GCP Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
UK > England

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 587 712
Rank change year-on-year +59 +125 -117
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 23 50 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.11% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.11% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 41 40
10th Percentile £368 £405 £496
25th Percentile £481 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £606
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.98% +1.04%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £725
90th Percentile £729 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £566 £650
% change year-on-year -2.87% -12.88% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.00 -

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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Data Engineer in England

GCP Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Data Engineer in England

GCP Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Data Engineer in England

GCP Data Engineer
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 Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +69 18 £575 -
North of England +20 1 £500 +9.89% 3
North West +18 1 £500 +9.89% 3
South East +11 1 £575 +15.00%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
GCP Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, GCP Data 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 job ads across the England region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (82.61%) GCP
2 17 (73.91%) Python
3 15 (65.22%) BigQuery
4 12 (52.17%) ETL
5 11 (47.83%) Java
5 11 (47.83%) Google
6 8 (34.78%) Agile
6 8 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (34.78%) Data Engineering
7 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (30.43%) SQL
8 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
9 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
9 5 (21.74%) Big Data
9 5 (21.74%) Analytics
10 4 (17.39%) Bigtable
10 4 (17.39%) GitHub
10 4 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
10 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
10 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
10 4 (17.39%) Cloud Run
10 4 (17.39%) Google Data Studio
10 4 (17.39%) Data Science
10 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (17.39%) PySpark
10 4 (17.39%) Git
10 4 (17.39%) Migration
10 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
10 4 (17.39%) Scala
10 4 (17.39%) Cloud Composer

GCP Data Engineer 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) GCP
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Composer
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Run
2 4 (17.39%) GitHub
2 4 (17.39%) Google Data Studio
3 3 (13.04%) Serverless
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Google App Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) BigQuery
2 8 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (21.74%) Big Data
4 4 (17.39%) Bigtable
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (13.04%) Spark SQL
6 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (4.35%) Flink
7 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (4.35%) HBase
7 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (4.35%) Power BI
7 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.35%) Sqoop
7 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
General
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Czech Language
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.35%) gRPC
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) ETL
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Data Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (17.39%) Data Science
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
7 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Data Munging
7 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
7 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
7 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.04%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Informatica
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Talend