GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 64 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.36% 0.18% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% - -
75th Percentile £397 - -
90th Percentile £436 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £550 -
% change year-on-year -31.82% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 974 548 679
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 97.68% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 361 447
10th Percentile £363 £310 £300
25th Percentile £419 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.91% -1.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 20
10th Percentile £18.05 £25.15 £14.87
25th Percentile £22.42 £25.38 £18.27
Median hourly rate £26.25 £29.56 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +2.80% +51.32%
75th Percentile £35.00 £50.48 £48.75
90th Percentile - £79.33 £49.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £23.57 £28.75
% change year-on-year +9.33% -18.02% +51.32%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in Leeds

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 29 July 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 Leeds region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (100.00%) GCP
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
3 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (78.57%) DevOps
4 11 (78.57%) Python
5 10 (71.43%) Google
6 9 (64.29%) Bash
6 9 (64.29%) GitHub
7 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
8 7 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
9 6 (42.86%) Observability
9 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (35.71%) Apigee
10 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (28.57%) API Management
11 4 (28.57%) DNS
11 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
11 4 (28.57%) Git
11 4 (28.57%) Istio
11 4 (28.57%) VPN
12 3 (21.43%) Agile
12 3 (21.43%) Firewall
12 3 (21.43%) Groovy
12 3 (21.43%) OpenAPI
12 3 (21.43%) PowerShell

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) GCP
2 9 (64.29%) GitHub
3 7 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (35.71%) Apigee
4 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Run
5 2 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (7.14%) Anthos
6 1 (7.14%) AWS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Kong
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) OpenAPI
1 3 (21.43%) REST
1 3 (21.43%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) JWT
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (78.57%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 6 (42.86%) Observability
4 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) API Management
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
8 2 (14.29%) API Design
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 2 (14.29%) Network Optimisation
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Groovy
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Go
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Istio
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
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