GCP DevOps Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in the UK excluding London is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 376 415
Rank change year-on-year +13 +39 +77
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.011% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.012% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - £625 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +37.23% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £675 £663
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £519 £625
% change year-on-year +10.84% -17.00% -7.41%

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 13,903 16,545 20,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 92.28% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,544 9,582 13,501
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,272 1,433 1,194
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.06
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +98.86%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

GCP DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps in the UK excluding London

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

GCP DevOps
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 DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
South East - 2 - - 3
Scotland - 2 - -
Yorkshire -16 1 £892 -
North of England -27 1 £892 +37.23%
Midlands - 1 £892 -
West Midlands - 1 £892 -
GCP DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, GCP DevOps 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 DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Google
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Bash
5 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Go
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) Korn
5 1 (20.00%) Degree

GCP DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Korn
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk