GCP Architect Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, 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 479 541 590
Rank change year-on-year +62 +49 +51
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 41 41 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.094% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.10% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 97
10th Percentile £250 - £513
25th Percentile £528 £500 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% -
75th Percentile £702 £694 £913
90th Percentile £747 £738 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £633 £565
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.95% -29.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - £88.00 £70.18
Median % change year-on-year - +25.40% -
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £88.00 £70.18
% change year-on-year - +25.40% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GCP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Architect.

Daily rate trend for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Architect within the UK 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
England +49 32 £600 - 9
London +27 24 £600 - 9
UK excluding London +68 11 £575 -9.09% 2
Work from Home +38 7 £575 -14.81% 4
North of England +20 5 £613 +11.36%
Yorkshire +9 5 £613 +11.36%
Wales - 3 £250 -
Scotland +14 2 £600 -16.08%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP Architect 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 featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 39 (95.12%) GCP
2 19 (46.34%) Google
3 17 (41.46%) Terraform
4 16 (39.02%) DevOps
5 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
5 14 (34.15%) Python
5 14 (34.15%) Analytics
6 13 (31.71%) Finance
6 13 (31.71%) Cloud Native
7 11 (26.83%) BigQuery
7 11 (26.83%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
7 11 (26.83%) Banking
8 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
8 10 (24.39%) Java
9 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
9 9 (21.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (21.95%) Microservices
10 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
10 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
11 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
11 7 (17.07%) Go
11 7 (17.07%) Scala
11 7 (17.07%) Azure
11 7 (17.07%) AWS
11 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
11 7 (17.07%) Data Governance
11 7 (17.07%) Cloud Security
12 6 (14.63%) Observability

GCP Architect Skill Set
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 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (95.12%) GCP
2 9 (21.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Azure
4 6 (14.63%) GitHub
5 4 (9.76%) Google Compute Engine
5 4 (9.76%) SaaS
6 3 (7.32%) BigCommerce
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Functions
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Run
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.32%) Google App Engine
6 3 (7.32%) IaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.88%) Datadog
7 2 (4.88%) dbt
7 2 (4.88%) PaaS
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.44%) Serverless
8 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
1 2 (4.88%) DSL
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
1 2 (4.88%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) BGP
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.44%) OSPF
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) BigQuery
2 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.88%) Metadata
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
4 2 (4.88%) OLTP
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Big Data
5 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.44%) Flink
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.32%) CircleCI
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (7.32%) Terragrunt
3 2 (4.88%) JMeter
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Finance
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Games
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) GraphQL
1 5 (12.20%) Kafka
1 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
2 3 (7.32%) React
2 3 (7.32%) VML
3 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.88%) gRPC
3 2 (4.88%) Node.js
3 2 (4.88%) Pyramid
3 2 (4.88%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) SOAP
3 2 (4.88%) Spring
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.44%) JDBC
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.44%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.76%) NHS
3 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) DevOps
2 14 (34.15%) Analytics
3 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (26.83%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
5 9 (21.95%) Microservices
6 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (17.07%) Cloud Security
7 7 (17.07%) Data Governance
8 6 (14.63%) Data Analytics
8 6 (14.63%) Domain-Driven Design
8 6 (14.63%) ETL
8 6 (14.63%) Observability
8 6 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.20%) Data Engineering
9 5 (12.20%) Data Science
9 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) Java
3 7 (17.07%) Go
3 7 (17.07%) Scala
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.32%) C#
5 3 (7.32%) PHP
5 3 (7.32%) R
6 2 (4.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.44%) Bash
7 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
1 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) Terraform
2 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
3 5 (12.20%) Progress Chef
3 5 (12.20%) Puppet
4 3 (7.32%) Packer
5 2 (4.88%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Google
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) Adobe
4 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.32%) SAP
4 3 (7.32%) Sitecore
5 2 (4.88%) New Relic