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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,709 1,018 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.96% 4.09% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.29% 10.84% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 684 868
10th Percentile £400 £366 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 10
10th Percentile - £25.25 £34.63
25th Percentile £13.51 £34.38 £35.31
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.65 £78.70 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% +22.09% -38.57%

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 15,140 9,392 12,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.72% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,258 6,385 8,650
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 232 339
10th Percentile £16.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £17.24 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £71.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -5 900 £575 -4.17% 262
North of England +15 351 £540 +2.86% 109
Yorkshire -2 215 £538 +2.38% 23
South East +16 159 £538 -2.27% 101
North West +4 118 £540 - 77
South West +33 115 £570 +9.88% 52
Midlands -29 88 £482 +1.53% 24
West Midlands -22 68 £482 -22.84% 17
East of England -8 46 £535 +10.31% 15
North East -17 21 £575 +5.75% 9
East Midlands -21 20 £474 +16.91% 7
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
1 109 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 71 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.28%) Apache
4 41 (2.40%) Confluence
5 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.23%) Camunda
8 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.059%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.059%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.059%) Maximo
5 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.059%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.059%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.059%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,126 (65.89%) AWS
2 1,107 (64.77%) Azure
3 184 (10.77%) GitHub
4 169 (9.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 118 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (6.14%) Snowflake
7 98 (5.73%) Power Platform
8 78 (4.56%) SaaS
9 68 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 68 (3.98%) Serverless
10 61 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 59 (3.45%) dbt
12 53 (3.10%) Entra ID
13 51 (2.98%) Vertex AI
14 44 (2.57%) Cloud Run
15 42 (2.46%) Amazon S3
16 37 (2.17%) OpenShift
17 31 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
17 31 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 29 (1.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.97%) Firewall
2 99 (5.79%) Network Security
3 94 (5.50%) DNS
4 87 (5.09%) VPN
5 26 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.52%) WAN
6 25 (1.46%) BGP
7 22 (1.29%) HTTP
8 16 (0.94%) OSPF
8 16 (0.94%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.82%) DHCP
10 11 (0.64%) Internet
10 11 (0.64%) SSL
10 11 (0.64%) VLAN
11 10 (0.59%) VoIP
11 10 (0.59%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.53%) IPsec
12 9 (0.53%) LAN
13 8 (0.47%) DKIM
13 8 (0.47%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (10.42%) BigQuery
2 126 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.62%) Data Lake
4 79 (4.62%) Power BI
5 75 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 71 (4.15%) Big Data
7 60 (3.51%) Metadata
8 55 (3.22%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.93%) Tableau
10 39 (2.28%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.87%) MongoDB
12 30 (1.76%) MySQL
13 24 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (1.35%) Hadoop
15 22 (1.29%) Looker
16 20 (1.17%) Flink
16 20 (1.17%) Redis
17 16 (0.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 204 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 164 (9.60%) Git
3 130 (7.61%) GitLab
4 78 (4.56%) JIRA
5 47 (2.75%) JUnit
6 39 (2.28%) Selenium
7 32 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 31 (1.81%) JMeter
9 30 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.11%) Maven
11 18 (1.05%) Postman
11 18 (1.05%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.70%) MLflow
14 10 (0.59%) ERwin
14 10 (0.59%) Gradle
14 10 (0.59%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.53%) Gatling
16 8 (0.47%) Mockito
17 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
General
1 453 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 415 (24.28%) Finance
3 159 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (9.30%) Banking
4 139 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 63 (3.69%) Retail
6 50 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.05%) Legal
7 35 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 34 (1.99%) Front Office
9 32 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.40%) Marketing
12 22 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.94%) Billing
15 14 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 14 (0.82%) Military
15 14 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 358 (20.95%) Architect
2 216 (12.64%) Senior
3 193 (11.29%) Developer
4 163 (9.54%) Lead
5 158 (9.25%) GCP Engineer
6 142 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 105 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 85 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 71 (4.15%) Java Developer
11 68 (3.98%) Consultant
12 65 (3.80%) Software Engineer
13 60 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
14 59 (3.45%) Security Architect
15 57 (3.34%) Security Engineer
16 51 (2.98%) Data Architect
17 49 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
18 46 (2.69%) Analyst
19 44 (2.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 44 (2.57%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (9.01%) Kafka
2 146 (8.54%) REST
3 116 (6.79%) Spring
4 109 (6.38%) React
5 96 (5.62%) Spring Boot
6 90 (5.27%) Node.js
7 80 (4.68%) OAuth
8 63 (3.69%) LDAP
9 61 (3.57%) RESTful
10 52 (3.04%) OpenID
11 49 (2.87%) PyTorch
12 46 (2.69%) OAuth2
12 46 (2.69%) TensorFlow
13 44 (2.57%) SAML
14 42 (2.46%) SOAP
15 37 (2.17%) AngularJS
16 36 (2.11%) GraphQL
16 36 (2.11%) LangChain
17 33 (1.93%) .NET
18 32 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 335 (19.60%) Cloud Native
2 107 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 66 (3.86%) Security Posture
5 57 (3.34%) AI Agents
6 52 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 52 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 46 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 39 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (2.05%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.81%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.64%) Derivative
14 27 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.46%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.46%) Clustering
15 25 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
16 24 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 23 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.14%) Linux
2 78 (4.56%) Windows
3 27 (1.58%) Android
4 25 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.40%) Unix
6 18 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.99%) VMS
7 17 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.18%) AIX
11 3 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
13 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (45.35%) CI/CD
2 553 (32.36%) DevOps
3 401 (23.46%) Agile
4 397 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 377 (22.06%) AI
6 286 (16.73%) Microservices
7 282 (16.50%) Analytics
8 258 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
9 252 (14.75%) Observability
10 243 (14.22%) Machine Learning
11 242 (14.16%) Containerisation
12 210 (12.29%) Software Engineering
13 207 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
14 198 (11.59%) Migration
15 195 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 193 (11.29%) Data Modelling
17 184 (10.77%) Cloud Security
18 180 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
19 177 (10.36%) Roadmaps
20 176 (10.30%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 673 (39.38%) Python
2 345 (20.19%) SQL
3 322 (18.84%) Java
4 129 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 125 (7.31%) JavaScript
6 114 (6.67%) Bash
7 92 (5.38%) Go
8 89 (5.21%) TypeScript
9 39 (2.28%) C#
10 38 (2.22%) Scala
11 22 (1.29%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.05%) Bicep
12 18 (1.05%) Groovy
13 15 (0.88%) Rust
14 13 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.70%) R
15 12 (0.70%) Ruby
16 9 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.47%) C++
18 7 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 352 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 280 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 107 (6.26%) CISSP
4 106 (6.20%) Degree
5 77 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 70 (4.10%) AWS Certification
7 60 (3.51%) CISM
8 56 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (3.10%) Azure Certification
10 41 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 27 (1.58%) CCSP
12 23 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 18 (1.05%) GIAC
15 14 (0.82%) CCNP
16 12 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 106 (6.20%) GDPR
3 91 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (5.27%) NIST
5 66 (3.86%) QA
6 35 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.58%) NCSC
8 24 (1.40%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.11%) GRC
10 14 (0.82%) SLA
10 14 (0.82%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.76%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.59%) PSD2
13 9 (0.53%) COBIT
13 9 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.53%) WCAG
14 7 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 321 (18.78%) Docker
2 82 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.82%) vSphere
7 13 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
10 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 515 (30.13%) Kubernetes
2 443 (25.92%) Terraform
3 118 (6.90%) Grafana
4 116 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 111 (6.50%) Ansible
6 36 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.87%) Istio
8 28 (1.64%) Argo
9 19 (1.11%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.05%) Puppet
11 13 (0.76%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.59%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.41%) linkerd
14 7 (0.41%) Podman
15 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.29%) Nessus
15 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
15 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 521 (30.49%) Google
2 152 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 81 (4.74%) Databricks
4 59 (3.45%) Splunk
5 56 (3.28%) CyberArk
6 54 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 41 (2.40%) VMware
8 40 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 38 (2.22%) OpenAI
9 38 (2.22%) Oracle
10 32 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
11 29 (1.70%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.35%) Red Hat
14 22 (1.29%) Okta
15 21 (1.23%) Centrify
16 19 (1.11%) Informatica
16 19 (1.11%) SAP
17 18 (1.05%) Cisco
18 15 (0.88%) Foundry