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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,856 1,175 1,201
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.12% 4.26% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.77% 11.38% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 805 869
10th Percentile £402 £366 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -8.16% +0.20%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £783
90th Percentile £749 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 8
10th Percentile £13.51 £48.83 £33.88
25th Percentile £35.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% +15.68% -37.36%
75th Percentile £77.00 £78.70 £59.88
90th Percentile £82.65 £101.10 £69.40
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £53.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +28.04% +47.59% -50.91%

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 15,772 10,323 11,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,539 6,986 8,162
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 261
10th Percentile £16.68 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -4 993 £575 -4.17% 614
North of England +11 380 £538 +7.50% 177
Yorkshire -1 236 £525 +11.70% 49
South East 0 179 £538 -0.19% 143
North West -3 128 £550 +4.76% 103
South West +19 122 £560 +6.67% 58
Midlands -33 82 £500 +13.77% 49
West Midlands -17 66 £500 -13.04% 43
East of England +11 53 £533 +6.50% 19
North East -23 20 £525 -3.45% 26
East Midlands -25 16 £500 +25.00% 6
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
1 114 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 84 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.77%) Apache
4 50 (2.69%) Confluence
5 14 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.32%) CMS
7 6 (0.32%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) JBoss
11 1 (0.054%) Mule
11 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.054%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.054%) Houdini
8 1 (0.054%) NUKE
8 1 (0.054%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.054%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.16%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.054%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.054%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.054%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.054%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.054%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (65.30%) AWS
2 1,182 (63.69%) Azure
3 194 (10.45%) GitHub
4 167 (9.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 128 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (6.57%) Snowflake
7 86 (4.63%) SaaS
8 85 (4.58%) Power Platform
9 79 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
10 76 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (4.04%) Serverless
12 72 (3.88%) dbt
13 54 (2.91%) Vertex AI
14 51 (2.75%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.26%) Amazon S3
16 40 (2.16%) Cloud Run
17 39 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
18 35 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (1.89%) OpenShift
19 33 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 112 (6.03%) Firewall
2 102 (5.50%) Network Security
3 100 (5.39%) DNS
4 92 (4.96%) VPN
5 35 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.67%) WAN
7 30 (1.62%) BGP
8 24 (1.29%) HTTP
9 21 (1.13%) OSPF
10 20 (1.08%) DHCP
11 18 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.92%) VLAN
13 16 (0.86%) Internet
14 13 (0.70%) SSL
15 12 (0.65%) LAN
15 12 (0.65%) VXLAN
16 11 (0.59%) IPsec
17 10 (0.54%) MPLS
18 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
18 9 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (11.31%) BigQuery
2 164 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
3 126 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 80 (4.31%) Data Lake
6 74 (3.99%) Big Data
7 70 (3.77%) Metadata
7 70 (3.77%) Power BI
8 66 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 45 (2.42%) Tableau
10 34 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (1.72%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.67%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.62%) Looker
14 29 (1.56%) MySQL
15 25 (1.35%) Flink
16 24 (1.29%) Redis
17 22 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (1.13%) Hadoop
19 15 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 216 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 193 (10.40%) Git
3 139 (7.49%) GitLab
4 85 (4.58%) JIRA
5 50 (2.69%) JUnit
6 35 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.83%) Selenium
8 28 (1.51%) JMeter
9 27 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.40%) Maven
11 18 (0.97%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.81%) Gradle
13 13 (0.70%) Postman
13 13 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (0.65%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.65%) MLflow
15 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.43%) ERwin
16 8 (0.43%) Mockito
General
1 471 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 454 (24.46%) Finance
3 173 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (9.05%) Banking
5 156 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.61%) Retail
7 60 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 48 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.26%) Legal
10 39 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (1.94%) Front Office
12 34 (1.83%) Marketing
13 27 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.40%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.08%) Billing
18 18 (0.97%) Publishing
19 17 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
20 14 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 382 (20.58%) Architect
2 235 (12.66%) Senior
3 226 (12.18%) Developer
4 179 (9.64%) Lead
5 163 (8.78%) GCP Engineer
6 158 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 123 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 122 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 107 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
10 86 (4.63%) Java Developer
11 72 (3.88%) Consultant
12 68 (3.66%) Analyst
13 66 (3.56%) Data Architect
13 66 (3.56%) Software Engineer
14 62 (3.34%) Security Architect
15 61 (3.29%) Security Engineer
16 57 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 57 (3.07%) Cloud Architect
17 49 (2.64%) GCP DevOps
18 47 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (9.64%) Kafka
2 160 (8.62%) REST
3 120 (6.47%) Spring
4 117 (6.30%) React
5 97 (5.23%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.12%) Node.js
7 80 (4.31%) OAuth
8 66 (3.56%) RESTful
9 47 (2.53%) JSON
10 44 (2.37%) LangChain
11 43 (2.32%) GraphQL
11 43 (2.32%) OAuth2
11 43 (2.32%) PyTorch
12 42 (2.26%) LDAP
12 42 (2.26%) OpenID
13 41 (2.21%) AngularJS
14 40 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
14 40 (2.16%) SAML
14 40 (2.16%) TensorFlow
15 36 (1.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 347 (18.70%) Cloud Native
2 132 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (4.20%) AI Agents
4 65 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 53 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 53 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 51 (2.75%) Public Cloud
9 49 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.94%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.89%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
14 32 (1.72%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.72%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.67%) Derivative
16 30 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 27 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.52%) Linux
2 89 (4.80%) Windows
3 29 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.35%) Android
4 25 (1.35%) Unix
5 20 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.65%) VMS
9 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
12 3 (0.16%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.054%) CentOS
13 1 (0.054%) Solaris
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (44.18%) CI/CD
2 581 (31.30%) DevOps
3 484 (26.08%) Agile
4 432 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 426 (22.95%) AI
6 328 (17.67%) Microservices
7 311 (16.76%) Analytics
8 269 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
9 267 (14.39%) Machine Learning
10 264 (14.22%) Observability
11 257 (13.85%) Containerisation
12 253 (13.63%) Software Engineering
13 247 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 233 (12.55%) Data Modelling
15 229 (12.34%) Data Pipeline
16 209 (11.26%) Migration
17 204 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 201 (10.83%) Roadmaps
19 195 (10.51%) Cloud Security
20 194 (10.45%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 705 (37.98%) Python
2 388 (20.91%) SQL
3 356 (19.18%) Java
4 147 (7.92%) JavaScript
5 144 (7.76%) Bash
6 132 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 90 (4.85%) Go
8 88 (4.74%) TypeScript
9 40 (2.16%) Scala
10 37 (1.99%) C#
11 29 (1.56%) Bicep
12 26 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 25 (1.35%) Groovy
14 23 (1.24%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.97%) Rust
16 15 (0.81%) R
17 13 (0.70%) Ruby
18 10 (0.54%) C++
18 10 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
19 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 359 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.47%) Degree
4 110 (5.93%) CISSP
5 91 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 83 (4.47%) AWS Certification
7 63 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.18%) Azure Certification
9 59 (3.18%) CISM
10 40 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 30 (1.62%) Master's Degree
12 26 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 25 (1.35%) CCSP
14 22 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (1.13%) CCNP
16 18 (0.97%) GIAC
17 16 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 96 (5.17%) GDPR
3 82 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (4.42%) QA
4 81 (4.36%) NIST
5 31 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 28 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.19%) NCSC
8 19 (1.02%) GRC
9 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.43%) COBIT
11 8 (0.43%) PSD2
11 8 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.38%) MiFID
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 342 (18.43%) Docker
2 70 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.75%) vSphere
7 13 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) NFS
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) HDFS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.16%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 552 (29.74%) Kubernetes
2 459 (24.73%) Terraform
3 130 (7.00%) Prometheus
4 128 (6.90%) Grafana
5 110 (5.93%) Ansible
6 37 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (1.72%) Argo
8 28 (1.51%) Istio
9 24 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.08%) Puppet
11 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.65%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.65%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.48%) Podman
14 7 (0.38%) linkerd
15 6 (0.32%) QRadar
16 5 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.27%) SnapMirror
16 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 590 (31.79%) Google
2 169 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 95 (5.12%) Databricks
4 65 (3.50%) Splunk
5 50 (2.69%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.48%) Oracle
8 42 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.16%) VMware
10 39 (2.10%) CyberArk
11 36 (1.94%) Dynatrace
12 34 (1.83%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.51%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.51%) SAP
14 24 (1.29%) Informatica
15 22 (1.19%) Cisco
16 18 (0.97%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.97%) Okta
17 14 (0.75%) IBM
18 13 (0.70%) Tenable