GCP Data Engineer Contracts in London

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
England > London

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in London is £525, 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 343 369 449
Rank change year-on-year +26 +80 +121
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 10 22 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 38
10th Percentile £459 £410 £512
25th Percentile £513 £513 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £730 £689
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £64.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £64.00

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in London

GCP Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Engineer in London

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

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

1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 8 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (70.00%) Google
4 6 (60.00%) Python
4 6 (60.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) ETL
5 5 (50.00%) Retail
6 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (40.00%) Google Analytics
6 4 (40.00%) Analytics
6 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
6 4 (40.00%) Looker
6 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (30.00%) Terraform
7 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (30.00%) Java
8 2 (20.00%) SQL
8 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
8 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 2 (20.00%) PowerPivot
8 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (20.00%) Scala
8 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
8 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
8 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation

GCP Data Engineer 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 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Google Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) dbt
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (40.00%) Looker
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (20.00%) Flink
4 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Parquet
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) Power Query
4 2 (20.00%) PowerPivot
4 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Big Data
5 1 (10.00%) Bigtable
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Beam
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft