GCP Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 339 403
Rank change year-on-year +44 +64 +94
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 7 10 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.065% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.070% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 56
10th Percentile - £457 £549
25th Percentile £250 £529 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £825
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -18.18% +13.79%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £950
90th Percentile £763 £728 £1,038
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £750
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,282 14,329 24,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 93.54% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,349 9,576 17,328
10th Percentile £338 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £769 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 577 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £18.22
25th Percentile £18.10 £23.34 £25.95
Median hourly rate £35.25 £44.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.89% -20.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

GCP Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured GCP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GCP Architect.

GCP Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GCP Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

GCP Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, GCP Architect 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (28.57%) NHS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) DataOps

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) DataOps
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
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