GCP DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 360 393
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +86
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 26 18 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £430 £333 £450
25th Percentile £468 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -8.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £683
90th Percentile £663 £698 £699
England median daily rate £575 £551 £575
% change year-on-year +4.45% -4.26% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

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 13,250 14,157 17,713
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 93.49% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,799 9,163 12,804
10th Percentile £340 £338 £328
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 210
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.19 £17.98
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +1.23% +0.90%
75th Percentile £56.69 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

GCP DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

GCP DevOps job vacancy trend in London

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps in London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in London

GCP DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies 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 16 December 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
England

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, GCP DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring GCP DevOps in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (92.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 23 (88.46%) GCP
3 23 (88.46%) Terraform
4 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
5 18 (69.23%) Kubernetes
6 17 (65.38%) Google
7 16 (61.54%) Jenkins
8 14 (53.85%) Docker
8 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (53.85%) Python
9 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
10 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (26.92%) Migration
11 6 (23.08%) AI
11 6 (23.08%) Bash
12 5 (19.23%) Digital Banking
12 5 (19.23%) High Availability
12 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (19.23%) SonarQube
12 5 (19.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (15.38%) Ansible
13 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
13 4 (15.38%) GitHub
13 4 (15.38%) GitLab
13 4 (15.38%) Grafana
13 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
13 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
13 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
13 4 (15.38%) Stackdriver

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Ethereum
1 3 (11.54%) Hyperledger
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 23 (88.46%) GCP
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
3 4 (15.38%) Stackdriver
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) Anthos
6 1 (3.85%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Contentful
6 1 (3.85%) Contentstack
6 1 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (3.85%) Storyblok
6 1 (3.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) SonarQube
2 5 (19.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (15.38%) GitLab
4 2 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (7.69%) Spinnaker
4 2 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (30.77%) Banking
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Publishing
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Fastify
3 1 (3.85%) MACH
3 1 (3.85%) Next.js
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) AI Agents
2 3 (11.54%) Autonomous Agent
2 3 (11.54%) Blockchain
2 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (26.92%) Migration
6 6 (23.08%) AI
7 5 (19.23%) Digital Banking
7 5 (19.23%) High Availability
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
9 3 (11.54%) AIOps
9 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
9 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven
9 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
9 3 (11.54%) Logistics
9 3 (11.54%) MLOps
9 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) Go
3 2 (7.69%) Groovy
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) Terraform
2 18 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Grafana
3 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) Istio
5 2 (7.69%) Rancher
6 1 (3.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft