Google Compute Engine Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 334 395
Rank change year-on-year -89 +61 +58
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 6 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.047% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.085% 0.15% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £553 -
25th Percentile £413 £575 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% - -
75th Percentile £438 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £738 -
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine 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 7,047 4,121 5,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.83% 32.18% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,813 2,931 3,870
10th Percentile £281 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 159 256
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -27.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.31 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.50 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Compute Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Google Compute Engine job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Google Compute Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 -60 3 £425 -32.00%
North of England -70 3 £425 -32.00%
Scotland +8 2 - -
South West - 1 - - 1
Google Compute Engine
UK

Google Compute Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) AI
4 3 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google