GCP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 49 64
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing GCP 382 170 136
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 5.29% 4.43% 2.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.68% 13.31% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 110 85
10th Percentile £413 £350 £380
25th Percentile £463 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -6.46%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £622
90th Percentile £688 £712 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £56.39 - -
25th Percentile £69.44 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile - £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.72 £53.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +30.32% +3.38% -29.91%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,436 1,277 1,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 33.28% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,574 914 982
10th Percentile £313 £283 £268
25th Percentile £400 £384 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -1.68% -5.05%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £643
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 30 70
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £12.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.78 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% +91.66% -28.50%
75th Percentile £76.00 £51.16 £22.56
90th Percentile £89.50 £77.50 £48.54
England median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the North of England

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCP

GCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Yorkshire 0 238 £527 +10.84% 25
North West -1 127 £539 +1.65% 72
North East -18 21 £550 +1.15% 17
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 16 (4.19%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.40%) Confluence
3 12 (3.14%) Apache
4 8 (2.09%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 243 (63.61%) AWS
2 227 (59.42%) Azure
3 68 (17.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 52 (13.61%) GitHub
5 33 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.76%) Serverless
8 20 (5.24%) Vertex AI
9 18 (4.71%) Entra ID
10 16 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.19%) Power Platform
11 13 (3.40%) Akamai
11 13 (3.40%) Apigee
11 13 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (3.14%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.88%) Cloud Run
13 11 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.62%) OCI
14 10 (2.62%) OpenShift
14 10 (2.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.64%) Firewall
1 33 (8.64%) Network Security
2 25 (6.54%) DNS
3 13 (3.40%) VPN
4 7 (1.83%) SAN
5 5 (1.31%) BGP
5 5 (1.31%) HTTP
5 5 (1.31%) OSPF
6 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.05%) WAN
7 3 (0.79%) DKIM
7 3 (0.79%) DMARC
7 3 (0.79%) Internet
7 3 (0.79%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.79%) LAN
7 3 (0.79%) SSL
7 3 (0.79%) VLAN
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.52%) Multicast
8 2 (0.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.33%) BigQuery
2 17 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.14%) Metadata
4 11 (2.88%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.88%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.83%) Looker
5 7 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.83%) Neo4j
5 7 (1.83%) Power BI
6 6 (1.57%) Big Data
6 6 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.57%) Redis
6 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.31%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.05%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.05%) Hazelcast
9 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.79%) Tableau
9 3 (0.79%) Trino
Development Applications
1 85 (22.25%) Jenkins
2 43 (11.26%) Git
3 26 (6.81%) JIRA
4 22 (5.76%) GitLab
5 12 (3.14%) Maven
5 12 (3.14%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.62%) Postman
6 10 (2.62%) Selenium
7 8 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.57%) Gradle
9 6 (1.57%) JMeter
10 5 (1.31%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.05%) Gatling
11 4 (1.05%) JUnit
11 4 (1.05%) Snyk
12 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.79%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.79%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (30.89%) Finance
2 104 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.73%) Banking
4 21 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.97%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.62%) Financial Institution
6 10 (2.62%) Retail
7 8 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.09%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.83%) Publishing
9 6 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.79%) Military
11 2 (0.52%) Billing
11 2 (0.52%) Games
11 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.52%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.52%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 60 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (14.92%) Architect
3 39 (10.21%) Developer
4 36 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (9.16%) Senior
6 34 (8.90%) Lead
7 32 (8.38%) GCP Engineer
8 31 (8.12%) Security Engineer
9 24 (6.28%) GCP DevOps
10 23 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (5.50%) Consultant
12 19 (4.97%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.71%) Analyst
14 17 (4.45%) Java Developer
15 16 (4.19%) Data Engineer
16 13 (3.40%) DevSecOps Consultant
17 12 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 12 (3.14%) Python Developer
18 11 (2.88%) Senior Developer
18 11 (2.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.59%) REST
2 28 (7.33%) Kafka
3 27 (7.07%) React
4 26 (6.81%) OAuth
5 23 (6.02%) Node.js
6 19 (4.97%) RESTful
6 19 (4.97%) Spring
6 19 (4.97%) Spring Boot
7 18 (4.71%) OpenID
8 16 (4.19%) OAuth2
9 14 (3.66%) JWT
10 13 (3.40%) YAML
11 11 (2.88%) LDAP
11 11 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (2.88%) SAML
12 10 (2.62%) JSON
12 10 (2.62%) PySpark
12 10 (2.62%) SLSA
13 9 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.83%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 73 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.54%) Security Posture
3 21 (5.50%) AI Agents
3 21 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (4.97%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 14 (3.66%) Data Centre
8 14 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.88%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.83%) PKI
13 5 (1.31%) FlexPod
13 5 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.31%) Replication
13 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.04%) Linux
2 35 (9.16%) Windows
3 20 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.09%) VMS
5 6 (1.57%) Android
5 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.31%) CoreOS
6 5 (1.31%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.31%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.05%) Unix
7 4 (1.05%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.79%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (59.95%) CI/CD
2 178 (46.60%) DevOps
3 119 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (25.92%) Agile
5 92 (24.08%) Observability
6 80 (20.94%) Microservices
7 71 (18.59%) AI
7 71 (18.59%) DevSecOps
8 69 (18.06%) Cloud Security
9 61 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 57 (14.92%) Roadmaps
11 56 (14.66%) Containerisation
12 48 (12.57%) Software Engineering
13 44 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.21%) Analytics
15 39 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (9.69%) Scrum
17 36 (9.42%) Machine Learning
18 35 (9.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 156 (40.84%) Python
2 78 (20.42%) Java
3 54 (14.14%) Bash
4 52 (13.61%) SQL
5 49 (12.83%) PowerShell
6 25 (6.54%) Go
7 22 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.45%) Groovy
9 14 (3.66%) Bicep
10 7 (1.83%) Rust
11 6 (1.57%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.31%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.79%) ABAP
13 3 (0.79%) Scala
13 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.52%) Cypher
15 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.26%) Perl
15 1 (0.26%) R
15 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (8.90%) Security Cleared
2 30 (7.85%) CISSP
3 27 (7.07%) AWS Certification
4 25 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 23 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (4.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 19 (4.97%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.71%) Degree
8 15 (3.93%) CCSP
8 15 (3.93%) CISM
9 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.31%) OCP
10 5 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.05%) CCNP
11 4 (1.05%) GIAC
11 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.79%) CCSK
12 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.14%) NIST
3 11 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.62%) QA
5 9 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.57%) GDPR
7 4 (1.05%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) CDISC
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.26%) PSD2
9 1 (0.26%) SEPA
9 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (21.47%) Docker
2 23 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.57%) vSphere
6 5 (1.31%) NFS
6 5 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 157 (41.10%) Terraform
2 143 (37.43%) Kubernetes
3 44 (11.52%) Prometheus
4 42 (10.99%) Grafana
5 28 (7.33%) Ansible
6 14 (3.66%) Argo
7 13 (3.40%) Istio
7 13 (3.40%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.36%) Kustomize
9 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (1.31%) SnapMirror
12 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.52%) linkerd
14 1 (0.26%) Kibana
14 1 (0.26%) Nagios
14 1 (0.26%) Packer
14 1 (0.26%) QRadar
14 1 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 125 (32.72%) Google
2 33 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.97%) Red Hat
4 18 (4.71%) Databricks
5 17 (4.45%) Dynatrace
6 14 (3.66%) Splunk
7 9 (2.36%) Okta
7 9 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.36%) VMware
8 7 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.83%) Sonatype
9 6 (1.57%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.57%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.31%) NetApp
10 5 (1.31%) Oracle
11 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.05%) SAP
12 3 (0.79%) Cisco
12 3 (0.79%) Perforce