Google Compute Engine Contract Job Trends in London

Google Compute Engine
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 372 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.074% 0.019% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.047% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £538 -
90th Percentile £680 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 -
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

All Cloud Skills
London

Google Compute Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,012 6,372 7,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.02% 38.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 4,327 5,792
10th Percentile £350 £350 £344
25th Percentile £425 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.26%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 37 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -8.79% +35.24%
75th Percentile £44.00 £55.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Compute Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Google Compute Engine job vacancy trend in London

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Google Compute Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Compute Engine in London over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Compute Engine in London

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine within the London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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 2 - - 7
Google Compute Engine
England

Google Compute Engine
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) GCP
2 9 (90.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
6 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (30.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) AlloyDB
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Looker
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) git-flow
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (30.00%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (70.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) AI
6 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
7 2 (20.00%) API Development
7 2 (20.00%) Data Science
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Google