GCP Data Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 340 392
Rank change year-on-year -103 +52 +37
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Architect 2 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.053% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.058% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £287 -
25th Percentile £519 £364 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +30.30% -13.16% -56.82%
75th Percentile £556 £452 £483
90th Percentile - £511 -
UK median daily rate £538 £493 £535
% change year-on-year +9.14% -7.94% -51.36%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 23,260 12,063 19,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 91.69% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,370 7,616 11,646
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £405 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £591
90th Percentile £687 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,691 898 2,475
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.50 £12.53
25th Percentile £20.09 £16.95 £15.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.73% -25.33% -16.67%

GCP Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP Data Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GCP Data Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GCP Data Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Data Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

GCP Data 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 Data Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Scotland -8 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £538 -
GCP Data Architect
UK

GCP Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, GCP Data 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 UK excluding London region featuring GCP Data Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (50.00%) Apigee
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing

GCP Data Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Apigee
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Looker
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace