GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £660, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 121 129
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 +65
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 17 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 0.24% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.26% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £591 £493 £443
25th Percentile £605 £538 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £731 £659 £672
90th Percentile £738 £699 £875
Central London median daily rate £660 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,701 1,915 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 92.92% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,176 1,730
10th Percentile £326 £354 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +134.69% -30.00%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £55.25 £132.40 £66.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £24.99
% change year-on-year -24.29% +40.08% -23.12%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in the City of London

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, GCP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) GCP
1 17 (100.00%) Google
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
3 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 13 (76.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 13 (76.47%) Terraform
4 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
5 8 (47.06%) BigQuery
6 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 6 (35.29%) Docker
7 5 (29.41%) Argo
7 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
7 5 (29.41%) DevSecOps
7 5 (29.41%) DNS
7 5 (29.41%) GitLab
7 5 (29.41%) GitOps
7 5 (29.41%) Python
7 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (23.53%) Application Packaging
8 4 (23.53%) Gradle
8 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
8 4 (23.53%) Java
8 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
8 4 (23.53%) Maven
8 4 (23.53%) Migration
8 4 (23.53%) Selenium
8 4 (23.53%) Slack
8 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
8 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) GCP
2 13 (76.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (23.53%) Slack
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.88%) Google Gemini
6 1 (5.88%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Gradle
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Maven
2 4 (23.53%) Selenium
2 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) LangChain
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
1 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) Spring
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 13 (76.47%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
5 5 (29.41%) DevSecOps
5 5 (29.41%) GitOps
5 5 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Application Packaging
6 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (23.53%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (17.65%) SDLC
7 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Detection
7 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CISSP
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (29.41%) Argo
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Istio
4 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Splunk