GCP Data Architect Contracts

Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median Data Architect - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 582 676
Rank change year-on-year +76 +94 +159
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Architect 7 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.009% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.010% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 18
10th Percentile - £566 £709
25th Percentile £236 £615 £728
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £715 £800
Median % change year-on-year -26.57% -10.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £738 £1,100
90th Percentile £655 £742 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £715 £1,100
% change year-on-year -45.03% -35.00% +57.14%

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 26,853 39,898 55,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.77% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,486 25,961 38,445
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 1,043 2,673 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%

GCP Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Architect in the UK

GCP Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Architect in the UK

GCP Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Architect over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Architect in the UK

GCP Data Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Data Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +70 6 £538 -15.52% 5
London +37 4 £468 -26.44% 4
UK excluding London +44 2 £393 -45.03% 2
Work from Home +47 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £236 -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
North of England - 1 £550 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, GCP Data 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 Data Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
3 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Google
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Python
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (28.57%) Databricks
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (28.57%) dbt
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
5 2 (28.57%) NoSQL

GCP Data 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 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Flink
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Beam
1 1 (14.29%) JDBC
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft