GCP Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £475, 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 109 132 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.036% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.039% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £488 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £625
% change year-on-year - -16.00% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in the Midlands

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in the Midlands

GCP Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +14 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
GCP Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google