GCP Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 393 444
Rank change year-on-year +68 +51 +53
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 11 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.029% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.031% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 15
10th Percentile £247 £565 £503
25th Percentile £250 £587 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £633 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.95% -29.38%
75th Percentile £613 £687 £719
90th Percentile £693 £714 £1,100
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £725
% change year-on-year - -17.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - £88.00 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year - +25.40% -
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £88.00 £70.18
% change year-on-year - +25.40% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured GCP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in the UK excluding London

GCP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GCP Architect in the UK excluding London

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Architect in the UK excluding London

GCP Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +20 5 £613 +11.36%
Yorkshire +9 5 £613 +11.36%
Wales - 3 £250 -
Scotland +14 2 £600 -16.08%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
GCP Architect
UK

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) GCP
2 7 (63.64%) Google
3 6 (54.55%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Databricks
4 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Data Science
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) AWS
5 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
5 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
6 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
6 3 (27.27%) Scala
6 3 (27.27%) Python
6 3 (27.27%) ETL
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (27.27%) NHS
6 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (27.27%) Terraform
6 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) Anthos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Flink
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Games
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Beam
1 1 (9.09%) JDBC
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (27.27%) NHS
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 4 (36.36%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Detection
6 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
2 5 (45.45%) Databricks
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft