Google Compute Engine Contracts

Google Compute Engine
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Compute 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 507 565 715
Rank change year-on-year +58 +150 +112
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 13 17 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.039% 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.12% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 2
10th Percentile £461 - £618
25th Percentile £513 £400 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £725
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -31.03% +7.41%
75th Percentile £613 £534 £844
90th Percentile £663 £638 £893
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Compute 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 Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Compute Engine over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Compute Engine in the UK

Google Compute Engine
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Compute 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
England +47 7 £600 +20.00% 11
UK excluding London +67 6 £625 - 4
Work from Home +43 5 £550 -12.00% 9
North of England +21 4 £625 - 2
Yorkshire +10 4 £625 - 1
London +26 2 £263 -47.50% 8
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

Google Compute 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 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Google App Engine
3 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
3 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) RStudio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) GCP Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Development Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) GWT
1 3 (23.08%) JWT
1 3 (23.08%) OAuth
1 3 (23.08%) REST
1 3 (23.08%) Servlets
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) CMDB
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
3 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (30.77%) Data Science
3 4 (30.77%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) API Design
4 3 (23.08%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Fintech
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) OWASP
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Scala
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) NFS
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) PowerCLI
3 2 (15.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Databricks
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) VMware
5 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk