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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 54 67
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,686 1,015 1,160
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.93% 4.10% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.23% 10.86% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 682 843
10th Percentile £400 £366 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -3.42%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 9
10th Percentile £13.45 £25.25 £34.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £34.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £76.94 £63.88 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +8.25% -30.71%

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 15,019 9,344 11,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.77% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,182 6,359 8,563
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 234 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.44 £38.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -4 887 £575 -4.56% 448
North of England +17 350 £540 +2.37% 344
Yorkshire 0 211 £538 +2.38% 99
South East +14 153 £531 -3.41% 307
North West +10 121 £545 -0.91% 196
South West +37 116 £565 +8.92% 140
Midlands -26 87 £482 +5.12% 147
West Midlands -13 68 £482 -31.11% 67
East of England 0 47 £535 +8.63% 160
North East -14 21 £575 +5.75% 49
East Midlands -25 19 £474 +16.91% 80
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
1 106 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 68 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.26%) Apache
4 40 (2.37%) Confluence
5 17 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.24%) SAS
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.059%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,100 (65.24%) AWS
2 1,084 (64.29%) Azure
3 190 (11.27%) GitHub
4 171 (10.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (6.05%) Snowflake
7 95 (5.63%) Power Platform
8 71 (4.21%) SaaS
9 68 (4.03%) Serverless
10 66 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (3.38%) dbt
13 52 (3.08%) Vertex AI
14 51 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 47 (2.79%) Cloud Run
16 42 (2.49%) Amazon S3
17 38 (2.25%) OpenShift
18 34 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 29 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (6.05%) Firewall
2 96 (5.69%) Network Security
3 93 (5.52%) DNS
4 88 (5.22%) VPN
5 26 (1.54%) WAN
6 25 (1.48%) BGP
6 25 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.30%) HTTP
8 16 (0.95%) DHCP
8 16 (0.95%) OSPF
8 16 (0.95%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.83%) Internet
10 12 (0.71%) SSL
11 11 (0.65%) VLAN
12 10 (0.59%) IPsec
12 10 (0.59%) VoIP
12 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.53%) LAN
14 8 (0.47%) DKIM
14 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (10.85%) BigQuery
2 122 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
4 76 (4.51%) Power BI
5 75 (4.45%) Data Lake
6 74 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 69 (4.09%) Big Data
8 56 (3.32%) Metadata
9 53 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 47 (2.79%) Tableau
11 37 (2.19%) SQL Server
12 32 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.78%) MySQL
14 24 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.30%) Hadoop
16 20 (1.19%) Flink
16 20 (1.19%) Looker
16 20 (1.19%) Redis
17 16 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 206 (12.22%) Jenkins
2 161 (9.55%) Git
3 131 (7.77%) GitLab
4 78 (4.63%) JIRA
5 47 (2.79%) JUnit
6 39 (2.31%) Selenium
7 32 (1.90%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.84%) JMeter
9 30 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.13%) Maven
10 19 (1.13%) Postman
11 18 (1.07%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.77%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.71%) MLflow
14 10 (0.59%) Gradle
14 10 (0.59%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.53%) ERwin
15 9 (0.53%) Gatling
16 8 (0.47%) Mockito
17 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
General
1 453 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 402 (23.84%) Finance
3 156 (9.25%) Banking
4 151 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.91%) Retail
7 48 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.02%) Legal
10 33 (1.96%) Front Office
10 33 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.42%) Marketing
13 21 (1.25%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.89%) Billing
16 14 (0.83%) Military
17 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (20.58%) Architect
2 215 (12.75%) Senior
3 191 (11.33%) Developer
4 163 (9.67%) GCP Engineer
5 161 (9.55%) Lead
6 140 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 108 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 82 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.21%) Java Developer
11 65 (3.86%) Software Engineer
12 64 (3.80%) Consultant
13 58 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
14 56 (3.32%) Security Architect
14 56 (3.32%) Security Engineer
15 49 (2.91%) Data Architect
15 49 (2.91%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.85%) Analyst
17 44 (2.61%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (9.02%) Kafka
2 151 (8.96%) REST
3 121 (7.18%) Spring
4 113 (6.70%) React
5 101 (5.99%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.63%) Node.js
7 80 (4.74%) OAuth
8 66 (3.91%) LDAP
9 61 (3.62%) RESTful
10 50 (2.97%) OpenID
11 48 (2.85%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.73%) SOAP
13 45 (2.67%) OAuth2
13 45 (2.67%) TensorFlow
14 44 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 42 (2.49%) SAML
16 40 (2.37%) LangChain
17 34 (2.02%) .NET
17 34 (2.02%) GraphQL
18 32 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 332 (19.69%) Cloud Native
2 104 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (4.09%) Security Posture
4 67 (3.97%) Public Cloud
5 57 (3.38%) AI Agents
6 55 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
7 53 (3.14%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.73%) Product Ownership
9 43 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 41 (2.43%) Onboarding
11 39 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (2.08%) Fixed Income
13 29 (1.72%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.60%) Derivative
14 27 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.48%) Clustering
16 24 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (1.36%) Private Cloud
18 22 (1.30%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.35%) Linux
2 80 (4.74%) Windows
3 27 (1.60%) Android
4 25 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.48%) Unix
5 20 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.01%) VMS
8 14 (0.83%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (45.55%) CI/CD
2 557 (33.04%) DevOps
3 394 (23.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (23.13%) Agile
5 373 (22.12%) AI
6 286 (16.96%) Microservices
7 274 (16.25%) Analytics
8 261 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
9 257 (15.24%) Observability
10 242 (14.35%) Containerisation
11 232 (13.76%) Machine Learning
12 207 (12.28%) Software Engineering
13 201 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
14 195 (11.57%) Migration
15 190 (11.27%) Data Modelling
15 190 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 180 (10.68%) Cloud Security
17 172 (10.20%) Data Engineering
18 171 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
19 168 (9.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 660 (39.15%) Python
2 337 (19.99%) SQL
3 317 (18.80%) Java
4 133 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 123 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 114 (6.76%) Bash
7 89 (5.28%) Go
8 87 (5.16%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.37%) C#
10 37 (2.19%) Scala
11 21 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.07%) Bicep
12 18 (1.07%) Groovy
13 14 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.77%) Rust
15 12 (0.71%) Ruby
16 10 (0.59%) R
17 9 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
19 6 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 348 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 281 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.99%) Degree
4 100 (5.93%) CISSP
5 72 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 67 (3.97%) AWS Certification
7 59 (3.50%) CISM
8 55 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
9 53 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 52 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 39 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (1.60%) CCSP
13 25 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (1.36%) Master's Degree
15 19 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (1.01%) GIAC
17 15 (0.89%) CCNP
18 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 11 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
20 10 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.29%) GDPR
3 87 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 87 (5.16%) NIST
4 65 (3.86%) QA
5 35 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.48%) NCSC
7 23 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 15 (0.89%) SLA
10 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.53%) COBIT
12 9 (0.53%) PSD2
12 9 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.53%) WCAG
13 6 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.36%) MiFID
13 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 323 (19.16%) Docker
2 88 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) vSphere
7 13 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.24%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 511 (30.31%) Kubernetes
2 440 (26.10%) Terraform
3 118 (7.00%) Grafana
4 115 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 108 (6.41%) Ansible
6 38 (2.25%) Istio
7 33 (1.96%) Argo
7 33 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.07%) Puppet
10 13 (0.77%) Kubeflow
11 10 (0.59%) Kustomize
11 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.42%) linkerd
13 7 (0.42%) Podman
14 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.30%) Nessus
14 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 527 (31.26%) Google
2 149 (8.84%) Microsoft
3 79 (4.69%) Databricks
4 61 (3.62%) Splunk
5 59 (3.50%) CyberArk
6 53 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 41 (2.43%) VMware
8 39 (2.31%) Oracle
9 37 (2.19%) BeyondTrust
9 37 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 36 (2.14%) OpenAI
11 31 (1.84%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.66%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.54%) Centrify
14 23 (1.36%) Red Hat
15 21 (1.25%) Okta
16 19 (1.13%) Cisco
17 18 (1.07%) SAP
18 17 (1.01%) Informatica
19 15 (0.89%) Foundry