GCP Architect Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform Architect
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 360 408
Rank change year-on-year +49 +48 +69
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 30 36 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 57
10th Percentile £470 - £511
25th Percentile £534 £500 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £722 £675 £913
90th Percentile £734 £736 £960
England median daily rate £575 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -4.17% -20.00% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,322 16,344 24,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.55% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,688 11,839 17,686
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 322 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.66 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% -23.18% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.88 £46.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in London

GCP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for GCP Architect in London

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Architect in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Architect in London

GCP Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +11 4 £700 +40.00%
GCP Architect
England

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, GCP Architect 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 London region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 29 (96.67%) GCP
2 14 (46.67%) Finance
3 13 (43.33%) Google
3 13 (43.33%) Python
4 12 (40.00%) Cloud Native
5 10 (33.33%) Java
6 9 (30.00%) Terraform
6 9 (30.00%) Microservices
7 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
7 8 (26.67%) Event-Driven
7 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 8 (26.67%) BigQuery
7 8 (26.67%) Migration
7 8 (26.67%) Agile
7 8 (26.67%) DevOps
8 7 (23.33%) Azure
8 7 (23.33%) Banking
8 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (23.33%) SQL
8 7 (23.33%) SDLC
8 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
9 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 6 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
9 6 (20.00%) Architectural Design
9 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
10 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
10 5 (16.67%) AWS
10 5 (16.67%) Test Automation

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) GCP
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (13.33%) IaaS
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) BigCommerce
6 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Run
6 2 (6.67%) Collibra
6 2 (6.67%) Datadog
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) DSL
3 1 (3.33%) BGP
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.33%) OSPF
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) BigQuery
2 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) OLTP
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.67%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
3 2 (6.67%) ER Studio
3 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
1 4 (13.33%) Spring
1 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) React
2 3 (10.00%) VML
3 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.67%) gRPC
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) Pyramid
3 2 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Avro
4 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.33%) JSON
4 1 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Microservices
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Event-Driven
2 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
3 7 (23.33%) SDLC
4 6 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) Observability
5 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Go
4 4 (13.33%) Scala
5 3 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.67%) Puppet
3 2 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Google
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Adobe
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Sitecore
4 2 (6.67%) New Relic
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks