GCP Data Engineer Contract Job Trends 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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 363 416
Rank change year-on-year -25 +53 +69
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.035% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.038% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £317 £470
25th Percentile - £318 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £359 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% -28.20% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £470 -
90th Percentile - £522 -
UK median daily rate £525 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -20.00%

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 14,338 15,955 19,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.63% 92.23% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 9,086 13,230
10th Percentile £208 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £371 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,199 1,255
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.76% -6.74% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.92 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -38.66% -8.89% +69.81%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GCP Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Data Engineer job vacancies 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 16 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
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
GCP Data Engineer
UK

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, GCP Data 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 UK excluding London region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements

GCP Data Engineer 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 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL