GCP Architect Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Google Cloud Platform Architect
East London > Tower Hamlets

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in Tower Hamlets is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 5.66% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £526 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
East London median daily rate £540 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tower Hamlets

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets with a recognized job title 45 40 142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.91% 81.63% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 132
10th Percentile £416 £350 £450
25th Percentile £450 £411 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £577
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -10.88% +4.82%
75th Percentile £688 £608 £650
90th Percentile £1,000 £649 £770
East London median daily rate £498 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +0.51% -13.91% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £28.14 - £15.13
25th Percentile £32.61 - £16.56
Median hourly rate £40.08 - £18.93
75th Percentile £47.54 - -
90th Percentile £52.02 - -
East London median hourly rate £24.03 £26.63 £18.93
% change year-on-year -9.76% +40.68% -75.25%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

GCP Architect job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

GCP Architect
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Architect within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 25 January 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
Canary Wharf - 3 £540 -
GCP Architect
East London

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets

For the 6 months to 25 January 2026, GCP 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 Tower Hamlets region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OpenID
1 3 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Key Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google