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 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 502 556 649
Rank change year-on-year +54 +93 +96
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 16 26 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.060% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.065% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 46
10th Percentile £315 £375 £405
25th Percentile £407 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.55% -12.88%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £600
90th Percentile £539 £725 £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 27,240 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 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 11 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 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 16 £525 -8.70% 3
London +26 11 £525 -5.62% 3
Work from Home +41 6 £411 -34.28% 2
UK excluding London +54 4 £315 -37.00% 1
East of England - 2 £315 -
Midlands +21 1 - -
West Midlands +20 1 - -
North of England +17 1 £550 +10.00%
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 15 (93.75%) GCP
2 13 (81.25%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (75.00%) Google
4 11 (68.75%) Python
4 11 (68.75%) BigQuery
5 10 (62.50%) Data Engineering
6 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (50.00%) Java
6 8 (50.00%) Analytics
7 7 (43.75%) SQL
7 7 (43.75%) ETL
7 7 (43.75%) Terraform
7 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
8 6 (37.50%) Looker
8 6 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
9 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
9 5 (31.25%) Retail
10 4 (25.00%) Google Analytics
10 4 (25.00%) Apache
10 4 (25.00%) Kafka
10 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
10 4 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
10 4 (25.00%) Power BI
10 4 (25.00%) PySpark
10 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
10 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
10 4 (25.00%) dbt

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 (25.00%) Apache
1 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
2 4 (25.00%) dbt
2 4 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (12.50%) Vertex AI
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
5 1 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (6.25%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) BigQuery
2 6 (37.50%) Looker
3 4 (25.00%) Power BI
4 3 (18.75%) Big Data
4 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (18.75%) Flink
4 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
5 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
5 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (12.50%) Parquet
5 2 (12.50%) Power Query
5 2 (12.50%) PowerPivot
5 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (12.50%) Tableau
6 1 (6.25%) Bigtable
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
6 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Retail
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
1 4 (25.00%) PySpark
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Beam
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
3 2 (12.50%) NumPy
3 2 (12.50%) Pandas
3 2 (12.50%) React
4 1 (6.25%) JDBC
4 1 (6.25%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) Analytics
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) ETL
5 6 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
6 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
7 4 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 3 (18.75%) Data Analytics
8 3 (18.75%) Data Science
8 3 (18.75%) Data Security
8 3 (18.75%) DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (18.75%) Workflow
9 2 (12.50%) DataOps
9 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
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