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 during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 469 533
Rank change year-on-year -34 +64 -118
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 83 230 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 180 231
10th Percentile £400 £419 £500
25th Percentile £463 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £628 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% -7.04% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £800
90th Percentile £700 £738 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £613
% change year-on-year - -18.37% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £55.13 £63.80 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £66.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 £76.50 -
90th Percentile £58.38 £78.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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 8 May 2024.

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 12 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 8 May 2024. 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 -48 76 £525 -16.33% 11
London -13 65 £513 -21.15% 8
Work from Home +57 27 £600 -7.69% 5
UK excluding London +60 7 £500 - 3
East of England - 2 £543 -
North West +20 1 £500 - 1
North of England +20 1 £500 -11.11% 2
South West +16 1 - -
South East +7 1 £575 +15.00% 1
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 63 (75.90%) GCP
2 38 (45.78%) Python
3 36 (43.37%) Terraform
4 33 (39.76%) Google
5 30 (36.14%) Kubernetes
6 28 (33.73%) BigQuery
6 28 (33.73%) DevOps
7 27 (32.53%) CI/CD
8 22 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (20.48%) Data Science
9 17 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (18.07%) ETL
11 14 (16.87%) Machine Learning
12 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
12 13 (15.66%) SQL
12 13 (15.66%) Java
12 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
12 13 (15.66%) Analytics
13 12 (14.46%) GitHub
13 12 (14.46%) DevSecOps
13 12 (14.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (14.46%) Degree
14 11 (13.25%) Bash
14 11 (13.25%) Docker
14 11 (13.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (12.05%) Containerisation
15 10 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (12.05%) Agile
15 10 (12.05%) Finance
16 9 (10.84%) Jenkins

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 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (75.90%) GCP
2 12 (14.46%) GitHub
3 11 (13.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (10.84%) Vertex AI
5 6 (7.23%) Cloud Run
5 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.02%) Azure
6 5 (6.02%) Google Compute Engine
7 4 (4.82%) AWS
7 4 (4.82%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (3.61%) PaaS
8 3 (3.61%) Serverless
9 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (2.41%) Datadog
9 2 (2.41%) Stackdriver
10 1 (1.20%) Anthos
10 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) DNS
1 2 (2.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (33.73%) BigQuery
2 8 (9.64%) Big Data
2 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.02%) Bigtable
4 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.61%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.41%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.20%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.20%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.20%) HBase
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL
7 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.43%) Git
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.20%) Gradle
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) JMeter
4 1 (1.20%) Maven
4 1 (1.20%) Postman
4 1 (1.20%) Spinnaker
General
1 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Finance
3 4 (4.82%) Banking
4 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.41%) Czech Language
5 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Kafka
1 3 (3.61%) Node.js
1 3 (3.61%) PySpark
1 3 (3.61%) React
2 2 (2.41%) Bazel
2 2 (2.41%) Django
2 2 (2.41%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.20%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.20%) gRPC
3 1 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) NumPy
3 1 (1.20%) OAuth
3 1 (1.20%) OpenID
3 1 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.20%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (1.20%) SAML
3 1 (1.20%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (1.20%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.82%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Replication
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Unix
2 2 (2.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.73%) DevOps
2 27 (32.53%) CI/CD
3 22 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (20.48%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (20.48%) Data Science
5 15 (18.07%) ETL
6 14 (16.87%) Machine Learning
7 13 (15.66%) Analytics
7 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
8 12 (14.46%) DevSecOps
9 10 (12.05%) Agile
9 10 (12.05%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (10.84%) Generative AI
10 9 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (9.64%) Data Engineering
12 7 (8.43%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (8.43%) Migration
12 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (8.43%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 13 (15.66%) Java
2 13 (15.66%) SQL
3 11 (13.25%) Bash
4 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.02%) Scala
6 3 (3.61%) Go
6 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Ruby
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (14.46%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) CISSP
3 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) zsh
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 36 (43.37%) Terraform
2 30 (36.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.23%) Ansible
4 5 (6.02%) Grafana
5 4 (4.82%) Istio
5 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) Argo
7 1 (1.20%) Puppet
7 1 (1.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 33 (39.76%) Google
2 3 (3.61%) Splunk
3 1 (1.20%) Informatica
3 1 (1.20%) New Relic
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) Talend
3 1 (1.20%) webMethods