GCP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 75 116
Rank change year-on-year +27 +41 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 134 48 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.61% 2.46% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.02% 7.73% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 38 13
10th Percentile £425 £375 £380
25th Percentile £484 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £697 £901
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £77.00 £51.44 £46.25
% change year-on-year +49.69% +11.22% -32.48%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 956 621 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.78% 31.83% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 426 435
10th Percentile £350 £213 £235
25th Percentile £440 £353 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £532
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% -9.87% -3.27%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £631
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 33 43
10th Percentile £14.11 £18.20 £25.26
25th Percentile £16.62 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £20.58 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -73.04% +112.12%
75th Percentile £54.40 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £80.50 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the South West

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the South West over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the South West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Bristol +22 63 £600 +9.09% 35
Gloucestershire +10 16 £550 -12.00% 36
Wiltshire -17 14 £669 +11.46% 3
Dorset +2 13 £430 -14.00% 19
Somerset -31 8 £450 -28.00% 16
Devon -10 4 £560 +9.27% 7
Cornwall - 1 £505 - 2
Avon - 1 - - 17
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (6.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (1.49%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.46%) AWS
2 75 (55.97%) Azure
3 17 (12.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (8.96%) GitHub
5 11 (8.21%) dbt
6 9 (6.72%) SaaS
7 8 (5.97%) Cloud Functions
7 8 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.22%) Cloud Composer
8 7 (5.22%) Vertex AI
9 5 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.73%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.73%) Google Workspace
9 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.99%) Cloud Run
10 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.69%) DNS
2 12 (8.96%) Firewall
3 9 (6.72%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.22%) VPN
5 6 (4.48%) DHCP
5 6 (4.48%) VLAN
6 3 (2.24%) DKIM
6 3 (2.24%) DMARC
7 2 (1.49%) Network Security
7 2 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.49%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.75%) BGP
8 1 (0.75%) Calico
8 1 (0.75%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.75%) IPsec
8 1 (0.75%) MPLS
8 1 (0.75%) OSPF
8 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.96%) BigQuery
2 10 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.72%) Metadata
4 5 (3.73%) Big Data
4 5 (3.73%) Looker
4 5 (3.73%) Power BI
4 5 (3.73%) Tableau
5 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.49%) Chroma
7 2 (1.49%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.49%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.75%) Dremio
8 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (26.12%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.66%) GitLab
3 13 (9.70%) Git
4 5 (3.73%) JIRA
5 3 (2.24%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.49%) JUnit
6 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.49%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.75%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.75%) Gatling
7 1 (0.75%) Gradle
7 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.75%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 18 (13.43%) Banking
2 17 (12.69%) Finance
3 16 (11.94%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.24%) Local Government
6 3 (2.24%) Police
7 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Publishing
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (23.88%) GCP Engineer
2 20 (14.93%) Developer
3 19 (14.18%) Architect
4 16 (11.94%) Data Engineer
5 13 (9.70%) Software Developer
6 11 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) GCP DevOps
7 10 (7.46%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) GCP Architect
8 9 (6.72%) GCP Data Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Consultant
10 7 (5.22%) Senior
11 6 (4.48%) BigQuery Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) QA Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) QA Test Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (42.54%) Terraform
2 11 (8.21%) Kafka
3 8 (5.97%) React
4 6 (4.48%) Node.js
4 6 (4.48%) REST
5 5 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (2.99%) LDAP
6 4 (2.99%) OAuth
6 4 (2.99%) SailPoint
7 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.24%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.24%) LangChain
7 3 (2.24%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.24%) Quarkus
7 3 (2.24%) RESTful
8 2 (1.49%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.49%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (1.49%) SignalR
8 2 (1.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.21%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Clustering
7 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.24%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.49%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.75%) BYOD
9 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.46%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 67 (50.00%) DevOps
3 54 (40.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (26.87%) Containerisation
5 31 (23.13%) AI
6 28 (20.90%) Agile
6 28 (20.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 26 (19.40%) DevSecOps
7 26 (19.40%) ETL
8 25 (18.66%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (17.91%) Data Modelling
10 23 (17.16%) Data Architecture
11 22 (16.42%) Software Engineering
12 20 (14.93%) Observability
12 20 (14.93%) Validation
13 17 (12.69%) Data Engineering
13 17 (12.69%) Microservices
14 16 (11.94%) Analytics
14 16 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (11.19%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.76%) Python
2 28 (20.90%) SQL
3 25 (18.66%) Java
4 20 (14.93%) Bash
5 13 (9.70%) C#
6 11 (8.21%) Go
7 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.24%) BeanShell
11 3 (2.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (38.06%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.37%) DV Cleared
3 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.22%) CISSP
5 6 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.49%) CCSK
7 2 (1.49%) CISM
7 2 (1.49%) Degree
7 2 (1.49%) GCIA
7 2 (1.49%) GCIH
8 1 (0.75%) CCIE
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) CCSP
8 1 (0.75%) CEH
8 1 (0.75%) CISA
8 1 (0.75%) GIAC
8 1 (0.75%) GSEC
8 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.94%) QA
2 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.24%) GDPR
4 3 (2.24%) NCSC
4 3 (2.24%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.75%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.40%) Docker
2 8 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.99%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) KVM
5 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.75%) zsh
Systems Management
1 56 (41.79%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.16%) Ansible
3 7 (5.22%) Grafana
3 7 (5.22%) Istio
3 7 (5.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.49%) Argo
5 2 (1.49%) Cilium
5 2 (1.49%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.49%) linkerd
5 2 (1.49%) Podman
6 1 (0.75%) CASB
6 1 (0.75%) OPNET
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (49.25%) Google
2 10 (7.46%) Dynatrace
3 8 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.97%) VMware
4 5 (3.73%) Splunk
5 4 (2.99%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.49%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.49%) Databricks
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco
7 1 (0.75%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.75%) Denodo
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Informatica
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) TIBCO