GCP Engineer Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 438 561
Rank change year-on-year -26 +123 -128
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 76 223 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.45% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.48% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 173 162
10th Percentile £400 £427 £514
25th Percentile £463 £550 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.67% +13.45%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £800
90th Percentile £710 £738 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £630 £675
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £55.13 £63.80 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £66.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 £76.50 -
90th Percentile £58.38 £78.60 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.88% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 -25 65 £513 -21.15% 8
East of England +3 2 £543 -13.89%
South East +22 1 £575 +15.00%
North of England +20 1 £500 -11.11% 2
South West +12 1 - -
North West +11 1 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
GCP Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 England region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (75.00%) GCP
2 37 (48.68%) Python
3 31 (40.79%) Terraform
4 30 (39.47%) Google
5 27 (35.53%) Kubernetes
5 27 (35.53%) BigQuery
5 27 (35.53%) CI/CD
6 24 (31.58%) DevOps
7 22 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (22.37%) Data Science
8 17 (22.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (18.42%) ETL
9 14 (18.42%) Machine Learning
10 13 (17.11%) Computer Science
10 13 (17.11%) SQL
10 13 (17.11%) Java
10 13 (17.11%) Analytics
10 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
11 12 (15.79%) DevSecOps
11 12 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (15.79%) Degree
12 11 (14.47%) Bash
12 11 (14.47%) GitHub
12 11 (14.47%) Docker
13 10 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (13.16%) Agile
13 10 (13.16%) Containerisation
14 9 (11.84%) Vertex AI
14 9 (11.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (11.84%) Generative AI

GCP 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 5 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 57 (75.00%) GCP
2 11 (14.47%) GitHub
3 9 (11.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (11.84%) Vertex AI
4 5 (6.58%) Azure
4 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (6.58%) Google Compute Engine
5 4 (5.26%) Cloud Run
6 3 (3.95%) AWS
6 3 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (3.95%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (3.95%) PaaS
6 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.63%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.32%) Anthos
8 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.32%) Datadog
8 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) DNS
1 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.53%) BigQuery
2 8 (10.53%) Big Data
2 8 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.58%) Bigtable
4 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.95%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.32%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.32%) Flink
7 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.32%) HBase
7 1 (1.32%) MySQL
7 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.21%) Git
3 6 (7.89%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.32%) Gradle
4 1 (1.32%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) JMeter
4 1 (1.32%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) Postman
4 1 (1.32%) Spinnaker
General
1 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Finance
3 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.95%) Banking
3 3 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.63%) Czech Language
4 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.32%) Marketing
5 1 (1.32%) Retail
5 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) Kafka
1 3 (3.95%) Node.js
1 3 (3.95%) PySpark
1 3 (3.95%) React
2 2 (2.63%) Bazel
2 2 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.32%) Django
3 1 (1.32%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.32%) gRPC
3 1 (1.32%) Middleware
3 1 (1.32%) NumPy
3 1 (1.32%) OAuth
3 1 (1.32%) OpenID
3 1 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.32%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (1.32%) SAML
3 1 (1.32%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.32%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Unix
2 2 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) CI/CD
2 24 (31.58%) DevOps
3 22 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (22.37%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (22.37%) Data Science
5 14 (18.42%) ETL
5 14 (18.42%) Machine Learning
6 13 (17.11%) Analytics
6 13 (17.11%) Computer Science
7 12 (15.79%) DevSecOps
8 10 (13.16%) Agile
8 10 (13.16%) Containerisation
8 10 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (11.84%) Generative AI
10 8 (10.53%) Data Engineering
11 7 (9.21%) Cloud Security
11 7 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (9.21%) Migration
11 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.21%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.68%) Python
2 13 (17.11%) Java
2 13 (17.11%) SQL
3 11 (14.47%) Bash
4 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.58%) Scala
6 3 (3.95%) Go
6 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.32%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.32%) Ruby
7 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) CISSP
3 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) zsh
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 31 (40.79%) Terraform
2 27 (35.53%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.58%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Grafana
4 4 (5.26%) Istio
5 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) Argo
6 1 (1.32%) Puppet
6 1 (1.32%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) Google
2 3 (3.95%) Splunk
3 1 (1.32%) Informatica
3 1 (1.32%) New Relic
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle
3 1 (1.32%) Talend
3 1 (1.32%) webMethods