Google Compute Engine Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Compute Engine over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 397 -
Rank change year-on-year +67 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.010% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.037% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £553 - -
25th Percentile £575 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 -
75th Percentile £700 £638 -
90th Percentile £738 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £725
% change year-on-year +10.00% -31.03% +7.41%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Google Compute Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Compute Engine in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Compute Engine in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Compute Engine in the UK excluding London

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine 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 +21 4 £625 - 2
Yorkshire +10 4 £625 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Google Compute Engine
UK

Google Compute Engine
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 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Google App Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
2 4 (66.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk