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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 59 82
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -18
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,642 933 970
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.54% 3.70% 2.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.22% 9.77% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 616 718
10th Percentile £367 £363 £424
25th Percentile £450 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 12
10th Percentile £12.95 £24.85 £31.63
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate £64.50 £40.50 £54.28
Median % change year-on-year +59.26% -25.38% -20.76%
75th Percentile £70.75 £58.00 £63.25
90th Percentile £73.25 £62.43 £74.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £40.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +58.02% -20.67% -22.94%

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 13,440 9,545 12,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.19% 37.89% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,253 6,551 8,871
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £410 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 156 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.46 £19.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £26.81 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +43.74% +26.56% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -14.52%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +2 825 £600 -0.08% 428
North of England +37 338 £505 -8.18% 130
Yorkshire +8 194 £500 -8.97% 45
South East +39 193 £476 -13.41% 166
North West +36 129 £526 -15.39% 64
Midlands +11 128 £491 +3.37% 32
West Midlands +16 104 £500 +4.82% 24
South West +27 73 £550 -12.00% 64
East of England -23 39 £555 +73.44% 57
East Midlands -19 23 £442 +13.11% 8
North East -2 15 £538 +61.65% 21
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 88 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 71 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (3.65%) Apache
4 33 (2.01%) Confluence
5 13 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.61%) SAS
7 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.30%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.18%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.18%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.12%) Documentum
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.30%) Weka
4 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.061%) Actimize
6 1 (0.061%) Maximo
6 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,202 (73.20%) AWS
2 1,183 (72.05%) Azure
3 197 (12.00%) GitHub
4 122 (7.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 117 (7.13%) Power Platform
6 101 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (4.75%) Serverless
8 76 (4.63%) Snowflake
9 70 (4.26%) OpenShift
10 66 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 51 (3.11%) Entra ID
13 46 (2.80%) Cloud Run
14 45 (2.74%) dbt
15 42 (2.56%) SaaS
16 41 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 36 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
18 35 (2.13%) Vertex AI
19 29 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 128 (7.80%) Firewall
2 78 (4.75%) VPN
3 64 (3.90%) DNS
4 62 (3.78%) Network Security
5 29 (1.77%) WAN
6 28 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.28%) BGP
7 21 (1.28%) HTTP
8 20 (1.22%) LAN
8 20 (1.22%) SD-WAN
9 17 (1.04%) OSPF
10 14 (0.85%) DHCP
11 13 (0.79%) VLAN
11 13 (0.79%) VoIP
12 11 (0.67%) VXLAN
12 11 (0.67%) Wireless
13 10 (0.61%) Internet
13 10 (0.61%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.55%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (10.35%) BigQuery
2 143 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (6.39%) NoSQL
4 99 (6.03%) Power BI
5 98 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (3.47%) Data Lake
7 55 (3.35%) Metadata
8 51 (3.11%) Big Data
8 51 (3.11%) SQL Server
9 50 (3.05%) Tableau
10 48 (2.92%) MongoDB
11 39 (2.38%) MySQL
11 39 (2.38%) Relational Database
12 29 (1.77%) Hadoop
12 29 (1.77%) Looker
13 21 (1.28%) OLAP
13 21 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
14 18 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (0.97%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 231 (14.07%) Jenkins
2 177 (10.78%) Git
3 167 (10.17%) GitLab
4 82 (4.99%) JIRA
5 32 (1.95%) JUnit
5 32 (1.95%) Selenium
6 26 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 25 (1.52%) JMeter
8 22 (1.34%) Postman
9 19 (1.16%) Liquibase
10 18 (1.10%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.85%) MLflow
12 13 (0.79%) Gatling
12 13 (0.79%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.73%) WebDriver
14 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.67%) Maven
15 10 (0.61%) ERwin
16 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 548 (33.37%) Social Skills
2 375 (22.84%) Finance
3 191 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.23%) Banking
5 147 (8.95%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (2.38%) Retail
8 35 (2.13%) Front Office
9 34 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 32 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.58%) Legal
13 24 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.40%) Marketing
14 23 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.91%) Electronics
17 14 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.73%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 319 (19.43%) Architect
2 192 (11.69%) Senior
3 189 (11.51%) Developer
4 152 (9.26%) Lead
5 148 (9.01%) GCP Engineer
6 120 (7.31%) Data Engineer
7 98 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 89 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (5.36%) Analyst
10 85 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (5.12%) Software Engineer
12 66 (4.02%) Consultant
13 52 (3.17%) Security Engineer
14 48 (2.92%) GCP DevOps
15 46 (2.80%) Cloud Architect
15 46 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
16 45 (2.74%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 44 (2.68%) Java Developer
18 43 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 43 (2.62%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (11.27%) REST
2 140 (8.53%) Kafka
3 133 (8.10%) React
4 113 (6.88%) Spring
5 112 (6.82%) Node.js
6 99 (6.03%) RESTful
7 82 (4.99%) Spring Boot
8 78 (4.75%) LDAP
9 68 (4.14%) PyTorch
10 66 (4.02%) AngularJS
10 66 (4.02%) TensorFlow
11 57 (3.47%) SOAP
12 50 (3.05%) OAuth
13 49 (2.98%) .NET
14 43 (2.62%) scikit-learn
15 42 (2.56%) OpenID
16 41 (2.50%) Middleware
17 40 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
18 37 (2.25%) HTML
18 37 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 274 (16.69%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.85%) Public Cloud
3 86 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (4.57%) Security Posture
5 71 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 53 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 51 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 40 (2.44%) Data Centre
10 30 (1.83%) Fixed Income
11 28 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 27 (1.64%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.34%) Derivative
13 22 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.22%) Equities
15 18 (1.10%) Life Science
15 18 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 17 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (7.49%) Linux
2 69 (4.20%) Windows
3 25 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 22 (1.34%) VMS
5 19 (1.16%) Android
6 18 (1.10%) Unix
7 17 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.97%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.49%) CentOS
10 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.24%) Windows Server
13 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.061%) Rocky
15 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (44.15%) CI/CD
2 597 (36.36%) DevOps
3 409 (24.91%) Agile
4 352 (21.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 350 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
6 323 (19.67%) AI
6 323 (19.67%) Containerisation
7 279 (16.99%) Analytics
8 265 (16.14%) Microservices
9 249 (15.16%) Machine Learning
10 204 (12.42%) Observability
11 185 (11.27%) Software Engineering
12 178 (10.84%) Data Pipeline
13 175 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 164 (9.99%) Data Modelling
15 162 (9.87%) Migration
16 157 (9.56%) Test Automation
17 154 (9.38%) ETL
18 152 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 147 (8.95%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 715 (43.54%) Python
2 318 (19.37%) SQL
3 257 (15.65%) Java
4 141 (8.59%) PowerShell
5 131 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 125 (7.61%) Bash
7 98 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 79 (4.81%) Go
9 52 (3.17%) C#
10 29 (1.77%) Scala
11 21 (1.28%) R
12 20 (1.22%) Bicep
13 17 (1.04%) Groovy
14 16 (0.97%) Ruby
15 14 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.61%) C++
16 10 (0.61%) PHP
17 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.49%) Perl
19 7 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 362 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 302 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 136 (8.28%) Degree
4 86 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (4.63%) CISSP
6 59 (3.59%) AWS Certification
7 54 (3.29%) Azure Certification
8 49 (2.98%) CISM
9 45 (2.74%) Master's Degree
10 44 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (2.62%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (1.28%) CCNP
15 19 (1.16%) CCSP
15 19 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 16 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (0.73%) CCIE
18 12 (0.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (8.47%) GDPR
2 117 (7.13%) Data Quality
3 98 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (5.54%) NIST
5 71 (4.32%) QA
6 48 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.16%) GRC
9 18 (1.10%) NCSC
9 18 (1.10%) SLA
10 17 (1.04%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.97%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.73%) SOC 2
13 11 (0.67%) PSD2
14 7 (0.43%) PERC
15 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.30%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.30%) WCAG
17 4 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 403 (24.54%) Docker
2 100 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.79%) vSphere
6 8 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.37%) GPFS
7 6 (0.37%) Lustre
7 6 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) KVM
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
9 4 (0.24%) HDFS
10 3 (0.18%) Snort
10 3 (0.18%) Squid
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.061%) UAG
12 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 529 (32.22%) Kubernetes
2 398 (24.24%) Terraform
3 154 (9.38%) Ansible
4 116 (7.06%) Grafana
5 107 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.19%) Istio
7 31 (1.89%) Argo
8 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.04%) Puppet
8 17 (1.04%) SCCM
9 16 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.85%) Nessus
11 13 (0.79%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.61%) Fluentd
14 8 (0.49%) Kibana
15 7 (0.43%) CSIRT
15 7 (0.43%) Nmap
16 6 (0.37%) Podman
17 5 (0.30%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 534 (32.52%) Google
2 141 (8.59%) Microsoft
3 120 (7.31%) Splunk
4 77 (4.69%) Databricks
5 71 (4.32%) CyberArk
6 68 (4.14%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.53%) BeyondTrust
8 49 (2.98%) Oracle
8 49 (2.98%) VMware
9 41 (2.50%) SAP
10 40 (2.44%) Palo Alto
11 38 (2.31%) OpenAI
12 35 (2.13%) Cisco
13 34 (2.07%) Centrify
14 32 (1.95%) Red Hat
15 21 (1.28%) F5
16 19 (1.16%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.16%) Foundry
16 19 (1.16%) Informatica