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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -57 +13 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,032 6,945 12,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.95% 7.13% 7.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.46% 16.50% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,948 3,394 4,432
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,750 £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 £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £120,000
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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 28 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 28 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 2,600 £80,000 - 669
UK excluding London -72 1,599 £65,000 - 334
Work from Home -31 1,321 £77,500 - 381
London -17 1,295 £95,000 +5.56% 392
North of England -57 510 £67,500 +3.85% 112
South West -26 272 £66,663 +2.56% 40
Scotland -63 269 £69,500 +15.83% 33
North West -71 256 £67,500 +3.85% 65
South East -96 221 £60,000 -14.29% 66
Yorkshire -28 201 £65,066 -4.33% 38
Midlands -97 191 £65,000 +15.04% 34
West Midlands -97 121 £73,000 +23.73% 20
East Midlands -60 70 £55,000 - 14
East of England -86 66 £55,000 -8.33% 19
North East +4 53 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Wales -33 46 £62,500 +21.36% 14
Northern Ireland -23 18 £65,000 +23.81% 19
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
1 375 (12.37%) Apache Airflow
2 364 (12.01%) Apache
3 175 (5.77%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 45 (1.48%) Confluence
6 31 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 20 (0.66%) nginx
8 19 (0.63%) IIS
9 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
10 15 (0.49%) SAS
11 13 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
11 13 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
12 9 (0.30%) Luigi
12 9 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.26%) Captiva
13 8 (0.26%) FileNet
14 5 (0.16%) WordPress
15 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 26 (0.86%) 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 2 (0.066%) 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 Payroll
3 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,322 (76.58%) AWS
2 2,047 (67.51%) Azure
3 285 (9.40%) SaaS
4 205 (6.76%) dbt
5 202 (6.66%) GitHub
6 201 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
7 199 (6.56%) Snowflake
8 162 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
9 130 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
10 128 (4.22%) Power Platform
11 124 (4.09%) PaaS
12 102 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 95 (3.13%) Serverless
14 84 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
15 78 (2.57%) IaaS
16 62 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
17 58 (1.91%) Amazon S3
18 54 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
19 52 (1.72%) OpenShift
20 40 (1.32%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 170 (5.61%) Firewall
2 75 (2.47%) WAN
3 68 (2.24%) DNS
4 64 (2.11%) VPN
5 50 (1.65%) LAN
6 39 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 34 (1.12%) AMQP
9 30 (0.99%) Network Security
9 30 (0.99%) SAN
10 21 (0.69%) Internet
11 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
11 17 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.53%) Wireless
13 15 (0.49%) DHCP
14 14 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
14 14 (0.46%) VoIP
15 13 (0.43%) BGP
15 13 (0.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 573 (18.90%) BigQuery
2 420 (13.85%) Looker
3 347 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
4 275 (9.07%) Apache Ignite
5 271 (8.94%) Data Lake
6 180 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
7 173 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
8 156 (5.15%) Dremio
9 153 (5.05%) Big Data
10 150 (4.95%) Apache Arrow
11 147 (4.85%) SQL Server
12 139 (4.58%) NoSQL
13 116 (3.83%) Hadoop
14 115 (3.79%) Power BI
15 107 (3.53%) MySQL
16 104 (3.43%) Relational Database
17 89 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
18 78 (2.57%) Tableau
19 59 (1.95%) MongoDB
20 51 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 223 (7.35%) Git
2 215 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.84%) Cypress.io
3 86 (2.84%) JIRA
4 80 (2.64%) GitLab
5 48 (1.58%) CircleCI
6 46 (1.52%) Selenium
7 26 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 24 (0.79%) Spinnaker
9 21 (0.69%) IBM UrbanCode
10 20 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.59%) JUnit
12 17 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
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 1,002 (33.05%) Finance
2 576 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 549 (18.11%) Banking
4 546 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
5 424 (13.98%) Front Office
6 273 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (5.47%) Law
7 166 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
8 145 (4.78%) Retail
9 139 (4.58%) Investment Banking
10 109 (3.59%) Legal
11 98 (3.23%) Marketing
12 93 (3.07%) Public Sector
13 73 (2.41%) Billing
14 51 (1.68%) Back Office
15 40 (1.32%) Retail Banking
16 38 (1.25%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 25 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 658 (21.70%) Software Engineer
2 610 (20.12%) Senior
3 593 (19.56%) Architect
4 579 (19.10%) Developer
5 431 (14.22%) Data Engineer
6 349 (11.51%) Lead
7 307 (10.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 216 (7.12%) Python Developer
9 213 (7.03%) Principal Engineer
10 204 (6.73%) Python Engineer
11 201 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
12 187 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
13 183 (6.04%) Principal Data Engineer
14 178 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
15 175 (5.77%) Data Architect
16 169 (5.57%) Python Software Engineer
17 165 (5.44%) Cloud Architect
18 155 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
19 136 (4.49%) React Developer
19 136 (4.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (17.08%) React
2 322 (10.62%) gRPC
3 279 (9.20%) Protocol Buffers
4 258 (8.51%) Redux
5 246 (8.11%) AngularJS
6 222 (7.32%) Node.js
7 197 (6.50%) .NET
8 189 (6.23%) Pandas
9 172 (5.67%) Kafka
10 160 (5.28%) NumPy
11 151 (4.98%) Material-UI
11 151 (4.98%) SciPy
12 150 (4.95%) Vue
13 131 (4.32%) REST
14 122 (4.02%) Spring
15 93 (3.07%) CSS
16 89 (2.94%) GraphQL
17 88 (2.90%) PySpark
18 86 (2.84%) HTML
19 85 (2.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 418 (13.79%) Fixed Income
2 342 (11.28%) Public Cloud
3 340 (11.21%) Hedge funds
4 316 (10.42%) Equities
5 298 (9.83%) Self-Motivation
6 252 (8.31%) Derivative
7 221 (7.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 205 (6.76%) Cloud Native
9 155 (5.11%) Product Ownership
10 129 (4.25%) Algorithms
11 109 (3.59%) PKI
12 92 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
13 84 (2.77%) Onboarding
14 82 (2.70%) Management Information System
15 64 (2.11%) Data Structures
15 64 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
16 54 (1.78%) Data Centre
17 47 (1.55%) Mobile App
18 45 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
19 33 (1.09%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 291 (9.60%) Linux
2 224 (7.39%) Windows
3 84 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 52 (1.72%) Unix
5 50 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 43 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 39 (1.29%) CentOS
8 37 (1.22%) Debian
9 29 (0.96%) Android
10 22 (0.73%) 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 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,540 (50.79%) Agile
2 995 (32.82%) Software Engineering
3 841 (27.74%) DevOps
4 785 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
5 622 (20.51%) Mentoring
6 594 (19.59%) CI/CD
7 563 (18.57%) Data Engineering
8 492 (16.23%) Asset Management
9 439 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
10 407 (13.42%) ETL
11 400 (13.19%) Analytics
12 393 (12.96%) Machine Learning
13 378 (12.47%) Data Science
14 366 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
15 356 (11.74%) Data Modelling
16 351 (11.58%) Investment Management
17 346 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
18 339 (11.18%) Artificial Intelligence
19 327 (10.78%) Full Stack Development
20 295 (9.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,211 (39.94%) Python
2 671 (22.13%) Java
3 658 (21.70%) SQL
4 575 (18.96%) JavaScript
5 521 (17.18%) TypeScript
6 228 (7.52%) C#
7 160 (5.28%) Go
8 138 (4.55%) Scala
9 105 (3.46%) Bash
10 83 (2.74%) PowerShell
11 75 (2.47%) Kotlin
11 75 (2.47%) R
12 63 (2.08%) PHP
13 46 (1.52%) Ruby
14 41 (1.35%) Shell Script
15 27 (0.89%) Groovy
16 24 (0.79%) T-SQL
17 21 (0.69%) C++
18 17 (0.56%) Perl
19 12 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 354 (11.68%) Degree
2 181 (5.97%) Security Cleared
3 173 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 137 (4.52%) SC Cleared
5 122 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 73 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 70 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 70 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 55 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (1.52%) CISSP
11 33 (1.09%) CCNA
11 33 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.02%) CISM
13 24 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (0.66%) GIAC
15 18 (0.59%) MCSE
16 16 (0.53%) CCNP
16 16 (0.53%) ISSMP
16 16 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (10.26%) GDPR
2 200 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 195 (6.43%) QA
4 49 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.22%) NIST
6 35 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.69%) SLA
9 16 (0.53%) COBIT
10 12 (0.40%) 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
1 419 (13.82%) Docker
2 129 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 65 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.79%) XenApp
7 19 (0.63%) 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 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.066%) Varnish
14 2 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 531 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 507 (16.72%) Terraform
3 224 (7.39%) Ansible
4 85 (2.80%) Puppet
5 56 (1.85%) Grafana
6 55 (1.81%) Progress Chef
7 46 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.82%) Nagios
9 23 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (0.73%) 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 (0.40%) Graphite
14 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.40%) VxRail
15 11 (0.36%) Packer
16 9 (0.30%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,354 (44.66%) Google
2 432 (14.25%) Microsoft
3 155 (5.11%) VMware
4 120 (3.96%) Databricks
5 110 (3.63%) Oracle
6 100 (3.30%) Cisco
7 66 (2.18%) IBM
8 58 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 57 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 50 (1.65%) Dell
11 42 (1.39%) Alteryx
12 39 (1.29%) Citrix
13 34 (1.12%) Bloomberg
14 28 (0.92%) SaltStack
14 28 (0.92%) SAP
15 26 (0.86%) HP
16 25 (0.82%) NetApp
17 23 (0.76%) Splunk
18 22 (0.73%) Fortinet
19 20 (0.66%) Teradata