GCP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 64 91
Rank change year-on-year -46 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing GCP 56 65 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.55% 3.52% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.96% 10.83% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 42 8
10th Percentile £449 £403 £489
25th Percentile £483 £458 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.54% -8.69%
75th Percentile £632 £597 £612
90th Percentile £675 £800 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.44%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,129 600 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.29% 32.47% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 414 351
10th Percentile £308 £275 £213
25th Percentile £406 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +2.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £612
90th Percentile £681 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 6 9
10th Percentile £17.48 £28.61 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.48 £30.97 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.43 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +2.65% +81.30%
75th Percentile £50.88 £35.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.13 £40.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham -12 19 £613 +25.64% 55
Shropshire -36 13 £598 +20.46% 3
Warwickshire -24 11 £501 -16.50% 3
Worcestershire +2 3 £575 - 3
Coventry -21 3 £569 +46.77% 4
Solihull -18 2 - - 6
Staffordshire - 2 £725 - 19
West Bromwich - 1 £525 -
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (8.93%) SAS
2 4 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Maximo
2 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (85.71%) AWS
2 40 (71.43%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.93%) GitHub
4 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.36%) Google Analytics
5 3 (5.36%) Google Tag Manager
5 3 (5.36%) OCI
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.57%) Serverless
7 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) DHCP
1 6 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) LAN
3 2 (3.57%) Network Security
3 2 (3.57%) PBX
3 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.57%) Unified Communications
3 2 (3.57%) VoIP
3 2 (3.57%) WAN
3 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.79%) Internet
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (14.29%) Power BI
2 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.93%) Looker
3 5 (8.93%) Metadata
4 4 (7.14%) Base SAS
4 4 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.36%) MySQL
6 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.57%) Tableau
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.79%) GIS
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.71%) JIRA
3 5 (8.93%) GitLab
4 4 (7.14%) Git
4 4 (7.14%) JUnit
4 4 (7.14%) Selenium
4 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) JMeter
5 3 (5.36%) Maven
5 3 (5.36%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.79%) Gradle
7 1 (1.79%) Postman
7 1 (1.79%) Snyk
7 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Publishing
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) Lead
4 6 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.93%) Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Consultant
5 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Data Consultant
6 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Digital Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) Terraform
2 5 (8.93%) JSON
2 5 (8.93%) REST
3 3 (5.36%) Node.js
3 3 (5.36%) Spring
3 3 (5.36%) WireMock
3 3 (5.36%) YAML
4 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.57%) SLSA
4 2 (3.57%) SOAP
5 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) React
5 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.79%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.79%) SAPUI5
5 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.79%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.79%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.36%) Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) SUSE
4 1 (1.79%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
2 14 (25.00%) Migration
2 14 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (23.21%) DevOps
4 12 (21.43%) Analytics
5 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (19.64%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (16.07%) Agile
6 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (16.07%) Microservices
6 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (14.29%) AI
7 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 8 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 8 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) SQL
3 6 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 2 (3.57%) Go
5 2 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) ABAP
6 1 (1.79%) C++
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) R
6 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.36%) CISM
5 3 (5.36%) CISSP
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.57%) CISA
6 2 (3.57%) CRISC
6 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (3.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.57%) OCP
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) Degree
7 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.93%) NIST
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.57%) COBIT
4 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) GRC
4 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) QA
5 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.50%) Docker
3 5 (8.93%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.93%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Grafana
2 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
3 3 (5.36%) Argo
4 2 (3.57%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (1.79%) Control-M
5 1 (1.79%) Istio
5 1 (1.79%) Podman
5 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Google
3 7 (12.50%) VMware
4 5 (8.93%) Splunk
5 3 (5.36%) Cisco
5 3 (5.36%) OneLogin
5 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.57%) Databricks
6 2 (3.57%) IBM
6 2 (3.57%) LogRhythm
6 2 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle
6 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.57%) SAP
6 2 (3.57%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.79%) ESRI
7 1 (1.79%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.79%) Remedy
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce