GCP Architect Contracts

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 581 612
Rank change year-on-year +43 +31 -52
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 41 103 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 79 134
10th Percentile £487 £507 £577
25th Percentile £500 £573 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £688 £900 £786
90th Percentile £737 £975 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £750
% change year-on-year -2.65% -24.67% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £88.00 £70.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.40% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £70.18 -
% change year-on-year +25.40% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +48 40 £575 -20.14%
London +63 34 £600 -17.24%
Work from Home +66 10 £600 -27.27%
UK excluding London +41 7 £550 -2.65%
North of England +33 5 £513 -12.77%
Yorkshire +25 5 £513 -12.77%
East of England +3 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £715 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 38 (92.68%) GCP
2 26 (63.41%) Google
3 16 (39.02%) Terraform
4 15 (36.59%) BigQuery
5 13 (31.71%) Java
5 13 (31.71%) Python
6 12 (29.27%) Machine Learning
7 11 (26.83%) Microservices
7 11 (26.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.83%) Vertex AI
8 10 (24.39%) Relational Database
9 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
9 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven
9 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
10 8 (19.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (19.51%) Cloud Security
10 8 (19.51%) Degree
10 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
10 8 (19.51%) Analytics
11 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
11 7 (17.07%) Security Monitoring
11 7 (17.07%) Data Science
11 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (17.07%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (14.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 6 (14.63%) Generative AI
12 6 (14.63%) Google Compute Engine

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.20%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 38 (92.68%) GCP
2 11 (26.83%) Vertex AI
3 6 (14.63%) Google Compute Engine
4 5 (12.20%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (12.20%) Cloud Functions
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub
4 5 (12.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (9.76%) AWS
5 4 (9.76%) Azure
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.44%) dbt
6 1 (2.44%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.44%) IaaS
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Network Security
1 1 (2.44%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) BigQuery
2 10 (24.39%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (12.20%) RDBMS
4 4 (9.76%) Bigtable
4 4 (9.76%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (4.88%) Big Data
5 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.44%) OLAP
6 1 (2.44%) OLTP
6 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Banking
3 4 (9.76%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) OAuth
1 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (12.20%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) IoT
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Machine Learning
2 11 (26.83%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (26.83%) Microservices
3 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
3 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven
3 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (19.51%) Analytics
4 8 (19.51%) Cloud Security
4 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
5 7 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (17.07%) Data Science
5 7 (17.07%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.07%) Security Monitoring
6 6 (14.63%) Generative AI
6 6 (14.63%) Resource Management
7 5 (12.20%) Workflow
8 4 (9.76%) ETL
8 4 (9.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Java
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.44%) Go
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (19.51%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.44%) CISSP
2 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Terraform
2 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) Google
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity