GCP Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 83 76
Rank change year-on-year +22 -7 +70
Contract jobs citing GCP 113 45 59
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.59% 1.95% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.73% 6.28% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 26 46
10th Percentile £364 £320 £375
25th Percentile £425 £358 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £600
90th Percentile £643 £612 £684
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £56.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +16.81% -8.87% +77.14%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,053 716 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.41% 31.02% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 471 693
10th Percentile £290 £213 £213
25th Percentile £401 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £493 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +6.59% -7.50%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.05 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.28 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +66.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £31.50 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £42.74 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +18 89 £520 +8.91% 29
East Midlands -15 23 £429 +20.51% 29
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (7.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.42%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 2 (1.77%) Confluence
4 2 (1.77%) Drupal
5 1 (0.88%) Mule
5 1 (0.88%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 92 (81.42%) AWS
2 73 (64.60%) Azure
3 25 (22.12%) Serverless
4 12 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.62%) Entra ID
5 10 (8.85%) Akamai
5 10 (8.85%) GitHub
6 9 (7.96%) Apigee
6 9 (7.96%) Cloud Functions
6 9 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.08%) Datadog
7 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.42%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.42%) npm
9 5 (4.42%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.42%) Pulumi
9 5 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) Firewall
2 8 (7.08%) Wireshark
3 7 (6.19%) LAN
3 7 (6.19%) SD-WAN
3 7 (6.19%) VPN
3 7 (6.19%) WAN
3 7 (6.19%) WLAN
4 6 (5.31%) DNS
5 5 (4.42%) BGP
5 5 (4.42%) IPv4
5 5 (4.42%) IPv6
5 5 (4.42%) MPLS
5 5 (4.42%) OSPF
5 5 (4.42%) VXLAN
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (3.54%) DHCP
6 4 (3.54%) EIGRP
6 4 (3.54%) VLAN
6 4 (3.54%) Wireless
7 3 (2.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.35%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.81%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.96%) MySQL
4 8 (7.08%) Big Data
5 7 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.31%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.54%) Metadata
8 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.77%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.77%) Parquet
9 2 (1.77%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.88%) Impala
10 1 (0.88%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 25 (22.12%) Jenkins
2 22 (19.47%) GitLab
3 17 (15.04%) Git
4 10 (8.85%) Liquibase
5 8 (7.08%) SonarQube
5 8 (7.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (4.42%) Artifactory
6 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.42%) CircleCI
6 5 (4.42%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.42%) Gradle
6 5 (4.42%) JUnit
6 5 (4.42%) Maven
6 5 (4.42%) Postman
6 5 (4.42%) Selenium
6 5 (4.42%) Snyk
6 5 (4.42%) webpack
7 4 (3.54%) JIRA
8 2 (1.77%) MLflow
9 1 (0.88%) PyCharm
General
1 61 (53.98%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.97%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.81%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.08%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.16%) Senior
2 14 (12.39%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) Architect
3 13 (11.50%) Developer
3 13 (11.50%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) GCP Developer
5 9 (7.96%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Data Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Lead
7 7 (6.19%) Cloud Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Engagement Manager
7 7 (6.19%) SAP Manager
7 7 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) SAP Engagement Manager
9 5 (4.42%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.47%) Elastic Stack
1 22 (19.47%) REST
2 19 (16.81%) RESTful
3 10 (8.85%) Node.js
4 8 (7.08%) SAML
5 6 (5.31%) JSON
5 6 (5.31%) Middleware
5 6 (5.31%) OAuth
5 6 (5.31%) Pandas
5 6 (5.31%) YAML
6 5 (4.42%) SailPoint
6 5 (4.42%) Spring
7 4 (3.54%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.54%) Kafka
7 4 (3.54%) LDAP
7 4 (3.54%) OpenID
8 3 (2.65%) Flask
8 3 (2.65%) NumPy
8 3 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (12.39%) Public Cloud
4 9 (7.96%) Onboarding
5 8 (7.08%) Security Posture
6 7 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.42%) Data Centre
7 5 (4.42%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.88%) Animation
10 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.88%) FMCG
10 1 (0.88%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.12%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Windows
3 7 (6.19%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.44%) CI/CD
2 52 (46.02%) DevOps
3 36 (31.86%) Agile
3 36 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (30.97%) Containerisation
5 30 (26.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (20.35%) Change Management
7 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (20.35%) Microservices
8 21 (18.58%) Computer Science
9 18 (15.93%) Machine Learning
9 18 (15.93%) Root Cause Analysis
9 18 (15.93%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.04%) Cost Optimisation
10 17 (15.04%) DevSecOps
11 16 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (13.27%) High Availability
12 15 (13.27%) Test Automation
13 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.36%) Python
2 25 (22.12%) SQL
3 17 (15.04%) Go
4 15 (13.27%) Bash
5 10 (8.85%) Java
5 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.31%) VBA
7 3 (2.65%) R
8 2 (1.77%) Groovy
8 2 (1.77%) PHP
8 2 (1.77%) Ruby
8 2 (1.77%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.58%) Degree
3 17 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (11.50%) Master's Degree
5 12 (10.62%) SC Cleared
6 9 (7.96%) AWS Certification
7 6 (5.31%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.31%) CCIE
7 6 (5.31%) CCNP
7 6 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.42%) CISSP
9 4 (3.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (3.54%) CCSP
10 3 (2.65%) CCIE Security
11 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.77%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.77%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.58%) GDPR
2 13 (11.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.85%) QA
4 9 (7.96%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.31%) Data Quality
5 6 (5.31%) NIST
6 5 (4.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (29.20%) Docker
2 12 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.73%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.88%) HDFS
5 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (31.86%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.55%) Terraform
3 26 (23.01%) Ansible
4 22 (19.47%) Grafana
4 22 (19.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.08%) CSIRT
6 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (6.19%) SCCM
7 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
7 6 (5.31%) Puppet
8 5 (4.42%) Podman
9 4 (3.54%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (1.77%) Argo
10 2 (1.77%) Istio
11 1 (0.88%) Kibana
11 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Splunk
2 29 (25.66%) Microsoft
3 28 (24.78%) Google
4 15 (13.27%) F5
5 12 (10.62%) SAP
5 12 (10.62%) VMware
6 8 (7.08%) ServiceNow
7 7 (6.19%) Cisco
7 7 (6.19%) Citrix
7 7 (6.19%) Fortinet
7 7 (6.19%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.42%) Meraki
8 5 (4.42%) Okta
9 4 (3.54%) IBM
9 4 (3.54%) Juniper
9 4 (3.54%) Ping Identity
9 4 (3.54%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.65%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.65%) Informatica
10 3 (2.65%) Talend