GCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 152 162
Rank change year-on-year +56 +10 -35
Contract jobs citing GCP 342 286 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.60% 1.36% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.13% 5.29% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 188 259
10th Percentile £315 £346 £400
25th Percentile £404 £412 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -7.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £679 £706
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £68.62 - £27.25
25th Percentile £70.30 - £41.50
Median hourly rate £74.35 £35.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.43% -46.56% +29.70%
75th Percentile £77.15 £61.50 £68.01
90th Percentile £78.08 £77.40 £69.36
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.25% -30.71% +30.84%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,209 5,405 7,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.97% 25.68% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,925 3,790 5,488
10th Percentile £250 £215 £242
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £639 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 268 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £16.62
Median hourly rate £19.27 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -30.91% +44.39%
75th Percentile £34.46 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £21.50 £38.78
% change year-on-year +32.14% -44.55% +76.25%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
North of England +22 134 £528 +0.48% 466
Yorkshire +10 73 £525 +1.94% 138
North West +31 58 £540 +2.86% 298
South East +57 57 £550 +20.55% 791
Midlands +37 47 £440 -31.06% 140
South West +32 38 £525 -4.55% 126
Scotland +11 26 £488 +8.33% 129
East Midlands +32 24 £396 -41.41% 62
West Midlands +24 22 £600 - 75
Wales +20 21 £463 -15.91% 37
East of England +22 20 £493 -6.19% 64
Northern Ireland -6 4 £475 -29.63% 49
North East -2 3 £544 -9.38% 31
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (8.19%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.68%) Apache
4 13 (3.80%) Confluence
5 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.17%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.17%) Mule
6 4 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Maple
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Kondor
1 5 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 243 (71.05%) AWS
2 227 (66.37%) Azure
3 25 (7.31%) Snowflake
4 22 (6.43%) GitHub
5 21 (6.14%) Power Platform
6 16 (4.68%) PaaS
7 14 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.22%) dbt
8 11 (3.22%) IaaS
8 11 (3.22%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.63%) npm
11 7 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (1.75%) Google Compute Engine
12 6 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (1.46%) Apigee
13 5 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.77%) Firewall
2 25 (7.31%) VPN
3 17 (4.97%) DNS
4 15 (4.39%) Network Security
5 14 (4.09%) DHCP
6 11 (3.22%) HTTP
7 10 (2.92%) BGP
7 10 (2.92%) VLAN
8 9 (2.63%) OSPF
9 8 (2.34%) MPLS
9 8 (2.34%) SMTP
10 6 (1.75%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.75%) WAN
11 5 (1.46%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.17%) Calico
12 4 (1.17%) SSL
13 3 (0.88%) VoIP
14 2 (0.58%) HTTPS
14 2 (0.58%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.58%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.82%) BigQuery
2 35 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (7.60%) Big Data
4 23 (6.73%) NoSQL
5 22 (6.43%) MongoDB
6 18 (5.26%) Power BI
6 18 (5.26%) Tableau
7 16 (4.68%) Looker
7 16 (4.68%) SQL Server
8 15 (4.39%) Flink
8 15 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (4.09%) Hadoop
9 14 (4.09%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.92%) Metadata
11 9 (2.63%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (10.53%) Git
2 35 (10.23%) GitLab
3 31 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 31 (9.06%) JIRA
4 7 (2.05%) Cypress.io
4 7 (2.05%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.75%) Maven
6 5 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.46%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.46%) webpack
7 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.17%) ERwin
7 4 (1.17%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.88%) DBeaver
8 3 (0.88%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.58%) Gradle
9 2 (0.58%) Mockito
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 127 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (18.13%) Finance
3 44 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 37 (10.82%) Banking
5 24 (7.02%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.09%) Legal
7 13 (3.80%) Marketing
8 12 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.51%) Retail
9 11 (3.22%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.05%) Electronics
11 4 (1.17%) French Language
11 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.88%) Automotive
12 3 (0.88%) Military
13 2 (0.58%) Advertising
13 2 (0.58%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 82 (23.98%) Architect
2 49 (14.33%) Developer
3 35 (10.23%) Senior
4 29 (8.48%) Solutions Architect
5 28 (8.19%) Data Engineer
6 20 (5.85%) Analyst
6 20 (5.85%) Support Engineer
7 14 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.09%) GCP Architect
7 14 (4.09%) Lead
8 13 (3.80%) Data Architect
8 13 (3.80%) Security Architect
9 12 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
9 12 (3.51%) GCP Engineer
10 11 (3.22%) Software Engineer
11 10 (2.92%) Data Analyst
11 10 (2.92%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.63%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.34%) C# Developer
13 8 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.70%) Kafka
2 30 (8.77%) RESTful
3 21 (6.14%) .NET
4 18 (5.26%) HTML
5 17 (4.97%) LDAP
5 17 (4.97%) React
6 16 (4.68%) CSS
7 15 (4.39%) REST
7 15 (4.39%) Spring
8 13 (3.80%) OAuth
8 13 (3.80%) SOAP
9 11 (3.22%) SAML
9 11 (3.22%) Spark Streaming
10 10 (2.92%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.92%) Apache Beam
10 10 (2.92%) Hibernate
10 10 (2.92%) PySpark
10 10 (2.92%) Spring Boot
10 10 (2.92%) TensorFlow
11 9 (2.63%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.97%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.09%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.92%) PKI
6 9 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.34%) Clustering
7 8 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.46%) Derivative
10 5 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.46%) NHS
11 4 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.70%) Linux
2 24 (7.02%) Windows
3 20 (5.85%) Unix
4 11 (3.22%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.75%) Android
5 6 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.17%) AIX
7 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Solaris
9 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (35.09%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (34.21%) CI/CD
3 88 (25.73%) DevOps
4 82 (23.98%) Agile
5 51 (14.91%) Analytics
5 51 (14.91%) ETL
6 50 (14.62%) Containerisation
7 46 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 45 (13.16%) Microservices
9 44 (12.87%) Computer Science
10 42 (12.28%) Machine Learning
11 40 (11.70%) Migration
12 39 (11.40%) Software Engineering
13 38 (11.11%) Data Engineering
14 36 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 34 (9.94%) Decision-Making
16 32 (9.36%) Cloud Security
17 31 (9.06%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 127 (37.13%) Python
2 103 (30.12%) SQL
3 50 (14.62%) Java
4 33 (9.65%) Bash
5 32 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 23 (6.73%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 16 (4.68%) C#
9 12 (3.51%) Scala
9 12 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.75%) Groovy
11 5 (1.46%) Go
11 5 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.46%) Perl
11 5 (1.46%) R
12 4 (1.17%) DataWeave
13 3 (0.88%) C
13 3 (0.88%) Korn
13 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.58%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 56 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.08%) Degree
3 37 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 32 (9.36%) Azure Certification
6 27 (7.89%) AWS Certification
7 22 (6.43%) DV Cleared
8 16 (4.68%) Master's Degree
8 16 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (4.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (2.92%) CCNP
11 10 (2.92%) CISSP
12 7 (2.05%) CCIE
12 7 (2.05%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.46%) CISM
14 4 (1.17%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.17%) CEH
14 4 (1.17%) CITP
14 4 (1.17%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.65%) GDPR
2 26 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 25 (7.31%) QA
4 14 (4.09%) NIST
5 13 (3.80%) HIPAA
5 13 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.34%) Basel III
7 7 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.46%) MiFID
10 4 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.88%) IFRS
11 3 (0.88%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.88%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.58%) GRC
13 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.29%) NCSC
13 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (19.88%) Docker
2 14 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.34%) BitLocker
5 8 (2.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (2.34%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 81 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 55 (16.08%) Terraform
3 37 (10.82%) Ansible
4 16 (4.68%) Grafana
5 11 (3.22%) Nagios
5 11 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.22%) Puppet
6 9 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.34%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 8 (2.34%) vMotion
8 7 (2.05%) Istio
9 5 (1.46%) Control-M
9 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.88%) Kiali
11 2 (0.58%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.58%) Kibana
11 2 (0.58%) logstash
11 2 (0.58%) Podman
11 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.58%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (43.57%) Google
2 65 (19.01%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.73%) Databricks
3 23 (6.73%) IBM
4 20 (5.85%) Cisco
5 15 (4.39%) Splunk
6 14 (4.09%) SAP
7 13 (3.80%) Oracle
8 12 (3.51%) VMware
9 10 (2.92%) HP
9 10 (2.92%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.63%) Citrix
11 8 (2.34%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.34%) Symantec
12 7 (2.05%) Ping Identity
12 7 (2.05%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.75%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.75%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.46%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.46%) ServiceNow