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 £556 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 439 579
Rank change year-on-year +77 +140 -160
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 20 44 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.17% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 20
10th Percentile £363 £481 £523
25th Percentile £509 £531 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £738
90th Percentile £731 £690 £800
England median daily rate £575 £566 £619
% change year-on-year +1.55% -8.48% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
England median hourly rate - £64.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 May 2024, 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 16 (80.00%) GCP
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 10 (50.00%) Java
3 10 (50.00%) BigQuery
4 9 (45.00%) ETL
4 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 9 (45.00%) Google
5 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (25.00%) SQL
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Scala
6 5 (25.00%) Big Data
6 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Data Science
7 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
7 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Bigtable
7 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
8 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (15.00%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
8 3 (15.00%) Ansible
8 3 (15.00%) Docker
8 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning

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 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Composer
2 3 (15.00%) Google Data Studio
2 3 (15.00%) Serverless
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Run
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) Big Data
4 4 (20.00%) Bigtable
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
6 2 (10.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (5.00%) Flink
7 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.00%) HBase
7 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (5.00%) Power BI
7 1 (5.00%) Sqoop
7 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Czech Language
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) ETL
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Data Science
3 4 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (10.00%) Coaching
5 2 (10.00%) Data Munging
5 2 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (10.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) Scala
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Informatica
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Talend