GCP Engineer Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 314 424
Rank change year-on-year -13 +110 -123
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 64 192 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.71% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.75% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 151 126
10th Percentile £400 £475 £525
25th Percentile £463 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +17.65%
75th Percentile £633 £688 £800
90th Percentile £729 £738 £813
England median daily rate £525 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -16.00% -7.41% +13.45%
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 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.88% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Central London +38 6 £463 -26.00% 1
West London +15 2 £625 -3.85%
GCP Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 London region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (75.00%) GCP
2 30 (46.88%) Python
3 26 (40.63%) Google
3 26 (40.63%) Terraform
4 23 (35.94%) Kubernetes
5 22 (34.38%) BigQuery
5 22 (34.38%) CI/CD
6 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (25.00%) Data Science
7 16 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 16 (25.00%) DevOps
8 15 (23.44%) ETL
9 14 (21.88%) Machine Learning
9 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
10 12 (18.75%) Analytics
10 12 (18.75%) Java
10 12 (18.75%) SQL
10 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
11 11 (17.19%) Degree
11 11 (17.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (17.19%) DevSecOps
12 9 (14.06%) Generative AI
12 9 (14.06%) Docker
12 9 (14.06%) Agile
12 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (12.50%) Finance
13 8 (12.50%) Big Data
13 8 (12.50%) Bash
13 8 (12.50%) Vertex AI
13 8 (12.50%) Data Pipeline

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 48 (75.00%) GCP
2 8 (12.50%) Vertex AI
3 7 (10.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (7.81%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) GitHub
4 5 (7.81%) Google Compute Engine
5 4 (6.25%) Azure
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Run
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.69%) PaaS
6 3 (4.69%) Serverless
7 2 (3.13%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.38%) BigQuery
2 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.50%) Big Data
4 5 (7.81%) Bigtable
5 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.56%) CockroachDB
8 1 (1.56%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.56%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.56%) Flink
8 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.56%) HBase
8 1 (1.56%) MySQL
8 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) GitLab
3 3 (4.69%) Git
4 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.56%) JMeter
4 1 (1.56%) Postman
General
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Banking
3 3 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.13%) Czech Language
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) Bazel
1 2 (3.13%) Kafka
1 2 (3.13%) Node.js
1 2 (3.13%) PySpark
1 2 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (1.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.56%) NumPy
2 1 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.56%) React
2 1 (1.56%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (1.56%) XGBoost
2 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Unix
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (25.00%) Data Science
3 16 (25.00%) DevOps
4 15 (23.44%) ETL
5 14 (21.88%) Machine Learning
6 12 (18.75%) Analytics
6 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
7 11 (17.19%) DevSecOps
8 9 (14.06%) Agile
8 9 (14.06%) Generative AI
9 8 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.94%) Cloud Security
10 7 (10.94%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.94%) Resource Management
11 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (9.38%) Security Monitoring
12 5 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) Python
2 12 (18.75%) Java
2 12 (18.75%) SQL
3 8 (12.50%) Bash
4 5 (7.81%) Scala
5 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) CISSP
4 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 26 (40.63%) Terraform
2 23 (35.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Grafana
4 2 (3.13%) Istio
4 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (40.63%) Google
2 1 (1.56%) Brio
2 1 (1.56%) Informatica
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle
2 1 (1.56%) Splunk
2 1 (1.56%) Talend