GCP Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK excluding London is £315, 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 332 395 455
Rank change year-on-year +63 +60 +40
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.021% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile - £435 £372
25th Percentile - £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +21.95% -33.06%
75th Percentile £433 £556 £500
90th Percentile £503 £575 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -11.54%

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 Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

GCP Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

GCP Data Engineer
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 Engineer 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
East of England - 2 £315 -
Midlands +22 1 - -
North of England +19 1 £550 +10.00%
West Midlands +14 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
GCP Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP Data Engineer 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) NumPy
3 2 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance

GCP Data Engineer 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Looker
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Flink
3 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) NumPy
2 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google