GCP Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 515 600
Rank change year-on-year +45 +85 +130
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 15 27 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.073% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.078% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 45
10th Percentile £315 £428 £428
25th Percentile £407 £503 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.07%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £600
90th Percentile £539 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £64.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £64.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in England

GCP Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Data Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Engineer in England

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Engineer in England

GCP Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +26 10 £525 -8.70% 1
East of England - 2 £315 -
Midlands +22 1 - -
North of England +19 1 £550 +10.00%
West Midlands +14 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
GCP Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP Data 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 England region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) GCP
2 13 (86.67%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (73.33%) Google
4 10 (66.67%) Python
4 10 (66.67%) BigQuery
5 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
6 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
6 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (46.67%) Java
6 7 (46.67%) ETL
6 7 (46.67%) Analytics
7 6 (40.00%) SQL
7 6 (40.00%) Looker
7 6 (40.00%) Terraform
8 5 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (33.33%) Retail
9 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
9 4 (26.67%) Apache
9 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce
9 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
9 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
9 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
9 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (26.67%) Kafka
9 4 (26.67%) Power BI
9 4 (26.67%) dbt
9 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
10 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) dbt
2 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Vertex AI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 6 (40.00%) Looker
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
4 3 (20.00%) Flink
4 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
5 2 (13.33%) Big Data
5 2 (13.33%) Parquet
5 2 (13.33%) Power Query
5 2 (13.33%) PowerPivot
5 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (13.33%) Tableau
6 1 (6.67%) Bigtable
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Retail
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Beam
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) NumPy
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 2 (13.33%) React
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) JDBC
4 1 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce
5 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Science
6 3 (20.00%) Data Security
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Workflow
7 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Data Management
7 2 (13.33%) DataOps
7 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft