GCP Engineer Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer 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 459 499 478
Rank change year-on-year +40 -21 +54
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 61 83 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.19% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.21% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 63 189
10th Percentile £378 £400 £431
25th Percentile £429 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £688
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £55.13 £63.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £55.31 £66.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.81 £76.50
90th Percentile - £58.38 £78.60
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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP 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 +38 57 £525 - 17
London +16 43 £543 +3.43% 10
Work from Home +37 23 £513 -14.58% 7
UK excluding London +66 10 £513 +2.50% 8
South East +48 3 £513 -10.87% 5
East of England +31 3 £315 -41.94% 1
Midlands +23 2 £475 +5.56% 1
North of England +20 2 £588 +17.50% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £588 - 1
West Midlands +14 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1

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

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

1 54 (88.52%) GCP
2 44 (72.13%) Google
3 30 (49.18%) Python
4 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
5 28 (45.90%) Terraform
6 24 (39.34%) DevOps
7 21 (34.43%) Kubernetes
8 17 (27.87%) BigQuery
9 16 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (24.59%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
11 14 (22.95%) Finance
12 13 (21.31%) SQL
12 13 (21.31%) Data Engineering
12 13 (21.31%) Docker
12 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
13 12 (19.67%) Java
13 12 (19.67%) Agile
14 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (16.39%) Cloud Native
15 10 (16.39%) Analytics
15 10 (16.39%) Azure
16 9 (14.75%) Software Engineering
16 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
16 9 (14.75%) GitHub
17 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
17 7 (11.48%) GitLab
17 7 (11.48%) Looker
17 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
17 7 (11.48%) AWS

GCP 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 5 (8.20%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) 1Password
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 54 (88.52%) GCP
2 10 (16.39%) Azure
3 9 (14.75%) GitHub
4 7 (11.48%) AWS
5 6 (9.84%) dbt
5 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (6.56%) Google Analytics
8 3 (4.92%) Vertex AI
9 2 (3.28%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.28%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.28%) Cloud Run
9 2 (3.28%) Google Workspace
9 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.28%) Mimecast
9 2 (3.28%) SaaS
9 2 (3.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) DNS
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
1 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) BigQuery
2 7 (11.48%) Looker
3 6 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (9.84%) Power BI
3 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.56%) Big Data
5 3 (4.92%) Flink
5 3 (4.92%) Metadata
5 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.92%) Tableau
6 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
6 2 (3.28%) Parquet
6 2 (3.28%) Power Query
6 2 (3.28%) PowerPivot
6 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.64%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.64%) GIS
7 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.48%) GitLab
3 5 (8.20%) Git
4 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) Snyk
5 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (22.95%) Finance
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Retail
5 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Kafka
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Beam
3 3 (4.92%) .NET
3 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.92%) PySpark
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Avro
4 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.28%) HTML
4 2 (3.28%) NumPy
4 2 (3.28%) Pandas
4 2 (3.28%) pytest
4 2 (3.28%) React
4 2 (3.28%) Spring
5 1 (1.64%) Angular 2
5 1 (1.64%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.64%) Node.js
5 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.64%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.64%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) VMS
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
2 24 (39.34%) DevOps
3 16 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (24.59%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (22.95%) Containerisation
6 13 (21.31%) Data Engineering
7 12 (19.67%) Agile
8 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.39%) Analytics
10 9 (14.75%) Software Engineering
11 7 (11.48%) ETL
11 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
12 6 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
12 6 (9.84%) Data Science
12 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (9.84%) Machine Learning
12 6 (9.84%) Microservices
12 6 (9.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) Python
2 13 (21.31%) SQL
3 12 (19.67%) Java
4 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.92%) Bash
5 3 (4.92%) C#
5 3 (4.92%) Scala
6 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.28%) Groovy
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (45.90%) Terraform
2 21 (34.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.28%) Istio
5 1 (1.64%) Argo
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (72.13%) Google
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) Adobe
3 2 (3.28%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (3.28%) Databricks
3 2 (3.28%) Datto
3 2 (3.28%) Freshdesk
3 2 (3.28%) Netskope
4 1 (1.64%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.64%) New Relic
4 1 (1.64%) Salesforce