GCP Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
England > North East

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the North East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £550 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% -19.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 285 257 216
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 88.62% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 106 168
10th Percentile £175 £266 £262
25th Percentile £338 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £432
Median % change year-on-year - +4.23% -17.76%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £575
90th Percentile £649 £650 £633
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 22 9
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.85 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.19 £38.27 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +103.17%
75th Percentile £22.19 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

GCP Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, GCP Data 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 North East region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL