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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,903 1,188 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.31% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.91% 11.58% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 818 852
10th Percentile £407 £372 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -10.89% +1.22%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £788
90th Percentile £749 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £49.77 £33.88
25th Percentile £32.90 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £61.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +33.51% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £77.15 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.48 £100.55 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.36 £61.75 £36.25
% change year-on-year +10.70% +70.34% -50.91%

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 15,974 10,263 11,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.20% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,659 6,965 7,964
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £422 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 239
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £52.45
90th Percentile £83.67 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.15
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.41% -31.00%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 1,015 £575 -4.17% 1,077
North of England +9 395 £538 +7.64% 282
Yorkshire +4 246 £538 +13.16% 88
South East +5 186 £537 -0.56% 172
North West +2 134 £558 +5.69% 165
South West +25 126 £560 +6.67% 78
Midlands -41 78 £513 +15.23% 68
West Midlands -32 62 £525 -10.64% 57
East of England +9 54 £530 +6.00% 18
North East -26 19 £481 -11.49% 29
East Midlands -26 16 £500 +25.00% 11
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
1 114 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.68%) Apache
4 55 (2.89%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 6 (0.32%) CMS
9 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
13 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.053%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.053%) JBoss
13 1 (0.053%) Mule
13 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.053%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (64.37%) AWS
2 1,199 (63.01%) Azure
3 209 (10.98%) GitHub
4 165 (8.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 135 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
6 126 (6.62%) Snowflake
7 92 (4.83%) SaaS
8 88 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 84 (4.41%) Power Platform
10 79 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.05%) dbt
12 72 (3.78%) Serverless
13 57 (3.00%) Vertex AI
14 53 (2.79%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (2.15%) Cloud Run
17 39 (2.05%) Amazon S3
18 37 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.79%) Datadog
19 34 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 107 (5.62%) Firewall
2 101 (5.31%) DNS
2 101 (5.31%) Network Security
3 88 (4.62%) VPN
4 35 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.63%) WAN
6 29 (1.52%) BGP
7 26 (1.37%) HTTP
8 20 (1.05%) DHCP
8 20 (1.05%) OSPF
9 19 (1.00%) Internet
9 19 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.95%) VLAN
11 14 (0.74%) SSL
12 11 (0.58%) IPsec
12 11 (0.58%) LAN
12 11 (0.58%) MPLS
12 11 (0.58%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
13 9 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.46%) BigQuery
2 170 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.36%) NoSQL
5 79 (4.15%) Data Lake
6 72 (3.78%) Big Data
6 72 (3.78%) Metadata
7 70 (3.68%) Power BI
7 70 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 46 (2.42%) Tableau
9 37 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 37 (1.94%) Looker
10 31 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.63%) SQL Server
11 28 (1.47%) Flink
12 27 (1.42%) MySQL
13 25 (1.31%) Redis
14 23 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.05%) Hadoop
16 16 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 224 (11.77%) Jenkins
2 210 (11.04%) Git
3 147 (7.72%) GitLab
4 94 (4.94%) JIRA
5 49 (2.57%) JUnit
6 37 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.89%) Selenium
8 32 (1.68%) JMeter
9 26 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.37%) Maven
10 18 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 15 (0.79%) Gradle
12 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.74%) Postman
12 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.63%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.58%) Gatling
14 11 (0.58%) MLflow
15 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 491 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 455 (23.91%) Finance
3 181 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (8.83%) Banking
5 159 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.57%) Retail
7 60 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 43 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.05%) Legal
11 35 (1.84%) Marketing
12 32 (1.68%) Front Office
13 31 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.00%) Billing
17 19 (1.00%) Publishing
18 17 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 396 (20.81%) Architect
2 254 (13.35%) Senior
3 228 (11.98%) Developer
4 188 (9.88%) Lead
5 168 (8.83%) GCP Engineer
6 161 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 128 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 117 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 112 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
10 83 (4.36%) Java Developer
11 76 (3.99%) Consultant
12 68 (3.57%) Analyst
12 68 (3.57%) Security Architect
13 67 (3.52%) Data Architect
14 65 (3.42%) Security Engineer
15 62 (3.26%) Software Engineer
16 61 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 53 (2.79%) Platform Engineer
19 45 (2.36%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (9.04%) Kafka
2 164 (8.62%) REST
3 116 (6.10%) Spring
4 115 (6.04%) React
5 97 (5.10%) Node.js
6 93 (4.89%) Spring Boot
7 87 (4.57%) OAuth
8 72 (3.78%) RESTful
9 52 (2.73%) JSON
10 47 (2.47%) OpenID
11 46 (2.42%) OAuth2
11 46 (2.42%) SAML
12 45 (2.36%) GraphQL
13 44 (2.31%) LangChain
13 44 (2.31%) PyTorch
14 42 (2.21%) AngularJS
15 41 (2.15%) LDAP
16 40 (2.10%) PySpark
16 40 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (2.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 366 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 130 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (4.47%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.10%) Security Posture
6 52 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 50 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 48 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 47 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
10 46 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 38 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 38 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 36 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.68%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.68%) Management Information System
15 29 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 27 (1.42%) Derivative
16 27 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.78%) Linux
2 91 (4.78%) Windows
3 28 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.31%) Unix
5 23 (1.21%) Android
5 23 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.53%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.053%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (44.04%) CI/CD
2 600 (31.53%) DevOps
3 492 (25.85%) Agile
4 446 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 441 (23.17%) AI
6 326 (17.13%) Microservices
7 315 (16.55%) Analytics
8 281 (14.77%) Machine Learning
9 278 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 266 (13.98%) Observability
12 261 (13.72%) Containerisation
12 261 (13.72%) Software Engineering
13 240 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
14 237 (12.45%) Data Modelling
15 220 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 208 (10.93%) Cloud Security
16 208 (10.93%) Roadmaps
17 207 (10.88%) Migration
18 197 (10.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 725 (38.10%) Python
2 396 (20.81%) SQL
3 363 (19.08%) Java
4 157 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 150 (7.88%) Bash
6 137 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.73%) TypeScript
8 87 (4.57%) Go
9 46 (2.42%) Scala
10 41 (2.15%) C#
11 30 (1.58%) Bicep
12 27 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 26 (1.37%) Groovy
14 25 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.95%) Rust
16 17 (0.89%) R
17 13 (0.68%) Ruby
18 11 (0.58%) C++
19 10 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
20 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 378 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 294 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.41%) Degree
4 110 (5.78%) CISSP
5 97 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 87 (4.57%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 63 (3.31%) Azure Certification
9 61 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (3.00%) CISM
11 42 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.52%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (1.31%) CCSP
14 24 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (1.05%) CCNP
16 19 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.95%) GIAC
18 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
19 13 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 89 (4.68%) GDPR
3 88 (4.62%) QA
4 82 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (4.15%) NIST
6 30 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.21%) NCSC
9 18 (0.95%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.42%) COBIT
13 8 (0.42%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) PSD2
16 5 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 357 (18.76%) Docker
2 74 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.63%) vSphere
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 580 (30.48%) Kubernetes
2 466 (24.49%) Terraform
3 126 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 125 (6.57%) Grafana
5 120 (6.31%) Ansible
6 39 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.63%) Argo
8 27 (1.42%) Istio
9 25 (1.31%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.10%) Puppet
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 13 (0.68%) Kubeflow
13 12 (0.63%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.47%) Podman
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) linkerd
15 5 (0.26%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 621 (32.63%) Google
2 183 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 104 (5.47%) Databricks
4 65 (3.42%) Splunk
5 52 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.57%) Oracle
7 46 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 41 (2.15%) VMware
9 40 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 39 (2.05%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.79%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.42%) SAP
13 23 (1.21%) Informatica
14 22 (1.16%) Cisco
15 21 (1.10%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.89%) Okta
17 15 (0.79%) IBM
18 13 (0.68%) Foundry