GCP DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 369 472
Rank change year-on-year +57 +103 +33
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 10 30 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.17% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 90
10th Percentile £413 £425 £550
25th Percentile £417 £513 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £544 £663 £800
90th Percentile £565 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £463 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -26.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

GCP DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured GCP DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GCP DevOps.

GCP DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GCP DevOps over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

GCP DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, GCP DevOps 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring GCP DevOps in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 6 (60.00%) Terraform
4 5 (50.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (20.00%) Fintech
7 2 (20.00%) Argo
7 2 (20.00%) Microservices
7 2 (20.00%) Docker
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) YAML
7 2 (20.00%) AWS
7 2 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (20.00%) DNS
7 2 (20.00%) Google
8 1 (10.00%) Degree
8 1 (10.00%) JSON
8 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 1 (10.00%) QA
8 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
8 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
8 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
8 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
8 1 (10.00%) IPsec
8 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
8 1 (10.00%) Information Security

GCP DevOps Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (10.00%) Gunicorn
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (10.00%) Celery
2 1 (10.00%) Flask
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Fintech
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google