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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 76 94
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 66 33 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.92% 2.04% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.23% 6.51% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 20 11
10th Percentile £413 £407 -
25th Percentile £436 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £612
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.96% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £791 £688
90th Percentile £631 £800 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -

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 1,060 507 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.80% 31.37% 25.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 330 366
10th Percentile £313 £263 £207
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.36 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.03 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.98 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +81.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £50.11 £26.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.20 £40.25
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%

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 23 July 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 23 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
Birmingham -6 27 £425 -6.59% 13
Warwickshire -18 15 £525 -34.38% 2
Shropshire -41 11 £503 - 4
Coventry - 4 £550 - 4
Solihull -20 3 - - 2
Worcestershire -5 2 £513 -18.00% 2
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 16 (24.24%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) Apache
3 3 (4.55%) SAS
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.52%) Maximo
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (86.36%) AWS
2 53 (80.30%) Azure
3 15 (22.73%) GitHub
3 15 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.55%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.03%) CloudFront
6 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.03%) Route 53
6 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) DHCP
1 5 (7.58%) DNS
2 2 (3.03%) LAN
2 2 (3.03%) PBX
2 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.03%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.03%) VoIP
2 2 (3.03%) WAN
2 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.52%) Anycast
3 1 (1.52%) BGP
3 1 (1.52%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.52%) Firewall
3 1 (1.52%) Internet
3 1 (1.52%) IPsec
3 1 (1.52%) MPLS
3 1 (1.52%) NGFW
3 1 (1.52%) OSPF
3 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.58%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.55%) Base SAS
4 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.55%) Looker
4 3 (4.55%) Power BI
5 2 (3.03%) Metadata
5 2 (3.03%) Tableau
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.52%) GIS
6 1 (1.52%) MySQL
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (31.82%) Git
2 18 (27.27%) JUnit
2 18 (27.27%) Selenium
3 17 (25.76%) Cucumber
3 17 (25.76%) Jenkins
3 17 (25.76%) JMeter
3 17 (25.76%) WebDriver
4 16 (24.24%) JIRA
5 13 (19.70%) GitLab
6 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.03%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.03%) Maven
7 2 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.52%) AppScan
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.52%) Gradle
8 1 (1.52%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.52%) webpack
General
1 28 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Publishing
8 1 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Lead
1 15 (22.73%) Senior
2 12 (18.18%) Tester
3 10 (15.15%) Architect
4 9 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Senior Tester
5 8 (12.12%) Automation Tester
6 7 (10.61%) Senior Automation Tester
7 6 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Consultant
8 5 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Systems Tester
9 4 (6.06%) Data Consultant
9 4 (6.06%) Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.55%) Engagement Manager
10 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) Spring
1 17 (25.76%) WireMock
2 4 (6.06%) Apache Beam
2 4 (6.06%) Kafka
2 4 (6.06%) REST
3 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.55%) Hugging Face
3 3 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.03%) JSON
4 2 (3.03%) YAML
5 1 (1.52%) .NET
5 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.52%) CSS
5 1 (1.52%) CSS3
5 1 (1.52%) HTML
5 1 (1.52%) HTML5
5 1 (1.52%) Middleware
5 1 (1.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (19.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Clustering
5 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.03%) SCADA
7 1 (1.52%) Blog
7 1 (1.52%) CMDB
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.52%) IoT
7 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.52%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 24 (36.36%) Observability
3 23 (34.85%) Agile
4 21 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (31.82%) Microservices
4 21 (31.82%) Validation
5 19 (28.79%) TDD
6 18 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 17 (25.76%) BDD
8 16 (24.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 16 (24.24%) End-to-End Testing
8 16 (24.24%) Test Strategy
8 16 (24.24%) Workshop Facilitation
9 15 (22.73%) Load Testing
9 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (19.70%) Analytics
10 13 (19.70%) DevOps
10 13 (19.70%) Migration
10 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 11 (16.67%) SQL
3 8 (12.12%) Java
4 3 (4.55%) Go
4 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (1.52%) C#
6 1 (1.52%) Groovy
6 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.52%) Lisp
6 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 22 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) Degree
6 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.52%) OCP
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.58%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) COBIT
4 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (37.88%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.58%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 24 (36.36%) Grafana
3 21 (31.82%) Prometheus
4 12 (18.18%) Terraform
5 5 (7.58%) Ansible
6 3 (4.55%) Argo
6 3 (4.55%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.03%) Kustomize
7 2 (3.03%) Puppet
8 1 (1.52%) Control-M
8 1 (1.52%) Istio
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.52%) Nessus
8 1 (1.52%) Podman
8 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.67%) Google
3 7 (10.61%) VMware
4 6 (9.09%) Splunk
5 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.06%) SAP
7 2 (3.03%) Cisco
7 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
7 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.03%) Siemens
7 2 (3.03%) Tenable
8 1 (1.52%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.52%) BMC
8 1 (1.52%) Databricks
8 1 (1.52%) IBM
8 1 (1.52%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.52%) Sonatype
8 1 (1.52%) Tanium
8 1 (1.52%) Veracode