GCP Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 67 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 1,015 1,160 1,612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.10% 3.10% 3.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.87% 9.68% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 843 1,280
10th Percentile £366 £413 £449
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £621
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.42% +3.46%
75th Percentile £700 £763 £728
90th Percentile £838 £875 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £25.25 £34.25 £53.40
25th Percentile £34.38 £35.00 £62.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -21.43% +0.36%
75th Percentile £63.88 £67.00 £82.50
90th Percentile £78.70 £77.60 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.25% -30.71% +18.14%

All Cloud 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 9,337 11,980 17,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 31.97% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,355 8,562 12,519
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 330 282
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.24 £16.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.01 £21.46 £34.90
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% -38.51% +62.31%
75th Percentile £37.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in England.

Daily rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in England

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

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 17 June 2025. 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 +2 671 £603 -5.49% 5,218
North of England +15 142 £528 +0.48% 2,110
Yorkshire +13 81 £525 +2.94% 846
South East +53 58 £550 +18.92% 2,575
North West +32 58 £550 +2.33% 1,125
Midlands +44 52 £459 -32.04% 1,296
South West +23 37 £519 -5.68% 886
West Midlands +22 27 £700 +9.80% 720
East Midlands +31 24 £405 -40.00% 574
East of England +28 20 £493 -6.19% 1,086
North East +1 3 £544 -7.45% 139
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 82 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 48 (4.73%) Apache
4 35 (3.45%) Confluence
5 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) nginx
8 4 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.30%) Luigi
9 3 (0.30%) SAS
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.099%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.099%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.099%) JBoss
Applications
1 15 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Maple
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (0.89%) Shopify
2 7 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.49%) Kondor
4 3 (0.30%) Magento
5 2 (0.20%) assyst
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 734 (72.32%) AWS
2 643 (63.35%) Azure
3 83 (8.18%) dbt
4 82 (8.08%) GitHub
5 67 (6.60%) Snowflake
6 56 (5.52%) SaaS
7 52 (5.12%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.43%) PaaS
9 41 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
9 41 (4.04%) IaaS
10 40 (3.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 37 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (3.25%) Entra ID
14 31 (3.05%) OpenShift
15 29 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (2.66%) Serverless
17 23 (2.27%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
18 20 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 73 (7.19%) Firewall
2 48 (4.73%) VPN
3 42 (4.14%) Network Security
4 32 (3.15%) DNS
5 22 (2.17%) DHCP
6 19 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.67%) HTTP
8 14 (1.38%) SMTP
8 14 (1.38%) VLAN
9 13 (1.28%) BGP
10 12 (1.18%) OSPF
11 9 (0.89%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.79%) MPLS
12 8 (0.79%) WAN
13 6 (0.59%) LAN
13 6 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
14 5 (0.49%) HTTPS
14 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.39%) Internet
15 4 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (12.71%) BigQuery
2 105 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 102 (10.05%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (5.62%) Big Data
5 56 (5.52%) Data Lake
6 49 (4.83%) NoSQL
7 47 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
7 47 (4.63%) Power BI
8 45 (4.43%) Tableau
9 43 (4.24%) Apache Iceberg
9 43 (4.24%) Dremio
10 39 (3.84%) Apache Arrow
11 36 (3.55%) Looker
12 35 (3.45%) MongoDB
13 29 (2.86%) Hadoop
14 26 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 26 (2.56%) Relational Database
15 25 (2.46%) Flink
15 25 (2.46%) Metadata
16 22 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 98 (9.66%) Jenkins
2 74 (7.29%) Git
3 73 (7.19%) GitLab
4 65 (6.40%) JIRA
5 19 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.18%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.18%) ERwin
8 10 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.99%) Maven
8 10 (0.99%) MLflow
8 10 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.89%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.89%) ER Studio
9 9 (0.89%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.59%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.59%) JUnit
11 5 (0.49%) Gradle
11 5 (0.49%) Selenium
11 5 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 286 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 271 (26.70%) Finance
3 143 (14.09%) Banking
4 126 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (10.44%) Front Office
6 67 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 40 (3.94%) Telecoms
8 37 (3.65%) Marketing
9 35 (3.45%) Retail
10 23 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 22 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.97%) Legal
13 17 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.99%) Advertising
16 9 (0.89%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.79%) Electronics
17 8 (0.79%) Military
18 6 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 244 (24.04%) Architect
2 200 (19.70%) Developer
3 123 (12.12%) Software Engineer
4 107 (10.54%) Senior
5 94 (9.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 73 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
7 70 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 60 (5.91%) Analyst
9 55 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 53 (5.22%) Data Architect
11 51 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (4.63%) GCP Architect
12 47 (4.63%) GCP Engineer
13 46 (4.53%) Security Architect
14 45 (4.43%) Lead
14 45 (4.43%) React Developer
15 42 (4.14%) Python Developer
16 39 (3.84%) AWS Software Engineer
17 36 (3.55%) Python Engineer
18 35 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (13.30%) React
2 91 (8.97%) Node.js
3 78 (7.68%) AngularJS
4 74 (7.29%) Kafka
5 66 (6.50%) Redux
6 60 (5.91%) Vue
7 56 (5.52%) Pandas
8 53 (5.22%) NumPy
9 43 (4.24%) REST
9 43 (4.24%) SciPy
9 43 (4.24%) Spring
10 36 (3.55%) RESTful
11 33 (3.25%) .NET
12 29 (2.86%) OAuth
13 27 (2.66%) HTML
14 26 (2.56%) Spring Boot
15 25 (2.46%) PySpark
16 24 (2.36%) LDAP
17 22 (2.17%) CSS
17 22 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.15%) Fixed Income
2 80 (7.88%) Cloud Native
3 60 (5.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 58 (5.71%) Equities
5 35 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 33 (3.25%) Public Cloud
7 32 (3.15%) Hedge funds
8 26 (2.56%) Data Structures
9 25 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (2.17%) Algorithms
11 21 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (1.97%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.97%) Product Ownership
12 20 (1.97%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.97%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.67%) PKI
14 14 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.28%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.97%) Linux
2 54 (5.32%) Windows
3 26 (2.56%) Unix
4 22 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.99%) Android
6 10 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.59%) Rocky
8 4 (0.39%) AIX
8 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.39%) Solaris
8 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) CentOS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.099%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (28.67%) CI/CD
2 290 (28.57%) Agile
3 259 (25.52%) DevOps
4 218 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (19.70%) Software Engineering
6 161 (15.86%) Analytics
7 152 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 130 (12.81%) ETL
10 129 (12.71%) Data Modelling
11 122 (12.02%) Migration
12 117 (11.53%) Microservices
13 113 (11.13%) Artificial Intelligence
14 109 (10.74%) Cloud Security
15 108 (10.64%) Asset Management
15 108 (10.64%) Machine Learning
16 104 (10.25%) Fintech
17 99 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
18 98 (9.66%) Data Engineering
18 98 (9.66%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 445 (43.84%) Python
2 203 (20.00%) SQL
3 174 (17.14%) Java
4 171 (16.85%) JavaScript
5 115 (11.33%) TypeScript
6 86 (8.47%) Bash
7 70 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 41 (4.04%) Go
9 35 (3.45%) Scala
10 31 (3.05%) C#
11 19 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.67%) Groovy
13 16 (1.58%) Bicep
14 15 (1.48%) Perl
15 14 (1.38%) C++
16 13 (1.28%) R
17 10 (0.99%) C
18 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
19 6 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 5 (0.49%) DAML
Qualifications
1 140 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 101 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.97%) Degree
4 56 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.25%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.96%) CISSP
9 24 (2.36%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.77%) CISM
12 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.48%) OSCP
14 13 (1.28%) CEH
14 13 (1.28%) CREST Certified
15 11 (1.08%) CCNP
16 8 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.79%) PMP
16 8 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.08%) GDPR
2 61 (6.01%) Data Quality
3 56 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (5.42%) NIST
5 52 (5.12%) QA
6 27 (2.66%) HIPAA
7 22 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.48%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.38%) NCSC
10 13 (1.28%) SOC 2
11 11 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.79%) Basel III
13 7 (0.69%) GRC
13 7 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.49%) MiFID
15 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.39%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.30%) IFRS
16 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 173 (17.04%) Docker
2 50 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.89%) BitLocker
7 9 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.89%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) Lustre
10 2 (0.20%) Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) NFS
10 2 (0.20%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 236 (23.25%) Kubernetes
2 193 (19.01%) Terraform
3 107 (10.54%) Ansible
4 39 (3.84%) Grafana
5 31 (3.05%) Puppet
6 28 (2.76%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.58%) Nagios
9 13 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.08%) Istio
11 10 (0.99%) Argo
11 10 (0.99%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 9 (0.89%) vMotion
13 8 (0.79%) Kubeflow
13 8 (0.79%) Nmap
13 8 (0.79%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.69%) Control-M
15 6 (0.59%) Podman
16 5 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 351 (34.58%) Google
2 122 (12.02%) Microsoft
3 54 (5.32%) Databricks
4 37 (3.65%) IBM
5 36 (3.55%) Oracle
5 36 (3.55%) Splunk
6 27 (2.66%) VMware
7 26 (2.56%) SAP
8 25 (2.46%) Cisco
9 19 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.67%) CyberArk
10 17 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.58%) Citrix
12 14 (1.38%) Adobe
13 13 (1.28%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.18%) Ping Identity
14 12 (1.18%) ServiceNow
15 11 (1.08%) HP
16 9 (0.89%) Informatica
16 9 (0.89%) Symantec