GCP DevOps Contracts

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 579 724
Rank change year-on-year +2 +145 -178
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 17 137 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 102 99
10th Percentile £394 £550 £528
25th Percentile £478 £602 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £713 £800
90th Percentile £613 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate - £565 £600
% change year-on-year - -5.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.81 - -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

GCP DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +2 13 £500 -25.93% 3
London +3 11 £519 -23.15% 1
Work from Home +72 7 £488 -30.36% 3
UK excluding London +63 1 - - 1
South West +15 1 - -

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, GCP DevOps 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 featuring GCP DevOps in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) GCP
2 13 (76.47%) Terraform
3 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
4 8 (47.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
6 6 (35.29%) Google
7 5 (29.41%) Python
8 3 (17.65%) Finance
8 3 (17.65%) GitHub
8 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (17.65%) Fintech
8 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (11.76%) Istio
9 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
9 2 (11.76%) Unix
9 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
9 2 (11.76%) GitOps
9 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
9 2 (11.76%) Django
10 1 (5.88%) Git
10 1 (5.88%) AWS
10 1 (5.88%) Bash
10 1 (5.88%) Splunk
10 1 (5.88%) Kafka
10 1 (5.88%) Resource Management
10 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
10 1 (5.88%) Migration
10 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) GCP
2 8 (47.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.88%) Datadog
4 1 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Spinnaker
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Django
2 1 (5.88%) Bazel
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Fintech
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) GitOps
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) Cryptocurrency
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps
5 1 (5.88%) Generative AI
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
5 1 (5.88%) Observability
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Resource Management
5 1 (5.88%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Go
2 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Istio
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk