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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 55 63
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,791 1,134 1,212
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.03% 4.25% 3.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.51% 11.30% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 760 884
10th Percentile £402 £367 £413
25th Percentile £470 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -1.13%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £775
90th Percentile £749 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 12 10
10th Percentile £13.51 £25.48 £34.63
25th Percentile £15.33 £37.81 £35.31
Median hourly rate £69.22 £52.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.85% +1.45% -26.16%
75th Percentile £77.00 £74.05 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.13 £97.87 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +21.90% +22.09% -38.65%

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 15,560 10,035 12,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.61% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,462 6,762 8,660
10th Percentile £325 £311 £307
25th Percentile £415 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -1.94% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 258 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -8 928 £575 -4.17% 443
North of England +11 389 £538 +7.50% 177
Yorkshire +3 243 £538 +13.16% 48
South East +3 167 £550 +1.85% 150
North West +2 128 £530 -3.64% 111
South West +29 119 £568 +8.10% 61
Midlands -30 88 £500 +9.89% 49
West Midlands -21 67 £500 -20.00% 33
East of England +2 53 £533 +8.12% 30
North East -19 21 £575 +5.75% 19
East Midlands -19 21 £500 +21.95% 16
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 (6.37%) Apache Spark
2 78 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (3.63%) Apache
4 41 (2.29%) Confluence
5 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.28%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Camunda
8 4 (0.22%) CMS
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.056%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.056%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.056%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.056%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.056%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.17%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.056%) Maximo
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.056%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.056%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.056%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,174 (65.55%) AWS
2 1,153 (64.38%) Azure
3 187 (10.44%) GitHub
4 172 (9.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 122 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (6.42%) Snowflake
7 95 (5.30%) Power Platform
8 85 (4.75%) SaaS
9 75 (4.19%) Serverless
10 74 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 69 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 62 (3.46%) dbt
13 58 (3.24%) Entra ID
14 55 (3.07%) Vertex AI
15 44 (2.46%) Cloud Run
16 42 (2.35%) Amazon S3
17 39 (2.18%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 31 (1.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (5.97%) Firewall
2 105 (5.86%) Network Security
3 96 (5.36%) DNS
4 90 (5.03%) VPN
5 31 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.73%) WAN
6 29 (1.62%) BGP
7 22 (1.23%) HTTP
8 20 (1.12%) OSPF
9 18 (1.01%) DHCP
10 17 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.84%) VLAN
12 13 (0.73%) LAN
12 13 (0.73%) SSL
13 12 (0.67%) Internet
14 11 (0.61%) IPsec
15 10 (0.56%) VoIP
15 10 (0.56%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.50%) DNSSEC
16 9 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (10.61%) BigQuery
2 137 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.36%) Data Lake
5 76 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.24%) Power BI
6 75 (4.19%) Big Data
7 62 (3.46%) Metadata
8 60 (3.35%) Relational Database
9 50 (2.79%) Tableau
10 41 (2.29%) SQL Server
11 32 (1.79%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.73%) MySQL
13 28 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (1.34%) Looker
14 24 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (1.23%) Flink
15 22 (1.23%) Hadoop
16 19 (1.06%) Redis
17 16 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 215 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 173 (9.66%) Git
3 133 (7.43%) GitLab
4 79 (4.41%) JIRA
5 48 (2.68%) JUnit
6 39 (2.18%) Selenium
7 34 (1.90%) JMeter
8 32 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 30 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 20 (1.12%) Postman
11 19 (1.06%) Maven
12 18 (1.01%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.73%) MLflow
13 13 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 11 (0.61%) LoadRunner
14 11 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.56%) ERwin
15 10 (0.56%) Gatling
15 10 (0.56%) Gradle
16 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 462 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 437 (24.40%) Finance
3 169 (9.44%) Banking
4 162 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 146 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.13%) Retail
7 49 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.23%) Legal
10 36 (2.01%) Front Office
10 36 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.56%) Marketing
13 24 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.17%) Billing
16 16 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 369 (20.60%) Architect
2 228 (12.73%) Senior
3 212 (11.84%) Developer
4 169 (9.44%) Lead
5 159 (8.88%) GCP Engineer
6 147 (8.21%) Data Engineer
7 118 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 116 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 91 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
10 79 (4.41%) Java Developer
11 71 (3.96%) Consultant
12 67 (3.74%) Software Engineer
13 65 (3.63%) Security Architect
14 62 (3.46%) Cloud Architect
15 61 (3.41%) Security Engineer
16 58 (3.24%) Analyst
17 56 (3.13%) Data Architect
18 51 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 50 (2.79%) GCP DevOps
20 49 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (9.55%) Kafka
2 141 (7.87%) REST
3 121 (6.76%) Spring
4 115 (6.42%) React
5 101 (5.64%) Spring Boot
6 95 (5.30%) Node.js
7 83 (4.63%) OAuth
8 64 (3.57%) RESTful
9 54 (3.02%) OpenID
10 46 (2.57%) LDAP
10 46 (2.57%) PyTorch
11 45 (2.51%) OAuth2
11 45 (2.51%) SAML
12 44 (2.46%) TensorFlow
13 40 (2.23%) LangChain
14 39 (2.18%) GraphQL
15 38 (2.12%) AngularJS
16 36 (2.01%) .NET
17 32 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
18 30 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 337 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 60 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 57 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 55 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 50 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 50 (2.79%) Security Posture
8 49 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 43 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (2.01%) Fixed Income
11 33 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 31 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 31 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.68%) Derivative
14 28 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
15 27 (1.51%) Clustering
15 27 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
16 25 (1.40%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.42%) Linux
2 83 (4.63%) Windows
3 28 (1.56%) Android
4 25 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.34%) Unix
6 18 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.67%) VMS
9 6 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
11 3 (0.17%) AIX
11 3 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.056%) Rocky
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (45.56%) CI/CD
2 577 (32.22%) DevOps
3 436 (24.34%) Agile
4 426 (23.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 406 (22.67%) AI
6 310 (17.31%) Microservices
7 292 (16.30%) Analytics
8 265 (14.80%) Observability
9 264 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (14.57%) Containerisation
11 258 (14.41%) Machine Learning
12 229 (12.79%) Software Engineering
13 218 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
14 215 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 212 (11.84%) Data Modelling
16 204 (11.39%) Cloud Security
17 198 (11.06%) Migration
18 190 (10.61%) Roadmaps
19 187 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
20 185 (10.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 699 (39.03%) Python
2 362 (20.21%) SQL
3 347 (19.37%) Java
4 132 (7.37%) JavaScript
5 128 (7.15%) Bash
6 123 (6.87%) PowerShell
7 99 (5.53%) Go
8 95 (5.30%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.46%) Scala
10 41 (2.29%) C#
11 23 (1.28%) Bicep
11 23 (1.28%) Groovy
11 23 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 17 (0.95%) Rust
12 17 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.73%) R
14 12 (0.67%) Ruby
15 9 (0.50%) C++
15 9 (0.50%) Cypher
15 9 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 345 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 270 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 112 (6.25%) Degree
4 109 (6.09%) CISSP
5 80 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 69 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 63 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 60 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 59 (3.29%) CISM
10 50 (2.79%) Azure Certification
11 43 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.62%) CCSP
13 28 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 21 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
15 19 (1.06%) CCNP
15 19 (1.06%) GIAC
16 12 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.15%) Data Quality
2 106 (5.92%) GDPR
3 93 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (5.19%) NIST
4 68 (3.80%) QA
5 37 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 27 (1.51%) NCSC
7 24 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.12%) GRC
9 14 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.56%) SLA
12 9 (0.50%) COBIT
12 9 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.45%) PSD2
13 8 (0.45%) WCAG
14 7 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.39%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 334 (18.65%) Docker
2 65 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.78%) vSphere
7 13 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.28%) NFS
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Terminal Services
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%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 542 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 468 (26.13%) Terraform
3 125 (6.98%) Grafana
4 122 (6.81%) Prometheus
5 110 (6.14%) Ansible
6 40 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.68%) Argo
7 30 (1.68%) Istio
8 20 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.06%) Puppet
10 13 (0.73%) Kubeflow
10 13 (0.73%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.45%) Podman
13 7 (0.39%) linkerd
14 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.28%) Nessus
14 5 (0.28%) SnapMirror
14 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 558 (31.16%) Google
2 163 (9.10%) Microsoft
3 91 (5.08%) Databricks
4 64 (3.57%) Splunk
5 56 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 39 (2.18%) OpenAI
7 39 (2.18%) VMware
8 38 (2.12%) CyberArk
9 36 (2.01%) Oracle
10 32 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 32 (1.79%) Palo Alto
11 24 (1.34%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.23%) Okta
12 22 (1.23%) SAP
13 21 (1.17%) Informatica
14 20 (1.12%) Cisco
15 16 (0.89%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.84%) Rapid7
17 14 (0.78%) Foundry