GCP Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 661 773
Rank change year-on-year +112 +112 -157
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 29 55 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.093% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.098% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 65
10th Percentile £385 £405 £500
25th Percentile £488 £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -12.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £800
90th Percentile £718 £688 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £410 £613
% change year-on-year +21.95% -33.06% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
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 Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 +83 28 £575 +0.88%
London +90 23 £556 -3.26%
Work from Home +127 11 £625 +8.70% 1
UK excluding London +57 4 £500 +21.95%
North of England +24 1 £500 +21.95%
North West +24 1 £500 +21.95%
South East +21 1 £575 +15.00%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, GCP Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (82.76%) GCP
2 16 (55.17%) BigQuery
2 16 (55.17%) Python
3 15 (51.72%) ETL
4 14 (48.28%) Google
5 11 (37.93%) Java
5 11 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (31.03%) Agile
6 9 (31.03%) SQL
7 8 (27.59%) Data Engineering
7 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
8 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
9 5 (17.24%) Data Science
9 5 (17.24%) Big Data
9 5 (17.24%) Analytics
9 5 (17.24%) Migration
9 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
9 5 (17.24%) Scala
10 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
10 4 (13.79%) Scrum
10 4 (13.79%) Bigtable
10 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
10 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
10 4 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
10 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (13.79%) Google Data Studio
10 4 (13.79%) Cloud Run
11 3 (10.34%) Serverless
11 3 (10.34%) Cloud Composer

GCP Data Engineer 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 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (82.76%) GCP
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Run
2 4 (13.79%) Google Data Studio
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Composer
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) BigQuery
2 11 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (17.24%) Big Data
4 4 (13.79%) Bigtable
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.34%) Spark SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.45%) Flink
7 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.45%) HBase
7 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.45%) Power BI
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Sqoop
7 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Czech Language
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.45%) gRPC
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) ETL
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Data Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) Data Science
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (13.79%) Scrum
6 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
7 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.34%) Data Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) Data Munging
7 3 (10.34%) Data Security
7 3 (10.34%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.34%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) Scala
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Brio
2 1 (3.45%) Informatica
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Talend