GCP Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform
England > London

The median Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in London is £468, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 388 479
Rank change year-on-year +38 +91 +98
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Architect 3 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.017% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.018% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £280 £552 £713
25th Percentile £346 £582 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £636 £750
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% -15.17% +3.81%
75th Percentile £603 £692 £1,050
90th Percentile £676 £723 £1,100
England median daily rate £538 £636 £900
% change year-on-year -15.52% -29.31% +25.00%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £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 £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

GCP Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Architect in London

GCP Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Architect in London

GCP Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Architect in London

GCP Data 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 Data Architect within the London 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
Central London - 1 £700 -
GCP Data Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP Data 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 Data Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) NHS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow

GCP Data 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft