GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 - 87
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.16% - 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile - - £389
90th Percentile - - £396
Scotland median daily rate £420 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -37.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 560 756 949
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.62% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 400 570
10th Percentile £263 £192 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.42%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £538
90th Percentile £601 £594 £600
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 15
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.51 £13.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £16.37 £15.49
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +212.93% +3.70% -2.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £23.96 £48.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.92 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 18 October 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 Edinburgh region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk