GCP DevOps Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in London is £658, 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 339 379 378
Rank change year-on-year +40 -1 +128
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 14 12 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.067% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.072% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 87
10th Percentile £403 £425 £550
25th Percentile £516 £477 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £519 £675
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -23.15% -12.90%
75th Percentile £688 £544 £720
90th Percentile £689 £575 £775
England median daily rate £640 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +28.00% -25.93% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate - £56.25 -

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 DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps in London

GCP DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP DevOps in London

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in London

GCP DevOps
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 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 +5 2 £563 +40.63%
GCP DevOps
England

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

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

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) GCP
2 11 (78.57%) Terraform
3 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
4 9 (64.29%) Google
5 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
6 7 (50.00%) Python
6 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
7 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (35.71%) GitLab
8 5 (35.71%) Docker
8 5 (35.71%) Finance
8 5 (35.71%) Agile
9 3 (21.43%) Banking
9 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
9 3 (21.43%) Bash
9 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
10 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
10 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
10 2 (14.29%) Ansible
10 2 (14.29%) Istio
10 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
10 2 (14.29%) Observability
10 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications

GCP DevOps 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 11 (78.57%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Datadog
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Heroku
3 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Snyk
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
7 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Observability
7 2 (14.29%) RBAC
7 2 (14.29%) Refactoring
7 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Workflow
8 1 (7.14%) Database Migration
8 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
8 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Istio
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) New Relic