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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 51 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,944 1,266 1,191
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.56% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.11% 11.96% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 859 790
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.83%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £763
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £33.96 £35.38
25th Percentile £15.93 £39.75 £35.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -40.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £79.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £83.45 £101.65 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.97 £46.25
% change year-on-year +48.16% +12.37% -38.13%

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 16,052 10,588 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 38.16% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,706 7,178 7,442
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 245 157
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.09 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £69.82 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -2 994 £575 -4.17% 1,714
North of England +8 434 £538 +7.50% 339
Yorkshire 0 283 £538 +13.11% 91
South East -1 189 £525 +5.00% 191
South West +24 136 £550 -5.38% 140
North West -2 136 £530 +6.00% 215
Midlands -57 74 £530 +11.58% 100
East of England +14 64 £555 +0.91% 51
West Midlands -52 56 £551 +5.00% 83
North East -22 21 £588 +14.08% 34
East Midlands -30 18 £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
1 112 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 105 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.76%) Apache
4 53 (2.73%) Confluence
5 19 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.31%) SAS
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%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.051%) CIMPLICITY
13 1 (0.051%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.21%) Trello
6 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.051%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.051%) Houdini
8 1 (0.051%) NUKE
8 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.36%) Cloudability
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.051%) Maximo
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%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,268 (65.23%) AWS
2 1,233 (63.43%) Azure
3 218 (11.21%) GitHub
4 175 (9.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 142 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (6.84%) Snowflake
7 103 (5.30%) dbt
8 99 (5.09%) SaaS
9 91 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
10 79 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (3.96%) Power Platform
12 76 (3.91%) Entra ID
13 66 (3.40%) Serverless
14 59 (3.03%) Vertex AI
15 55 (2.83%) Cloud Run
16 48 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
18 41 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
19 39 (2.01%) Datadog
20 37 (1.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.04%) Firewall
2 95 (4.89%) Network Security
3 74 (3.81%) DNS
4 65 (3.34%) VPN
5 28 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.39%) BGP
7 25 (1.29%) DHCP
8 24 (1.23%) WAN
9 19 (0.98%) HTTP
9 19 (0.98%) Internet
10 18 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.87%) VLAN
12 15 (0.77%) OSPF
12 15 (0.77%) SSL
13 13 (0.67%) VoIP
14 12 (0.62%) IPsec
15 11 (0.57%) LAN
16 10 (0.51%) MPLS
17 9 (0.46%) DNSSEC
17 9 (0.46%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (12.91%) BigQuery
2 172 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 88 (4.53%) Metadata
5 82 (4.22%) Relational Database
6 76 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.86%) Data Lake
8 68 (3.50%) Power BI
9 59 (3.03%) Big Data
10 47 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (2.42%) Looker
11 39 (2.01%) Tableau
12 37 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 37 (1.90%) SQL Server
13 36 (1.85%) MySQL
14 32 (1.65%) Redis
15 28 (1.44%) Flink
16 24 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (1.03%) Delta Lake
17 20 (1.03%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 230 (11.83%) Git
2 223 (11.47%) Jenkins
3 150 (7.72%) GitLab
4 103 (5.30%) JIRA
5 37 (1.90%) JUnit
5 37 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.70%) Maven
7 23 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 23 (1.18%) JMeter
8 22 (1.13%) Selenium
8 22 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (1.08%) Gradle
10 18 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.87%) Gatling
11 17 (0.87%) LoadRunner
11 17 (0.87%) Postman
12 13 (0.67%) Snyk
13 12 (0.62%) Claude Code
13 12 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.46%) NeoLoad
General
1 534 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 487 (25.05%) Finance
3 204 (10.49%) Banking
4 195 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 72 (3.70%) Retail
7 53 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 47 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (1.80%) Legal
9 35 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 32 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 29 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 28 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.44%) Marketing
13 27 (1.39%) Billing
14 25 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.93%) Publishing
18 17 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 399 (20.52%) Architect
2 270 (13.89%) Senior
3 225 (11.57%) Developer
4 176 (9.05%) Data Engineer
5 175 (9.00%) Lead
6 149 (7.66%) GCP Engineer
7 127 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 106 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
10 89 (4.58%) Security Engineer
11 88 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 86 (4.42%) Consultant
13 75 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 70 (3.60%) Analyst
15 63 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
16 62 (3.19%) Data Architect
17 60 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
18 54 (2.78%) Software Engineer
19 52 (2.67%) Security Architect
20 48 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (26.39%) Terraform
2 214 (11.01%) Kafka
3 193 (9.93%) REST
4 110 (5.66%) React
5 105 (5.40%) OAuth
6 92 (4.73%) Spring
7 90 (4.63%) RESTful
8 85 (4.37%) Spring Boot
9 70 (3.60%) Node.js
10 65 (3.34%) OpenID
11 64 (3.29%) JSON
12 59 (3.03%) SAML
13 56 (2.88%) SOAP
14 52 (2.67%) OAuth2
15 48 (2.47%) LangChain
15 48 (2.47%) LDAP
15 48 (2.47%) PySpark
16 43 (2.21%) JWT
16 43 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
17 41 (2.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 419 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 139 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (5.66%) AI Agents
4 81 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 80 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 68 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 65 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 55 (2.83%) Data Centre
11 51 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
12 48 (2.47%) Data Structures
13 45 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
14 44 (2.26%) Management Information System
15 42 (2.16%) Algorithms
15 42 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.90%) PKI
17 29 (1.49%) CMDB
17 29 (1.49%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 173 (8.90%) Linux
2 108 (5.56%) Windows
3 50 (2.57%) Unix
4 35 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.23%) Android
7 17 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.36%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.15%) CentOS
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Solaris
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE
13 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 890 (45.78%) CI/CD
2 631 (32.46%) DevOps
3 499 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 488 (25.10%) Agile
5 485 (24.95%) AI
6 356 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 331 (17.03%) Microservices
8 310 (15.95%) Analytics
9 292 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
10 286 (14.71%) Software Engineering
11 280 (14.40%) Observability
12 272 (13.99%) Containerisation
13 259 (13.32%) Machine Learning
14 253 (13.01%) Roadmaps
15 247 (12.71%) Data Modelling
16 239 (12.29%) Cloud Security
17 234 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
18 228 (11.73%) Migration
19 224 (11.52%) Event-Driven
20 220 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 763 (39.25%) Python
2 446 (22.94%) SQL
3 376 (19.34%) Java
4 157 (8.08%) Bash
5 150 (7.72%) PowerShell
6 148 (7.61%) JavaScript
7 104 (5.35%) Go
8 71 (3.65%) TypeScript
9 47 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.16%) Scala
11 39 (2.01%) C#
12 33 (1.70%) Bicep
13 23 (1.18%) Groovy
13 23 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 19 (0.98%) R
15 18 (0.93%) Rust
16 13 (0.67%) C++
17 12 (0.62%) ABAP
18 10 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 9 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 387 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 281 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 145 (7.46%) Degree
4 109 (5.61%) CISSP
5 102 (5.25%) DV Cleared
6 99 (5.09%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 65 (3.34%) CISM
7 65 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 36 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.65%) CCSP
13 20 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.87%) CISA
15 15 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.14%) QA
3 99 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 93 (4.78%) NIST
5 69 (3.55%) GDPR
6 33 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.49%) GRC
8 23 (1.18%) NCSC
9 20 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.51%) COBIT
13 9 (0.46%) 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
1 340 (17.49%) Docker
2 87 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.67%) vSphere
6 12 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) ISA Server
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.051%) zsh
Systems Management
1 614 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 157 (8.08%) Ansible
3 119 (6.12%) Grafana
4 112 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 45 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
6 34 (1.75%) Argo
7 31 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 27 (1.39%) Puppet
9 26 (1.34%) Istio
10 18 (0.93%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.51%) Podman
13 9 (0.46%) CASB
14 8 (0.41%) QRadar
15 6 (0.31%) Cilium
16 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
17 4 (0.21%) Kibana
17 4 (0.21%) Kubeflow
17 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 688 (35.39%) Google
2 244 (12.55%) Microsoft
3 121 (6.22%) Databricks
4 90 (4.63%) Splunk
5 72 (3.70%) Oracle
6 63 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.09%) Dynatrace
8 51 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.47%) CyberArk
9 48 (2.47%) VMware
10 45 (2.31%) SAP
11 43 (2.21%) OpenAI
12 36 (1.85%) IBM
13 33 (1.70%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.54%) Cisco
15 29 (1.49%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.39%) Informatica
17 25 (1.29%) Okta
18 21 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
19 19 (0.98%) MuleSoft