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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 57 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,626 919 969
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.48% 3.72% 2.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.09% 9.79% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 612 717
10th Percentile £369 £363 £424
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £657 £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 13,451 9,383 12,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.05% 38.01% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,250 6,498 8,876
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £412 £418 £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 £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.75 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £38.51 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +48.10% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +1 811 £600 -0.04% 325
North of England +35 337 £503 -8.64% 118
Yorkshire +11 197 £500 -8.97% 43
South East +39 193 £479 -12.84% 163
Midlands +10 126 £489 +2.89% 32
North West +30 124 £534 -14.15% 55
West Midlands +11 103 £500 +4.82% 24
South West +29 75 £550 -12.00% 64
East of England -17 38 £555 +73.86% 42
East Midlands -24 22 £438 +11.89% 8
North East -4 16 £538 +61.65% 20
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 91 (5.60%) Apache Spark
2 67 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (3.69%) Apache
4 33 (2.03%) Confluence
5 13 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.62%) SAS
7 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.31%) Camunda
9 4 (0.25%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.062%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.062%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.31%) Weka
4 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.062%) Actimize
6 1 (0.062%) Maximo
6 1 (0.062%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (72.63%) AWS
2 1,163 (71.53%) Azure
3 197 (12.12%) GitHub
4 127 (7.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 120 (7.38%) Power Platform
6 102 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (4.61%) Serverless
9 74 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 68 (4.18%) OpenShift
11 66 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (3.38%) Amazon S3
13 45 (2.77%) Cloud Run
14 44 (2.71%) Entra ID
15 43 (2.64%) dbt
16 42 (2.58%) SaaS
17 41 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 36 (2.21%) Vertex AI
19 35 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
20 29 (1.78%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 124 (7.63%) Firewall
2 77 (4.74%) VPN
3 69 (4.24%) DNS
4 68 (4.18%) Network Security
5 30 (1.85%) WAN
6 28 (1.72%) TCP/IP
7 22 (1.35%) BGP
8 20 (1.23%) LAN
8 20 (1.23%) SD-WAN
9 19 (1.17%) HTTP
10 17 (1.05%) OSPF
11 14 (0.86%) DHCP
12 13 (0.80%) VoIP
13 12 (0.74%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.68%) VLAN
14 11 (0.68%) Wireless
15 10 (0.62%) Internet
15 10 (0.62%) Kerberos
16 9 (0.55%) IPv6
16 9 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (10.27%) BigQuery
2 141 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 102 (6.27%) Power BI
4 96 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 56 (3.44%) Big Data
7 55 (3.38%) Metadata
8 50 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 50 (3.08%) Tableau
9 45 (2.77%) MongoDB
10 39 (2.40%) MySQL
11 34 (2.09%) Relational Database
12 30 (1.85%) Hadoop
13 27 (1.66%) Looker
14 22 (1.35%) OLAP
15 18 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
16 17 (1.05%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 226 (13.90%) Jenkins
2 178 (10.95%) Git
3 160 (9.84%) GitLab
4 77 (4.74%) JIRA
5 34 (2.09%) Selenium
6 32 (1.97%) JUnit
7 28 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.66%) JMeter
9 22 (1.35%) Postman
10 18 (1.11%) CircleCI
11 17 (1.05%) Liquibase
12 14 (0.86%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.80%) Gatling
13 13 (0.80%) MLflow
13 13 (0.80%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.68%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.62%) Maven
16 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.55%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.49%) ERwin
General
1 534 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 365 (22.45%) Finance
3 187 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.21%) Banking
5 144 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (2.40%) Retail
8 35 (2.15%) Front Office
8 35 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 31 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 30 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.85%) Legal
11 24 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (1.35%) Marketing
14 18 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.98%) Electronics
16 15 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 318 (19.56%) Architect
2 190 (11.69%) Senior
3 182 (11.19%) Developer
4 154 (9.47%) Lead
5 149 (9.16%) GCP Engineer
6 125 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 92 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 91 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 86 (5.29%) Analyst
9 86 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
10 77 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 66 (4.06%) Consultant
12 51 (3.14%) Security Engineer
13 47 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
14 44 (2.71%) Cloud Architect
14 44 (2.71%) GCP DevOps
15 43 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 42 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.52%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 41 (2.52%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (11.25%) REST
2 142 (8.73%) Kafka
3 127 (7.81%) React
4 111 (6.83%) Spring
5 108 (6.64%) Node.js
6 95 (5.84%) RESTful
7 79 (4.86%) LDAP
8 78 (4.80%) Spring Boot
9 67 (4.12%) PyTorch
10 65 (4.00%) TensorFlow
11 62 (3.81%) AngularJS
12 57 (3.51%) SOAP
13 50 (3.08%) OAuth
14 49 (3.01%) .NET
15 43 (2.64%) scikit-learn
16 42 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
16 42 (2.58%) Middleware
16 42 (2.58%) OpenID
17 36 (2.21%) LangChain
18 35 (2.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 259 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.78%) Public Cloud
3 86 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.18%) Security Posture
5 60 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 51 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 43 (2.64%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 28 (1.72%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.41%) Derivative
13 23 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.23%) Equities
15 19 (1.17%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.11%) Life Science
17 17 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (7.13%) Linux
2 66 (4.06%) Windows
3 23 (1.41%) Mac OS
4 22 (1.35%) VMS
5 18 (1.11%) Android
6 16 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.92%) Unix
8 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.31%) CentOS
9 5 (0.31%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.31%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.062%) Rocky
12 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (44.16%) CI/CD
2 586 (36.04%) DevOps
3 394 (24.23%) Agile
4 342 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 337 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 321 (19.74%) AI
7 315 (19.37%) Containerisation
8 279 (17.16%) Analytics
9 263 (16.17%) Microservices
10 247 (15.19%) Machine Learning
11 205 (12.61%) Observability
12 181 (11.13%) Data Pipeline
13 180 (11.07%) Software Engineering
14 174 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 168 (10.33%) Migration
16 164 (10.09%) Data Modelling
17 155 (9.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 155 (9.53%) ETL
18 152 (9.35%) Test Automation
19 149 (9.16%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 702 (43.17%) Python
2 312 (19.19%) SQL
3 252 (15.50%) Java
4 139 (8.55%) PowerShell
5 133 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 115 (7.07%) Bash
7 92 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 74 (4.55%) Go
9 52 (3.20%) C#
10 31 (1.91%) Scala
11 20 (1.23%) R
12 18 (1.11%) Bicep
13 16 (0.98%) Groovy
13 16 (0.98%) Ruby
14 14 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.62%) C++
16 9 (0.55%) PHP
16 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
17 7 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 363 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 304 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 135 (8.30%) Degree
4 87 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (4.55%) CISSP
6 58 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 56 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 47 (2.89%) CISM
9 44 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (2.64%) DV Cleared
10 43 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 21 (1.29%) CCNP
14 19 (1.17%) CCSP
14 19 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.74%) CCIE
17 11 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.86%) GDPR
2 117 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 99 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (5.66%) NIST
5 70 (4.31%) QA
6 49 (3.01%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.11%) HIPAA
8 18 (1.11%) NCSC
8 18 (1.11%) SLA
9 17 (1.05%) GRC
10 16 (0.98%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.80%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.68%) PSD2
13 7 (0.43%) PERC
14 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.31%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.31%) WCAG
16 4 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 395 (24.29%) Docker
2 94 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 44 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.80%) vSphere
7 8 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.37%) GPFS
8 6 (0.37%) Lustre
8 6 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.31%) KVM
9 5 (0.31%) NFS
10 4 (0.25%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.12%) Snort
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
12 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.062%) UAG
13 1 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 520 (31.98%) Kubernetes
2 397 (24.42%) Terraform
3 149 (9.16%) Ansible
4 120 (7.38%) Grafana
5 109 (6.70%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.15%) Istio
7 31 (1.91%) Argo
8 17 (1.05%) Puppet
9 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.98%) SCCM
10 13 (0.80%) Kubeflow
11 12 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.55%) Nessus
13 8 (0.49%) Fluentd
14 7 (0.43%) CSIRT
15 6 (0.37%) Kibana
15 6 (0.37%) Podman
16 5 (0.31%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.31%) Rancher
Vendors
1 538 (33.09%) Google
2 137 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 113 (6.95%) Splunk
4 75 (4.61%) Databricks
5 72 (4.43%) CyberArk
6 63 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.57%) BeyondTrust
8 48 (2.95%) VMware
9 46 (2.83%) Oracle
10 41 (2.52%) SAP
11 40 (2.46%) OpenAI
11 40 (2.46%) Palo Alto
12 35 (2.15%) Centrify
12 35 (2.15%) Cisco
13 31 (1.91%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.35%) F5
15 20 (1.23%) Foundry
15 20 (1.23%) Informatica
16 19 (1.17%) Dynatrace
16 19 (1.17%) Fortinet