GCP Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform
England > South West

The median Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the South West is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.035% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £631 £700 £636
% change year-on-year -9.82% +10.02% -15.17%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,616 1,541 3,035
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.00% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,033 1,933
10th Percentile £254 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 110 400
10th Percentile £17.87 £20.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £55.00 £27.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £78.04
England median hourly rate £36.32 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.77% +7.69% -23.29%

GCP Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

GCP Data Architect job vacancy trend in the South West

GCP Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Data Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Data Architect job vacancies in the South West

GCP Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Data Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Bristol - 1 £538 -
GCP Data Architect
England

GCP Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 11 March 2026, GCP Data Architect 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 South West region featuring GCP Data Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

GCP Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google