GCP DevOps Contracts

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in the UK is £633, 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 503 564 581
Rank change year-on-year +61 +17 +145
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 17 18 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.041% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.045% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 102
10th Percentile £334 £394 £550
25th Percentile £488 £478 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +26.50% -25.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £713
90th Percentile - £613 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £565
% change year-on-year - - -5.83%
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 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 DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
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 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 +58 15 £640 +28.00% 5
London +40 14 £658 +26.75% 2
Work from Home +38 4 £450 -7.69% 3
UK excluding London +63 1 £625 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
North of England - 1 £625 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) Terraform
3 12 (70.59%) GCP
3 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
4 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
4 10 (58.82%) Google
5 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
6 7 (41.18%) Python
6 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
7 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
7 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (29.41%) GitLab
8 5 (29.41%) Docker
8 5 (29.41%) Finance
8 5 (29.41%) Agile
9 3 (17.65%) Banking
9 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
9 3 (17.65%) GitHub
9 3 (17.65%) Bash
9 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
9 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (11.76%) RBAC
10 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (11.76%) Istio
10 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
10 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
10 2 (11.76%) Task Automation

GCP DevOps 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 12 (70.59%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Datadog
4 1 (5.88%) Firebase
4 1 (5.88%) Heroku
4 1 (5.88%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
7 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (11.76%) Observability
7 2 (11.76%) RBAC
7 2 (11.76%) Refactoring
7 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Workflow
8 1 (5.88%) Cost Reduction
8 1 (5.88%) Database Migration
8 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Istio
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic