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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,872 1,193 1,216
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.10% 4.36% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.80% 11.67% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 806 842
10th Percentile £408 £375 £410
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.13% -0.08%
75th Percentile £661 £681 £773
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 7
10th Percentile £13.51 £35.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £19.47 £45.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £77.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% +40.00% -51.61%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.60 £56.25
90th Percentile £83.30 £100.00 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.93% +50.00% -53.18%

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 15,864 10,226 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.36% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,627 6,924 7,781
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 267 194
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.19 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.25
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.18
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 0 979 £574 -4.38% 1,975
North of England +8 399 £545 +14.62% 305
Yorkshire +6 255 £550 +18.47% 92
South East +3 185 £525 +0.77% 200
North West -8 130 £550 +4.76% 192
South West +24 128 £568 +8.10% 193
Midlands -56 67 £525 +15.07% 93
East of England +19 60 £549 +8.67% 45
West Midlands -47 49 £528 -0.47% 72
North East -26 18 £463 -26.00% 22
East Midlands -28 18 £500 +25.00% 21
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
1 119 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 100 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (4.01%) Apache
4 47 (2.51%) 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 1,225 (65.44%) AWS
2 1,203 (64.26%) Azure
3 205 (10.95%) GitHub
4 161 (8.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 137 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 137 (7.32%) Snowflake
6 98 (5.24%) SaaS
7 92 (4.91%) dbt
8 80 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 74 (3.95%) Power Platform
10 69 (3.69%) Serverless
11 62 (3.31%) Entra ID
12 54 (2.88%) Vertex AI
13 43 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (2.08%) Cloud Run
15 37 (1.98%) Amazon S3
16 35 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
17 34 (1.82%) Datadog
18 33 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 102 (5.45%) Network Security
2 97 (5.18%) Firewall
3 88 (4.70%) DNS
4 75 (4.01%) VPN
5 30 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.28%) WAN
7 23 (1.23%) BGP
7 23 (1.23%) DHCP
8 19 (1.01%) Internet
9 18 (0.96%) HTTP
9 18 (0.96%) VLAN
10 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.75%) SSL
12 13 (0.69%) OSPF
13 11 (0.59%) IPsec
14 10 (0.53%) VoIP
15 9 (0.48%) DNSSEC
15 9 (0.48%) MPLS
15 9 (0.48%) VXLAN
16 8 (0.43%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (11.75%) BigQuery
2 173 (9.24%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (4.17%) Metadata
5 76 (4.06%) Relational Database
6 75 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.90%) Big Data
8 66 (3.53%) Power BI
9 47 (2.51%) Tableau
10 46 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 36 (1.92%) Looker
12 33 (1.76%) Flink
13 31 (1.66%) SQL Server
14 30 (1.60%) Redis
15 28 (1.50%) MongoDB
16 26 (1.39%) MySQL
17 20 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
18 19 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 219 (11.70%) Jenkins
2 203 (10.84%) Git
3 144 (7.69%) GitLab
4 88 (4.70%) 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 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.85%) LoadRunner
11 16 (0.85%) 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
1 515 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 448 (23.93%) Finance
3 179 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (9.03%) Banking
5 150 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.63%) Retail
7 62 (3.31%) Telecoms
8 44 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.08%) Legal
10 37 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 36 (1.92%) Marketing
12 31 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.28%) Billing
16 21 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.01%) Publishing
18 17 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 401 (21.42%) Architect
2 255 (13.62%) Senior
3 203 (10.84%) Developer
4 179 (9.56%) Lead
5 161 (8.60%) Data Engineer
6 146 (7.80%) GCP Engineer
7 130 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 111 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 107 (5.72%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (4.86%) Java Developer
11 81 (4.33%) Consultant
12 72 (3.85%) Security Engineer
13 68 (3.63%) Analyst
13 68 (3.63%) Data Architect
14 64 (3.42%) Security Architect
15 61 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
16 59 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 51 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
18 50 (2.67%) Software Engineer
19 43 (2.30%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (24.84%) Terraform
2 201 (10.74%) Kafka
3 167 (8.92%) REST
4 104 (5.56%) Spring
5 96 (5.13%) React
6 92 (4.91%) OAuth
6 92 (4.91%) Spring Boot
7 79 (4.22%) RESTful
8 70 (3.74%) Node.js
9 57 (3.04%) JSON
10 55 (2.94%) OpenID
11 52 (2.78%) LDAP
12 51 (2.72%) SAML
13 48 (2.56%) OAuth2
13 48 (2.56%) PySpark
14 45 (2.40%) LangChain
15 42 (2.24%) SOAP
16 41 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
17 36 (1.92%) JWT
17 36 (1.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 390 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 135 (7.21%) 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 47 (2.51%) Public Cloud
10 46 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
11 45 (2.40%) Data Centre
11 45 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
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 31 (1.66%) 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 92 (4.91%) Windows
3 37 (1.98%) 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 8 (0.43%) 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
1 838 (44.76%) CI/CD
2 598 (31.94%) DevOps
3 471 (25.16%) Agile
4 457 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 452 (24.15%) AI
6 321 (17.15%) Microservices
7 312 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 299 (15.97%) Analytics
9 273 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
10 269 (14.37%) Observability
11 268 (14.32%) Machine Learning
12 262 (14.00%) Software Engineering
13 260 (13.89%) Containerisation
14 233 (12.45%) Data Pipeline
15 229 (12.23%) Roadmaps
16 227 (12.13%) Data Modelling
17 224 (11.97%) Cloud Security
18 208 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 207 (11.06%) Migration
20 198 (10.58%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 711 (37.98%) Python
2 394 (21.05%) SQL
3 376 (20.09%) 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 (2.56%) Scala
10 39 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 34 (1.82%) C#
12 29 (1.55%) Bicep
13 24 (1.28%) Groovy
14 19 (1.01%) 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
1 382 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.01%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.05%) Degree
4 112 (5.98%) CISSP
5 96 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 82 (4.38%) AWS Certification
7 65 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (3.37%) CISM
9 59 (3.15%) Azure Certification
10 56 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 34 (1.82%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.44%) 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
1 160 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 94 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 92 (4.91%) GDPR
3 92 (4.91%) QA
4 89 (4.75%) NIST
5 31 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 30 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.18%) NCSC
8 19 (1.01%) GRC
9 15 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.43%) WCAG
13 7 (0.37%) COBIT
13 7 (0.37%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 340 (18.16%) Docker
2 84 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.01%) 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%) zsh
Systems Management
1 586 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 132 (7.05%) Ansible
3 120 (6.41%) Grafana
4 116 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 42 (2.24%) 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 17 (0.91%) 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
1 621 (33.17%) Google
2 209 (11.16%) Microsoft
3 122 (6.52%) Databricks
4 71 (3.79%) Splunk
5 70 (3.74%) Oracle
6 58 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 47 (2.51%) CyberArk
8 47 (2.51%) Dynatrace
9 45 (2.40%) VMware
10 40 (2.14%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.98%) SAP
12 30 (1.60%) Informatica
12 30 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.50%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.44%) IBM
15 22 (1.18%) Cisco
16 20 (1.07%) MuleSoft
16 20 (1.07%) Okta
17 18 (0.96%) New Relic