GCP Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in Sheffield is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.094% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 999 514 357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 90.33% 86.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 350 192
10th Percentile £375 £300 £323
25th Percentile £430 £385 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% -11.21% -8.93%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.79% -9.52% -7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 2 5
10th Percentile - £14.98 £15.05
25th Percentile £25.77 £16.68 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.13% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £36.61 £22.33 £21.50
90th Percentile - £24.02 £21.80
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.84 £19.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +32.51% -7.14% +3.70%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

GCP Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Data Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 2026, 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 Sheffield region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Prime Brokerage
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus