GCP Architect Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 545 628
Rank change year-on-year +45 +83 -123
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 42 95 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 77 92
10th Percentile £487 £507 £589
25th Percentile £500 £623 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £675 £913 £803
90th Percentile £733 £985 £874
UK median daily rate £600 £725 £706
% change year-on-year -17.24% +2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £88.00 £70.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.40% - -
UK median hourly rate £88.00 £70.18 -
% change year-on-year +25.40% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in England

GCP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for GCP Architect in England

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Architect in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Architect in England

GCP Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +55 36 £600 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £513 -
North of England - 5 £513 -
East of England +9 1 - -
GCP Architect
UK

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, GCP Architect 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 job ads across the England region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 39 (92.86%) GCP
2 25 (59.52%) Google
3 17 (40.48%) Terraform
4 14 (33.33%) BigQuery
4 14 (33.33%) Python
5 13 (30.95%) Java
6 11 (26.19%) Machine Learning
6 11 (26.19%) Microservices
6 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (26.19%) Vertex AI
7 10 (23.81%) Relational Database
8 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (21.43%) Cloud Security
8 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven
9 8 (19.05%) Analytics
9 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
9 8 (19.05%) Degree
9 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
9 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
10 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
10 7 (16.67%) Data Science
10 7 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (11.90%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 39 (92.86%) GCP
2 11 (26.19%) Vertex AI
3 6 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
3 6 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
3 6 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (11.90%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (11.90%) GitHub
5 4 (9.52%) AWS
5 4 (9.52%) Azure
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.38%) dbt
6 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.38%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.38%) IaaS
6 1 (2.38%) PaaS
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
1 1 (2.38%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 10 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
4 4 (9.52%) Bigtable
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.38%) Big Data
6 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.38%) OLAP
6 1 (2.38%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Banking
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Retail
4 2 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) OAuth
1 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
3 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) IoT
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (26.19%) Machine Learning
1 11 (26.19%) Microservices
2 9 (21.43%) Cloud Security
2 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven
2 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (19.05%) Analytics
3 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 7 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (16.67%) Data Science
4 7 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
5 6 (14.29%) Resource Management
6 5 (11.90%) Workflow
7 4 (9.52%) Data Architecture
7 4 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) Go
4 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.38%) CISSP
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (40.48%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (59.52%) Google
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk