GCP Engineer Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 327 296
Rank change year-on-year +13 -31 +123
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 36 67 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.38% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.41% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 49 142
10th Percentile £439 £400 £401
25th Percentile £519 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £640
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -21.88% -8.57%
75th Percentile £664 £658 £700
90th Percentile £694 £705 £738
England median daily rate £540 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +7.90% -20.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £63.80
25th Percentile £51.25 - £66.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -23.61% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - £76.50
90th Percentile - - £78.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% -23.61% -

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 11,802 16,538 23,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 93.75% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,993 11,885 17,371
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £798 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 321 274
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £33.45 £27.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -25.21% +5.06%
75th Percentile £50.56 £46.48 £63.94
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.00 £82.43
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +7 6 £610 +25.13% 8
GCP Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 34 (94.44%) GCP
2 26 (72.22%) Google
3 24 (66.67%) Terraform
4 23 (63.89%) Python
5 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
6 21 (58.33%) DevOps
7 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (44.44%) BigQuery
9 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
10 12 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (25.00%) Analytics
12 9 (25.00%) SQL
12 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (25.00%) Data Engineering
13 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
13 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
13 8 (22.22%) Finance
13 8 (22.22%) Agile
13 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
14 7 (19.44%) Azure
14 7 (19.44%) Banking
14 7 (19.44%) Java
14 7 (19.44%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (19.44%) ETL
14 7 (19.44%) Cloud Composer
14 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
15 6 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
15 6 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
15 6 (16.67%) Docker

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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (94.44%) GCP
2 12 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) Cloud Composer
4 5 (13.89%) Cloud Functions
4 5 (13.89%) dbt
5 4 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) AWS
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Run
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub
7 2 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (2.78%) Datadog
8 1 (2.78%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (2.78%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) BigQuery
2 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 4 (11.11%) Big Data
4 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.56%) Flink
5 2 (5.56%) Looker
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) Parquet
5 2 (5.56%) Power Query
5 2 (5.56%) PowerPivot
5 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.56%) Tableau
6 1 (2.78%) GIS
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Redis
6 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) git-flow
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Snyk
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Avro
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Beam
1 2 (5.56%) Great Expectations
1 2 (5.56%) PySpark
1 2 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.78%) pytest
2 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.78%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) VMS
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 21 (58.33%) DevOps
3 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (25.00%) Analytics
5 9 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (22.22%) Agile
6 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
7 7 (19.44%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
7 7 (19.44%) ETL
8 6 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (13.89%) Data Transformation
9 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
10 4 (11.11%) Data Analytics
10 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
10 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.56%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) Groovy
5 2 (5.56%) Korn
5 2 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (66.67%) Terraform
2 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Argo
4 2 (5.56%) Istio
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Ansible
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (72.22%) Google
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Ab Initio
3 1 (2.78%) Dataiku
3 1 (2.78%) New Relic