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 in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 456 423
Rank change year-on-year +24 -33 +131
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 56 75 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.21% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.22% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 55 178
10th Percentile £401 £400 £424
25th Percentile £460 £463 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £688
90th Percentile £688 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £55.13 £63.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £55.31 £66.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.81 £76.50
90th Percentile - £58.38 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -21.88% -

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 22,371 33,770 45,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,864 22,424 32,556
10th Percentile £296 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 926 2,441 1,340
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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 +17 42 £525 +5.00% 21
South East +44 3 £513 -10.87% 13
East of England +28 3 £315 -41.94%
North of England +22 2 £588 +17.50% 5
Midlands +17 2 £475 +5.56% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £588 - 3
West Midlands +10 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
GCP Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, 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 52 (92.86%) GCP
2 43 (76.79%) Google
3 31 (55.36%) Python
3 31 (55.36%) CI/CD
4 27 (48.21%) Terraform
5 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
5 19 (33.93%) BigQuery
5 19 (33.93%) DevOps
5 19 (33.93%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (28.57%) SQL
7 15 (26.79%) Data Engineering
8 14 (25.00%) Finance
8 14 (25.00%) Analytics
9 13 (23.21%) Java
10 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
10 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
11 11 (19.64%) Docker
12 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
12 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
12 10 (17.86%) Agile
12 10 (17.86%) Azure
13 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
13 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (16.07%) Data Ingestion
13 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
14 7 (12.50%) GitLab
14 7 (12.50%) Looker
14 7 (12.50%) Cloud Composer

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 (8.93%) Apache
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) 1Password
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (92.86%) GCP
2 10 (17.86%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) AWS
3 7 (12.50%) Cloud Composer
3 7 (12.50%) dbt
3 7 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.93%) Cloud Functions
5 5 (8.93%) GitHub
6 4 (7.14%) Google Analytics
7 3 (5.36%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (5.36%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.57%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 2 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.93%) BigQuery
2 7 (12.50%) Big Data
2 7 (12.50%) Looker
3 6 (10.71%) Power BI
3 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
4 5 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.36%) Flink
5 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.36%) Tableau
6 2 (3.57%) Apache Hive
6 2 (3.57%) Parquet
6 2 (3.57%) Power Query
6 2 (3.57%) PowerPivot
6 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.79%) GIS
7 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.50%) GitLab
3 4 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Snyk
4 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (25.00%) Finance
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Retail
4 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Apache Beam
1 4 (7.14%) Kafka
1 4 (7.14%) PySpark
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.57%) Apache Avro
3 2 (3.57%) NumPy
3 2 (3.57%) Pandas
3 2 (3.57%) React
3 2 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (1.79%) Angular 2
4 1 (1.79%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) HTML5
4 1 (1.79%) Node.js
4 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.79%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.79%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (1.79%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) VMS
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) CI/CD
2 19 (33.93%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (33.93%) DevOps
2 19 (33.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (26.79%) Data Engineering
4 14 (25.00%) Analytics
5 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 10 (17.86%) Agile
6 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.07%) Data Ingestion
7 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.50%) ETL
9 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (10.71%) Data Science
9 6 (10.71%) Data Transformation
9 6 (10.71%) Migration
10 5 (8.93%) Data Analytics
10 5 (8.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 31 (55.36%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) SQL
3 13 (23.21%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) Bash
5 3 (5.36%) C#
5 3 (5.36%) Scala
6 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.57%) Groovy
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) Korn
7 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (48.21%) Terraform
2 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.57%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Istio
3 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.79%) Argo
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (76.79%) Google
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe
3 2 (3.57%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) Datto
3 2 (3.57%) Freshdesk
3 2 (3.57%) Netskope
4 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.79%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.79%) New Relic
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce