GCP Engineer Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £543, 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 310 326 309
Rank change year-on-year +16 -17 +114
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 43 65 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.36% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.39% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 151
10th Percentile £402 £400 £475
25th Percentile £450 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £678 £633 £688
90th Percentile £688 £729 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £625
% change year-on-year - -16.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £55.13 £63.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £55.31 £66.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.81 £76.50
90th Percentile - £58.38 £78.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -21.88% -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP 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 Engineer 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 +2 4 £638 +37.84%
GCP Engineer
England

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

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

1 40 (93.02%) GCP
2 30 (69.77%) Google
3 21 (48.84%) Python
4 20 (46.51%) DevOps
4 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
5 18 (41.86%) Terraform
6 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
7 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (25.58%) BigQuery
9 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
9 10 (23.26%) Docker
9 10 (23.26%) Finance
9 10 (23.26%) Agile
9 10 (23.26%) Azure
9 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
9 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
10 9 (20.93%) Jenkins
11 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
12 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (16.28%) GitLab
12 7 (16.28%) Analytics
12 7 (16.28%) Java
13 6 (13.95%) Migration
13 6 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
14 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (11.63%) Banking
14 5 (11.63%) Retail

GCP 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 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) 1Password
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 40 (93.02%) GCP
2 10 (23.26%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) Google Analytics
3 4 (9.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.98%) AWS
4 3 (6.98%) dbt
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.65%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.65%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) Slack
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.33%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) BigQuery
2 5 (11.63%) Looker
3 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.30%) Power BI
4 3 (6.98%) Big Data
4 3 (6.98%) Metadata
4 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.65%) Flink
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Parquet
5 2 (4.65%) Power Query
5 2 (4.65%) PowerPivot
5 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Airbyte
6 1 (2.33%) Bigtable
6 1 (2.33%) GIS
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (16.28%) GitLab
3 5 (11.63%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) Snyk
4 1 (2.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Banking
2 5 (11.63%) Retail
3 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) Apache Beam
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Avro
2 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
2 2 (4.65%) pytest
2 2 (4.65%) Spring
3 1 (2.33%) Great Expectations
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) VMS
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
1 20 (46.51%) DevOps
2 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (23.26%) Agile
3 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
3 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
3 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Analytics
5 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
6 6 (13.95%) Migration
7 5 (11.63%) ETL
7 5 (11.63%) Zero Trust
8 4 (9.30%) E-Commerce
8 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Java
3 5 (11.63%) SQL
4 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.65%) Groovy
5 2 (4.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (41.86%) Terraform
2 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Istio
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (69.77%) Google
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Adobe
3 2 (4.65%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (4.65%) Datto
3 2 (4.65%) Freshdesk
3 2 (4.65%) Netskope
4 1 (2.33%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.33%) New Relic
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce