GCP Engineer Contracts in England

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in England is £500 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 466 429 541
Rank change year-on-year -37 +112 -92
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 77 219 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.49% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 177 176
10th Percentile £400 £405 £519
25th Percentile £463 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £800
90th Percentile £708 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.61% - -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP 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 Engineer 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 -31 66 £500 -23.08% 5
South East +15 3 £400 -20.00%
North of England +17 1 £500 -9.09% 1
South West +9 1 - -
North West +8 1 £500 - 1
East of England -4 1 £485 -23.02%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
GCP Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, GCP 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (76.62%) GCP
2 41 (53.25%) Python
3 36 (46.75%) Google
4 35 (45.45%) Terraform
5 30 (38.96%) BigQuery
6 29 (37.66%) Kubernetes
7 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
8 26 (33.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (29.87%) DevOps
10 19 (24.68%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (19.48%) ETL
11 15 (19.48%) Java
11 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
11 15 (19.48%) Data Science
12 14 (18.18%) Machine Learning
12 14 (18.18%) SQL
13 13 (16.88%) Degree
13 13 (16.88%) DevSecOps
13 13 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
13 13 (16.88%) Analytics
14 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
14 12 (15.58%) Bash
15 11 (14.29%) GitHub
15 11 (14.29%) Finance
15 11 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 10 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
16 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
17 9 (11.69%) Docker
17 9 (11.69%) Platform Engineering

GCP 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 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) Apache
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 59 (76.62%) GCP
2 11 (14.29%) GitHub
2 11 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (11.69%) Vertex AI
4 5 (6.49%) Azure
4 5 (6.49%) Cloud Run
4 5 (6.49%) Google Compute Engine
5 4 (5.19%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.19%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (3.90%) AWS
6 3 (3.90%) PaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Serverless
7 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.60%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.30%) Anthos
8 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.30%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.30%) Datadog
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (38.96%) BigQuery
2 8 (10.39%) Big Data
2 8 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.49%) Bigtable
4 3 (3.90%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) HBase
6 1 (1.30%) MySQL
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) GitLab
3 7 (9.09%) Git
4 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.60%) JIRA
4 2 (2.60%) JMeter
4 2 (2.60%) Postman
5 1 (1.30%) Gradle
5 1 (1.30%) Maven
5 1 (1.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.19%) Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.60%) Czech Language
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Marketing
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Kafka
2 4 (5.19%) PySpark
3 3 (3.90%) Node.js
4 2 (2.60%) Bazel
4 2 (2.60%) Middleware
4 2 (2.60%) React
4 2 (2.60%) REST
4 2 (2.60%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.30%) Django
5 1 (1.30%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.30%) gRPC
5 1 (1.30%) NumPy
5 1 (1.30%) OAuth
5 1 (1.30%) OpenID
5 1 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.30%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.30%) SAML
5 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.90%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Unix
2 3 (3.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 26 (33.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (29.87%) DevOps
4 19 (24.68%) Artificial Intelligence
5 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
5 15 (19.48%) Data Science
5 15 (19.48%) ETL
6 14 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 13 (16.88%) Analytics
7 13 (16.88%) DevSecOps
8 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (11.69%) Agile
10 9 (11.69%) Generative AI
10 9 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (10.39%) Cloud Security
11 8 (10.39%) Data Engineering
12 7 (9.09%) Microservices
12 7 (9.09%) Resource Management
12 7 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.25%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) Java
3 14 (18.18%) SQL
4 12 (15.58%) Bash
5 8 (10.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.79%) Scala
7 4 (5.19%) Go
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.60%) C++
9 2 (2.60%) Groovy
9 2 (2.60%) Ruby
9 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) CISSP
3 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.30%) zsh
Systems Management
1 35 (45.45%) Terraform
2 29 (37.66%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.09%) Istio
4 5 (6.49%) Ansible
5 4 (5.19%) Grafana
6 3 (3.90%) Argo
6 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.30%) Puppet
7 1 (1.30%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (46.75%) Google
2 2 (2.60%) Splunk
3 1 (1.30%) Informatica
3 1 (1.30%) New Relic
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle
3 1 (1.30%) Talend
3 1 (1.30%) webMethods