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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 53 66
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,347 1,204 1,357
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.77% 3.77% 3.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.32% 10.68% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 791 1,052
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £666 £750 £738
90th Percentile £819 £888 £825
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £33.11 £35.50 £51.11
25th Percentile £39.12 £36.25 £58.00
Median hourly rate £51.97 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -15.38% +150.00%
75th Percentile £67.44 £58.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £61.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -5.51% -23.61% +176.92%

All Cloud 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 10,930 11,274 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.69% 35.32% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,377 7,503 10,716
10th Percentile £304 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 158 297
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.21 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%
75th Percentile £43.18 £68.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.03 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 -4 759 £600 -4.00% 541
North of England +12 253 £500 -6.54% 163
Yorkshire +10 171 £500 -9.09% 56
Midlands +51 110 £488 - 45
South East +31 108 £500 - 374
West Midlands +36 78 £525 -11.54% 32
North West +20 78 £526 +5.25% 85
South West +49 54 £525 -6.67% 75
East Midlands +10 30 £415 +16.57% 13
East of England -13 27 £491 +53.52% 25
North East -9 4 £495 +4.21% 22
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 92 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 37 (2.75%) Confluence
4 34 (2.52%) Apache
5 10 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.45%) Mule
8 6 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.30%) Luigi
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
10 4 (0.30%) SAS
11 3 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.22%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.22%) NetWeaver
11 3 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) Maple
5 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 2 (0.15%) Weka
6 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.15%) Magento
5 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.074%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.074%) Kondor
6 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 968 (71.86%) AWS
2 863 (64.07%) Azure
3 177 (13.14%) GitHub
4 97 (7.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 84 (6.24%) dbt
6 75 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (5.57%) Power Platform
6 75 (5.57%) Serverless
7 70 (5.20%) Snowflake
8 68 (5.05%) SaaS
9 60 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (4.16%) Entra ID
11 53 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (3.12%) PaaS
13 40 (2.97%) IaaS
14 39 (2.90%) OpenShift
15 37 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
15 37 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (2.23%) Cloud Functions
16 30 (2.23%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 123 (9.13%) Firewall
2 40 (2.97%) Network Security
2 40 (2.97%) VPN
3 35 (2.60%) DNS
4 18 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.34%) WAN
4 18 (1.34%) Wireshark
5 16 (1.19%) SSL
6 15 (1.11%) VLAN
7 13 (0.97%) BGP
7 13 (0.97%) HTTP
8 12 (0.89%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.82%) DHCP
9 11 (0.82%) LAN
9 11 (0.82%) OSPF
10 9 (0.67%) SAN
11 6 (0.45%) SSH
11 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.37%) NAS
12 5 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (12.10%) BigQuery
2 160 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
3 122 (9.06%) NoSQL
4 104 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (5.42%) Power BI
6 59 (4.38%) Big Data
7 50 (3.71%) MongoDB
8 48 (3.56%) Tableau
9 47 (3.49%) Relational Database
10 45 (3.34%) Data Lake
11 41 (3.04%) Looker
12 39 (2.90%) SQL Server
13 31 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
14 28 (2.08%) Hadoop
15 27 (2.00%) Apache Arrow
15 27 (2.00%) Dremio
15 27 (2.00%) Metadata
16 24 (1.78%) MySQL
17 23 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 211 (15.66%) Jenkins
2 144 (10.69%) Git
3 135 (10.02%) GitLab
4 90 (6.68%) JIRA
5 49 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 42 (3.12%) Liquibase
7 24 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (1.71%) Maven
9 22 (1.63%) MLflow
10 21 (1.56%) Gradle
11 20 (1.48%) CircleCI
12 19 (1.41%) Cypress.io
12 19 (1.41%) Metasploit
13 18 (1.34%) Artifactory
13 18 (1.34%) Burp Suite
13 18 (1.34%) ER Studio
14 16 (1.19%) ERwin
14 16 (1.19%) Selenium
15 15 (1.11%) Postman
16 14 (1.04%) JUnit
General
1 477 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 339 (25.17%) Finance
3 201 (14.92%) Banking
4 155 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.38%) Front Office
7 43 (3.19%) Financial Institution
8 38 (2.82%) Marketing
9 35 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 33 (2.45%) Retail
11 31 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.56%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.89%) Legal
17 11 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.74%) Publishing
19 7 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 248 (18.41%) Architect
2 198 (14.70%) Developer
3 179 (13.29%) Senior
4 108 (8.02%) Software Engineer
5 103 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 89 (6.61%) Data Engineer
7 86 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
8 84 (6.24%) GCP Engineer
9 68 (5.05%) Analyst
10 59 (4.38%) Lead
11 58 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (4.31%) Security Engineer
12 54 (4.01%) Security Architect
13 53 (3.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 51 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
15 49 (3.64%) Java Developer
16 48 (3.56%) Consultant
17 46 (3.41%) Python Engineer
18 44 (3.27%) GCP Architect
19 38 (2.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (9.35%) React
2 111 (8.24%) Node.js
3 107 (7.94%) RESTful
4 96 (7.13%) Kafka
5 94 (6.98%) REST
6 73 (5.42%) AngularJS
7 71 (5.27%) Spring
8 61 (4.53%) Elastic Stack
9 55 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 55 (4.08%) Vue
10 48 (3.56%) OAuth
10 48 (3.56%) Pandas
11 43 (3.19%) NumPy
12 39 (2.90%) TensorFlow
13 38 (2.82%) PyTorch
14 36 (2.67%) OpenID
15 35 (2.60%) SAML
16 33 (2.45%) HTML
16 33 (2.45%) LDAP
17 32 (2.38%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 243 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 75 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 54 (4.01%) Fixed Income
5 50 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 48 (3.56%) Security Posture
7 47 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 46 (3.41%) Equities
8 46 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 40 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (2.75%) Data Structures
11 33 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (2.30%) Data Centre
13 28 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
14 27 (2.00%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.63%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.48%) Private Cloud
18 18 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
19 17 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 148 (10.99%) Linux
2 48 (3.56%) Windows
3 33 (2.45%) Unix
4 18 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.82%) Android
6 11 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.67%) CentOS
7 9 (0.67%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.22%) Solaris
10 3 (0.22%) zOS
11 2 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.15%) VMS
12 1 (0.074%) AIX
12 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.074%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (41.80%) CI/CD
2 460 (34.15%) DevOps
3 413 (30.66%) Agile
4 296 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (21.23%) Containerisation
6 264 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 218 (16.18%) Microservices
8 205 (15.22%) AI
9 201 (14.92%) Analytics
10 185 (13.73%) Machine Learning
11 184 (13.66%) Software Engineering
12 145 (10.76%) Data Modelling
13 144 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
14 141 (10.47%) Cloud Security
15 139 (10.32%) ETL
16 137 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 131 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
18 120 (8.91%) Migration
18 120 (8.91%) Test Automation
19 119 (8.83%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 622 (46.18%) Python
2 275 (20.42%) SQL
3 252 (18.71%) Java
4 151 (11.21%) Bash
5 146 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 112 (8.31%) TypeScript
7 104 (7.72%) Go
8 94 (6.98%) PowerShell
9 38 (2.82%) Scala
10 28 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 26 (1.93%) C#
12 22 (1.63%) Perl
13 21 (1.56%) C++
13 21 (1.56%) Groovy
14 19 (1.41%) R
15 17 (1.26%) Bicep
15 17 (1.26%) Ruby
16 14 (1.04%) C
16 14 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 184 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 136 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 133 (9.87%) Degree
4 91 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (4.97%) Master's Degree
6 58 (4.31%) AWS Certification
7 54 (4.01%) CISSP
8 41 (3.04%) Azure Certification
9 34 (2.52%) CISM
10 32 (2.38%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.71%) OSCP
13 17 (1.26%) CREST Certified
14 15 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.89%) CCSP
16 12 (0.89%) Tigerscheme
17 11 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.67%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (8.31%) GDPR
2 98 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (6.01%) Data Quality
4 76 (5.64%) QA
5 73 (5.42%) NIST
6 30 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 28 (2.08%) HIPAA
8 23 (1.71%) SOC 2
9 20 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 16 (1.19%) NCSC
11 11 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.74%) GRC
13 9 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.52%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.37%) PSD2
16 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.37%) SLA
17 4 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 351 (26.06%) Docker
2 71 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.45%) KVM
4 6 (0.45%) vSphere
5 5 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.37%) Squid
6 4 (0.30%) Firmware
6 4 (0.30%) Snort
6 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.15%) GPFS
8 2 (0.15%) Lustre
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.074%) NFS
9 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 414 (30.73%) Kubernetes
2 287 (21.31%) Terraform
3 143 (10.62%) Ansible
4 98 (7.28%) Grafana
5 88 (6.53%) Prometheus
6 36 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (2.30%) Argo
7 31 (2.30%) Puppet
8 18 (1.34%) CSIRT
8 18 (1.34%) Nmap
9 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (1.11%) Istio
11 14 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 14 (1.04%) SCCM
12 13 (0.97%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 10 (0.74%) Kubeflow
13 10 (0.74%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.67%) Nessus
14 9 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
15 8 (0.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 438 (32.52%) Google
2 163 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 102 (7.57%) Splunk
4 71 (5.27%) Databricks
5 54 (4.01%) Oracle
6 44 (3.27%) VMware
7 41 (3.04%) F5
8 36 (2.67%) SAP
9 35 (2.60%) CyberArk
10 34 (2.52%) Cisco
11 31 (2.30%) IBM
11 31 (2.30%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.78%) Citrix
13 23 (1.71%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.63%) OpenAI
14 22 (1.63%) Salesforce
15 20 (1.48%) Okta
15 20 (1.48%) ServiceNow
16 19 (1.41%) Ping Identity
17 15 (1.11%) BeyondTrust