GCP Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Software Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
England > Midlands

The median Software Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the Midlands is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
England median daily rate £689 - £653
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 2,371 2,554 2,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.30% 93.21% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 1,615 1,916
10th Percentile £213 £250 £220
25th Percentile £358 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £572 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 115 105
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.63 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £32.44 £38.63 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.26 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

GCP Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Software Engineer in the Midlands

GCP Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

GCP Software 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 Software Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 - 1 £892 - 1
GCP Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, GCP Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices

GCP Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk