Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform Contracts

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the UK is £613, 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 512 578 679
Rank change year-on-year +66 +101 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform 8 4 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.009% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.010% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 29
10th Percentile £571 - £501
25th Percentile £594 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £728 - £738
90th Percentile £745 - £883
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 - £650
% change year-on-year - - -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £88.00 -

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%

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform in the UK

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform.

Daily rate trend for Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform in the UK

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform in the UK

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
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 Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform 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 +61 8 £613 -5.77% 3
London +42 7 £600 -7.69% 3
UK excluding London +63 1 £725 - 1
North of England - 1 £725 -
Work from Home - 1 £575 -
Yorkshire - 1 £725 -

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform 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 Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (75.00%) Banking
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Scala
4 4 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) C#
5 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
5 3 (37.50%) Go
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) SOLID
5 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (37.50%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (25.00%) Evolutionary Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) gRPC
6 2 (25.00%) BigQuery

Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) OLTP
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (25.00%) gRPC
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) Pyramid
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Avro
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (37.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
1 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
1 3 (37.50%) Observability
1 3 (37.50%) SOLID
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Evolutionary Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Go
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Google