GCP Architect Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 549 644
Rank change year-on-year +44 +95 -112
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 38 89 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 72 88
10th Percentile £477 £507 £582
25th Percentile £500 £595 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £710 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +1.43% -
75th Percentile £700 £913 £791
90th Percentile £738 £975 £854
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -14.81% -3.57% -
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 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
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% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 9 June 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 9 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 +45 32 £600 -16.67% 1
North of England +29 5 £513 -12.77%
Yorkshire +16 5 £513 -12.77%
East of England -3 1 - -
GCP Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 35 (92.11%) GCP
2 23 (60.53%) Google
3 15 (39.47%) Terraform
4 13 (34.21%) BigQuery
4 13 (34.21%) Java
4 13 (34.21%) Python
5 11 (28.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (28.95%) Machine Learning
5 11 (28.95%) Vertex AI
6 10 (26.32%) Relational Database
6 10 (26.32%) Microservices
6 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
7 8 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (21.05%) Degree
7 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
7 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven
7 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
8 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
8 7 (18.42%) Analytics
8 7 (18.42%) Security Monitoring
8 7 (18.42%) Data Science
8 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
9 6 (15.79%) Google Compute Engine
9 6 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (15.79%) Resource Management
9 6 (15.79%) Bash

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 (13.16%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 35 (92.11%) GCP
2 11 (28.95%) Vertex AI
3 6 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (15.79%) Google Compute Engine
4 5 (13.16%) Cloud Functions
4 5 (13.16%) GitHub
4 5 (13.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (10.53%) AWS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) dbt
6 1 (2.63%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.63%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
1 1 (2.63%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) BigQuery
2 10 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.16%) RDBMS
4 4 (10.53%) Bigtable
4 4 (10.53%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (2.63%) Big Data
5 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.63%) OLAP
5 1 (2.63%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Automotive
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) OAuth
1 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) Machine Learning
2 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (26.32%) Microservices
3 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
3 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven
3 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (18.42%) Analytics
4 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.42%) Data Science
4 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.42%) Security Monitoring
5 6 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (15.79%) Generative AI
5 6 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (15.79%) Resource Management
6 5 (13.16%) Workflow
7 4 (10.53%) Migration
7 4 (10.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Java
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) CISSP
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) Google
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.63%) VMware