GCP Engineer Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 437 564
Rank change year-on-year -32 +127 -137
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 79 223 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.45% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.47% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 175 165
10th Percentile £400 £428 £513
25th Percentile £463 £550 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.67% +13.45%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £800
90th Percentile £705 £738 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £630 £675
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £55.13 £63.80 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £66.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 £76.50 -
90th Percentile £58.38 £78.60 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.88% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured GCP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
London -4 68 £513 -21.15% 7
East of England - 2 £543 -
North West +22 1 £500 -
South West +20 1 - -
North of England +18 1 £500 -11.11% 1
South East +18 1 £575 +15.00%
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
GCP Engineer
UK

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, GCP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (75.95%) GCP
2 37 (46.84%) Python
3 33 (41.77%) Google
4 31 (39.24%) Terraform
5 28 (35.44%) BigQuery
6 27 (34.18%) CI/CD
6 27 (34.18%) Kubernetes
7 24 (30.38%) DevOps
8 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (21.52%) Data Science
9 17 (21.52%) ETL
9 17 (21.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
11 15 (18.99%) SQL
12 14 (17.72%) Machine Learning
13 13 (16.46%) Computer Science
13 13 (16.46%) Java
13 13 (16.46%) Analytics
14 12 (15.19%) DevSecOps
14 12 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (15.19%) Degree
15 11 (13.92%) Bash
15 11 (13.92%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (13.92%) GitHub
15 11 (13.92%) Docker
16 10 (12.66%) Agile
16 10 (12.66%) Containerisation
17 9 (11.39%) Vertex AI
17 9 (11.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 60 (75.95%) GCP
2 11 (13.92%) GitHub
3 9 (11.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (11.39%) Vertex AI
4 5 (6.33%) AWS
4 5 (6.33%) Azure
4 5 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (6.33%) Google Compute Engine
5 4 (5.06%) Cloud Run
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (3.80%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (3.80%) PaaS
6 3 (3.80%) Serverless
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.53%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.27%) Anthos
8 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.27%) Datadog
8 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DNS
1 2 (2.53%) Network Security
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.44%) BigQuery
2 11 (13.92%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (10.13%) Big Data
4 5 (6.33%) Bigtable
5 4 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.80%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.53%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.27%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.27%) MySQL
8 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.27%) Sqoop
8 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.86%) Git
3 6 (7.59%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.27%) Gradle
4 1 (1.27%) JIRA
4 1 (1.27%) JMeter
4 1 (1.27%) Maven
4 1 (1.27%) Postman
4 1 (1.27%) Spinnaker
General
1 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.80%) Banking
3 3 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.53%) Czech Language
4 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.53%) Retail
5 1 (1.27%) Marketing
5 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.80%) Kafka
1 3 (3.80%) Node.js
1 3 (3.80%) PySpark
1 3 (3.80%) React
2 2 (2.53%) Bazel
2 2 (2.53%) REST
3 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.27%) Django
3 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.27%) gRPC
3 1 (1.27%) Middleware
3 1 (1.27%) NumPy
3 1 (1.27%) OAuth
3 1 (1.27%) OpenID
3 1 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (1.27%) SAML
3 1 (1.27%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.27%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.06%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.27%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Unix
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) CI/CD
2 24 (30.38%) DevOps
3 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (21.52%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (21.52%) Data Science
4 17 (21.52%) ETL
5 14 (17.72%) Machine Learning
6 13 (16.46%) Analytics
6 13 (16.46%) Computer Science
7 12 (15.19%) DevSecOps
8 11 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (12.66%) Agile
9 10 (12.66%) Containerisation
10 9 (11.39%) Generative AI
11 8 (10.13%) Data Engineering
11 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (8.86%) Cloud Security
12 7 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (8.86%) Migration
12 7 (8.86%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) Python
2 15 (18.99%) SQL
3 13 (16.46%) Java
4 11 (13.92%) Bash
5 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.33%) Scala
7 3 (3.80%) Go
7 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.27%) Ruby
8 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (15.19%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) CISSP
3 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
2 1 (1.27%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) zsh
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 31 (39.24%) Terraform
2 27 (34.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.33%) Ansible
4 4 (5.06%) Grafana
4 4 (5.06%) Istio
5 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.27%) Argo
6 1 (1.27%) Puppet
6 1 (1.27%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 33 (41.77%) Google
2 3 (3.80%) Splunk
3 1 (1.27%) Brio
3 1 (1.27%) Informatica
3 1 (1.27%) New Relic
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle
3 1 (1.27%) Talend
3 1 (1.27%) webMethods