GCP Engineer Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 462 527
Rank change year-on-year -21 +65 -92
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 92 229 345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 183 239
10th Percentile £400 £400 £500
25th Percentile £463 £544 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £691 £800
90th Percentile £700 £738 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £565 £613
% change year-on-year -11.50% -7.76% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% - -
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -55 76 £500 -20.00% 11
London -23 65 £500 -23.08% 7
Work from Home +63 32 £588 -11.32% 7
UK excluding London +26 12 £500 -11.50% 6
Wales - 5 £500 - 1
East of England 0 2 £543 -13.89%
North West +16 1 £500 - 3
North of England +15 1 £500 -9.09% 3
South East +8 1 £575 +15.00% 1
South West +3 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (77.17%) GCP
2 43 (46.74%) Python
2 43 (46.74%) Google
3 37 (40.22%) Terraform
4 33 (35.87%) BigQuery
5 31 (33.70%) Kubernetes
6 29 (31.52%) DevOps
7 28 (30.43%) CI/CD
8 23 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (19.57%) ETL
10 17 (18.48%) SQL
10 17 (18.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (17.39%) Data Science
12 15 (16.30%) GitHub
12 15 (16.30%) Computer Science
13 14 (15.22%) Machine Learning
14 13 (14.13%) Analytics
14 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
14 13 (14.13%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (14.13%) DevSecOps
14 13 (14.13%) Degree
14 13 (14.13%) Java
14 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
15 12 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (13.04%) Finance
16 11 (11.96%) Agile
16 11 (11.96%) Bash
17 10 (10.87%) Docker
17 10 (10.87%) Data Engineering

GCP Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.43%) Apache
3 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.26%) Confluence
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (77.17%) GCP
2 15 (16.30%) GitHub
3 12 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (9.78%) Vertex AI
5 7 (7.61%) Cloud Run
6 5 (5.43%) Azure
6 5 (5.43%) Cloud Composer
6 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.43%) Google Compute Engine
6 5 (5.43%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (4.35%) AWS
8 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.26%) PaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Serverless
9 2 (2.17%) Datadog
9 2 (2.17%) dbt
9 2 (2.17%) Stackdriver
10 1 (1.09%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
2 2 (2.17%) SSL
3 1 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.87%) BigQuery
2 8 (8.70%) Big Data
2 8 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.43%) Bigtable
3 5 (5.43%) Spark SQL
4 3 (3.26%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.17%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.09%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.09%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.09%) Flink
6 1 (1.09%) HBase
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.09%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.78%) Git
3 8 (8.70%) GitLab
4 3 (3.26%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.17%) JMeter
5 2 (2.17%) Postman
6 1 (1.09%) Gradle
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Spinnaker
General
1 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Finance
3 6 (6.52%) Banking
4 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.26%) Retail
6 2 (2.17%) Czech Language
6 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) Kafka
2 5 (5.43%) PySpark
3 3 (3.26%) Node.js
3 3 (3.26%) React
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Beam
4 2 (2.17%) Bazel
4 2 (2.17%) Django
4 2 (2.17%) Middleware
4 2 (2.17%) NumPy
4 2 (2.17%) REST
4 2 (2.17%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.09%) gRPC
5 1 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.09%) Pandas
5 1 (1.09%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.09%) SAML
5 1 (1.09%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.26%) Replication
4 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.09%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.52%) Unix
2 3 (3.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) DevOps
2 28 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (19.57%) ETL
5 17 (18.48%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (17.39%) Data Science
7 15 (16.30%) Computer Science
8 14 (15.22%) Machine Learning
9 13 (14.13%) Analytics
9 13 (14.13%) DevSecOps
10 12 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (11.96%) Agile
12 10 (10.87%) Containerisation
12 10 (10.87%) Data Engineering
13 9 (9.78%) Generative AI
13 9 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (8.70%) Cloud Security
14 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (7.61%) Data Management
15 7 (7.61%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) Python
2 17 (18.48%) SQL
3 13 (14.13%) Java
4 11 (11.96%) Bash
5 7 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.35%) Scala
7 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.17%) Go
8 2 (2.17%) Ruby
9 1 (1.09%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (14.13%) Degree
2 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) CISSP
3 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.17%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) zsh
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.09%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 37 (40.22%) Terraform
2 31 (33.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.52%) Ansible
3 6 (6.52%) Istio
4 5 (5.43%) Grafana
5 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Argo
7 1 (1.09%) Puppet
7 1 (1.09%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (46.74%) Google
2 2 (2.17%) Splunk
3 1 (1.09%) Confluent
3 1 (1.09%) Informatica
3 1 (1.09%) New Relic
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle
3 1 (1.09%) Talend
3 1 (1.09%) webMethods