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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,903 1,180 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.28% 3.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.93% 11.49% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 803 866
10th Percentile £410 £375 £413
25th Percentile £470 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £775
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £40.22 £33.50
25th Percentile £27.56 £50.85 £35.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £61.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% +63.33% -51.61%
75th Percentile £79.13 £77.15 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £100.55 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £69.50 £61.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.47% +75.00% -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 15,947 10,270 11,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.92% 37.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,653 6,955 7,908
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 276 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +1 999 £575 -4.17% 277
North of England +11 405 £538 +7.64% 163
Yorkshire +7 250 £538 +13.16% 54
South East +1 190 £530 +1.63% 131
North West +3 141 £556 +3.01% 80
South West +16 127 £568 +8.10% 66
Midlands -43 73 £525 +19.32% 32
East of England +18 55 £552 +9.23% 15
West Midlands -34 55 £525 -4.55% 23
North East -20 18 £463 -26.00% 29
East Midlands -27 18 £500 +27.39% 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
1 114 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 97 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.68%) Apache
4 47 (2.47%) Confluence
5 15 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Trello
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.053%) Houdini
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) NUKE
6 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.26%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Cloudability
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.053%) Maximo
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.053%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.053%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.053%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.053%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,249 (65.63%) AWS
2 1,216 (63.90%) Azure
3 212 (11.14%) GitHub
4 165 (8.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 142 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
6 134 (7.04%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.10%) SaaS
8 88 (4.62%) dbt
9 84 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
10 77 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 77 (4.05%) Power Platform
11 72 (3.78%) Serverless
12 56 (2.94%) Entra ID
13 54 (2.84%) Vertex AI
14 50 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (2.10%) Amazon S3
16 38 (2.00%) OpenShift
17 37 (1.94%) Cloud Run
18 35 (1.84%) Datadog
19 34 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 104 (5.47%) Firewall
2 103 (5.41%) Network Security
3 102 (5.36%) DNS
4 85 (4.47%) VPN
5 38 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.42%) BGP
6 27 (1.42%) WAN
7 26 (1.37%) HTTP
8 22 (1.16%) DHCP
9 20 (1.05%) Internet
10 18 (0.95%) VLAN
11 17 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.84%) OSPF
13 13 (0.68%) SSL
14 10 (0.53%) MPLS
14 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
15 9 (0.47%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.47%) IPsec
15 9 (0.47%) LAN
16 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (11.51%) BigQuery
2 171 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 76 (3.99%) Metadata
6 75 (3.94%) Data Lake
7 74 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 72 (3.78%) Big Data
9 68 (3.57%) Power BI
10 46 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (2.42%) Tableau
11 35 (1.84%) Looker
12 31 (1.63%) Flink
13 30 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.58%) Redis
14 29 (1.52%) SQL Server
15 27 (1.42%) MySQL
16 21 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 227 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 205 (10.77%) Git
3 152 (7.99%) GitLab
4 91 (4.78%) JIRA
5 42 (2.21%) JUnit
6 38 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 30 (1.58%) Selenium
8 28 (1.47%) JMeter
8 28 (1.47%) Maven
9 18 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.84%) Gradle
10 16 (0.84%) LoadRunner
11 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.79%) Postman
12 13 (0.68%) Gatling
12 13 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
13 10 (0.53%) WebDriver
14 9 (0.47%) NeoLoad
General
1 511 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 453 (23.80%) Finance
3 181 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (8.72%) Banking
5 158 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.52%) Retail
7 61 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 45 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (2.05%) Legal
11 35 (1.84%) Marketing
12 30 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.31%) Investment Banking
15 22 (1.16%) Billing
16 21 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.10%) Front Office
17 20 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 406 (21.33%) Architect
2 260 (13.66%) Senior
3 217 (11.40%) Developer
4 189 (9.93%) Lead
5 159 (8.36%) Data Engineer
6 155 (8.15%) GCP Engineer
7 129 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 118 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 111 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.52%) Java Developer
11 78 (4.10%) Consultant
12 74 (3.89%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.57%) Data Architect
14 67 (3.52%) Security Architect
15 65 (3.42%) Analyst
16 62 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
17 58 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 52 (2.73%) Software Engineer
19 50 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
20 42 (2.21%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 470 (24.70%) Terraform
2 194 (10.19%) Kafka
3 166 (8.72%) REST
4 110 (5.78%) React
5 106 (5.57%) Spring
6 94 (4.94%) OAuth
7 91 (4.78%) Spring Boot
8 85 (4.47%) Node.js
9 79 (4.15%) RESTful
10 57 (3.00%) JSON
11 55 (2.89%) OpenID
12 51 (2.68%) OAuth2
13 50 (2.63%) SAML
14 48 (2.52%) LDAP
15 46 (2.42%) PySpark
16 43 (2.26%) LangChain
16 43 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
17 41 (2.15%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.05%) PyTorch
19 38 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 380 (19.97%) Cloud Native
2 135 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (4.62%) AI Agents
4 71 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.31%) Security Posture
6 57 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 51 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 45 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 44 (2.31%) Algorithms
11 44 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 38 (2.00%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
14 33 (1.73%) Management Information System
15 29 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 29 (1.52%) PKI
16 25 (1.31%) CMDB
17 24 (1.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.51%) Linux
2 90 (4.73%) Windows
3 33 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (1.68%) Unix
5 26 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.10%) Android
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.47%) VMS
11 4 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
12 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 3 (0.16%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.053%) Solaris
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (44.25%) CI/CD
2 602 (31.63%) DevOps
3 478 (25.12%) Agile
4 462 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 443 (23.28%) AI
6 324 (17.03%) Microservices
7 304 (15.97%) Analytics
8 300 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 280 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 278 (14.61%) Machine Learning
11 270 (14.19%) Observability
12 263 (13.82%) Containerisation
13 262 (13.77%) Software Engineering
14 233 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
15 228 (11.98%) Data Modelling
16 223 (11.72%) Roadmaps
17 216 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 216 (11.35%) Migration
18 215 (11.30%) Cloud Security
19 192 (10.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 728 (38.26%) Python
2 389 (20.44%) SQL
3 370 (19.44%) Java
4 159 (8.36%) Bash
5 156 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 141 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 89 (4.68%) Go
8 80 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.36%) Scala
10 36 (1.89%) C#
11 35 (1.84%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.68%) Bicep
13 24 (1.26%) Groovy
14 18 (0.95%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.95%) Rust
15 17 (0.89%) R
16 11 (0.58%) C++
17 10 (0.53%) Ruby
18 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 381 (20.02%) Security Cleared
2 285 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 127 (6.67%) Degree
4 109 (5.73%) CISSP
5 93 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.36%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (3.26%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (3.05%) CISM
11 40 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 33 (1.73%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.21%) CCSP
14 22 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.00%) GIAC
16 18 (0.95%) CCNP
17 15 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
19 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 90 (4.73%) QA
3 89 (4.68%) GDPR
4 88 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (4.47%) NIST
6 30 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.21%) NCSC
9 19 (1.00%) GRC
10 13 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.42%) COBIT
13 8 (0.42%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 7 (0.37%) SLA
15 6 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 349 (18.34%) Docker
2 80 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.74%) vSphere
6 13 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
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 (0.11%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 587 (30.85%) Kubernetes
2 127 (6.67%) Ansible
3 125 (6.57%) Grafana
4 124 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 44 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
6 32 (1.68%) Argo
7 30 (1.58%) Istio
8 27 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.16%) Puppet
10 15 (0.79%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.74%) Kubeflow
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.47%) Podman
13 7 (0.37%) QRadar
14 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.26%) linkerd
14 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.21%) CASB
15 4 (0.21%) vMotion
Vendors
1 628 (33.00%) Google
2 197 (10.35%) Microsoft
3 113 (5.94%) Databricks
4 70 (3.68%) Splunk
5 66 (3.47%) Oracle
6 55 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.57%) Dynatrace
9 47 (2.47%) VMware
10 44 (2.31%) CyberArk
11 40 (2.10%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.84%) SAP
13 31 (1.63%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.58%) Palo Alto
15 28 (1.47%) Informatica
16 25 (1.31%) IBM
17 22 (1.16%) Cisco
18 21 (1.10%) MuleSoft
19 19 (1.00%) New Relic
20 18 (0.95%) Okta