GCP Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 9.09% 1.45% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.75% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
East London median daily rate £540 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 32 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 48.48% 57.97% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 29
10th Percentile £388 £378 £450
25th Percentile £441 £495 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile £675 £658 £585
East London median daily rate £545 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -3.11% +12.50% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
East London median hourly rate £19.38 £28.60 -
% change year-on-year -32.26% - -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Tower Hamlets

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 15 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
Canary Wharf +5 6 £540 -
GCP
East London

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 3 (50.00%) Google Compute Engine
2 3 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Google App Engine
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (50.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Environment And Release Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Environment Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) OAuth
1 3 (50.00%) OpenID
1 3 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Key Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Open Source
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Go
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
2 1 (16.67%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft