GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.25% - 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.50%
75th Percentile - - £389
90th Percentile - - £396
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,429 1,706 2,200
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 92.12% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 1,007 1,392
10th Percentile £200 £192 £231
25th Percentile £358 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 65 60
10th Percentile £16.51 £12.39 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.60 £46.42 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% -10.39% +68.48%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

GCP Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Glasgow - 3 - -
Edinburgh - 1 £420 - 3
GCP Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 Scotland region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) B2B
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Go

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) B2B
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk