GCP DevOps Contract Job Trends

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 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
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 549 570
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 +73
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 34 18 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.047% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.050% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 66
10th Percentile £463 £413 £425
25th Percentile £522 £423 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -22.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £653 £581 £700
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £892 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +37.23% +4.00% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
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 30,063 35,890 47,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 93.03% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,964 22,265 32,442
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,571 1,737 1,475
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.04 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +63.08%
75th Percentile £52.33 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £40.59
% change year-on-year -44.83% +12.32% +84.50%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in the UK

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in the UK

GCP DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in the UK

GCP DevOps
Top 10 Contract Job 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 12 September 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 +23 25 £600 +23.08% 2
London +25 22 £600 +41.18% 1
Work from Home +38 18 £550 +13.34% 1
UK excluding London +9 5 £892 +37.23% 2
Scotland - 2 - -
South East - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -10 1 £892 -
North of England -18 1 £892 +37.23%
Midlands - 1 £892 -
West Midlands - 1 £892 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (94.12%) Terraform
3 27 (79.41%) GCP
3 27 (79.41%) CI/CD
4 24 (70.59%) Google
5 22 (64.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
7 18 (52.94%) Jenkins
8 17 (50.00%) Python
9 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (35.29%) Banking
11 11 (32.35%) Docker
12 7 (20.59%) GitHub
12 7 (20.59%) Bash
12 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
13 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 5 (14.71%) Migration
14 5 (14.71%) Digital Banking
14 5 (14.71%) SonarQube
14 5 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (14.71%) GitLab
14 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
15 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
15 4 (11.76%) Istio
15 4 (11.76%) RBAC
15 4 (11.76%) Groovy
15 4 (11.76%) Go
16 3 (8.82%) Agile

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 27 (79.41%) GCP
2 22 (64.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.82%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) Anthos
5 2 (5.88%) Azure
5 2 (5.88%) Vertex AI
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.94%) Firebase
6 1 (2.94%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.94%) Heroku
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) SonarQube
2 5 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 2 (5.88%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (35.29%) Banking
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Publishing
3 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Web Services
2 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) AI Agents
2 3 (8.82%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (79.41%) CI/CD
3 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
4 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (14.71%) Digital Banking
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) RBAC
8 3 (8.82%) Agile
8 3 (8.82%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (8.82%) Event-Driven
8 3 (8.82%) GitOps
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.82%) Load Balancing
8 3 (8.82%) Logistics
8 3 (8.82%) Software Delivery
8 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (5.88%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (20.59%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) Go
3 4 (11.76%) Groovy
4 2 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) Korn
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (94.12%) Terraform
2 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Istio
3 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.82%) Argo
4 3 (8.82%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) Google
2 2 (5.88%) Ab Initio
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk