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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 73 90
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing GCP 70 23 22
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.21% 1.68% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.71% 5.12% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 16 14
10th Percentile £269 £381 £500
25th Percentile £407 £419 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £678
90th Percentile £633 £794 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 908 449 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.64% 32.82% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 302 353
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £685 £675 £688
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 10
10th Percentile - £15.23 £14.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.26 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -15.19% +4.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.63 £29.35
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £21.00
% change year-on-year +70.13% +25.95% -34.98%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 28 £475 +6.44% 8
Warwickshire -2 23 £525 -23.64% 2
Shropshire -31 10 £485 -
Coventry - 5 £275 - 1
Worcestershire -10 1 £575 -17.86%
Solihull -14 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 14 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.71%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 54 (77.14%) AWS
2 53 (75.71%) Azure
3 13 (18.57%) GitHub
4 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (11.43%) Datadog
5 8 (11.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.71%) Serverless
8 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.29%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.86%) Route 53
9 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) VPN
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) LAN
2 2 (2.86%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
2 2 (2.86%) WLAN
3 1 (1.43%) Anycast
3 1 (1.43%) BGP
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) DMVPN
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) IPsec
3 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.43%) MPLS
3 1 (1.43%) NGFW
3 1 (1.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.86%) Tableau
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.43%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.43%) Impala
5 1 (1.43%) Metadata
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (31.43%) Git
2 17 (24.29%) Jenkins
3 16 (22.86%) JIRA
4 15 (21.43%) JUnit
4 15 (21.43%) Selenium
5 14 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 14 (20.00%) JMeter
5 14 (20.00%) WebDriver
6 10 (14.29%) GitLab
7 2 (2.86%) Maven
7 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.43%) AppScan
8 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.43%) Gradle
8 1 (1.43%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.43%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.43%) webpack
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Finance
4 7 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Banking
6 4 (5.71%) Retail
7 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Publishing
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Lead
2 11 (15.71%) Senior
3 10 (14.29%) Tester
4 8 (11.43%) Architect
4 8 (11.43%) Automation Tester
4 8 (11.43%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Tester
6 6 (8.57%) Engagement Manager
6 6 (8.57%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Administrator
8 4 (5.71%) Developer
8 4 (5.71%) SAP Engagement Manager
8 4 (5.71%) SAP Manager
8 4 (5.71%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.29%) Automation Test Lead
9 3 (4.29%) Machine Learning Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.86%) Spring
2 14 (20.00%) WireMock
3 7 (10.00%) Middleware
4 4 (5.71%) Apache Beam
4 4 (5.71%) Kafka
4 4 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.71%) REST
4 4 (5.71%) SailPoint
5 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.29%) Hugging Face
5 3 (4.29%) JSON
5 3 (4.29%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.29%) SAML
5 3 (4.29%) TensorFlow
5 3 (4.29%) YAML
6 2 (2.86%) .NET
6 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.43%) HTML5
7 1 (1.43%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (18.57%) Cloud Native
3 11 (15.71%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.71%) Clustering
7 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (4.29%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.43%) FMCG
8 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.43%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) CI/CD
2 32 (45.71%) Observability
3 24 (34.29%) DevOps
3 24 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (31.43%) Agile
4 22 (31.43%) Microservices
5 18 (25.71%) Validation
6 17 (24.29%) Change Management
6 17 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (24.29%) TDD
6 17 (24.29%) Test Automation
7 15 (21.43%) BDD
7 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 14 (20.00%) Load Testing
8 14 (20.00%) Test Strategy
9 13 (18.57%) AI
9 13 (18.57%) Containerisation
9 13 (18.57%) Migration
9 13 (18.57%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.71%) Python
2 9 (12.86%) Bash
3 8 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.43%) SQL
4 7 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (2.86%) Groovy
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) Go
6 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.43%) Lisp
6 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.86%) CCIE
3 2 (2.86%) CCNP
3 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) CISM
4 1 (1.43%) CISSP
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Degree
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.29%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.86%) NIST
5 1 (1.43%) COBIT
5 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (47.14%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.43%) HDFS
4 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 29 (41.43%) Grafana
3 26 (37.14%) Prometheus
4 15 (21.43%) Terraform
5 6 (8.57%) Ansible
6 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.43%) Control-M
7 1 (1.43%) Kibana
7 1 (1.43%) logstash
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.43%) Nessus
7 1 (1.43%) Podman
7 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Google
2 13 (18.57%) Splunk
3 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 7 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 7 (10.00%) SAP
5 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.71%) Okta
7 3 (4.29%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.86%) Anaplan
8 2 (2.86%) Cisco
8 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.86%) Juniper
8 2 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.86%) Siemens
8 2 (2.86%) VMware
9 1 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.43%) Sonatype
9 1 (1.43%) Tenable
9 1 (1.43%) Veracode