GCP Data Engineer Jobs

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform salary in the UK is £65,868 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 695 872 917
Rank change year-on-year +177 +45 +225
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 4 6 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.006% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 49
10th Percentile £50,611 £52,500 £53,500
25th Percentile £55,683 £56,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,868 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £76,511 £80,938 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,856 £84,375 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,507 £80,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -39.37% +15.20% -22.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,358 93,248 95,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,451 66,908 59,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GCP Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP Data Engineer.

Salary trend for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP Data Engineer in the UK

GCP Data Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +186 4 £65,868 -5.90% 1
Work from Home +168 3 £65,868 +19.76% 1
London +105 3 £83,230 +18.90% 1
UK excluding London +205 1 £48,507 -39.37%
South West - 1 £48,507 -

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, GCP Data Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Teradata
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Data Structures

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Flink
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Beam
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Domain Models
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Teradata
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Google