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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 53 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,916 1,182 1,192
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.18% 4.27% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.95% 11.49% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 805 853
10th Percentile £407 £375 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £653 £681 £788
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £41.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £27.56 £50.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £53.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.51% +42.67% -51.61%
75th Percentile £79.13 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.00 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £53.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.91% +52.86% -54.84%

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 16,031 10,291 11,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,694 6,965 7,949
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 274 231
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +8.28% -25.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -1 996 £569 -5.21% 1,674
North of England +12 412 £538 +7.57% 307
Yorkshire +7 257 £538 +13.16% 88
South East +6 192 £541 +1.88% 189
North West -4 141 £560 +3.70% 186
South West +12 129 £560 +6.67% 106
Midlands -31 81 £525 +19.45% 84
West Midlands -19 62 £525 -6.67% 73
East of England +13 53 £540 +6.76% 27
East Midlands -23 19 £500 +27.39% 11
North East -28 18 £463 -14.94% 33
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
1 113 (5.90%) Apache Spark
2 95 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (3.81%) Apache
4 56 (2.92%) Confluence
5 15 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.37%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.052%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.052%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.052%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.21%) Trello
3 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.10%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.052%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.052%) Houdini
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.052%) NUKE
5 1 (0.052%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.052%) Maximo
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.052%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.052%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.052%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.052%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (64.87%) AWS
2 1,216 (63.47%) Azure
3 221 (11.53%) GitHub
4 171 (8.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 148 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
6 128 (6.68%) Snowflake
7 95 (4.96%) SaaS
8 88 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
9 83 (4.33%) Power Platform
10 81 (4.23%) dbt
11 79 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (3.81%) Serverless
13 55 (2.87%) Vertex AI
14 54 (2.82%) Entra ID
15 47 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (2.14%) Cloud Run
17 40 (2.09%) Amazon S3
18 36 (1.88%) OpenShift
18 36 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 35 (1.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 108 (5.64%) Firewall
2 105 (5.48%) DNS
3 103 (5.38%) Network Security
4 87 (4.54%) VPN
5 37 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.46%) WAN
7 27 (1.41%) BGP
8 26 (1.36%) HTTP
9 22 (1.15%) DHCP
10 19 (0.99%) Internet
10 19 (0.99%) VLAN
11 18 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.89%) OSPF
13 13 (0.68%) SSL
14 10 (0.52%) LAN
14 10 (0.52%) MPLS
14 10 (0.52%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.47%) IPsec
16 8 (0.42%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (11.59%) BigQuery
2 169 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 76 (3.97%) Data Lake
6 75 (3.91%) Metadata
7 73 (3.81%) Relational Database
8 72 (3.76%) Big Data
9 71 (3.71%) Power BI
10 47 (2.45%) Tableau
11 42 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 35 (1.83%) Looker
13 31 (1.62%) Flink
14 30 (1.57%) MongoDB
14 30 (1.57%) SQL Server
15 28 (1.46%) Redis
16 26 (1.36%) MySQL
17 24 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
18 19 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 236 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 221 (11.53%) Git
3 157 (8.19%) GitLab
4 97 (5.06%) JIRA
5 50 (2.61%) JUnit
6 38 (1.98%) Selenium
6 38 (1.98%) SonarQube
7 36 (1.88%) JMeter
8 28 (1.46%) Maven
9 26 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.94%) WebDriver
11 16 (0.84%) Gradle
11 16 (0.84%) LoadRunner
12 15 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.78%) Postman
13 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.68%) Gatling
14 13 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.52%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 504 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 452 (23.59%) Finance
3 182 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (8.82%) Banking
5 157 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.39%) Retail
7 62 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (2.09%) Legal
10 35 (1.83%) Marketing
11 30 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.25%) Investment Banking
15 22 (1.15%) Front Office
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.10%) Billing
17 18 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 399 (20.82%) Architect
2 259 (13.52%) Senior
3 215 (11.22%) Developer
4 193 (10.07%) Lead
5 167 (8.72%) GCP Engineer
6 162 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 132 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 118 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 110 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
10 84 (4.38%) Java Developer
11 78 (4.07%) Consultant
12 72 (3.76%) Security Engineer
13 67 (3.50%) Security Architect
14 65 (3.39%) Data Architect
15 64 (3.34%) Analyst
16 63 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 53 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
19 52 (2.71%) Software Engineer
20 45 (2.35%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (9.71%) Kafka
2 166 (8.66%) REST
3 115 (6.00%) Spring
4 109 (5.69%) React
5 93 (4.85%) OAuth
6 92 (4.80%) Spring Boot
7 84 (4.38%) Node.js
8 77 (4.02%) RESTful
9 57 (2.97%) JSON
10 51 (2.66%) OpenID
11 50 (2.61%) OAuth2
12 49 (2.56%) SAML
13 44 (2.30%) LDAP
13 44 (2.30%) PySpark
14 43 (2.24%) LangChain
14 43 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (2.14%) GraphQL
15 41 (2.14%) PyTorch
16 39 (2.04%) SOAP
17 38 (1.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 379 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 132 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (4.70%) AI Agents
4 72 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 64 (3.34%) Security Posture
6 58 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 55 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 53 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
10 48 (2.51%) Data Centre
11 46 (2.40%) Public Cloud
12 43 (2.24%) Algorithms
12 43 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
13 40 (2.09%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
15 33 (1.72%) Management Information System
16 30 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 29 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
17 29 (1.51%) PKI
18 27 (1.41%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.20%) Linux
2 91 (4.75%) Windows
3 32 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (1.46%) Unix
5 25 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.10%) Android
7 15 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.47%) VMS
10 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.10%) CentOS
13 1 (0.052%) Solaris
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (44.62%) CI/CD
2 607 (31.68%) DevOps
3 487 (25.42%) Agile
4 463 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 446 (23.28%) AI
6 329 (17.17%) Microservices
7 305 (15.92%) Analytics
8 290 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 282 (14.72%) Machine Learning
10 280 (14.61%) Observability
10 280 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
11 266 (13.88%) Containerisation
12 256 (13.36%) Software Engineering
13 240 (12.53%) Data Pipeline
14 231 (12.06%) Data Modelling
15 223 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 221 (11.53%) Roadmaps
17 218 (11.38%) Migration
18 212 (11.06%) Cloud Security
19 191 (9.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 724 (37.79%) Python
2 391 (20.41%) SQL
3 363 (18.95%) Java
4 159 (8.30%) Bash
4 159 (8.30%) JavaScript
5 138 (7.20%) PowerShell
6 89 (4.65%) Go
7 82 (4.28%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.35%) Scala
9 40 (2.09%) C#
10 31 (1.62%) Bicep
10 31 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 24 (1.25%) Groovy
12 19 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 18 (0.94%) Rust
14 17 (0.89%) R
15 12 (0.63%) Ruby
16 10 (0.52%) C++
17 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 384 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 293 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.68%) Degree
4 110 (5.74%) CISSP
5 93 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 84 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.29%) Azure Certification
9 61 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (3.08%) CISM
11 41 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.77%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.20%) CCSP
14 19 (0.99%) GIAC
15 18 (0.94%) CCNP
16 16 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
19 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.80%) GDPR
3 90 (4.70%) QA
4 88 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (4.44%) NIST
6 29 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.20%) NCSC
8 19 (0.99%) GRC
9 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.42%) COBIT
11 8 (0.42%) WCAG
12 7 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.31%) PSD2
13 6 (0.31%) SLA
14 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 359 (18.74%) Docker
2 77 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.68%) vSphere
6 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.16%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.10%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 595 (31.05%) Kubernetes
2 480 (25.05%) Terraform
3 131 (6.84%) Prometheus
4 129 (6.73%) Grafana
5 125 (6.52%) Ansible
6 41 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.67%) Argo
8 29 (1.51%) Istio
9 26 (1.36%) Progress Chef
10 21 (1.10%) Puppet
11 15 (0.78%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.73%) Kubeflow
12 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.47%) Podman
14 7 (0.37%) QRadar
15 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.26%) linkerd
15 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 632 (32.99%) Google
2 192 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 107 (5.58%) Databricks
4 69 (3.60%) Splunk
5 60 (3.13%) Oracle
6 53 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 53 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.40%) VMware
8 45 (2.35%) Dynatrace
9 43 (2.24%) CyberArk
10 39 (2.04%) OpenAI
11 33 (1.72%) SAP
12 30 (1.57%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.57%) Red Hat
13 26 (1.36%) Informatica
14 25 (1.30%) IBM
15 21 (1.10%) Cisco
15 21 (1.10%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.89%) New Relic
16 17 (0.89%) Okta