GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 120 130
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 +59
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 13 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.41% 0.046% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.050% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £857 - -
England median daily rate £538 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -8.73%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,849 1,999 2,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.09% 92.59% 93.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,801 1,253 1,600
10th Percentile £210 £206 £206
25th Percentile £380 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +5.22% -3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 81 128
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.95 £14.22
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.60 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +5.91% +26.89%
75th Percentile £26.13 £30.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £34.88 £43.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 January 2026. 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 -23 13 £525 +10.53%
GCP Engineer
England

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, GCP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) GitLab
2 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
2 12 (92.31%) Terraform
3 11 (84.62%) Python
4 10 (76.92%) AWS
4 10 (76.92%) Computer Science
4 10 (76.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (76.92%) Degree
4 10 (76.92%) Go
4 10 (76.92%) Master's Degree
4 10 (76.92%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (76.92%) REST
4 10 (76.92%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (69.23%) Agile
5 9 (69.23%) Ansible
5 9 (69.23%) Cost Optimisation
5 9 (69.23%) Cryptography
5 9 (69.23%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (69.23%) Grafana
5 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
5 9 (69.23%) Linux
5 9 (69.23%) NoSQL
5 9 (69.23%) Prometheus
5 9 (69.23%) RESTful
5 9 (69.23%) Serverless

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 9 (69.23%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (69.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) GitLab
1 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Liquibase
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 9 (69.23%) Banking
2 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) REST
2 9 (69.23%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (69.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (69.23%) Public Cloud
3 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
1 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (76.92%) Computer Science
2 10 (76.92%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) Cost Optimisation
3 9 (69.23%) Cryptography
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (53.85%) Data Security
4 7 (53.85%) High Availability
4 7 (53.85%) Microservices
4 7 (53.85%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (46.15%) Data Encryption
6 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
7 4 (30.77%) Change Management
7 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (76.92%) Degree
1 10 (76.92%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Terraform
2 9 (69.23%) Ansible
2 9 (69.23%) Grafana
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Splunk
2 8 (61.54%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) SAP