GCP DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
England > London

The median DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 376 406
Rank change year-on-year +34 +30 +112
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps Engineer 22 14 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.087% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.092% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 39
10th Percentile £529 £413 £429
25th Percentile £550 £420 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -32.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £660 £588 £731
90th Percentile £698 £700 £738
England median daily rate £600 £550 £613
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate - £57.50 -

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 12,300 15,146 20,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 93.99% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,223 10,093 15,105
10th Percentile £331 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 178 225
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.43 £18.23
25th Percentile £22.95 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £50.25 £57.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.46 £75.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

GCP DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps Engineer in London

GCP DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

GCP DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps Engineer in London

GCP DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

GCP DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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 - 3 £700 -
GCP DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, GCP DevOps 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 DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (95.45%) Terraform
3 20 (90.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 18 (81.82%) GCP
4 18 (81.82%) Google
5 16 (72.73%) Jenkins
5 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
5 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
6 13 (59.09%) Python
7 11 (50.00%) Banking
8 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (40.91%) Docker
10 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (22.73%) Digital Banking
11 5 (22.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (22.73%) SonarQube
11 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (22.73%) Migration
11 5 (22.73%) Bash
11 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
12 4 (18.18%) Groovy
12 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
12 4 (18.18%) RBAC
12 4 (18.18%) Istio
13 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
13 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
13 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
13 3 (13.64%) Argo
13 3 (13.64%) GitOps

GCP DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 18 (81.82%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) Anthos
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (4.55%) Heroku
5 1 (4.55%) Stackdriver
5 1 (4.55%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) SonarQube
2 5 (22.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Publishing
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) AI Agents
2 3 (13.64%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Digital Banking
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) RBAC
7 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
7 3 (13.64%) GitOps
7 3 (13.64%) Logistics
7 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
8 2 (9.09%) Generative AI
8 2 (9.09%) Load Balancing
8 2 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 1 (4.55%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) Groovy
4 3 (13.64%) Go
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Korn
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Terraform
2 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (18.18%) Istio
4 3 (13.64%) Argo
5 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft