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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,740 1,060 1,201
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.00% 4.20% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.43% 11.11% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 714 877
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £469 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £768
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 35 11 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.25 £34.63
25th Percentile £14.72 £34.38 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.00 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% +1.45% -26.07%
75th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.30 £78.70 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +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 15,227 9,544 12,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.77% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,279 6,457 8,619
10th Percentile £325 £311 £305
25th Percentile £415 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 242 334
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.08
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.84% -36.93%

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 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 27 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 27 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 -6 911 £575 -4.17% 323
North of England +16 367 £540 +2.86% 118
Yorkshire +1 224 £540 +8.00% 24
South East +13 163 £550 - 109
North West +2 124 £538 -0.46% 82
South West +27 116 £560 +7.95% 51
Midlands -33 87 £500 +8.99% 26
West Midlands -26 66 £494 -25.47% 19
East of England -3 45 £523 +7.73% 19
North East -17 22 £575 +5.75% 12
East Midlands -18 21 £500 +21.95% 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
1 111 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 73 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (3.33%) Apache
4 41 (2.36%) Confluence
5 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.75%) 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 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.057%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.057%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
1 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.23%) Sage X3
2 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.057%) Maximo
5 1 (0.057%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.057%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.057%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.057%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,143 (65.69%) AWS
2 1,126 (64.71%) Azure
3 184 (10.57%) GitHub
4 172 (9.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 119 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
6 110 (6.32%) Snowflake
7 96 (5.52%) Power Platform
8 80 (4.60%) SaaS
9 74 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 70 (4.02%) Serverless
11 66 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
12 60 (3.45%) dbt
13 55 (3.16%) Entra ID
14 54 (3.10%) Vertex AI
15 43 (2.47%) Cloud Run
16 41 (2.36%) Amazon S3
17 37 (2.13%) OpenShift
18 32 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 31 (1.78%) Azure AKS
19 31 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 104 (5.98%) Firewall
1 104 (5.98%) Network Security
2 97 (5.57%) DNS
3 87 (5.00%) VPN
4 31 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.67%) WAN
6 27 (1.55%) BGP
7 22 (1.26%) HTTP
8 18 (1.03%) DHCP
8 18 (1.03%) OSPF
9 17 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.75%) VLAN
11 12 (0.69%) SSL
12 11 (0.63%) Internet
12 11 (0.63%) IPsec
12 11 (0.63%) LAN
13 10 (0.57%) VoIP
13 10 (0.57%) VXLAN
14 9 (0.52%) DNSSEC
14 9 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (10.52%) BigQuery
2 131 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 79 (4.54%) Data Lake
5 77 (4.43%) Power BI
6 74 (4.25%) Big Data
7 72 (4.14%) NoSQL
8 63 (3.62%) Metadata
9 54 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 50 (2.87%) Tableau
11 40 (2.30%) SQL Server
12 31 (1.78%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.72%) MySQL
14 25 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.38%) Looker
15 24 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (1.32%) Hadoop
17 20 (1.15%) Flink
18 19 (1.09%) Redis
19 16 (0.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 206 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 167 (9.60%) Git
3 130 (7.47%) GitLab
4 79 (4.54%) JIRA
5 47 (2.70%) JUnit
6 39 (2.24%) Selenium
7 32 (1.84%) JMeter
7 32 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.09%) Maven
9 19 (1.09%) Postman
10 18 (1.03%) WebDriver
11 13 (0.75%) MLflow
11 13 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.57%) ERwin
12 10 (0.57%) Gradle
12 10 (0.57%) LoadRunner
12 10 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (0.52%) Gatling
14 8 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 458 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 424 (24.37%) Finance
3 162 (9.31%) Banking
4 159 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 143 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.02%) Retail
7 50 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 36 (2.07%) Front Office
9 36 (2.07%) Legal
10 35 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (1.44%) Marketing
13 24 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.26%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 17 (0.98%) Billing
17 13 (0.75%) Military
17 13 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 371 (21.32%) Architect
2 220 (12.64%) Senior
3 198 (11.38%) Developer
4 167 (9.60%) Lead
5 157 (9.02%) GCP Engineer
6 144 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 111 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 110 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 88 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
10 72 (4.14%) Java Developer
11 67 (3.85%) Consultant
12 64 (3.68%) Software Engineer
13 63 (3.62%) Security Architect
14 61 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
15 60 (3.45%) Security Engineer
16 56 (3.22%) Data Architect
17 54 (3.10%) Analyst
18 49 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 48 (2.76%) GCP DevOps
20 43 (2.47%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (9.25%) Kafka
2 141 (8.10%) REST
3 116 (6.67%) Spring
4 112 (6.44%) React
5 96 (5.52%) Spring Boot
6 91 (5.23%) Node.js
7 80 (4.60%) OAuth
8 61 (3.51%) RESTful
9 55 (3.16%) LDAP
10 52 (2.99%) OpenID
11 46 (2.64%) OAuth2
11 46 (2.64%) PyTorch
12 45 (2.59%) SAML
13 44 (2.53%) TensorFlow
14 39 (2.24%) LangChain
15 38 (2.18%) GraphQL
16 37 (2.13%) AngularJS
17 36 (2.07%) .NET
18 34 (1.95%) SOAP
19 33 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 336 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 111 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.74%) Public Cloud
4 61 (3.51%) AI Agents
5 59 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 54 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 52 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 48 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 44 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 42 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (2.07%) Fixed Income
13 32 (1.84%) Management Information System
14 31 (1.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 30 (1.72%) Derivative
16 28 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (1.55%) Clustering
17 27 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
18 26 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
19 25 (1.44%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.32%) Linux
2 80 (4.60%) Windows
3 28 (1.61%) Android
4 25 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.38%) Unix
6 18 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.80%) VMS
9 6 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.29%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.17%) AIX
11 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.057%) Rocky
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 556 (31.95%) DevOps
3 417 (23.97%) Agile
4 410 (23.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 391 (22.47%) AI
6 289 (16.61%) Analytics
6 289 (16.61%) Microservices
7 261 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 253 (14.54%) Observability
9 249 (14.31%) Containerisation
10 248 (14.25%) Machine Learning
11 212 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
11 212 (12.18%) Software Engineering
12 203 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 202 (11.61%) Data Modelling
14 196 (11.26%) Migration
15 194 (11.15%) Cloud Security
16 184 (10.57%) Data Engineering
17 182 (10.46%) Roadmaps
18 181 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 691 (39.71%) Python
2 346 (19.89%) SQL
3 326 (18.74%) Java
4 131 (7.53%) PowerShell
5 127 (7.30%) Bash
5 127 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 94 (5.40%) Go
7 91 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.36%) Scala
9 40 (2.30%) C#
10 23 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 21 (1.21%) Bicep
11 21 (1.21%) Groovy
12 17 (0.98%) Rust
13 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.75%) R
15 12 (0.69%) Ruby
16 9 (0.52%) C++
16 9 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.46%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 350 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 278 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 110 (6.32%) Degree
4 109 (6.26%) CISSP
5 79 (4.54%) DV Cleared
6 68 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 60 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (3.45%) CISM
8 57 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (2.87%) Azure Certification
10 42 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 28 (1.61%) CCSP
12 25 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (1.44%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (1.09%) GIAC
15 17 (0.98%) CCNP
16 12 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.03%) GDPR
3 92 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (5.17%) NIST
5 65 (3.74%) QA
6 37 (2.13%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.67%) NCSC
8 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.09%) GRC
10 14 (0.80%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.75%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.63%) SLA
13 9 (0.52%) COBIT
13 9 (0.52%) PSD2
13 9 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.52%) WCAG
14 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 323 (18.56%) Docker
2 73 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.80%) vSphere
7 13 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.29%) NFS
9 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.23%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) KVM
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) GPFS
12 2 (0.11%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 525 (30.17%) Kubernetes
2 457 (26.26%) Terraform
3 116 (6.67%) Grafana
4 115 (6.61%) Prometheus
5 107 (6.15%) Ansible
6 37 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 31 (1.78%) Istio
8 28 (1.61%) Argo
9 20 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 19 (1.09%) Puppet
11 13 (0.75%) Kubeflow
12 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.57%) Kustomize
14 9 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.46%) Podman
16 7 (0.40%) linkerd
17 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
17 5 (0.29%) Nessus
17 5 (0.29%) SnapMirror
17 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 540 (31.03%) Google
2 159 (9.14%) Microsoft
3 88 (5.06%) Databricks
4 60 (3.45%) Splunk
5 55 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.76%) CyberArk
7 46 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.30%) VMware
9 39 (2.24%) OpenAI
10 37 (2.13%) Oracle
11 30 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.72%) Palo Alto
12 24 (1.38%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
14 22 (1.26%) Okta
15 20 (1.15%) Informatica
15 20 (1.15%) SAP
16 19 (1.09%) Cisco
17 15 (0.86%) MuleSoft
18 14 (0.80%) Rapid7