Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -59 +13 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,041 7,030 11,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.01% 7.14% 7.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.55% 16.59% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,965 3,436 4,407
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,809 £58,664 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £103,750 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 2,596 £80,000 - 845
UK excluding London -74 1,613 £65,000 - 554
Work from Home -32 1,326 £77,500 - 468
London -18 1,282 £95,000 +5.56% 558
North of England -53 508 £67,500 +3.85% 114
Scotland -55 281 £69,500 +15.83% 46
South West -22 279 £70,000 +7.69% 48
North West -72 257 £67,500 +3.85% 61
South East -93 217 £60,500 -13.57% 263
Yorkshire -29 200 £65,066 -3.61% 41
Midlands -101 193 £65,000 +18.18% 32
West Midlands -93 123 £74,000 +29.26% 18
East Midlands -54 70 £55,000 - 14
East of England -69 68 £55,000 -8.33% 18
North East +1 51 £75,000 +36.36% 12
Wales -29 44 £57,500 +11.65% 17
Northern Ireland -20 17 £90,000 +71.43% 20
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1

GCP
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
1 363 (11.94%) Apache Airflow
2 352 (11.58%) Apache
3 179 (5.89%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 47 (1.55%) Confluence
6 31 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.72%) nginx
8 19 (0.62%) IIS
9 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
10 16 (0.53%) WebSphere
11 15 (0.49%) Captiva
11 15 (0.49%) FileNet
12 14 (0.46%) SAS
13 13 (0.43%) OpenStack
13 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
13 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
14 9 (0.30%) Luigi
15 6 (0.20%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.20%) WordPress
16 3 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.066%) Sketch
7 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.099%) Magento
3 1 (0.033%) HFM
3 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.033%) SAP FI-GL
3 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,316 (76.16%) AWS
2 2,063 (67.84%) Azure
3 296 (9.73%) SaaS
4 215 (7.07%) GitHub
5 202 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
6 191 (6.28%) dbt
6 191 (6.28%) Snowflake
7 162 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 134 (4.41%) Power Platform
9 128 (4.21%) PaaS
10 126 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
11 102 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 99 (3.26%) Serverless
13 87 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
14 83 (2.73%) IaaS
15 63 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
16 62 (2.04%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
18 51 (1.68%) OpenShift
19 41 (1.35%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 172 (5.66%) Firewall
2 73 (2.40%) WAN
3 71 (2.33%) DNS
4 64 (2.10%) VPN
5 48 (1.58%) LAN
6 41 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 34 (1.12%) AMQP
9 30 (0.99%) SAN
10 29 (0.95%) Network Security
11 21 (0.69%) Internet
12 18 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.53%) DHCP
15 15 (0.49%) VoIP
16 14 (0.46%) VLAN
16 14 (0.46%) Wireless
17 13 (0.43%) BGP
17 13 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (18.94%) BigQuery
2 420 (13.81%) Looker
3 356 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
4 268 (8.81%) Data Lake
5 263 (8.65%) Apache Ignite
6 179 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
7 160 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
8 155 (5.10%) Big Data
9 149 (4.90%) SQL Server
10 146 (4.80%) NoSQL
11 143 (4.70%) Dremio
12 140 (4.60%) Apache Arrow
13 121 (3.98%) Power BI
14 119 (3.91%) Hadoop
15 108 (3.55%) MySQL
16 104 (3.42%) Relational Database
17 94 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
18 82 (2.70%) Tableau
19 58 (1.91%) MongoDB
20 51 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 228 (7.50%) Git
2 226 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 94 (3.09%) JIRA
4 86 (2.83%) Cypress.io
5 81 (2.66%) GitLab
6 48 (1.58%) CircleCI
6 48 (1.58%) Selenium
7 27 (0.89%) Spinnaker
8 26 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
9 25 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.76%) IBM UrbanCode
11 21 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 17 (0.56%) JUnit
13 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 16 (0.53%) Terragrunt
14 13 (0.43%) Maven
15 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (0.36%) webpack
16 8 (0.26%) JMeter
16 8 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 1,019 (33.51%) Finance
2 580 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 569 (18.71%) Banking
4 551 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
5 413 (13.58%) Front Office
6 278 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (5.49%) Law
7 167 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
8 147 (4.83%) Retail
9 133 (4.37%) Investment Banking
10 104 (3.42%) Legal
11 98 (3.22%) Marketing
12 93 (3.06%) Public Sector
13 73 (2.40%) Billing
14 49 (1.61%) Back Office
15 43 (1.41%) Retail Banking
16 38 (1.25%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.12%) Telecoms
18 25 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 657 (21.60%) Software Engineer
2 614 (20.19%) Senior
3 591 (19.43%) Architect
4 574 (18.88%) Developer
5 439 (14.44%) Data Engineer
6 333 (10.95%) Lead
7 302 (9.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 215 (7.07%) Principal Engineer
9 214 (7.04%) Python Developer
10 202 (6.64%) Platform Engineer
11 198 (6.51%) Python Engineer
12 183 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
13 182 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
13 182 (5.98%) Principal Data Engineer
14 174 (5.72%) Data Architect
15 165 (5.43%) Python Software Engineer
16 164 (5.39%) Cloud Architect
17 151 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
18 137 (4.51%) Senior Developer
19 136 (4.47%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 515 (16.94%) React
2 310 (10.19%) gRPC
3 267 (8.78%) Protocol Buffers
4 256 (8.42%) Redux
5 242 (7.96%) AngularJS
6 215 (7.07%) Node.js
7 199 (6.54%) .NET
8 177 (5.82%) Kafka
9 176 (5.79%) Pandas
10 153 (5.03%) Material-UI
11 148 (4.87%) NumPy
12 146 (4.80%) Vue
13 138 (4.54%) SciPy
14 133 (4.37%) REST
15 121 (3.98%) Spring
16 92 (3.03%) GraphQL
17 91 (2.99%) CSS
18 87 (2.86%) PySpark
19 84 (2.76%) HTML
19 84 (2.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 410 (13.48%) Fixed Income
2 345 (11.34%) Public Cloud
3 334 (10.98%) Hedge funds
4 310 (10.19%) Equities
5 295 (9.70%) Self-Motivation
6 246 (8.09%) Derivative
7 213 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 205 (6.74%) Cloud Native
9 158 (5.20%) Product Ownership
10 132 (4.34%) Algorithms
11 111 (3.65%) PKI
12 92 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.83%) Onboarding
14 84 (2.76%) Management Information System
15 67 (2.20%) Data Structures
16 64 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
17 53 (1.74%) Data Centre
18 46 (1.51%) Mobile App
19 44 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
19 44 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 299 (9.83%) Linux
2 225 (7.40%) Windows
3 85 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.07%) Unix
5 50 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 43 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 39 (1.28%) CentOS
8 36 (1.18%) Debian
9 30 (0.99%) Android
10 23 (0.76%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 13 (0.43%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.26%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.23%) VMS
16 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
17 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,544 (50.77%) Agile
2 988 (32.49%) Software Engineering
3 857 (28.18%) DevOps
4 782 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
5 610 (20.06%) Mentoring
6 602 (19.80%) CI/CD
7 565 (18.58%) Data Engineering
8 484 (15.92%) Asset Management
9 439 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
10 413 (13.58%) ETL
11 401 (13.19%) Analytics
12 397 (13.05%) Machine Learning
13 379 (12.46%) Data Science
14 371 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 361 (11.87%) Data Modelling
16 353 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
17 348 (11.44%) Investment Management
18 345 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
19 322 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
20 296 (9.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,206 (39.66%) Python
2 675 (22.20%) Java
3 673 (22.13%) SQL
4 567 (18.65%) JavaScript
5 512 (16.84%) TypeScript
6 232 (7.63%) C#
7 163 (5.36%) Go
8 137 (4.51%) Scala
9 110 (3.62%) Bash
10 83 (2.73%) PowerShell
11 75 (2.47%) R
12 72 (2.37%) Kotlin
13 63 (2.07%) PHP
14 48 (1.58%) Ruby
15 42 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 28 (0.92%) Groovy
17 26 (0.85%) T-SQL
18 20 (0.66%) C++
19 17 (0.56%) Perl
20 15 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 355 (11.67%) Degree
2 182 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 169 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 138 (4.54%) SC Cleared
5 121 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 73 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 71 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 69 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.51%) CISSP
12 33 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (1.05%) CCNA
14 31 (1.02%) CISM
15 26 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.66%) GIAC
17 18 (0.59%) PhD
18 17 (0.56%) DBS Check
18 17 (0.56%) MCSE
19 16 (0.53%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (10.46%) GDPR
2 202 (6.64%) Data Quality
3 193 (6.35%) QA
4 49 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.22%) NIST
6 36 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.66%) SLA
9 16 (0.53%) COBIT
10 12 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.26%) NCSC
11 8 (0.26%) PSD2
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.20%) WCAG
14 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.099%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.099%) GRC
15 3 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 418 (13.75%) Docker
2 131 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 66 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.79%) XenApp
7 19 (0.62%) XenDesktop
8 15 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.33%) KVM
11 9 (0.30%) vSphere
12 8 (0.26%) HDFS
13 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.066%) Varnish
16 1 (0.033%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 540 (17.76%) Kubernetes
2 508 (16.71%) Terraform
3 225 (7.40%) Ansible
4 85 (2.80%) Puppet
5 55 (1.81%) Progress Chef
6 54 (1.78%) Grafana
7 45 (1.48%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.82%) Nagios
9 24 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (0.72%) ZABBIX
11 21 (0.69%) SCCM
12 18 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 14 (0.46%) Istio
14 12 (0.39%) Graphite
14 12 (0.39%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.39%) VxRail
15 10 (0.33%) Packer
16 9 (0.30%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,356 (44.59%) Google
2 431 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 157 (5.16%) VMware
4 122 (4.01%) Databricks
5 119 (3.91%) Oracle
6 99 (3.26%) Cisco
7 74 (2.43%) IBM
8 63 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 58 (1.91%) Red Hat
10 53 (1.74%) Dell
11 42 (1.38%) Alteryx
12 39 (1.28%) Citrix
13 36 (1.18%) Bloomberg
13 36 (1.18%) SAP
14 28 (0.92%) SaltStack
15 26 (0.85%) HP
16 25 (0.82%) NetApp
17 23 (0.76%) Splunk
18 21 (0.69%) Fortinet
19 20 (0.66%) Teradata