GCP Contract Job Trends in Kent

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.68% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £515 £491
% change year-on-year +2.87% +4.78% -15.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 48 44 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 20.17% 33.08% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 14
10th Percentile £246 £153 £157
25th Percentile £280 £220 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £393 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -1.88% -23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £525
90th Percentile £625 £622 £686
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £20.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.26 - -
Median hourly rate £36.71 - -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile £43.15 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £18.82 £26.75
% change year-on-year +245.38% -29.64% -3.88%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent.

GCP job vacancy trend in Kent

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Kent region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - -
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Dialogflow
1 1 (25.00%) Google Sheets
1 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Looker
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Google Apps Script
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks