GCP Contract Job Trends in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 43 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 750 697 764
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.21% 4.63% 4.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.84% 11.25% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 468 573
10th Percentile £400 £450 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £700 £739 £750
90th Percentile £819 £888 £805
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £33.11 £55.55 £48.32
25th Percentile £39.81 £56.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 £58.75 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +1.29% -21.09%
75th Percentile £69.69 £61.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £61.98 £77.00
England median hourly rate £66.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +14.78% -7.26% +77.14%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,333 6,197 7,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.02% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,327 4,194 5,330
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%
75th Percentile £50.63 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.67 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GCP job vacancy trend in London

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCP

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Central London +36 112 £616 +15.95% 44
West London +3 26 £600 +23.33% 9
South London +7 9 £544 -5.48% 1
East London -1 2 £608 -2.80% 14
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 51 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (5.33%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.73%) Apache
4 19 (2.53%) Confluence
5 8 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.40%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.40%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
8 2 (0.27%) Luigi
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.13%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 490 (65.33%) Azure
2 480 (64.00%) AWS
3 118 (15.73%) GitHub
4 77 (10.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 59 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (6.80%) Snowflake
7 46 (6.13%) Power Platform
8 39 (5.20%) dbt
9 37 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (4.80%) Cloud Run
11 29 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (3.47%) Amazon S3
13 24 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 23 (3.07%) Vertex AI
15 21 (2.80%) SaaS
16 20 (2.67%) Entra ID
17 19 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.53%) Serverless
18 18 (2.40%) Google Gemini
18 18 (2.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.67%) Firewall
2 27 (3.60%) DNS
3 25 (3.33%) Network Security
3 25 (3.33%) VPN
4 12 (1.60%) SSL
5 11 (1.47%) WAN
6 9 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.07%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.80%) BGP
8 6 (0.80%) HTTP
8 6 (0.80%) VLAN
9 5 (0.67%) Internet
9 5 (0.67%) LAN
9 5 (0.67%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.53%) DHCP
10 4 (0.53%) DMZ
10 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.53%) OSPF
10 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (14.13%) BigQuery
2 50 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (5.60%) Power BI
5 41 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.40%) MongoDB
7 31 (4.13%) Data Lake
8 27 (3.60%) Metadata
9 26 (3.47%) Tableau
10 25 (3.33%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.67%) Big Data
12 19 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (2.53%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (2.13%) Data Vault
15 14 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (1.87%) Looker
15 14 (1.87%) MySQL
16 12 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
17 11 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 101 (13.47%) Jenkins
2 72 (9.60%) Git
3 70 (9.33%) GitLab
4 42 (5.60%) JIRA
5 20 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.60%) Metasploit
7 11 (1.47%) Burp Suite
8 10 (1.33%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.33%) ER Studio
8 10 (1.33%) ERwin
8 10 (1.33%) MLflow
9 9 (1.20%) JUnit
9 9 (1.20%) PowerDesigner
9 9 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.07%) Gradle
10 8 (1.07%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.93%) JMeter
11 7 (0.93%) Maven
12 6 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 222 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 171 (22.80%) Finance
3 81 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.67%) Banking
5 50 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 23 (3.07%) Marketing
8 20 (2.67%) Front Office
9 17 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.13%) Retail
11 15 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.87%) Legal
13 13 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.73%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.47%) Electronics
15 11 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (15.60%) Architect
2 113 (15.07%) Developer
3 105 (14.00%) Senior
4 69 (9.20%) GCP Engineer
5 59 (7.87%) Data Engineer
6 54 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (6.53%) Analyst
8 44 (5.87%) Security Engineer
9 41 (5.47%) Lead
10 40 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 36 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (4.67%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (4.00%) Python Engineer
15 28 (3.73%) Consultant
16 25 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 24 (3.20%) GCP DevOps
17 24 (3.20%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 23 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 22 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.00%) Kafka
2 74 (9.87%) React
3 58 (7.73%) Spring
4 55 (7.33%) Node.js
5 53 (7.07%) REST
6 51 (6.80%) RESTful
7 45 (6.00%) Spring Boot
8 44 (5.87%) AngularJS
9 30 (4.00%) PyTorch
9 30 (4.00%) TensorFlow
9 30 (4.00%) Vue
10 29 (3.87%) Pandas
11 24 (3.20%) HTML
12 23 (3.07%) FastAPI
12 23 (3.07%) LangChain
12 23 (3.07%) NumPy
13 21 (2.80%) .NET
13 21 (2.80%) CSS
13 21 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (2.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 133 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.53%) Security Posture
3 30 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.67%) Life Science
8 19 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.27%) Genomics
11 16 (2.13%) AI Agents
11 16 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 15 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.87%) Equities
13 14 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.60%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.73%) Linux
2 30 (4.00%) Windows
3 14 (1.87%) Unix
4 9 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.07%) VMS
6 6 (0.80%) CentOS
7 5 (0.67%) Android
7 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (41.73%) CI/CD
2 265 (35.33%) DevOps
3 200 (26.67%) Agile
4 172 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
5 153 (20.40%) AI
5 153 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 146 (19.47%) Containerisation
7 125 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 123 (16.40%) Analytics
9 112 (14.93%) Microservices
10 92 (12.27%) Software Engineering
11 84 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
12 83 (11.07%) Migration
13 80 (10.67%) Data Modelling
14 79 (10.53%) Test Automation
15 75 (10.00%) Data Governance
16 70 (9.33%) ETL
17 69 (9.20%) Data Engineering
18 68 (9.07%) Data Science
19 67 (8.93%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 339 (45.20%) Python
2 155 (20.67%) SQL
3 139 (18.53%) Java
4 75 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 72 (9.60%) Bash
6 55 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 54 (7.20%) PowerShell
8 30 (4.00%) Go
9 27 (3.60%) C#
10 19 (2.53%) Scala
11 12 (1.60%) R
12 11 (1.47%) Perl
13 10 (1.33%) C++
13 10 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.07%) Bicep
15 8 (1.07%) Ruby
15 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.93%) C
17 6 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 100 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.40%) Degree
4 37 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.27%) CISSP
7 15 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.87%) OSCP
9 9 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.93%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.80%) CCSP
12 6 (0.80%) GPEN
13 5 (0.67%) CCNP
13 5 (0.67%) CISM
13 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.80%) GDPR
3 30 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.20%) NIST
4 24 (3.20%) QA
5 12 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.07%) NCSC
9 6 (0.80%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.80%) PERC
10 5 (0.67%) GRC
11 4 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.40%) HL7
12 3 (0.40%) MiFID
12 3 (0.40%) SLA
13 2 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 227 (30.27%) Docker
2 35 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.80%) Squid
5 5 (0.67%) Snort
6 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) KVM
7 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 241 (32.13%) Kubernetes
2 165 (22.00%) Terraform
3 56 (7.47%) Ansible
4 29 (3.87%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.60%) Grafana
6 24 (3.20%) Argo
7 15 (2.00%) Istio
8 12 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.47%) Nessus
9 11 (1.47%) Nmap
10 9 (1.20%) Puppet
11 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.80%) Kibana
12 6 (0.80%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.80%) SCCM
13 5 (0.67%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.67%) Nexpose
13 5 (0.67%) Suricata
14 4 (0.53%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 256 (34.13%) Google
2 53 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 52 (6.93%) Databricks
4 45 (6.00%) Splunk
5 36 (4.80%) Oracle
6 23 (3.07%) Cisco
7 22 (2.93%) CyberArk
8 21 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.67%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
11 13 (1.73%) Centrify
11 13 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.73%) SAP
12 12 (1.60%) Adobe
12 12 (1.60%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.47%) VMware
13 11 (1.47%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (1.33%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.20%) Qualys