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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,672 911 1,041
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.11% 3.74% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.63% 10.05% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 625 768
10th Percentile £381 £364 £413
25th Percentile £460 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £813 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.41% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £30.90
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.25 £37.94
Median hourly rate £54.75 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.26% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.56 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.65 £78.08 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +25.26% -8.21% -26.16%

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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%

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 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 7 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 7 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 +3 873 £575 -7.07% 323
North of England +26 328 £537 -2.32% 144
Yorkshire +8 192 £500 -4.76% 31
South East +34 179 £496 -13.74% 116
North West +12 121 £550 -4.35% 87
South West +27 102 £570 +8.57% 47
Midlands -23 91 £475 +2.70% 44
West Midlands -13 70 £486 -5.12% 18
East of England -4 50 £570 +15.74% 22
East Midlands -26 21 £442 +0.63% 26
North East 0 18 £575 +24.32% 26
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
1 100 (5.98%) Apache Spark
2 64 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.23%) Apache
4 38 (2.27%) Confluence
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
7 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.24%) Camunda
8 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.060%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) JBoss
11 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
5 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.060%) Actimize
4 1 (0.060%) Maximo
4 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.060%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.060%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,156 (69.14%) Azure
2 1,135 (67.88%) AWS
3 185 (11.06%) GitHub
4 138 (8.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 111 (6.64%) Power Platform
6 108 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 81 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 66 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (3.95%) SaaS
10 60 (3.59%) Serverless
11 52 (3.11%) dbt
12 51 (3.05%) OpenShift
13 48 (2.87%) Amazon S3
14 47 (2.81%) Entra ID
14 47 (2.81%) Vertex AI
15 39 (2.33%) Cloud Run
16 33 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
17 30 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 29 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.56%) Firewall
2 84 (5.02%) DNS
2 84 (5.02%) VPN
3 82 (4.90%) Network Security
4 24 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.38%) WAN
6 20 (1.20%) HTTP
7 17 (1.02%) BGP
8 14 (0.84%) VoIP
9 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.66%) Internet
10 11 (0.66%) LAN
10 11 (0.66%) OSPF
11 10 (0.60%) SSL
12 9 (0.54%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.48%) VLAN
14 7 (0.42%) IPsec
14 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
15 6 (0.36%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (10.53%) BigQuery
2 102 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
4 92 (5.50%) Power BI
5 78 (4.67%) NoSQL
6 69 (4.13%) Big Data
7 65 (3.89%) Data Lake
8 64 (3.83%) Metadata
9 52 (3.11%) Tableau
10 42 (2.51%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.39%) SQL Server
12 36 (2.15%) MongoDB
13 28 (1.67%) MySQL
14 26 (1.56%) Looker
15 24 (1.44%) Hadoop
15 24 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
16 20 (1.20%) OLAP
17 18 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (1.08%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 203 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 156 (9.33%) Git
3 130 (7.78%) GitLab
4 79 (4.72%) JIRA
5 42 (2.51%) Selenium
6 38 (2.27%) JUnit
7 28 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.61%) JMeter
9 24 (1.44%) Postman
10 20 (1.20%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.78%) Maven
13 13 (0.78%) MLflow
14 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.54%) ERwin
14 9 (0.54%) Mockito
15 8 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 486 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 365 (21.83%) Finance
3 166 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.21%) Banking
5 130 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.11%) Retail
7 50 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (2.27%) Legal
9 33 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.91%) Front Office
11 28 (1.67%) Marketing
12 23 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.96%) Military
17 13 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.72%) Billing
18 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 347 (20.75%) Architect
2 198 (11.84%) Senior
3 179 (10.71%) Lead
4 174 (10.41%) Developer
5 161 (9.63%) GCP Engineer
6 138 (8.25%) Data Engineer
7 108 (6.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 95 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
9 76 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
10 75 (4.49%) Analyst
11 63 (3.77%) Software Engineer
12 58 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
13 56 (3.35%) Consultant
13 56 (3.35%) Java Developer
14 49 (2.93%) GCP DevOps
14 49 (2.93%) Security Engineer
15 48 (2.87%) Security Architect
16 47 (2.81%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 43 (2.57%) Data Architect
18 41 (2.45%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (9.69%) REST
2 152 (9.09%) Kafka
3 119 (7.12%) Spring
4 107 (6.40%) React
5 100 (5.98%) Node.js
6 92 (5.50%) Spring Boot
7 89 (5.32%) LDAP
8 70 (4.19%) OAuth
9 65 (3.89%) RESTful
10 54 (3.23%) SOAP
11 53 (3.17%) OpenID
12 49 (2.93%) AngularJS
12 49 (2.93%) PyTorch
13 48 (2.87%) TensorFlow
14 46 (2.75%) .NET
15 39 (2.33%) LangChain
15 39 (2.33%) SAML
16 38 (2.27%) OAuth2
17 34 (2.03%) Middleware
18 33 (1.97%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 288 (17.22%) Cloud Native
2 89 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.89%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.71%) Security Posture
5 58 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 46 (2.75%) AI Agents
8 41 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 37 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 32 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (1.85%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.50%) Derivative
13 24 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.32%) Clustering
14 22 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
14 22 (1.32%) Equities
15 20 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 20 (1.20%) Private Cloud
16 19 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.50%) Linux
2 68 (4.07%) Windows
3 26 (1.56%) Android
3 26 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 23 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.32%) VMS
6 17 (1.02%) Unix
7 11 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.060%) CentOS
13 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.060%) Rocky
13 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (44.38%) CI/CD
2 562 (33.61%) DevOps
3 353 (21.11%) Agile
3 353 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 340 (20.33%) AI
5 302 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 292 (17.46%) Analytics
7 268 (16.03%) Microservices
8 264 (15.79%) Containerisation
9 228 (13.64%) Machine Learning
10 223 (13.34%) Observability
11 197 (11.78%) Data Pipeline
12 190 (11.36%) Data Modelling
12 190 (11.36%) Migration
13 189 (11.30%) Software Engineering
14 186 (11.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 175 (10.47%) Data Engineering
16 165 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 164 (9.81%) ETL
18 147 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 668 (39.95%) Python
2 324 (19.38%) SQL
3 298 (17.82%) Java
4 141 (8.43%) PowerShell
5 130 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 110 (6.58%) Bash
7 81 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 69 (4.13%) Go
9 51 (3.05%) C#
10 38 (2.27%) Scala
11 19 (1.14%) Groovy
11 19 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.02%) Bicep
13 15 (0.90%) R
14 9 (0.54%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.48%) PHP
16 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
16 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 377 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 311 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.08%) Degree
4 81 (4.84%) CISSP
5 54 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.17%) CISM
7 52 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 49 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (2.63%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 23 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.20%) CCSP
14 18 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 17 (1.02%) CCNP
16 16 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
19 10 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (8.43%) GDPR
2 122 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 94 (5.62%) NIST
4 93 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 70 (4.19%) QA
6 40 (2.39%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.14%) NCSC
9 18 (1.08%) GRC
9 18 (1.08%) SLA
10 15 (0.90%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.54%) PSD2
12 9 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.42%) COBIT
13 7 (0.42%) PERC
14 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 332 (19.86%) Docker
2 97 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.42%) vSphere
7 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.30%) HDFS
7 5 (0.30%) NFS
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.18%) GPFS
9 3 (0.18%) KVM
9 3 (0.18%) Lustre
10 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.060%) iptables
11 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.060%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.060%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 505 (30.20%) Kubernetes
2 410 (24.52%) Terraform
3 113 (6.76%) Ansible
4 106 (6.34%) Grafana
5 97 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.03%) Istio
7 28 (1.67%) Argo
8 23 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.90%) Kubeflow
10 14 (0.84%) Puppet
11 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.72%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.60%) SCCM
14 9 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.42%) Kibana
16 6 (0.36%) Nessus
16 6 (0.36%) Podman
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) linkerd
17 5 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 523 (31.28%) Google
2 139 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.84%) Databricks
4 73 (4.37%) Splunk
5 71 (4.25%) CyberArk
6 62 (3.71%) ServiceNow
7 56 (3.35%) BeyondTrust
8 40 (2.39%) Oracle
9 37 (2.21%) OpenAI
9 37 (2.21%) VMware
10 36 (2.15%) Centrify
11 31 (1.85%) Palo Alto
11 31 (1.85%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 24 (1.44%) Cisco
13 24 (1.44%) SAP
14 21 (1.26%) Informatica
15 18 (1.08%) Foundry
15 18 (1.08%) Red Hat
16 16 (0.96%) MuleSoft