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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,932 1,326 1,222
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.72% 3.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.13% 12.28% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 897 806
10th Percentile £407 £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 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
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 15,923 10,795 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.42% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,605 7,284 7,564
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 £630 £625 £638
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 570 256 161
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £23.80
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 995 £583 -2.92% 2,303
North of England +3 434 £533 +6.50% 369
Yorkshire -1 275 £535 +7.00% 100
South East -4 183 £525 +6.60% 223
North West +1 143 £530 +5.47% 231
South West +29 137 £550 +4.76% 136
Midlands -64 74 £535 +10.77% 106
West Midlands -58 58 £540 +2.86% 89
East of England +2 55 £555 +5.71% 76
North East -25 19 £588 +18.69% 39
East Midlands -32 16 £500 +20.48% 17
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 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 112 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (3.99%) Apache
4 52 (2.69%) Confluence
5 19 (0.98%) 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 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.052%) JBoss
13 1 (0.052%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.052%) Houdini
7 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.052%) NUKE
7 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 18 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.41%) Cloudability
4 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
9 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,273 (65.89%) AWS
2 1,234 (63.87%) Azure
3 224 (11.59%) GitHub
4 168 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 152 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
6 131 (6.78%) Snowflake
7 106 (5.49%) dbt
8 91 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (4.71%) SaaS
9 80 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (3.99%) Entra ID
11 73 (3.78%) Power Platform
12 65 (3.36%) Serverless
13 56 (2.90%) Cloud Run
14 51 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
14 51 (2.64%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
15 43 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (2.02%) Datadog
17 37 (1.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.28%) Firewall
2 98 (5.07%) Network Security
3 74 (3.83%) DNS
4 62 (3.21%) VPN
5 32 (1.66%) BGP
6 31 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.35%) DHCP
8 25 (1.29%) WAN
9 21 (1.09%) HTTP
9 21 (1.09%) Internet
10 19 (0.98%) OSPF
10 19 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.93%) VLAN
12 14 (0.72%) SSL
13 12 (0.62%) VoIP
14 11 (0.57%) IPsec
14 11 (0.57%) LAN
15 10 (0.52%) MPLS
15 10 (0.52%) Multicast
16 9 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (12.68%) BigQuery
2 168 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (4.61%) Metadata
5 84 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 77 (3.99%) NoSQL
7 74 (3.83%) Data Lake
8 64 (3.31%) Power BI
9 57 (2.95%) Big Data
10 51 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 49 (2.54%) Looker
12 44 (2.28%) MySQL
13 41 (2.12%) MongoDB
13 41 (2.12%) SQL Server
14 39 (2.02%) Tableau
15 34 (1.76%) Redis
16 27 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.40%) Flink
17 23 (1.19%) Delta Lake
18 22 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 244 (12.63%) Git
2 242 (12.53%) Jenkins
3 156 (8.07%) GitLab
4 105 (5.43%) JIRA
5 37 (1.92%) Maven
6 34 (1.76%) JUnit
6 34 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.35%) Gradle
8 24 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 23 (1.19%) JMeter
10 22 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (1.09%) Selenium
12 20 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.88%) Gatling
13 17 (0.88%) LoadRunner
14 16 (0.83%) Postman
15 14 (0.72%) Claude Code
16 13 (0.67%) Snyk
17 12 (0.62%) Cypress.io
18 11 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 525 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 484 (25.05%) Finance
3 202 (10.46%) Banking
4 194 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.67%) Retail
7 54 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 32 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 32 (1.66%) Legal
11 29 (1.50%) Billing
12 28 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.35%) Marketing
14 25 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 18 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (0.93%) Publishing
17 16 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 403 (20.86%) Architect
2 264 (13.66%) Senior
3 224 (11.59%) Developer
4 184 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 175 (9.06%) Lead
6 149 (7.71%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
10 87 (4.50%) Java Developer
11 85 (4.40%) Security Engineer
12 83 (4.30%) Consultant
13 75 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 68 (3.52%) Analyst
15 62 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
16 59 (3.05%) Data Architect
16 59 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
17 54 (2.80%) Software Engineer
18 52 (2.69%) Security Architect
