Hybrid/Remote Stackdriver Contract Job Trends

Google Stackdriver
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Stackdriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 - 369
Rank change year-on-year - - +172
Contract jobs citing Stackdriver 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% - 0.029%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.092% - 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £669
25th Percentile - - £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £713
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.28%
75th Percentile £633 - £753
90th Percentile £744 - £766
UK median daily rate £485 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +12.90%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Stackdriver 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 4,365 4,510 6,521
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.91% 38.68% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,969 3,040 4,726
10th Percentile £325 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 47 80
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.47 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.38 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -24.10% +39.29%
75th Percentile £66.07 £64.63 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.67 £83.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%

Stackdriver
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stackdriver and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Stackdriver job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Stackdriver
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Stackdriver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Stackdriver

Stackdriver
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Stackdriver over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Stackdriver daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Stackdriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (50.00%) Hyperledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Fluent Bit
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) AIOps
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) MLOps
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Brown Bag Session
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) GitOps
4 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Demisto
4 1 (25.00%) Fluentd
4 1 (25.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Intel