GCP Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 377 393
Rank change year-on-year +67 +16 -88
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 27 90 239
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.35% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.37% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 73 165
10th Percentile £394 £463 £500
25th Percentile £481 £563 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -10.34% +17.89%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £800
90th Percentile £738 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £628 £675
% change year-on-year -16.33% -7.04% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 £66.00 -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.88% - -

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 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £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 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

GCP Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GCP Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP 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 Engineer.

GCP Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GCP Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

GCP Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GCP Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, GCP 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (74.07%) GCP
2 14 (51.85%) Python
3 11 (40.74%) Google
3 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
3 11 (40.74%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) BigQuery
4 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
5 8 (29.63%) Terraform
5 8 (29.63%) ETL
6 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (25.93%) Java
6 7 (25.93%) Docker
7 5 (18.52%) Ansible
7 5 (18.52%) GitHub
7 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) SQL
7 5 (18.52%) Agile
7 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
7 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
8 4 (14.81%) Big Data
8 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
8 4 (14.81%) Data Science
8 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (11.11%) Cloud Run
9 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
9 3 (11.11%) Cloud Spanner

GCP 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 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) GCP
2 5 (18.52%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Run
3 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) PaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) BigQuery
2 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.81%) Big Data
4 3 (11.11%) Bigtable
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.41%) Data Mining
5 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Gradle
2 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.41%) Czech Language
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Django
1 2 (7.41%) React
2 1 (3.70%) Bazel
2 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.70%) gRPC
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) NumPy
2 1 (3.70%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) ETL
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
4 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
5 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.81%) Data Science
6 3 (11.11%) Analytics
6 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Data Munging
6 3 (11.11%) Fintech
6 3 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) Scala
6 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) zsh
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (3.70%) Istio
4 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk
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