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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 56 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,683 923 996
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.25% 3.76% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.83% 10.03% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 632 740
10th Percentile £375 £373 £425
25th Percentile £453 £492 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 9
10th Percentile £12.95 £25.25 £30.55
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -21.62%
75th Percentile £70.75 £69.56 £67.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.34 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £53.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +20.75% +9.28% -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 14,228 9,202 11,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.89% 37.51% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,806 6,447 8,512
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 193 319
10th Percentile £15.93 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -30.77%
75th Percentile £67.84 £43.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.75 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -38.24%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +2 860 £575 -4.21% 352
North of England +25 336 £525 -4.55% 126
Yorkshire +10 192 £500 -9.09% 32
South East +33 187 £492 -14.43% 95
North West +17 130 £550 -4.35% 75
South West +25 98 £550 -8.33% 53
Midlands -7 97 £475 +2.15% 58
West Midlands -9 75 £488 +2.20% 33
East of England +5 56 £570 +14.46% 25
East Midlands -25 22 £438 +11.89% 25
North East -4 17 £563 +21.62% 19
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 94 (5.59%) Apache Spark
2 63 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (3.39%) Apache
4 33 (1.96%) Confluence
5 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.42%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) Camunda
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 Synapse
13 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.059%) JBoss
13 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) 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 1,170 (69.52%) Azure
2 1,148 (68.21%) AWS
3 180 (10.70%) GitHub
4 134 (7.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 115 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 101 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (4.58%) Snowflake
9 63 (3.74%) SaaS
10 61 (3.62%) Serverless
11 58 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 57 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
13 54 (3.21%) Amazon S3
14 48 (2.85%) dbt
14 48 (2.85%) Entra ID
15 45 (2.67%) Vertex AI
16 39 (2.32%) Cloud Run
17 37 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (1.90%) Google Gemini
18 32 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 105 (6.24%) Firewall
2 91 (5.41%) VPN
3 87 (5.17%) DNS
4 79 (4.69%) Network Security
5 26 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 26 (1.54%) WAN
6 22 (1.31%) BGP
7 21 (1.25%) HTTP
8 17 (1.01%) OSPF
9 16 (0.95%) LAN
9 16 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.83%) VoIP
11 13 (0.77%) VLAN
11 13 (0.77%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.71%) Internet
13 10 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (0.59%) DHCP
13 10 (0.59%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.53%) IPv6
14 9 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.52%) BigQuery
2 106 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 105 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (5.70%) Power BI
5 80 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 67 (3.98%) Big Data
7 66 (3.92%) Metadata
8 63 (3.74%) Data Lake
9 57 (3.39%) Tableau
10 40 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 36 (2.14%) MongoDB
12 34 (2.02%) MySQL
13 27 (1.60%) Looker
14 26 (1.54%) Hadoop
15 22 (1.31%) OLAP
16 20 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (1.07%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 205 (12.18%) Jenkins
2 155 (9.21%) Git
3 129 (7.66%) GitLab
4 75 (4.46%) JIRA
5 43 (2.55%) Selenium
6 41 (2.44%) JUnit
7 28 (1.66%) Cucumber
7 28 (1.66%) JMeter
8 26 (1.54%) Postman
9 18 (1.07%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.95%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.77%) MLflow
12 10 (0.59%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.59%) Maven
13 9 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.53%) LoadRunner
14 8 (0.48%) Gatling
14 8 (0.48%) Mockito
15 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 499 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 366 (21.75%) Finance
3 187 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (9.09%) Banking
5 140 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 53 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.97%) Retail
8 40 (2.38%) Legal
9 36 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 32 (1.90%) Front Office
10 32 (1.90%) Marketing
11 31 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.95%) Military
16 15 (0.89%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.83%) Electronics
17 14 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 348 (20.68%) Architect
2 195 (11.59%) Senior
3 179 (10.64%) Lead
4 177 (10.52%) Developer
5 167 (9.92%) GCP Engineer
6 135 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 101 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 80 (4.75%) Analyst
10 77 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
11 67 (3.98%) Software Engineer
12 55 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
12 55 (3.27%) Consultant
13 52 (3.09%) Security Engineer
14 50 (2.97%) Security Architect
15 49 (2.91%) Java Developer
16 47 (2.79%) GCP DevOps
17 45 (2.67%) Data Architect
17 45 (2.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.04%) REST
2 151 (8.97%) Kafka
3 119 (7.07%) Spring
4 111 (6.60%) React
5 98 (5.82%) Node.js
6 92 (5.47%) Spring Boot
7 85 (5.05%) LDAP
8 75 (4.46%) RESTful
9 69 (4.10%) OAuth
10 56 (3.33%) SOAP
11 53 (3.15%) PyTorch
11 53 (3.15%) TensorFlow
12 51 (3.03%) AngularJS
12 51 (3.03%) OpenID
13 48 (2.85%) .NET
14 40 (2.38%) LangChain
15 37 (2.20%) OAuth2
15 37 (2.20%) SAML
15 37 (2.20%) scikit-learn
16 33 (1.96%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 277 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.46%) Public Cloud
4 64 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 59 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 44 (2.61%) Data Centre
7 43 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 42 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.72%) Fixed Income
11 24 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 22 (1.31%) Clustering
12 22 (1.31%) Derivative
12 22 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 20 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
13 20 (1.19%) Equities
14 18 (1.07%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.35%) Linux
2 69 (4.10%) Windows
3 26 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 25 (1.49%) Android
5 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.31%) 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%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.059%) Rocky
13 1 (0.059%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (43.55%) CI/CD
2 547 (32.50%) DevOps
3 358 (21.27%) Agile
4 345 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 344 (20.44%) AI
6 319 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (17.71%) Analytics
8 272 (16.16%) Containerisation
9 259 (15.39%) Microservices
10 238 (14.14%) Machine Learning
11 225 (13.37%) Observability
12 200 (11.88%) Data Pipeline
13 194 (11.53%) Migration
14 189 (11.23%) Data Modelling
15 186 (11.05%) Software Engineering
16 185 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 173 (10.28%) Data Engineering
18 161 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 161 (9.57%) ETL
19 152 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 683 (40.58%) Python
2 320 (19.01%) SQL
3 289 (17.17%) Java
4 135 (8.02%) PowerShell
5 130 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 108 (6.42%) Bash
7 81 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 68 (4.04%) Go
9 51 (3.03%) C#
10 35 (2.08%) Scala
11 18 (1.07%) Bicep
11 18 (1.07%) Groovy
12 17 (1.01%) R
13 14 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.53%) Ruby
15 8 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 8 (0.48%) PHP
15 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.42%) C++
17 5 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 382 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 312 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 99 (5.88%) Degree
4 88 (5.23%) CISSP
5 60 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 60 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 54 (3.21%) CISM
7 52 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 25 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (1.37%) CCSP
12 22 (1.31%) CCNP
12 22 (1.31%) Master's Degree
13 18 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.71%) CCIE
17 11 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (9.15%) GDPR
2 128 (7.61%) Data Quality
3 102 (6.06%) NIST
4 101 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (4.04%) QA
6 50 (2.97%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 21 (1.25%) NCSC
9 18 (1.07%) GRC
9 18 (1.07%) SLA
10 15 (0.89%) HIPAA
10 15 (0.89%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.71%) PSD2
12 11 (0.65%) 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
1 343 (20.38%) Docker
2 95 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.48%) vSphere
7 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.30%) GPFS
9 5 (0.30%) HDFS
9 5 (0.30%) Lustre
9 5 (0.30%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) KVM
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.059%) iptables
11 1 (0.059%) UAG
11 1 (0.059%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 513 (30.48%) Kubernetes
2 405 (24.06%) Terraform
3 124 (7.37%) Ansible
4 105 (6.24%) Grafana
5 98 (5.82%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.20%) 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 (0.48%) Fluentd
15 7 (0.42%) Kibana
15 7 (0.42%) Nessus
15 7 (0.42%) Podman
16 6 (0.36%) Rancher
17 5 (0.30%) linkerd
Vendors
1 539 (32.03%) Google
2 137 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 86 (5.11%) Splunk
4 82 (4.87%) Databricks
5 72 (4.28%) CyberArk
6 61 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.21%) BeyondTrust
8 41 (2.44%) VMware
9 40 (2.38%) Oracle
10 38 (2.26%) OpenAI
11 36 (2.14%) Centrify
12 34 (2.02%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.90%) Cisco
14 29 (1.72%) Salesforce
15 27 (1.60%) SAP
16 26 (1.54%) Dynatrace
17 22 (1.31%) Informatica
18 21 (1.25%) Foundry
19 20 (1.19%) Red Hat
20 17 (1.01%) Okta