GCP DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
England > West Midlands

The median DevOps Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in the West Midlands is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 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
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
England median daily rate £600 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +23.08% -22.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,624 1,781 2,006
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.38% 93.29% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 1,165 1,380
10th Percentile £235 £250 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £723 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 64 60
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.63 £14.09
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -6.65% +16.58%
75th Percentile £39.39 £32.60 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -47.05% +8.20% +65.66%

GCP DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

GCP DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

GCP DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP DevOps Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Birmingham - 1 £892 -
GCP DevOps Engineer
England

GCP DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 September 2025, GCP DevOps 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 across the West Midlands region featuring GCP DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices

GCP DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk