GCP Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 19 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.79% - 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.08% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £476 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £827 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £523 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 616 395 395
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 85.13% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 215 260
10th Percentile £305 £220 £280
25th Percentile £388 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -7.57% +13.60%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £727
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.14 £15.27
25th Percentile £16.68 £15.22 £18.31
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £29.13
90th Percentile £24.02 - £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +7.27% +9.53% +11.89%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in South Yorkshire

GCP Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Sheffield - 19 £523 - 1
GCP Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 South Yorkshire region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) GCP
2 18 (94.74%) Jenkins
3 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
3 17 (89.47%) DevOps
3 17 (89.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (89.47%) Terraform
4 16 (84.21%) Containerisation
4 16 (84.21%) GitLab
5 15 (78.95%) Ansible
5 15 (78.95%) AWS
5 15 (78.95%) Go
5 15 (78.95%) Python
5 15 (78.95%) REST
6 14 (73.68%) Agile
6 14 (73.68%) Cryptography
6 14 (73.68%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (73.68%) Grafana
6 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
6 14 (73.68%) Linux
6 14 (73.68%) NoSQL
6 14 (73.68%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (73.68%) Prometheus
6 14 (73.68%) RESTful
6 14 (73.68%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (73.68%) Serverless
6 14 (73.68%) Splunk
7 13 (68.42%) Computer Science
7 13 (68.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (68.42%) Cost Optimisation
7 13 (68.42%) Degree

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 19 (100.00%) GCP
2 15 (78.95%) AWS
3 14 (73.68%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) NoSQL
1 14 (73.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (94.74%) Jenkins
2 16 (84.21%) GitLab
3 7 (36.84%) Liquibase
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 15 (78.95%) Finance
2 13 (68.42%) Banking
2 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
3 9 (47.37%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) REST
2 14 (73.68%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (73.68%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (73.68%) Public Cloud
3 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) CI/CD
1 17 (89.47%) DevOps
1 17 (89.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (84.21%) Containerisation
3 14 (73.68%) Agile
3 14 (73.68%) Cryptography
3 14 (73.68%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (68.42%) Computer Science
4 13 (68.42%) Cost Optimisation
5 12 (63.16%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (63.16%) Microservices
5 12 (63.16%) Non-Functional Testing
6 11 (57.89%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (57.89%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (57.89%) Data Security
7 10 (52.63%) Data Encryption
8 9 (47.37%) High Availability
9 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
10 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (26.32%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Go
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (68.42%) Degree
1 13 (68.42%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (89.47%) Terraform
2 15 (78.95%) Ansible
3 14 (73.68%) Grafana
3 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
3 14 (73.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Splunk
2 10 (52.63%) Google