) JIRA
5 37 (1.90%) JUnit
5 37 (1.90%) Maven
5 37 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 26 (1.33%) Gradle
7 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.18%) JMeter
9 22 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.08%) Selenium
11 20 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 17 (0.87%) Gatling
12 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
13 16 (0.82%) Postman
14 14 (0.72%) Claude Code
15 13 (0.67%) Snyk
16 12 (0.62%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 535 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 486 (24.94%) Finance
3 205 (10.52%) Banking
4 198 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 157 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.64%) Retail
7 54 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 34 (1.74%) Legal
11 32 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.54%) Billing
14 29 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (1.39%) Marketing
16 25 (1.28%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.92%) Publishing
19 17 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 404 (20.73%) Architect
2 265 (13.60%) Senior
3 226 (11.60%) Developer
4 184 (9.44%) Data Engineer
5 173 (8.88%) Lead
6 148 (7.59%) GCP Engineer
7 129 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 118 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (4.52%) Java Developer
11 86 (4.41%) Security Engineer
12 85 (4.36%) Consultant
13 76 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 69 (3.54%) Analyst
15 64 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
16 60 (3.08%) Data Architect
16 60 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
17 54 (2.77%) Software Engineer
18 51 (2.62%) Security Architect
19 49 (2.51%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (26.53%) Terraform
2 224 (11.49%) Kafka
3 203 (10.42%) REST
4 116 (5.95%) React
5 100 (5.13%) OAuth
6 92 (4.72%) Spring
7 88 (4.52%) RESTful
8 85 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 68 (3.49%) Node.js
10 65 (3.34%) JSON
11 62 (3.18%) OpenID
12 58 (2.98%) SOAP
13 56 (2.87%) SAML
14 52 (2.67%) PySpark
15 50 (2.57%) OAuth2
16 49 (2.51%) LangChain
17 46 (2.36%) HTML
18 45 (2.31%) LDAP
19 43 (2.21%) GraphQL
20 42 (2.15%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 435 (22.32%) Cloud Native
2 140 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.54%) AI Agents
4 83 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 74 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 67 (3.44%) Security Posture
8 66 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 65 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
10 57 (2.92%) Data Centre
11 52 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
12 50 (2.57%) Data Structures
13 45 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (2.26%) Algorithms
14 44 (2.26%) Management Information System
15 43 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (2.00%) PKI
17 30 (1.54%) CMDB
18 26 (1.33%) Private Cloud
19 25 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 180 (9.24%) Linux
2 103 (5.28%) Windows
3 52 (2.67%) Unix
4 35 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.97%) Android
7 11 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) VMS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.15%) CentOS
10 3 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.051%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.051%) Solaris
11 1 (0.051%) SUSE
11 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (46.90%) CI/CD
2 653 (33.50%) DevOps
3 508 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 501 (25.71%) Agile
5 489 (25.09%) AI
6 361 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 337 (17.29%) Microservices
8 315 (16.16%) Analytics
9 297 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
10 290 (14.88%) Software Engineering
11 287 (14.73%) Observability
12 276 (14.16%) Containerisation
13 269 (13.80%) Machine Learning
14 252 (12.93%) Roadmaps
15 244 (12.52%) Cloud Security
15 244 (12.52%) Data Modelling
16 237 (12.16%) Data Pipeline
17 230 (11.80%) Event-Driven
17 230 (11.80%) Migration
18 225 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 779 (39.97%) Python
2 458 (23.50%) SQL
3 370 (18.98%) Java
4 167 (8.57%) Bash
5 156 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 153 (7.85%) JavaScript
7 103 (5.28%) Go
8 74 (3.80%) TypeScript
9 50 (2.57%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.15%) C#
11 39 (2.00%) Scala
12 35 (1.80%) Bicep
13 25 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.18%) Groovy
15 18 (0.92%) R
15 18 (0.92%) Rust
16 14 (0.72%) C++
17 12 (0.62%) ABAP
18 10 (0.51%) Perl
18 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 392 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 285 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.54%) Degree
4 109 (5.59%) CISSP
4 109 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 101 (5.18%) AWS Certification
6 67 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 66 (3.39%) Azure Certification
8 65 (3.34%) CISM
9 57 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 37 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (1.59%) CCSP
14 21 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.82%) CISA
16 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.72%) GIAC
18 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (9.75%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.23%) QA
3 95 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 89 (4.57%) NIST
5 66 (3.39%) GDPR
6 32 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.44%) GRC
9 27 (1.39%) NCSC
10 21 (1.08%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.67%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.51%) COBIT
14 9 (0.46%) SLA
15 7 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
17 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 355 (18.21%) Docker
2 86 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.051%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 628 (32.22%) Kubernetes
2 164 (8.41%) Ansible
3 120 (6.16%) Grafana
4 112 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.69%) Argo
7 32 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 28 (1.44%) Puppet
9 27 (1.39%) Istio
10 19 (0.97%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.56%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) Cilium
15 5 (0.26%) Control-M
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) Kibana
15 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 696 (35.71%) Google
2 253 (12.98%) Microsoft
3 124 (6.36%) Databricks
4 91 (4.67%) Splunk
5 78 (4.00%) Oracle
6 64 (3.28%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 50 (2.57%) SAP
9 48 (2.46%) VMware
10 45 (2.31%) CyberArk
11 44 (2.26%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.90%) IBM
13 33 (1.69%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.49%) Cisco
14 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.44%) Informatica
16 23 (1.18%) Okta
17 21 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (0.97%) MuleSoft