Google Compute Engine Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Compute Engine
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Compute Engine over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 342 475
Rank change year-on-year +43 +133 +141
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.020% 0.008%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.054% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £341 - £618
25th Percentile £467 £613 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -13.79% +11.54%
75th Percentile £563 £638 £844
90th Percentile - - £893
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £725
% change year-on-year +10.00% -31.03% +7.41%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Google Compute Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Google Compute Engine
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Google Compute Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Google Compute Engine trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Google Compute Engine.

Google Compute Engine daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Google Compute Engine over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Google Compute Engine daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Google Compute Engine
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 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 3 (60.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) GWT
1 3 (60.00%) JWT
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Servlets
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) API Design
2 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Fintech
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk