GCP Engineer Contracts 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 £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 117 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 +43
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 13 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile - £513 £548
25th Percentile £605 £531 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% -11.54% -0.08%
75th Percentile £690 £631 £675
90th Percentile £703 £658 £755
Central London median daily rate £638 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +10.96% -11.54% -0.08%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,692 1,962 2,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 94.74% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 1,283 2,055
10th Percentile £328 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.87 £14.42
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.88 £20.09
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -27.03% -11.90%
75th Percentile £53.50 £89.06 £56.56
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £76.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.46%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer 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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, 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 City of London region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Google
1 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
3 11 (84.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 11 (84.62%) Terraform
4 10 (76.92%) DevOps
5 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
6 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
8 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
8 5 (38.46%) Analytics
8 5 (38.46%) Python
8 5 (38.46%) SQL
8 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
9 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (30.77%) Argo
9 4 (30.77%) GitOps
9 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
9 4 (30.77%) Migration
9 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (30.77%) Maven
9 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
9 4 (30.77%) Application Packaging
9 4 (30.77%) Selenium
9 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (30.77%) Java
9 4 (30.77%) Big Data

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (84.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (30.77%) Slack
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (15.38%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (7.69%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
2 4 (30.77%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
1 4 (30.77%) Gradle
1 4 (30.77%) Maven
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
1 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
4 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Application Packaging
5 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) GitOps
5 4 (30.77%) Incident Management
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
6 3 (23.08%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (30.77%) Argo
4 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Google