GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hove

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
East Sussex > Hove

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Hove is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hove 4.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
East Sussex median daily rate £581 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hove

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hove. 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 Hove with a recognized job title 20 3 5
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 75.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £425 £486 £475
25th Percentile - £499 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £530 £663
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% -20.00% +15.22%
75th Percentile £471 £564 £741
90th Percentile £522 £578 £791
East Sussex median daily rate £459 £413 £423
% change year-on-year +11.27% -2.37% -23.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £15.48 - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £16.10 - £52.50
75th Percentile £16.35 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median hourly rate £16.83 £15.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.58% -70.48% +191.67%

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hove

For the 6 months to 3 October 2026, GCP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hove region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hove by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
GCP Engineer jobs