GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > South West

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in the South West is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% - 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £750
75th Percentile £544 - £775
90th Percentile £636 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,078 2,106 2,875
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 93.52% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 1,297 1,900
10th Percentile £227 £223 £263
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -4.01% +2.38%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £713
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.03% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 158 297
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.58 £18.17
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.56 £44.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +13.38% -11.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.44 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.70% -17.22% +36.36%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 the South West.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in the South West

GCP 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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Bristol - 4 £538 -
Wiltshire - 3 £525 - 3
GCP Engineer
England

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 5 December 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 South West region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Google
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Istio
5 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (28.57%) Python
6 1 (14.29%) Ansible
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Docker

GCP 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Google