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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 75 94
Rank change year-on-year -23 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing GCP 67 33 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.97% 2.06% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.39% 6.78% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 20 10
10th Percentile £413 £407 £534
25th Percentile £433 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £612
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.96% -4.00%
75th Percentile £573 £791 £688
90th Percentile £630 £800 £694
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 1,049 487 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.90% 30.40% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 317 376
10th Percentile £313 £252 £207
25th Percentile £403 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £611
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 12
10th Percentile £21.50 £17.01 £14.14
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.88 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.22 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.30 £33.19
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 16 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 16 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 -4 31 £458 +0.55% 11
Warwickshire -13 15 £525 -34.38% 2
Shropshire -37 11 £503 - 4
Solihull -20 3 - -
Coventry - 3 £550 - 1
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 (23.88%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) Apache
3 3 (4.48%) SAS
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) Maximo
1 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (80.60%) AWS
2 52 (77.61%) Azure
3 15 (22.39%) GitHub
4 14 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (10.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.48%) Serverless
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.99%) CloudFront
7 2 (2.99%) Route 53
7 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.49%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.49%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) DHCP
1 5 (7.46%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) LAN
2 2 (2.99%) PBX
2 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.99%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.99%) VoIP
2 2 (2.99%) WAN
2 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.49%) Anycast
3 1 (1.49%) BGP
3 1 (1.49%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.49%) Firewall
3 1 (1.49%) Internet
3 1 (1.49%) IPsec
3 1 (1.49%) MPLS
3 1 (1.49%) NGFW
3 1 (1.49%) OSPF
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) Base SAS
3 3 (4.48%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) Looker
3 3 (4.48%) Power BI
4 2 (2.99%) Tableau
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.49%) GIS
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (32.84%) Git
2 18 (26.87%) Jenkins
3 17 (25.37%) Cucumber
3 17 (25.37%) JMeter
3 17 (25.37%) JUnit
3 17 (25.37%) Selenium
3 17 (25.37%) WebDriver
4 16 (23.88%) JIRA
5 12 (17.91%) GitLab
6 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.49%) AppScan
7 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.49%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.49%) Maven
7 1 (1.49%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Retail
6 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.99%) Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Publishing
8 1 (1.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Lead
2 13 (19.40%) Senior
3 12 (17.91%) Tester
4 10 (14.93%) Architect
5 9 (13.43%) Senior Tester
6 8 (11.94%) Automation Tester
6 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Automation Tester
8 6 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) GCP Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Systems Tester
10 4 (5.97%) Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Test Leader
11 3 (4.48%) Consultant
11 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
11 3 (4.48%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.37%) Spring
1 17 (25.37%) WireMock
2 4 (5.97%) Apache Beam
2 4 (5.97%) Kafka
3 3 (4.48%) Hugging Face
3 3 (4.48%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.48%) REST
3 3 (4.48%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.49%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.49%) CSS3
5 1 (1.49%) PySpark
5 1 (1.49%) React
5 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.49%) SLSA
5 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.88%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (19.40%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) Clustering
5 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.48%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.99%) SCADA
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.49%) Blog
7 1 (1.49%) CMDB
7 1 (1.49%) IoT
7 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.48%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (59.70%) CI/CD
2 26 (38.81%) Observability
3 24 (35.82%) Agile
4 21 (31.34%) Microservices
4 21 (31.34%) Validation
5 20 (29.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (28.36%) TDD
7 17 (25.37%) BDD
7 17 (25.37%) Test Automation
8 16 (23.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 16 (23.88%) End-to-End Testing
8 16 (23.88%) Test Strategy
9 15 (22.39%) Load Testing
10 14 (20.90%) DevOps
10 14 (20.90%) Migration
10 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (20.90%) Workshop Facilitation
11 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
12 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) Python
2 10 (14.93%) SQL
3 7 (10.45%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) Go
4 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.99%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) Groovy
6 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.49%) Lisp
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (31.34%) SC Cleared
1 21 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) OCP
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.48%) GDPR
4 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.49%) COBIT
5 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (38.81%) Docker
2 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.46%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (38.81%) Kubernetes
2 25 (37.31%) Grafana
3 22 (32.84%) Prometheus
4 13 (19.40%) Terraform
5 4 (5.97%) Ansible
6 3 (4.48%) Argo
7 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.49%) Control-M
8 1 (1.49%) Istio
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.49%) Nessus
8 1 (1.49%) Puppet
8 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Google
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) VMware
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.46%) Splunk
4 4 (5.97%) SAP
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco
5 2 (2.99%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.99%) Siemens
5 2 (2.99%) Tenable
6 1 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.49%) BMC
6 1 (1.49%) Databricks
6 1 (1.49%) Informatica
6 1 (1.49%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.49%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.49%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.49%) Veracode