GCP Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
England > South West

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the South West is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 3,480 1,729 2,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 88.89% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,886 992 1,493
10th Percentile £329 £225 £221
25th Percentile £438 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £619
90th Percentile £725 £712 £700
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 597 202 262
10th Percentile £16.64 £13.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.13 £40.63
Median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.69 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.70 £69.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 South West.

GCP Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

GCP Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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 - 5 £500 - 6
GCP Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 South West region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Development
2 4 (80.00%) dbt
2 4 (80.00%) Google
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Master Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (40.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (20.00%) API Development
5 1 (20.00%) Big Data
5 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Data Quality

GCP Data Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Development
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Master Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google