Google App Engine Contracts

Google App Engine (GAE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Google App Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google App Engine over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 570 712
Rank change year-on-year +54 +142 +134
Contract jobs citing Google App Engine 4 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.028% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.085% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £450 £548
25th Percentile - £513 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile - £638 £719
90th Percentile - £680 £843
UK excluding London median daily rate - £588 £599
% change year-on-year - -1.88% +0.63%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google App Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Google App Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google App Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google App Engine in the UK

Google App Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google App Engine.

Daily rate trend for Google App Engine in the UK

Google App Engine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google App Engine.

Hourly rate trend for Google App Engine in the UK

Google App Engine
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google App Engine 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
UK excluding London +61 1 - - 2
England +47 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Google App Engine
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 4 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Google Compute Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (75.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) ArchiMate
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) CQRS
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Packer
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google