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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,845 1,159 1,215
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.10% 4.24% 3.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.73% 11.35% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 795 883
10th Percentile £402 £367 £413
25th Percentile £463 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -
75th Percentile £665 £688 £782
90th Percentile £749 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 9
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £34.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -2.73% -25.51%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £67.00
90th Percentile £82.65 £101.10 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +28.04% +42.67% -49.21%

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 15,724 10,215 11,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,491 6,914 8,297
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 267 278
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.02 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +25.00% -37.14%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -3 985 £575 -4.17% 687
North of England +14 381 £538 +7.50% 183
Yorkshire +1 238 £525 +11.11% 50
South East +8 174 £550 +3.58% 153
North West +3 128 £554 +4.48% 105
South West +16 121 £560 +6.67% 60
Midlands -30 84 £500 +11.11% 59
West Midlands -28 67 £500 -16.67% 50
East of England +10 53 £533 +6.50% 20
North East -19 19 £550 +1.15% 29
East Midlands -22 17 £500 +23.46% 9
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
1 115 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 84 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (3.85%) Apache
4 50 (2.71%) Confluence
5 14 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.33%) CMS
7 6 (0.33%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) JBoss
11 1 (0.054%) Mule
11 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.11%) Trello
8 1 (0.054%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.054%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.054%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,208 (65.47%) AWS
2 1,177 (63.79%) Azure
3 197 (10.68%) GitHub
4 168 (9.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 130 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
6 123 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 88 (4.77%) Power Platform
8 85 (4.61%) SaaS
9 79 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
10 78 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (4.01%) Serverless
12 72 (3.90%) dbt
13 53 (2.87%) Entra ID
13 53 (2.87%) Vertex AI
14 44 (2.38%) Amazon S3
15 41 (2.22%) Cloud Run
16 38 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (1.90%) OpenShift
19 32 (1.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.07%) Firewall
2 103 (5.58%) Network Security
3 100 (5.42%) DNS
4 93 (5.04%) VPN
5 35 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.68%) BGP
6 31 (1.68%) WAN
7 23 (1.25%) HTTP
8 22 (1.19%) OSPF
9 20 (1.08%) DHCP
10 18 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.92%) VLAN
12 16 (0.87%) Internet
13 12 (0.65%) IPsec
13 12 (0.65%) LAN
13 12 (0.65%) SSL
13 12 (0.65%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.60%) MPLS
15 9 (0.49%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (11.33%) BigQuery
2 160 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 82 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 75 (4.07%) Big Data
6 73 (3.96%) Power BI
7 69 (3.74%) Metadata
8 65 (3.52%) Relational Database
9 44 (2.38%) Tableau
10 33 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (1.73%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.68%) Looker
13 30 (1.63%) MongoDB
14 28 (1.52%) MySQL
15 25 (1.36%) Flink
16 23 (1.25%) Redis
16 23 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
17 21 (1.14%) Hadoop
18 14 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 218 (11.82%) Jenkins
2 190 (10.30%) Git
3 138 (7.48%) GitLab
4 84 (4.55%) JIRA
5 51 (2.76%) JUnit
6 35 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.84%) Selenium
8 28 (1.52%) JMeter
9 27 (1.46%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.41%) Maven
11 18 (0.98%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.81%) Gradle
13 13 (0.70%) Postman
13 13 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (0.65%) MLflow
15 11 (0.60%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.43%) Mockito
17 8 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 464 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 451 (24.44%) Finance
3 173 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (8.94%) Banking
5 155 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.63%) Retail
7 58 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.28%) Legal
10 38 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.95%) Front Office
12 33 (1.79%) Marketing
13 27 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.30%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.08%) Billing
17 17 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.87%) Publishing
19 14 (0.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 377 (20.43%) Architect
2 236 (12.79%) Senior
3 227 (12.30%) Developer
4 179 (9.70%) Lead
5 162 (8.78%) GCP Engineer
6 156 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 125 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 124 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 106 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.66%) Java Developer
11 73 (3.96%) Consultant
12 66 (3.58%) Analyst
13 65 (3.52%) Software Engineer
14 64 (3.47%) Data Architect
14 64 (3.47%) Security Architect
15 63 (3.41%) Security Engineer
16 58 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
17 56 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 51 (2.76%) GCP DevOps
19 47 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (9.54%) Kafka
2 155 (8.40%) REST
3 120 (6.50%) Spring
4 117 (6.34%) React
5 98 (5.31%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.15%) Node.js
7 77 (4.17%) OAuth
8 63 (3.41%) RESTful
9 45 (2.44%) JSON
10 44 (2.38%) LangChain
11 42 (2.28%) GraphQL
11 42 (2.28%) LDAP
11 42 (2.28%) OAuth2
11 42 (2.28%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.22%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.17%) OpenID
13 40 (2.17%) SAML
14 39 (2.11%) TensorFlow
15 38 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (1.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 345 (18.70%) Cloud Native
2 129 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.12%) AI Agents
4 62 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 54 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 52 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.82%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 50 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.95%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.79%) Algorithms
13 33 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.73%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.68%) Derivative
16 30 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 29 (1.57%) Data Structures
18 27 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.56%) Linux
2 89 (4.82%) Windows
3 29 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.36%) Android
4 25 (1.36%) Unix
5 20 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.65%) VMS
8 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.054%) CentOS
12 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.054%) Solaris
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (44.39%) CI/CD
2 585 (31.71%) DevOps
3 477 (25.85%) Agile
4 434 (23.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 428 (23.20%) AI
6 327 (17.72%) Microservices
7 307 (16.64%) Analytics
8 268 (14.53%) Machine Learning
8 268 (14.53%) Observability
9 266 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
10 258 (13.98%) Containerisation
11 249 (13.50%) Software Engineering
12 241 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 231 (12.52%) Data Modelling
14 227 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
15 208 (11.27%) Migration
16 201 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 198 (10.73%) Cloud Security
18 195 (10.57%) Roadmaps
19 191 (10.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 703 (38.10%) Python
2 386 (20.92%) SQL
3 353 (19.13%) Java
4 143 (7.75%) Bash
4 143 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 133 (7.21%) PowerShell
6 90 (4.88%) Go
7 88 (4.77%) TypeScript
8 39 (2.11%) Scala
9 38 (2.06%) C#
10 30 (1.63%) Bicep
11 25 (1.36%) Groovy
11 25 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 23 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.98%) Rust
14 15 (0.81%) R
15 13 (0.70%) Ruby
16 10 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
17 9 (0.49%) C++
17 9 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 357 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 280 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 118 (6.40%) Degree
4 110 (5.96%) CISSP
5 90 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 59 (3.20%) CISM
9 58 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 29 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 26 (1.41%) CCSP
14 22 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (1.14%) CCNP
16 18 (0.98%) GIAC
17 15 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 102 (5.53%) GDPR
3 84 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 84 (4.55%) NIST
4 82 (4.44%) QA
5 33 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 27 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.19%) NCSC
8 21 (1.14%) GRC
9 12 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.49%) COBIT
13 8 (0.43%) PSD2
13 8 (0.43%) WCAG
14 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.38%) MiFID
15 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 341 (18.48%) Docker
2 71 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.76%) vSphere
7 13 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 548 (29.70%) Kubernetes
2 461 (24.99%) Terraform
3 129 (6.99%) Prometheus
4 128 (6.94%) Grafana
5 110 (5.96%) Ansible
6 38 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.68%) Argo
8 28 (1.52%) Istio
9 24 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 19 (1.03%) Puppet
11 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.65%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.65%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.49%) Podman
14 7 (0.38%) linkerd
15 6 (0.33%) QRadar
16 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 582 (31.54%) Google
2 171 (9.27%) Microsoft
3 94 (5.09%) Databricks
4 68 (3.69%) Splunk
5 50 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.44%) Oracle
8 42 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.17%) CyberArk
10 39 (2.11%) VMware
11 36 (1.95%) Dynatrace
12 34 (1.84%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.52%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.52%) SAP
14 24 (1.30%) Informatica
15 22 (1.19%) Cisco
16 18 (0.98%) Okta
17 17 (0.92%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.76%) Tenable
19 13 (0.70%) Talend