GCP Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in Work from Home is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 457 550
Rank change year-on-year +122 +93 -124
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 11 14 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.055% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.057% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 45
10th Percentile £350 £457 £500
25th Percentile £497 £472 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £750
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +21.95%
75th Percentile £688 £664 £838
90th Percentile £726 £676 -
UK median daily rate £575 £573 £650
% change year-on-year +0.44% -11.92% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

GCP Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured GCP Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP Data Engineer.

GCP Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GCP Data Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

GCP Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, GCP Data 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) BigQuery
1 9 (81.82%) GCP
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) ETL
3 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (54.55%) Java
5 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
5 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) Big Data
6 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (36.36%) Google
6 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
7 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) SQL
7 3 (27.27%) Data Science
7 3 (27.27%) Cloud Spanner
7 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
7 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
7 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
7 3 (27.27%) Analytics
7 3 (27.27%) Bigtable
7 3 (27.27%) Ansible
7 3 (27.27%) Docker
7 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
7 3 (27.27%) Data Munging
8 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
8 2 (18.18%) DevOps

GCP Data Engineer 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Google App Engine
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) BigQuery
2 7 (63.64%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (36.36%) Big Data
4 3 (27.27%) Bigtable
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
6 1 (9.09%) Metadata
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Czech Language
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) gRPC
1 1 (9.09%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Data Munging
4 3 (27.27%) Data Science
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google