GCP DevOps Engineer Contracts

DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 582 599
Rank change year-on-year +66 +17 +150
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps Engineer 14 18 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.042% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.045% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 88
10th Percentile £325 £394 £550
25th Percentile £469 £478 £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £711
90th Percentile - £613 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £565
% change year-on-year - - +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
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 26,887 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,565 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £740 £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 1,046 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

GCP DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps Engineer in the UK

GCP DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP DevOps Engineer in the UK

GCP DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps Engineer in the UK

GCP DevOps Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +61 12 £658 +31.50% 5
London +50 11 £675 +30.12% 3
Work from Home +44 4 £450 -7.69% 3
UK excluding London +51 1 £625 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
North of England - 1 £625 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, GCP DevOps 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 DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) Terraform
3 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
4 10 (71.43%) GCP
5 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
5 9 (64.29%) Google
6 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
7 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
7 6 (42.86%) Python
8 5 (35.71%) Finance
8 5 (35.71%) Docker
8 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (28.57%) GitLab
10 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (21.43%) GitHub
10 3 (21.43%) Bash
10 3 (21.43%) Agile
10 3 (21.43%) Banking
10 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
11 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
11 2 (14.29%) Groovy
11 2 (14.29%) RBAC
11 2 (14.29%) Observability
11 2 (14.29%) Istio
11 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
11 2 (14.29%) CircleCI

GCP DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Datadog
4 1 (7.14%) Firebase
4 1 (7.14%) Heroku
4 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Snyk
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
7 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Observability
7 2 (14.29%) RBAC
8 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
8 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.14%) Database Migration
8 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
8 1 (7.14%) High Availability
8 1 (7.14%) Static Code Analysis
8 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Terraform
2 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Istio
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) New Relic