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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 75 96
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 68 30 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.99% 1.91% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.52% 6.30% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 17 9
10th Percentile £363 £489 £518
25th Percentile £425 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £612
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.12% -4.00%
75th Percentile £573 £800 £688
90th Percentile £630 - £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% -1.13%

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 1,043 476 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.45% 30.24% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 309 375
10th Percentile £313 £246 £204
25th Percentile £402 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.26%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £611
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.01 £14.14
25th Percentile £26.15 £21.88 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +11.17%
75th Percentile £71.42 £40.22 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.30 £33.19
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +61.15% +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 9 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 9 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 +2 32 £458 -12.86% 12
Warwickshire -5 15 £525 -34.38% 2
Shropshire -35 10 £562 - 4
Coventry - 4 £413 - 1
Solihull -14 3 - -
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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
3 3 (4.41%) SAS
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (77.94%) AWS
2 51 (75.00%) Azure
3 15 (22.06%) GitHub
4 14 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.41%) Serverless
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.94%) CloudFront
7 2 (2.94%) Route 53
7 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.47%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.47%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) DHCP
1 5 (7.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) LAN
2 2 (2.94%) PBX
2 2 (2.94%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.94%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.94%) VoIP
2 2 (2.94%) WAN
2 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.47%) Anycast
3 1 (1.47%) BGP
3 1 (1.47%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) IPsec
3 1 (1.47%) MPLS
3 1 (1.47%) NGFW
3 1 (1.47%) OSPF
3 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.29%) BigQuery
3 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.88%) Tableau
5 3 (4.41%) Base SAS
5 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.41%) Looker
5 3 (4.41%) Power BI
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.47%) Metadata
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (33.82%) Git
2 19 (27.94%) Jenkins
3 18 (26.47%) JIRA
4 17 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 17 (25.00%) JMeter
4 17 (25.00%) JUnit
4 17 (25.00%) Selenium
4 17 (25.00%) WebDriver
5 12 (17.65%) GitLab
6 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.47%) AppScan
7 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.47%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.47%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.47%) Maven
7 1 (1.47%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 8 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Retail
6 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.41%) Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Publishing
8 1 (1.47%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Lead
2 13 (19.12%) Senior
3 12 (17.65%) Tester
4 9 (13.24%) Architect
4 9 (13.24%) Senior Tester
5 8 (11.76%) Automation Tester
5 8 (11.76%) Data Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Automation Tester
7 6 (8.82%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Systems Tester
9 4 (5.88%) Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.41%) Consultant
10 3 (4.41%) Data Architect
10 3 (4.41%) Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) Spring
1 17 (25.00%) WireMock
2 4 (5.88%) Apache Beam
2 4 (5.88%) Kafka
3 3 (4.41%) Hugging Face
3 3 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (4.41%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.41%) REST
3 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.94%) .NET
4 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.47%) CSS
5 1 (1.47%) CSS3
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) Middleware
5 1 (1.47%) PySpark
5 1 (1.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (19.12%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.88%) Clustering
6 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.47%) Blog
8 1 (1.47%) CMDB
8 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.41%) Linux
4 1 (1.47%) Kali Linux
4 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 27 (39.71%) Observability
3 26 (38.24%) Agile
4 21 (30.88%) Validation
5 20 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (29.41%) Microservices
6 19 (27.94%) TDD
7 18 (26.47%) Test Automation
8 17 (25.00%) BDD
9 16 (23.53%) End-to-End Testing
9 16 (23.53%) Test Strategy
10 15 (22.06%) DevOps
10 15 (22.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 15 (22.06%) Load Testing
11 14 (20.59%) Containerisation
11 14 (20.59%) Migration
11 14 (20.59%) Workshop Facilitation
12 13 (19.12%) Analytics
12 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) Python
2 12 (17.65%) SQL
3 7 (10.29%) Java
4 3 (4.41%) Go
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.94%) Bash
5 2 (2.94%) Groovy
6 1 (1.47%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.47%) Lisp
6 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) SC Cleared
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.47%) COBIT
5 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (39.71%) Docker
2 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 26 (38.24%) Grafana
3 23 (33.82%) Prometheus
4 14 (20.59%) Terraform
5 4 (5.88%) Ansible
6 3 (4.41%) Argo
7 2 (2.94%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.47%) Control-M
8 1 (1.47%) Istio
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.47%) Nessus
8 1 (1.47%) Puppet
8 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Google
2 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) VMware
4 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow
4 5 (7.35%) Splunk
5 3 (4.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.94%) Anaplan
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco
6 2 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.94%) Siemens
6 2 (2.94%) Tenable
7 1 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.47%) Databricks
7 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (1.47%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.47%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.47%) Veracode