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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,871 1,180 1,205
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.10% 4.34% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.81% 11.58% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 794 835
10th Percentile £408 £378 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -
75th Percentile £663 £679 £771
90th Percentile £738 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £19.47 £45.99 £36.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.60 £57.50
90th Percentile £83.30 £100.00 £60.50
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £52.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +29.93% +13.51% -40.32%

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 15,845 10,186 11,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.42% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,613 6,888 7,730
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £639
90th Percentile £719 £733 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 261 189
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.09 £59.95
90th Percentile £82.43 £71.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -1 979 £575 -4.17% 1,980
North of England +5 403 £550 +15.67% 299
Yorkshire +3 259 £550 +18.03% 85
South East +5 182 £525 - 196
North West +3 130 £550 +7.32% 193
South West +24 127 £568 +8.10% 186
Midlands -56 67 £525 +15.07% 91
East of England +19 60 £549 +8.67% 46
West Midlands -44 49 £528 -0.47% 71
North East -21 18 £463 -26.00% 22
East Midlands -30 18 £500 +25.00% 20
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
1 120 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 102 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 76 (4.06%) Apache
4 48 (2.57%) Confluence
5 15 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 5 (0.27%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
8 5 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
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%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.11%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Trello
5 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.053%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) Houdini
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) NUKE
7 1 (0.053%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.053%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
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%) 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 1,222 (65.31%) AWS
2 1,198 (64.03%) Azure
3 206 (11.01%) GitHub
4 162 (8.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 137 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (7.27%) Snowflake
7 97 (5.18%) SaaS
8 95 (5.08%) dbt
9 80 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (3.74%) Power Platform
12 69 (3.69%) Serverless
13 63 (3.37%) Entra ID
14 54 (2.89%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.14%) Cloud Run
17 37 (1.98%) Amazon S3
18 35 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (1.82%) Datadog
20 33 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.45%) Network Security
2 96 (5.13%) Firewall
3 87 (4.65%) DNS
4 73 (3.90%) VPN
5 29 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.28%) WAN
7 23 (1.23%) DHCP
8 22 (1.18%) BGP
9 19 (1.02%) Internet
10 18 (0.96%) HTTP
10 18 (0.96%) VLAN
11 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.75%) SSL
13 12 (0.64%) OSPF
14 11 (0.59%) IPsec
15 10 (0.53%) VoIP
16 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.48%) MPLS
16 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
17 8 (0.43%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (11.81%) BigQuery
2 171 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.17%) Metadata
5 76 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.06%) Relational Database
6 73 (3.90%) Big Data
6 73 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 63 (3.37%) Power BI
8 46 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 44 (2.35%) Tableau
10 34 (1.82%) Looker
11 33 (1.76%) Flink
12 31 (1.66%) SQL Server
13 30 (1.60%) Redis
14 28 (1.50%) MongoDB
15 26 (1.39%) MySQL
16 20 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
17 19 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 218 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 203 (10.85%) Git
3 144 (7.70%) GitLab
4 89 (4.76%) JIRA
5 41 (2.19%) SonarQube
6 40 (2.14%) JUnit
7 31 (1.66%) Maven
8 29 (1.55%) Selenium
9 25 (1.34%) JMeter
10 17 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 17 (0.91%) Gradle
10 17 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.86%) LoadRunner
11 16 (0.86%) Postman
12 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.69%) Gatling
14 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 10 (0.53%) Snyk
15 9 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 514 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 449 (24.00%) Finance
3 178 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (9.09%) Banking
5 150 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.69%) Retail
7 62 (3.31%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (2.19%) Legal
10 37 (1.98%) Marketing
11 35 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
12 30 (1.60%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.28%) Billing
16 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.02%) Publishing
18 16 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 399 (21.33%) Architect
2 258 (13.79%) Senior
3 202 (10.80%) Developer
4 179 (9.57%) Lead
5 163 (8.71%) Data Engineer
6 147 (7.86%) GCP Engineer
7 132 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 112 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 108 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (4.81%) Java Developer
11 82 (4.38%) Consultant
12 71 (3.79%) Security Engineer
13 67 (3.58%) Data Architect
14 66 (3.53%) Analyst
15 63 (3.37%) Security Architect
16 61 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
17 59 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 52 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
19 50 (2.67%) Software Engineer
20 45 (2.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (24.85%) Terraform
2 203 (10.85%) Kafka
3 168 (8.98%) REST
4 102 (5.45%) Spring
5 96 (5.13%) React
6 93 (4.97%) OAuth
7 91 (4.86%) Spring Boot
8 79 (4.22%) RESTful
9 69 (3.69%) Node.js
10 57 (3.05%) JSON
11 56 (2.99%) OpenID
12 52 (2.78%) SAML
13 51 (2.73%) LDAP
14 50 (2.67%) PySpark
15 49 (2.62%) OAuth2
16 45 (2.41%) LangChain
17 42 (2.24%) SOAP
18 41 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
19 37 (1.98%) GraphQL
20 36 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 391 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 137 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (5.02%) AI Agents
4 67 (3.58%) Security Posture
5 65 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 60 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
7 59 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 52 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
9 46 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 44 (2.35%) Data Centre
12 42 (2.24%) Algorithms
13 40 (2.14%) Data Structures
14 38 (2.03%) Management Information System
15 37 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
16 32 (1.71%) PKI
17 26 (1.39%) CMDB
18 25 (1.34%) Private Cloud
19 24 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 145 (7.75%) Linux
2 93 (4.97%) Windows
3 38 (2.03%) Unix
4 30 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.37%) VMS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 1 (0.053%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.053%) Solaris
12 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (44.84%) CI/CD
2 597 (31.91%) DevOps
3 471 (25.17%) Agile
4 456 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 451 (24.10%) AI
6 322 (17.21%) Microservices
7 314 (16.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 298 (15.93%) Analytics
9 274 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
10 270 (14.43%) Observability
11 267 (14.27%) Machine Learning
12 264 (14.11%) Software Engineering
13 260 (13.90%) Containerisation
14 231 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
15 227 (12.13%) Data Modelling
15 227 (12.13%) Roadmaps
16 223 (11.92%) Cloud Security
17 208 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 207 (11.06%) Migration
19 199 (10.64%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 714 (38.16%) Python
2 397 (21.22%) SQL
3 374 (19.99%) Java
4 155 (8.28%) Bash
5 139 (7.43%) PowerShell
6 137 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 87 (4.65%) Go
8 65 (3.47%) TypeScript
9 48 (2.57%) Scala
10 39 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 34 (1.82%) C#
12 29 (1.55%) Bicep
13 24 (1.28%) Groovy
14 20 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 18 (0.96%) R
15 18 (0.96%) Rust
16 10 (0.53%) C++
16 10 (0.53%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 381 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 280 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 131 (7.00%) Degree
4 112 (5.99%) CISSP
5 95 (5.08%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 64 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.37%) CISM
9 59 (3.15%) Azure Certification
10 57 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 33 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.50%) CCSP
14 24 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.91%) GIAC
16 15 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.69%) CCNP
18 13 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
19 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 93 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 91 (4.86%) QA
4 89 (4.76%) GDPR
5 88 (4.70%) NIST
6 30 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.18%) NCSC
9 19 (1.02%) GRC
10 15 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.43%) WCAG
14 7 (0.37%) COBIT
14 7 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 4 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 338 (18.07%) Docker
2 84 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.53%) vSphere
7 5 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.21%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.053%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 587 (31.37%) Kubernetes
2 131 (7.00%) Ansible
3 120 (6.41%) Grafana
4 116 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 43 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (1.60%) Argo
7 26 (1.39%) Istio
7 26 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.12%) Puppet
9 18 (0.96%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.48%) Podman
12 8 (0.43%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.37%) QRadar
14 5 (0.27%) CASB
14 5 (0.27%) Cilium
14 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.21%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 622 (33.24%) Google
2 208 (11.12%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.52%) Databricks
4 71 (3.79%) Splunk
5 69 (3.69%) Oracle
6 58 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.51%) Dynatrace
9 46 (2.46%) CyberArk
10 44 (2.35%) VMware
11 40 (2.14%) OpenAI
12 37 (1.98%) SAP
13 30 (1.60%) Informatica
13 30 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 28 (1.50%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.44%) IBM
16 22 (1.18%) Cisco
17 20 (1.07%) Okta
18 19 (1.02%) MuleSoft
19 18 (0.96%) New Relic