19 49 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (26.71%) Terraform
2 223 (11.54%) Kafka
3 202 (10.46%) REST
4 114 (5.90%) React
5 99 (5.12%) OAuth
6 89 (4.61%) Spring
7 88 (4.55%) RESTful
8 82 (4.24%) Spring Boot
9 67 (3.47%) Node.js
10 63 (3.26%) JSON
11 61 (3.16%) OpenID
12 58 (3.00%) SOAP
13 55 (2.85%) SAML
14 52 (2.69%) PySpark
15 50 (2.59%) OAuth2
16 48 (2.48%) LangChain
17 46 (2.38%) HTML
18 44 (2.28%) LDAP
19 42 (2.17%) GraphQL
19 42 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 429 (22.20%) Cloud Native
2 137 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (5.43%) AI Agents
4 83 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 74 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 66 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (3.36%) Security Posture
9 63 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
10 59 (3.05%) Data Centre
11 52 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
12 50 (2.59%) Data Structures
13 47 (2.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (2.28%) Algorithms
14 44 (2.28%) Management Information System
15 42 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
16 39 (2.02%) PKI
17 29 (1.50%) CMDB
18 26 (1.35%) Private Cloud
19 25 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 180 (9.32%) Linux
2 101 (5.23%) Windows
3 52 (2.69%) Unix
4 35 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.88%) Android
7 9 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.36%) VMS
9 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) AIX
10 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.052%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.052%) Solaris
11 1 (0.052%) SUSE
11 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 903 (46.74%) CI/CD
2 650 (33.64%) DevOps
3 509 (26.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 497 (25.72%) Agile
5 482 (24.95%) AI
6 361 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 334 (17.29%) Microservices
8 308 (15.94%) Analytics
9 289 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
10 287 (14.86%) Observability
11 286 (14.80%) Software Engineering
12 274 (14.18%) Containerisation
13 264 (13.66%) Machine Learning
14 249 (12.89%) Roadmaps
15 244 (12.63%) Data Modelling
16 242 (12.53%) Cloud Security
17 235 (12.16%) Data Pipeline
18 230 (11.90%) Migration
19 228 (11.80%) Event-Driven
20 225 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 775 (40.11%) Python
2 453 (23.45%) SQL
3 362 (18.74%) Java
4 165 (8.54%) Bash
5 156 (8.07%) PowerShell
6 153 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 98 (5.07%) Go
8 73 (3.78%) TypeScript
9 50 (2.59%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.17%) C#
11 39 (2.02%) Scala
12 34 (1.76%) Bicep
13 26 (1.35%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.19%) Groovy
15 18 (0.93%) R
16 17 (0.88%) Rust
17 14 (0.72%) C++
18 12 (0.62%) ABAP
19 10 (0.52%) Perl
19 10 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 387 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 285 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 147 (7.61%) Degree
4 109 (5.64%) DV Cleared
5 108 (5.59%) CISSP
6 100 (5.18%) AWS Certification
7 67 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (3.42%) Azure Certification
9 64 (3.31%) CISM
10 56 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
11 44 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 37 (1.92%) Master's Degree
13 35 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (1.55%) CCSP
15 21 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (0.83%) CISA
18 14 (0.72%) GIAC
19 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.18%) QA
3 95 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (4.55%) NIST
5 64 (3.31%) GDPR
6 32 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.40%) GRC
8 27 (1.40%) NCSC
9 21 (1.09%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.52%) COBIT
13 8 (0.41%) SLA
14 7 (0.36%) MiFID
15 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.31%) WCAG
16 5 (0.26%) ISO 31000
16 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 354 (18.32%) Docker
2 86 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.88%) 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 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.052%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 620 (32.09%) Kubernetes
2 168 (8.70%) Ansible
3 120 (6.21%) Grafana
4 112 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.71%) Argo
7 32 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 28 (1.45%) Puppet
9 27 (1.40%) Istio
10 19 (0.98%) Kustomize
11 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.57%) Podman
13 9 (0.47%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.26%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Control-M
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.26%) Kibana
17 4 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 697 (36.08%) Google
2 256 (13.25%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.31%) Databricks
4 91 (4.71%) Splunk
5 82 (4.24%) Oracle
6 64 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.11%) Dynatrace
8 50 (2.59%) SAP
9 48 (2.48%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.48%) VMware
10 44 (2.28%) CyberArk
11 43 (2.23%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.92%) IBM
13 33 (1.71%) Palo Alto
14 29 (1.50%) Cisco
14 29 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.45%) Informatica
16 23 (1.19%) Okta
17 21 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (0.98%) MuleSoft