GCP Engineer Contracts in London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 305 437
Rank change year-on-year -23 +132 -141
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 65 187 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.74% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.77% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 147 131
10th Percentile £400 £400 £525
25th Percentile £463 £563 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £658 £700 £800
90th Percentile £728 £738 £850
England median daily rate £500 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.61% - -

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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

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 June 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 1 June 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 +38 5 £475 -27.40%
GCP Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 48 (73.85%) GCP
2 33 (50.77%) Python
3 29 (44.62%) Google
4 27 (41.54%) Terraform
5 24 (36.92%) Kubernetes
6 23 (35.38%) BigQuery
7 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
8 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (26.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (26.15%) DevOps
10 15 (23.08%) Data Science
11 14 (21.54%) Machine Learning
11 14 (21.54%) Computer Science
12 13 (20.00%) ETL
13 12 (18.46%) Java
13 12 (18.46%) SQL
13 12 (18.46%) Degree
13 12 (18.46%) Analytics
13 12 (18.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (18.46%) DevSecOps
13 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
14 10 (15.38%) Agile
14 10 (15.38%) Finance
15 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
15 9 (13.85%) Generative AI
15 9 (13.85%) Vertex AI
16 8 (12.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 8 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
16 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
16 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security

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 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 48 (73.85%) GCP
2 9 (13.85%) Vertex AI
3 8 (12.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (10.77%) GitHub
5 5 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (6.15%) Azure
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Run
6 4 (6.15%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (4.62%) AWS
7 3 (4.62%) PaaS
7 3 (4.62%) Serverless
8 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.38%) BigQuery
2 8 (12.31%) Big Data
3 6 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.69%) Bigtable
5 3 (4.62%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.62%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.54%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.54%) HBase
7 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.54%) Sqoop
7 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.23%) GitLab
3 5 (7.69%) Git
4 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) JMeter
4 2 (3.08%) Postman
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Czech Language
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) Kafka
2 3 (4.62%) PySpark
3 2 (3.08%) Bazel
3 2 (3.08%) Middleware
3 2 (3.08%) Node.js
3 2 (3.08%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.54%) NumPy
4 1 (1.54%) OAuth
4 1 (1.54%) OpenID
4 1 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.54%) React
4 1 (1.54%) SAML
4 1 (1.54%) XGBoost
4 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.15%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.62%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Unix
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
2 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (26.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (26.15%) DevOps
4 15 (23.08%) Data Science
5 14 (21.54%) Computer Science
5 14 (21.54%) Machine Learning
6 13 (20.00%) ETL
7 12 (18.46%) Analytics
7 12 (18.46%) DevSecOps
8 10 (15.38%) Agile
9 9 (13.85%) Generative AI
10 8 (12.31%) Cloud Security
10 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
10 8 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (10.77%) Resource Management
12 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.23%) Security Monitoring
13 5 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.77%) Python
2 12 (18.46%) Java
2 12 (18.46%) SQL
3 8 (12.31%) Bash
4 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.15%) Scala
5 2 (3.08%) Ruby
6 1 (1.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) CISSP
4 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.08%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (41.54%) Terraform
2 24 (36.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Istio
4 3 (4.62%) Ansible
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
5 2 (3.08%) Argo
5 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) Google
2 1 (1.54%) Informatica
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle
2 1 (1.54%) Talend