Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 935 1158
Rank change year-on-year +54 +223 -288
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 7 60 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.059% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.065% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 7 47 45
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,000 £60,200
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,180 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £79,375 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £98,500 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £69,447 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.20% -13.19% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP Data Engineer.

Salary trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +26 7 £70,000 -17.65%
London +94 6 £70,000 -20.00%
Work from Home +46 2 £55,000 -20.80% 1
UK excluding London -21 1 £80,000 +15.20%
South East - 1 £80,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, GCP Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (28.57%) Data Development
5 2 (28.57%) PySpark
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Google
5 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
5 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
6 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
6 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (14.29%) Docker
6 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (14.29%) Looker

GCP Data 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Looker
3 1 (14.29%) Redshift Spectrum
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Data Development
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) Fintech
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Brio