GCP DevOps Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 338 416
Rank change year-on-year +38 +78 +117
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 4 7 61
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.046% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.049% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 48
10th Percentile £345 £429 £501
25th Percentile £375 £481 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -30.36% -8.20%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £747
90th Percentile £555 £628 £775
UK median daily rate £633 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +26.50% -25.93% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £56.25 -

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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

GCP DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

GCP DevOps
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 DevOps.

GCP DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GCP DevOps over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GCP DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP DevOps 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 DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) VMS
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Firebase
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering

GCP DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Firebase
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus