GCP Engineer Contracts in Central London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
London > Central London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Central London is £463 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 132 170 191
Rank change year-on-year +38 +21 -49
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 6 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.24% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £398 £465 £555
25th Percentile £431 £488 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £709
90th Percentile - £825 £750
London median daily rate £525 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,342 3,681 4,283
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 95.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,665 2,526 3,259
10th Percentile £346 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 26 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.30 £86.65 £65.43
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in Central London

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in Central London

GCP Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +54 6 £463 -21.28% 1
GCP Engineer
London

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 Central London region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Brio
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Security
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Brio