Google Compute Engine Contracts in England

Google Compute Engine
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Compute Engine over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 525 650
Rank change year-on-year +47 +125 +108
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 7 17 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.046% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.14% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 2
10th Percentile £341 - £618
25th Percentile £467 £400 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £725
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.03% +7.41%
75th Percentile £669 £534 £844
90th Percentile £725 £638 £893
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £725
% change year-on-year +10.00% -31.03% +7.41%

All Cloud Skills
England

Google Compute Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Google Compute Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Google Compute Engine in England

Google Compute Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Compute Engine in England.

Daily rate trend for Google Compute Engine in England

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Compute Engine in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Compute Engine in England

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine 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
North of England +21 4 £625 - 2
Yorkshire +10 4 £625 - 1
London +26 2 £263 -47.50% 8
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Google Compute Engine
UK

Google Compute Engine
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 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Google App Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) RStudio
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) GCP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Development Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Google
2 4 (57.14%) Databricks