GCP Engineer Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 321 433
Rank change year-on-year -4 +112 -137
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 68 191 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.71% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.75% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 149 123
10th Percentile £399 £447 £525
25th Percentile £463 £563 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% -7.14% +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £800
90th Percentile £726 £738 £813
England median daily rate £525 £630 £675
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.67% +13.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £55.13 £63.80 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £66.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 £76.50 -
90th Percentile £58.38 £78.60 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.88% - -

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 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
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 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +44 6 £463 -26.00%
West London +24 2 £625 -3.85%
GCP Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 50 (73.53%) GCP
2 31 (45.59%) Python
3 28 (41.18%) Google
4 26 (38.24%) Terraform
5 25 (36.76%) Kubernetes
6 23 (33.82%) BigQuery
6 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
7 20 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (26.47%) DevOps
9 17 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 16 (23.53%) Data Science
11 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
11 15 (22.06%) ETL
12 14 (20.59%) Machine Learning
13 13 (19.12%) SQL
14 12 (17.65%) Java
14 12 (17.65%) Computer Science
14 12 (17.65%) Analytics
15 11 (16.18%) Degree
15 11 (16.18%) DevSecOps
15 11 (16.18%) Computer Science Degree
16 10 (14.71%) Docker
16 10 (14.71%) Agile
17 9 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
17 9 (13.24%) Vertex AI
17 9 (13.24%) Generative AI
18 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
18 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (11.76%) Finance

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 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) GCP
2 9 (13.24%) Vertex AI
3 7 (10.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (8.82%) GitHub
5 5 (7.35%) AWS
5 5 (7.35%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (5.88%) Azure
7 3 (4.41%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (4.41%) Cloud Run
7 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.41%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (4.41%) PaaS
7 3 (4.41%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
1 2 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (33.82%) BigQuery
2 9 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (11.76%) Big Data
4 5 (7.35%) Bigtable
5 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.94%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.94%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.47%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.47%) HBase
8 1 (1.47%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.47%) Sqoop
8 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.88%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) JMeter
3 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Banking
3 3 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.94%) Czech Language
4 2 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Marketing
5 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) Bazel
2 2 (2.94%) Node.js
2 2 (2.94%) PySpark
2 2 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.47%) Middleware
3 1 (1.47%) NumPy
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
3 1 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.47%) React
3 1 (1.47%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.47%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Unix
2 2 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
2 20 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (26.47%) DevOps
4 17 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (23.53%) Data Science
6 15 (22.06%) ETL
7 14 (20.59%) Machine Learning
8 12 (17.65%) Analytics
8 12 (17.65%) Computer Science
9 11 (16.18%) DevSecOps
10 10 (14.71%) Agile
11 9 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (13.24%) Generative AI
12 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
12 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.29%) Cloud Security
13 7 (10.29%) Resource Management
14 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
14 6 (8.82%) Security Monitoring
15 5 (7.35%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (45.59%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) SQL
3 12 (17.65%) Java
4 8 (11.76%) Bash
5 5 (7.35%) Scala
6 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (16.18%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) CISSP
4 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 26 (38.24%) Terraform
2 25 (36.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.94%) Istio
4 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (41.18%) Google
2 1 (1.47%) Brio
2 1 (1.47%) Informatica
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle
2 1 (1.47%) Splunk
2 1 (1.47%) Talend