GCP DevOps Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in England is £640, 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 470 528 525
Rank change year-on-year +58 -3 +155
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 15 14 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.038% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.041% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 96
10th Percentile £413 £435 £550
25th Percentile £519 £478 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £544 £711
90th Percentile - £569 £775
UK median daily rate £633 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +26.50% -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
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps in England

GCP DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP DevOps in England

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in England

GCP DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP DevOps in England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP DevOps in England

GCP DevOps
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 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 +40 14 £658 +26.75% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
North of England - 1 £625 - 1
GCP DevOps
UK

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

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

1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (80.00%) GCP
2 12 (80.00%) Terraform
3 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
4 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 10 (66.67%) Google
5 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
6 7 (46.67%) Python
6 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
7 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
7 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (33.33%) GitLab
8 5 (33.33%) Docker
8 5 (33.33%) Finance
8 5 (33.33%) Agile
9 3 (20.00%) Banking
9 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (20.00%) Bash
9 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
10 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
10 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
10 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
10 2 (13.33%) Ansible
10 2 (13.33%) Istio
10 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
10 2 (13.33%) Observability
10 2 (13.33%) Legacy Applications

GCP DevOps 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 12 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Heroku
3 1 (6.67%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Snyk
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
7 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
7 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (13.33%) Observability
7 2 (13.33%) RBAC
7 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
7 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Workflow
8 1 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
8 1 (6.67%) Database Migration
8 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Istio
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) New Relic