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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 72
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,686 924 1,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.23% 3.76% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.84% 10.06% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 634 756
10th Percentile £375 £374 £424
25th Percentile £450 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £812 £800
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.55
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -21.62%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.50 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.65 £76.84 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +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 14,243 9,187 11,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.72% 37.36% 31.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,819 6,438 8,539
10th Percentile £316 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 195 324
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.13 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +26.04% -30.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.05
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +4 865 £575 -6.12% 240
North of England +32 339 £525 -4.55% 101
Yorkshire +7 192 £500 -4.76% 23
South East +25 185 £492 -14.43% 100
North West +22 132 £550 -4.35% 62
South West +20 101 £550 +0.46% 39
Midlands -4 92 £455 - 46
West Midlands -9 70 £486 -2.75% 24
East of England -7 55 £570 +14.00% 23
East Midlands -23 22 £438 +11.89% 22
North East -2 18 £575 +24.32% 16
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 96 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (3.20%) Apache
4 38 (2.25%) Confluence
5 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.42%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.18%) nginx
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.12%) Documentum
13 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.059%) JBoss
13 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.24%) Weka
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.059%) Actimize
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (69.51%) Azure
2 1,149 (68.15%) AWS
3 183 (10.85%) GitHub
4 133 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 113 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 103 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 80 (4.74%) Snowflake
9 64 (3.80%) SaaS
10 61 (3.62%) Serverless
11 59 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (3.44%) OpenShift
13 52 (3.08%) Amazon S3
14 50 (2.97%) dbt
15 48 (2.85%) Vertex AI
16 46 (2.73%) Entra ID
17 38 (2.25%) Cloud Run
18 33 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (1.90%) Google Gemini
20 31 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.81%) Firewall
2 89 (5.28%) VPN
3 85 (5.04%) DNS
4 78 (4.63%) Network Security
5 26 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.30%) HTTP
6 22 (1.30%) WAN
7 17 (1.01%) BGP
8 14 (0.83%) VoIP
9 12 (0.71%) OSPF
9 12 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.65%) Internet
10 11 (0.65%) LAN
11 10 (0.59%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.53%) VLAN
13 8 (0.47%) SSL
13 8 (0.47%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
15 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.36%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (10.68%) BigQuery
2 105 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (5.58%) Power BI
4 79 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 69 (4.09%) Big Data
6 64 (3.80%) Metadata
7 63 (3.74%) Data Lake
8 56 (3.32%) Tableau
9 40 (2.37%) SQL Server
10 39 (2.31%) Relational Database
11 35 (2.08%) MongoDB
12 34 (2.02%) MySQL
13 27 (1.60%) Looker
14 26 (1.54%) Hadoop
15 22 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
16 21 (1.25%) OLAP
17 19 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
19 17 (1.01%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 207 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 156 (9.25%) Git
3 131 (7.77%) GitLab
4 80 (4.74%) JIRA
5 44 (2.61%) Selenium
6 41 (2.43%) JUnit
7 28 (1.66%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.66%) JMeter
8 26 (1.54%) Postman
9 19 (1.13%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 16 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.77%) MLflow
13 11 (0.65%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.59%) Maven
15 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
16 8 (0.47%) Gatling
16 8 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 496 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 367 (21.77%) Finance
3 183 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.13%) Banking
5 138 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 52 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.97%) Retail
8 38 (2.25%) Legal
9 36 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.90%) Front Office
10 32 (1.90%) Marketing
11 28 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 16 (0.95%) Military
14 16 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 345 (20.46%) Architect
2 190 (11.27%) Senior
3 181 (10.74%) Lead
4 178 (10.56%) Developer
5 163 (9.67%) GCP Engineer
6 137 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 104 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 98 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 81 (4.80%) Analyst
10 75 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 56 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
13 54 (3.20%) Consultant
14 53 (3.14%) Java Developer
15 52 (3.08%) Security Engineer
16 48 (2.85%) GCP DevOps
16 48 (2.85%) Security Architect
17 46 (2.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 44 (2.61%) Data Architect
19 42 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.02%) REST
2 152 (9.02%) Kafka
3 122 (7.24%) Spring
4 111 (6.58%) React
5 99 (5.87%) Node.js
6 95 (5.63%) Spring Boot
7 85 (5.04%) LDAP
8 73 (4.33%) RESTful
9 69 (4.09%) OAuth
10 57 (3.38%) SOAP
11 53 (3.14%) PyTorch
11 53 (3.14%) TensorFlow
12 51 (3.02%) OpenID
13 50 (2.97%) AngularJS
14 48 (2.85%) .NET
15 40 (2.37%) LangChain
16 37 (2.19%) OAuth2
16 37 (2.19%) SAML
16 37 (2.19%) scikit-learn
17 33 (1.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 280 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 93 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (4.27%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 45 (2.67%) AI Agents
7 41 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.72%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 23 (1.36%) Private Cloud
13 22 (1.30%) Clustering
13 22 (1.30%) Derivative
14 20 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
14 20 (1.19%) Equities
14 20 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.46%) Linux
2 69 (4.09%) Windows
3 26 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 25 (1.48%) Android
5 22 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.30%) VMS
6 15 (0.89%) Unix
7 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
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
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (43.65%) CI/CD
2 553 (32.80%) DevOps
3 366 (21.71%) Agile
4 348 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 344 (20.40%) AI
6 314 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (17.85%) Analytics
8 275 (16.31%) Containerisation
9 268 (15.90%) Microservices
10 235 (13.94%) Machine Learning
11 226 (13.40%) Observability
12 201 (11.92%) Data Pipeline
13 191 (11.33%) Migration
14 190 (11.27%) Data Modelling
15 188 (11.15%) Software Engineering
16 182 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 176 (10.44%) Data Engineering
18 161 (9.55%) ETL
19 160 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 151 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 676 (40.09%) Python
2 324 (19.22%) SQL
3 296 (17.56%) Java
4 135 (8.01%) PowerShell
5 133 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 110 (6.52%) Bash
7 82 (4.86%) TypeScript
8 69 (4.09%) Go
9 50 (2.97%) C#
10 34 (2.02%) Scala
11 19 (1.13%) Groovy
12 18 (1.07%) Bicep
12 18 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.01%) R
14 9 (0.53%) Ruby
15 8 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.42%) C++
16 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
16 7 (0.42%) PHP
17 6 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 381 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 314 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 94 (5.58%) Degree
4 79 (4.69%) CISSP
5 59 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.08%) CISM
8 50 (2.97%) Azure Certification
9 45 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 25 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.07%) CCNP
12 18 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.95%) CCSP
13 16 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.72%) GDPR
2 126 (7.47%) Data Quality
3 94 (5.58%) NIST
4 93 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (4.27%) QA
6 41 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.19%) NCSC
9 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 18 (1.07%) SLA
10 15 (0.89%) HIPAA
10 15 (0.89%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.59%) PSD2
12 9 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.42%) COBIT
13 7 (0.42%) PERC
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 346 (20.52%) Docker
2 94 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.47%) vSphere
7 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.30%) GPFS
8 5 (0.30%) HDFS
8 5 (0.30%) Lustre
8 5 (0.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.18%) KVM
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.059%) Ceph
10 1 (0.059%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 518 (30.72%) Kubernetes
2 401 (23.78%) Terraform
3 119 (7.06%) Ansible
4 106 (6.29%) Grafana
5 99 (5.87%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.08%) Istio
7 27 (1.60%) Argo
8 20 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.95%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.77%) Puppet
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.59%) SCCM
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.47%) Fluentd
15 7 (0.42%) Kibana
15 7 (0.42%) Podman
16 6 (0.36%) Nessus
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 539 (31.97%) Google
2 140 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 84 (4.98%) Splunk
4 79 (4.69%) Databricks
5 71 (4.21%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.20%) BeyondTrust
8 38 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 38 (2.25%) Oracle
9 37 (2.19%) VMware
10 36 (2.14%) Centrify
11 30 (1.78%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.66%) SAP
14 27 (1.60%) Cisco
14 27 (1.60%) Dynatrace
15 21 (1.25%) Foundry
15 21 (1.25%) Informatica
16 20 (1.19%) Red Hat
17 16 (0.95%) Okta