GCP DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK > England

The median DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in England is £658, 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 472 528 537
Rank change year-on-year +56 +9 +150
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps Engineer 13 14 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.038% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.041% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 87
10th Percentile £403 £435 £550
25th Percentile £547 £478 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +31.50% -25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £544 £705
90th Percentile £689 £569 £775
UK median daily rate £640 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +28.00% -25.93% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 -

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 DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps Engineer in England

GCP DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP DevOps Engineer in England

GCP DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps Engineer in England

GCP DevOps 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 DevOps 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 +38 12 £675 +30.12% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
North of England - 1 £625 - 1
GCP DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP DevOps 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 DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 11 (84.62%) GCP
3 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
4 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
4 10 (76.92%) Google
5 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
6 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
6 7 (53.85%) Python
7 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
7 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (38.46%) Docker
8 5 (38.46%) GitLab
8 5 (38.46%) Finance
9 4 (30.77%) Agile
10 3 (23.08%) Banking
10 3 (23.08%) Bash
10 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (23.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
11 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
11 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
11 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
11 2 (15.38%) Istio
11 2 (15.38%) Observability
11 2 (15.38%) RBAC
11 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine

GCP DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Heroku
3 1 (7.69%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Snyk
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
5 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Agile
7 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
7 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) RBAC
7 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
7 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Workflow
8 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
8 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
8 1 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Istio
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) New Relic