GCP Data Engineer Contracts

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK is £525, 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 505 554 663
Rank change year-on-year +49 +109 +102
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 15 28 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.064% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.069% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 47
10th Percentile £315 £428 £440
25th Percentile £407 £503 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £600
90th Percentile £539 £721 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 £500 £410
% change year-on-year -37.00% +21.95% -33.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £62.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £64.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £66.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
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 Data Engineer 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 +45 15 £525 -8.70% 1
London +26 10 £525 -8.70% 1
Work from Home +36 6 £411 -34.28% 1
UK excluding London +63 4 £315 -37.00%
East of England - 2 £315 -
Midlands +22 1 - -
North of England +19 1 £550 +10.00%
West Midlands +14 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 14 (93.33%) GCP
2 13 (86.67%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (73.33%) Google
4 10 (66.67%) Python
4 10 (66.67%) BigQuery
5 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
6 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
6 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (46.67%) Java
6 7 (46.67%) ETL
6 7 (46.67%) Analytics
7 6 (40.00%) SQL
7 6 (40.00%) Looker
7 6 (40.00%) Terraform
8 5 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (33.33%) Retail
9 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
9 4 (26.67%) Apache
9 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce
9 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
9 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
9 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
9 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (26.67%) Kafka
9 4 (26.67%) Power BI
9 4 (26.67%) dbt
9 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
10 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow

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 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) dbt
2 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Vertex AI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 6 (40.00%) Looker
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
4 3 (20.00%) Flink
4 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
5 2 (13.33%) Big Data
5 2 (13.33%) Parquet
5 2 (13.33%) Power Query
5 2 (13.33%) PowerPivot
5 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (13.33%) Tableau
6 1 (6.67%) Bigtable
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (33.33%) Retail
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Beam
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) NumPy
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 2 (13.33%) React
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) JDBC
4 1 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (26.67%) E-Commerce
5 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Science
6 3 (20.00%) Data Security
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Workflow
7 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Data Management
7 2 (13.33%) DataOps
7 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft