Cloud Composer Contracts

Google Cloud Composer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Composer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Composer over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 577 674
Rank change year-on-year +71 +97 +137
Contract jobs citing Cloud Composer 12 5 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.012% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.036% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 24
10th Percentile £135 £400 £490
25th Percentile £270 £438 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% -16.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £694
90th Percentile £751 £620 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £140 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -42.86%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Composer 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,044 13,936 21,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.41% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,632 9,908 15,402
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 345 346
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +55.90%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £64.45 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £17.71 £24.62
% change year-on-year +20.81% -28.09% +23.10%

Cloud Composer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Composer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Composer in the UK

Cloud Composer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Composer.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Composer in the UK

Cloud Composer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Composer over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Composer in the UK

Cloud Composer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Composer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +86 10 £409 -18.20% 11
Work from Home - 8 £409 - 9
London +36 6 £734 +46.80% 11
UK excluding London - 3 £140 - 3
North of England - 2 £140 -
Yorkshire - 2 £140 -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Cloud Composer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (16.67%) dbt
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Alation
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Run
3 1 (8.33%) Fivetran
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (33.33%) Looker
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
5 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Product Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Product Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Product Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (58.33%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (41.67%) Data Science
5 4 (33.33%) Data Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (25.00%) Workflow
7 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) ETL Development
7 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (16.67%) Observability
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) New Relic
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft