GCP Architect Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 540 583
Rank change year-on-year +59 +43 +46
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 37 42 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.098% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 94
10th Percentile £250 - £509
25th Percentile £516 £500 £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £720 £688 £913
90th Percentile £754 £737 £975
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £633 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -31.25%
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 27,240 39,893 54,783
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.77% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,738 25,957 38,247
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,059 2,674 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.41 £37.34 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -17.02% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +112.50%

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 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Top 9 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 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 +72 32 £613 +2.08% 16
London +23 24 £613 +2.08% 14
UK excluding London +57 9 £550 -13.04% 5
Work from Home +44 9 £575 -9.80% 3
North of England +18 5 £613 +11.36% 2
Yorkshire +14 5 £613 +11.36% 1
Wales - 3 £250 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 35 (94.59%) GCP
2 17 (45.95%) Google
3 15 (40.54%) Terraform
4 14 (37.84%) DevOps
5 13 (35.14%) Python
6 12 (32.43%) Analytics
6 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
7 11 (29.73%) BigQuery
7 11 (29.73%) Finance
8 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
9 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
9 9 (24.32%) Java
10 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
10 8 (21.62%) Banking
10 8 (21.62%) Azure
10 8 (21.62%) AWS
10 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (21.62%) Microservices
11 7 (18.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
11 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
11 7 (18.92%) Data Governance
11 7 (18.92%) Scala
11 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
11 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
12 6 (16.22%) ETL
12 6 (16.22%) Data Analytics
12 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
12 6 (16.22%) NoSQL

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 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (94.59%) GCP
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 7 (18.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (10.81%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) Google Compute Engine
4 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 3 (8.11%) BigCommerce
5 3 (8.11%) Cloud Run
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.11%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.41%) Datadog
6 2 (5.41%) dbt
6 2 (5.41%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.70%) Google App Engine
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) DSL
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) BGP
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) HTTP
3 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.70%) OSPF
3 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) BigQuery
2 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) Big Data
4 2 (5.41%) Metadata
4 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) OLTP
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) Flink
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) CircleCI
2 3 (8.11%) GitLab
2 3 (8.11%) Terragrunt
3 2 (5.41%) JMeter
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Retail
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) GraphQL
2 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) React
3 3 (8.11%) Spring
3 3 (8.11%) VML
4 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.41%) gRPC
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 2 (5.41%) Pyramid
4 2 (5.41%) REST
4 2 (5.41%) SOAP
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Avro
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) JDBC
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) NHS
3 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Analytics
3 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
4 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (21.62%) Microservices
5 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security
5 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
5 7 (18.92%) Data Governance
6 6 (16.22%) Data Analytics
6 6 (16.22%) ETL
6 6 (16.22%) Event-Driven
6 6 (16.22%) Observability
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Decision-Making
7 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) Java
3 7 (18.92%) Scala
4 5 (13.51%) Go
5 3 (8.11%) C#
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) R
6 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
1 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 3 (8.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.11%) Puppet
4 2 (5.41%) Salt
5 1 (2.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Google
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.22%) Databricks
4 3 (8.11%) Adobe
4 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) Sitecore
5 2 (5.41%) New Relic