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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,636 938 1,092
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.95% 3.91% 2.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.31% 10.45% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 637 813
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.55
25th Percentile £13.51 £25.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £69.96 £59.56 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.05 £78.08 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.06% -30.89%

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 14,467 8,974 11,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.43% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,878 6,201 8,465
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 198 322
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -1 857 £575 -8.00% 315
North of England +22 337 £538 -0.46% 140
Yorkshire +5 208 £515 -2.00% 29
South East +14 153 £509 -7.45% 107
North West +4 113 £563 +2.27% 95
South West +29 109 £570 +9.88% 58
Midlands -21 86 £481 +6.35% 34
West Midlands -20 67 £500 -16.67% 16
East of England -1 51 £535 +8.63% 9
North East -8 19 £584 +26.22% 16
East Midlands -25 19 £438 +11.89% 18
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
1 105 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 63 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.48%) Apache
4 38 (2.32%) Confluence
5 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.31%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.12%) nginx
8 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.061%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.061%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.061%) Trello
7 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.061%) Maximo
4 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.061%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,101 (67.30%) Azure
2 1,094 (66.87%) AWS
3 184 (11.25%) GitHub
4 143 (8.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 112 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
6 103 (6.30%) Power Platform
7 88 (5.38%) Snowflake
8 79 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (4.10%) SaaS
11 64 (3.91%) Serverless
12 53 (3.24%) dbt
13 51 (3.12%) OpenShift
14 50 (3.06%) Entra ID
15 48 (2.93%) Vertex AI
16 47 (2.87%) Amazon S3
17 40 (2.44%) Cloud Run
18 36 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
19 30 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 29 (1.77%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.81%) Firewall
2 90 (5.50%) DNS
3 89 (5.44%) Network Security
4 88 (5.38%) VPN
5 26 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.47%) WAN
7 20 (1.22%) BGP
8 19 (1.16%) HTTP
9 14 (0.86%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.79%) OSPF
11 12 (0.73%) SSL
11 12 (0.73%) VoIP
12 11 (0.67%) Internet
13 10 (0.61%) LAN
14 9 (0.55%) IPsec
15 8 (0.49%) DHCP
15 8 (0.49%) DKIM
15 8 (0.49%) DMARC
15 8 (0.49%) VLAN
15 8 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (10.94%) BigQuery
2 107 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (5.20%) Power BI
5 77 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 73 (4.46%) Data Lake
7 68 (4.16%) Big Data
8 56 (3.42%) Metadata
9 51 (3.12%) Tableau
10 47 (2.87%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.51%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.14%) MongoDB
13 29 (1.77%) MySQL
14 24 (1.47%) Looker
15 23 (1.41%) Hadoop
15 23 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
16 20 (1.22%) Flink
17 19 (1.16%) OLAP
18 17 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.04%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 207 (12.65%) Jenkins
2 156 (9.54%) Git
3 138 (8.44%) GitLab
4 85 (5.20%) JIRA
5 44 (2.69%) Selenium
6 37 (2.26%) JUnit
7 31 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.65%) JMeter
9 26 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 25 (1.53%) Postman
11 19 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.04%) Maven
13 16 (0.98%) WebDriver
14 13 (0.79%) MLflow
15 10 (0.61%) ERwin
15 10 (0.61%) Gradle
16 9 (0.55%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.55%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.55%) LoadRunner
16 9 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 452 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 355 (21.70%) Finance
3 149 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (8.99%) Banking
5 129 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 55 (3.36%) Retail
7 42 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.20%) Legal
9 31 (1.89%) Front Office
10 29 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 26 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.59%) Marketing
12 21 (1.28%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.98%) Military
15 14 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.61%) Billing
17 10 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 349 (21.33%) Architect
2 195 (11.92%) Senior
3 179 (10.94%) Developer
4 162 (9.90%) GCP Engineer
5 158 (9.66%) Lead
6 137 (8.37%) Data Engineer
7 113 (6.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 92 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 76 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
10 66 (4.03%) Software Engineer
11 61 (3.73%) Analyst
11 61 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
12 58 (3.55%) Java Developer
13 57 (3.48%) Consultant
14 52 (3.18%) Security Architect
15 50 (3.06%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.93%) Security Engineer
17 47 (2.87%) Data Architect
17 47 (2.87%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (9.47%) REST
2 147 (8.99%) Kafka
3 111 (6.78%) React
3 111 (6.78%) Spring
4 96 (5.87%) Node.js
5 90 (5.50%) Spring Boot
6 82 (5.01%) LDAP
7 74 (4.52%) OAuth
8 58 (3.55%) RESTful
9 54 (3.30%) SOAP
10 51 (3.12%) OpenID
11 47 (2.87%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.81%) AngularJS
13 45 (2.75%) TensorFlow
14 43 (2.63%) .NET
15 39 (2.38%) LangChain
15 39 (2.38%) OAuth2
16 36 (2.20%) SAML
17 33 (2.02%) Middleware
18 31 (1.89%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 296 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 59 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (3.61%) Public Cloud
5 51 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.00%) AI Agents
7 46 (2.81%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 37 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 33 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.96%) Fixed Income
12 26 (1.59%) Derivative
13 23 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
13 23 (1.41%) Equities
13 23 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 21 (1.28%) Clustering
15 19 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.62%) Linux
2 66 (4.03%) Windows
3 28 (1.71%) Android
4 23 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.28%) VMS
7 18 (1.10%) Unix
8 12 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.49%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.31%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.061%) CentOS
14 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Rocky
14 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (45.54%) CI/CD
2 556 (33.99%) DevOps
3 365 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 355 (21.70%) Agile
5 338 (20.66%) AI
6 280 (17.11%) Analytics
7 275 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (16.32%) Microservices
9 250 (15.28%) Containerisation
10 240 (14.67%) Observability
11 219 (13.39%) Machine Learning
12 196 (11.98%) Software Engineering
13 194 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
14 192 (11.74%) Data Modelling
15 186 (11.37%) Migration
16 176 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 175 (10.70%) Data Engineering
18 164 (10.02%) ETL
19 163 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
20 151 (9.23%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 636 (38.88%) Python
2 326 (19.93%) SQL
3 287 (17.54%) Java
4 132 (8.07%) PowerShell
5 127 (7.76%) JavaScript
6 108 (6.60%) Bash
7 80 (4.89%) TypeScript
8 78 (4.77%) Go
9 45 (2.75%) C#
10 39 (2.38%) Scala
11 19 (1.16%) Groovy
12 18 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.92%) Bicep
14 10 (0.61%) R
14 10 (0.61%) Ruby
15 9 (0.55%) PHP
16 8 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 369 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 302 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.07%) Degree
4 82 (5.01%) CISSP
5 62 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 53 (3.24%) CISM
7 52 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (3.12%) AWS Certification
8 51 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.69%) Azure Certification
10 34 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 23 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.41%) CCSP
12 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.98%) CCNP
13 16 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.92%) GIAC
15 11 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.52%) GDPR
2 116 (7.09%) Data Quality
3 90 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (5.50%) NIST
4 69 (4.22%) QA
5 38 (2.32%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.41%) NCSC
7 20 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.10%) SLA
9 16 (0.98%) GRC
10 15 (0.92%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.55%) COBIT
12 9 (0.55%) PSD2
12 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.49%) WCAG
14 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.37%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 313 (19.13%) Docker
2 95 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.31%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.061%) iptables
13 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 501 (30.62%) Kubernetes
2 413 (25.24%) Terraform
3 116 (7.09%) Ansible
4 113 (6.91%) Grafana
5 104 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.08%) Istio
7 30 (1.83%) Argo
8 27 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.98%) Puppet
10 13 (0.79%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.49%) SCCM
13 7 (0.43%) Kibana
13 7 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.43%) Podman
14 6 (0.37%) linkerd
14 6 (0.37%) Nessus
15 5 (0.31%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 499 (30.50%) Google
2 136 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 84 (5.13%) Databricks
4 70 (4.28%) Splunk
5 65 (3.97%) CyberArk
6 64 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.93%) BeyondTrust
8 39 (2.38%) VMware
9 38 (2.32%) Oracle
10 36 (2.20%) Centrify
10 36 (2.20%) OpenAI
11 32 (1.96%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.71%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.59%) Dynatrace
14 21 (1.28%) Cisco
15 20 (1.22%) SAP
16 18 (1.10%) Red Hat
17 17 (1.04%) Informatica
17 17 (1.04%) MuleSoft
17 17 (1.04%) Okta