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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 68
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,651 933 1,092
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.98% 3.92% 2.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.37% 10.47% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 634 813
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -1.88% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 9
10th Percentile £13.00 - £30.55
25th Percentile £14.12 £25.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £72.25 £59.56 £67.00
90th Percentile £80.80 £78.08 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -30.89%

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 14,525 8,907 11,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.42% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,909 6,144 8,467
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 199 322
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.03 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -3 864 £581 -7.00% 402
North of England +21 338 £538 -0.46% 155
Yorkshire +4 210 £515 -2.00% 28
South East +11 155 £510 -7.36% 115
South West +29 112 £565 +8.92% 62
North West +11 112 £568 +3.18% 106
Midlands -22 86 £481 +6.35% 33
West Midlands -19 67 £500 -16.67% 16
East of England -5 51 £535 +8.63% 16
North East -5 19 £584 +26.22% 21
East Midlands -30 19 £438 +11.89% 17
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
1 108 (6.54%) Apache Spark
2 65 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (3.51%) Apache
4 38 (2.30%) Confluence
5 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.30%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Camunda
7 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.061%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.061%) Trello
7 1 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.061%) Maximo
4 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.061%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,108 (67.11%) Azure
2 1,105 (66.93%) AWS
3 186 (11.27%) GitHub
4 147 (8.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 114 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (6.18%) Power Platform
7 90 (5.45%) Snowflake
8 80 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (4.18%) SaaS
10 66 (4.00%) Serverless
11 55 (3.33%) dbt
12 52 (3.15%) Entra ID
13 51 (3.09%) OpenShift
14 49 (2.97%) Vertex AI
15 47 (2.85%) Amazon S3
16 41 (2.48%) Cloud Run
17 36 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 30 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 29 (1.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 94 (5.69%) Firewall
2 90 (5.45%) DNS
2 90 (5.45%) Network Security
3 88 (5.33%) VPN
4 26 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.45%) WAN
6 20 (1.21%) BGP
7 19 (1.15%) HTTP
8 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.79%) OSPF
10 12 (0.73%) SSL
10 12 (0.73%) VoIP
11 11 (0.67%) Internet
12 10 (0.61%) LAN
13 9 (0.55%) IPsec
14 8 (0.48%) DHCP
14 8 (0.48%) DKIM
14 8 (0.48%) DMARC
14 8 (0.48%) VLAN
14 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (10.96%) BigQuery
2 111 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
4 84 (5.09%) Power BI
5 78 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 76 (4.60%) Data Lake
7 69 (4.18%) Big Data
8 56 (3.39%) Metadata
9 50 (3.03%) Tableau
10 48 (2.91%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.48%) SQL Server
12 35 (2.12%) MongoDB
13 29 (1.76%) MySQL
14 23 (1.39%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.39%) Looker
14 23 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (1.21%) Flink
16 19 (1.15%) OLAP
17 18 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.03%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 210 (12.72%) Jenkins
2 161 (9.75%) Git
3 140 (8.48%) GitLab
4 85 (5.15%) JIRA
5 44 (2.67%) Selenium
6 38 (2.30%) JUnit
7 31 (1.88%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.64%) JMeter
8 27 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 25 (1.51%) Postman
10 19 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 18 (1.09%) Maven
12 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.79%) MLflow
14 10 (0.61%) ERwin
14 10 (0.61%) Gradle
15 9 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.55%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.55%) Snyk
General
1 455 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 357 (21.62%) Finance
3 148 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
3 148 (8.96%) Banking
4 129 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 55 (3.33%) Retail
6 42 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.12%) Legal
8 31 (1.88%) Front Office
9 29 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (1.51%) Marketing
12 21 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.21%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.97%) Military
15 14 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 349 (21.14%) Architect
2 197 (11.93%) Senior
3 182 (11.02%) Developer
4 162 (9.81%) GCP Engineer
5 160 (9.69%) Lead
6 139 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 110 (6.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 95 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 76 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
10 67 (4.06%) Software Engineer
11 61 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
11 61 (3.69%) Java Developer
12 59 (3.57%) Analyst
13 56 (3.39%) Consultant
14 52 (3.15%) Security Architect
15 51 (3.09%) GCP DevOps
16 49 (2.97%) Security Engineer
17 47 (2.85%) Data Architect
17 47 (2.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (9.63%) REST
2 151 (9.15%) Kafka
3 112 (6.78%) React
4 110 (6.66%) Spring
5 96 (5.81%) Node.js
6 92 (5.57%) Spring Boot
7 83 (5.03%) LDAP
8 75 (4.54%) OAuth
9 60 (3.63%) RESTful
10 54 (3.27%) SOAP
11 52 (3.15%) OpenID
12 48 (2.91%) PyTorch
13 47 (2.85%) AngularJS
14 46 (2.79%) TensorFlow
15 43 (2.60%) .NET
16 40 (2.42%) OAuth2
17 39 (2.36%) LangChain
18 38 (2.30%) SAML
19 33 (2.00%) Middleware
20 31 (1.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 305 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.88%) Security Posture
4 60 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (3.63%) Public Cloud
5 54 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 51 (3.09%) AI Agents
7 46 (2.79%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 38 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.94%) Fixed Income
12 27 (1.64%) Derivative
13 23 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
13 23 (1.39%) Equities
13 23 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.21%) Clustering
16 19 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.63%) Linux
2 66 (4.00%) Windows
3 28 (1.70%) Android
4 23 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 21 (1.27%) VMS
7 18 (1.09%) Unix
8 12 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.48%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.061%) CentOS
14 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Rocky
14 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (45.61%) CI/CD
2 558 (33.80%) DevOps
3 371 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 359 (21.74%) Agile
5 343 (20.78%) AI
6 281 (17.02%) Analytics
7 278 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
8 272 (16.47%) Microservices
9 249 (15.08%) Containerisation
10 244 (14.78%) Observability
11 223 (13.51%) Machine Learning
12 200 (12.11%) Software Engineering
13 196 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
14 194 (11.75%) Data Modelling
15 188 (11.39%) Migration
16 177 (10.72%) Data Engineering
16 177 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 166 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 166 (10.05%) ETL
18 155 (9.39%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 642 (38.89%) Python
2 333 (20.17%) SQL
3 292 (17.69%) Java
4 133 (8.06%) PowerShell
5 128 (7.75%) JavaScript
6 108 (6.54%) Bash
7 82 (4.97%) Go
8 80 (4.85%) TypeScript
9 46 (2.79%) C#
10 39 (2.36%) Scala
11 19 (1.15%) Groovy
12 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.91%) Bicep
14 11 (0.67%) R
15 10 (0.61%) Ruby
16 9 (0.55%) PHP
16 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.48%) Rust
18 7 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 367 (22.23%) Security Cleared
2 300 (18.17%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.15%) Degree
4 83 (5.03%) CISSP
5 63 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 53 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
6 53 (3.21%) CISM
7 51 (3.09%) AWS Certification
7 51 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 24 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.39%) CCSP
12 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.97%) CCNP
13 16 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.91%) GIAC
15 11 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.39%) GDPR
2 117 (7.09%) Data Quality
3 90 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 90 (5.45%) NIST
4 70 (4.24%) QA
5 38 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.39%) NCSC
7 20 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.09%) SLA
9 16 (0.97%) GRC
10 15 (0.91%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.55%) COBIT
12 9 (0.55%) PSD2
12 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.48%) WCAG
14 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 312 (18.90%) Docker
2 96 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.67%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.24%) HDFS
11 3 (0.18%) KVM
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) GPFS
12 2 (0.12%) Lustre
12 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.061%) iptables
13 1 (0.061%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 504 (30.53%) Kubernetes
2 420 (25.44%) Terraform
3 117 (7.09%) Ansible
4 115 (6.97%) Grafana
5 106 (6.42%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.06%) Istio
7 30 (1.82%) Argo
8 28 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (1.03%) Puppet
10 13 (0.79%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.48%) Podman
12 8 (0.48%) SCCM
13 7 (0.42%) Kibana
13 7 (0.42%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.36%) linkerd
15 5 (0.30%) Nessus
15 5 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 504 (30.53%) Google
2 137 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 84 (5.09%) Databricks
4 70 (4.24%) Splunk
5 66 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 64 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 48 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
8 39 (2.36%) VMware
9 38 (2.30%) Oracle
10 37 (2.24%) OpenAI
11 36 (2.18%) Centrify
12 31 (1.88%) Salesforce
13 27 (1.64%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.57%) Dynatrace
15 20 (1.21%) Cisco
15 20 (1.21%) SAP
16 18 (1.09%) Okta
16 18 (1.09%) Red Hat
17 17 (1.03%) Informatica
17 17 (1.03%) MuleSoft