GCP Jobs in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 23 59
Rank change year-on-year -64 +36 +33
Permanent jobs citing GCP 257 796 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.64% 10.03% 5.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.74% 23.85% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 158 221 222
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,447 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.12% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,715 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £107,500 £91,125
England median annual salary £79,738 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.33% - +10.34%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,322 3,338 4,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.15% 42.07% 42.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,622 1,940 2,680
10th Percentile £29,025 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the North West

GCP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester -43 205 £69,447 +12.92% 44
Cheshire -42 23 £35,000 -63.16% 3
Merseyside -52 11 - - 2
Lancashire -44 10 £78,126 +42.05% 2
Cumbria - 7 - -
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 30 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 18 (7.00%) Apache
3 15 (5.84%) Confluence
4 13 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (4.67%) IIS
6 4 (1.56%) Captiva
6 4 (1.56%) FileNet
6 4 (1.56%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.78%) nginx
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.78%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 167 (64.98%) Azure
2 156 (60.70%) AWS
3 36 (14.01%) SaaS
4 32 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (11.67%) GitHub
6 20 (7.78%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 14 (5.45%) Serverless
9 13 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.89%) dbt
12 10 (3.89%) PaaS
13 9 (3.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (3.50%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.11%) Google Analytics
15 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.95%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.67%) Firewall
2 19 (7.39%) WAN
3 13 (5.06%) SD-WAN
4 12 (4.67%) DHCP
4 12 (4.67%) DNS
4 12 (4.67%) iSCSI
4 12 (4.67%) SAN
5 11 (4.28%) AMQP
6 7 (2.72%) LAN
6 7 (2.72%) Network Security
7 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.33%) Wireless
8 5 (1.95%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.95%) VPN
9 4 (1.56%) BGP
9 4 (1.56%) DMVPN
9 4 (1.56%) HTTP
9 4 (1.56%) IPsec
9 4 (1.56%) OSPF
9 4 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (24.12%) BigQuery
2 49 (19.07%) Looker
3 26 (10.12%) Big Data
4 22 (8.56%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (7.78%) Power BI
6 19 (7.39%) NoSQL
7 17 (6.61%) Hadoop
8 14 (5.45%) MySQL
8 14 (5.45%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.06%) Tableau
10 12 (4.67%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.67%) SQL Server
11 11 (4.28%) Cloudera CDH
12 9 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (2.72%) Metadata
14 6 (2.33%) DB2
15 5 (1.95%) Airbyte
15 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
17 2 (0.78%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 19 (7.39%) JIRA
2 18 (7.00%) Git
3 16 (6.23%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.67%) Spinnaker
5 9 (3.50%) GitLab
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.17%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.39%) Maven
8 1 (0.39%) PHPUnit
General
1 72 (28.02%) Finance
2 57 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 47 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (14.01%) Banking
5 22 (8.56%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (7.39%) Retail
7 11 (4.28%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.33%) Legal
9 5 (1.95%) Marketing
10 4 (1.56%) Publishing
11 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Automotive
13 1 (0.39%) Electronics
13 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (22.96%) Architect
2 51 (19.84%) Senior
3 47 (18.29%) Data Engineer
4 34 (13.23%) Platform Engineer
4 34 (13.23%) Software Engineer
5 29 (11.28%) Lead
5 29 (11.28%) Principal Data Engineer
5 29 (11.28%) Principal Engineer
6 26 (10.12%) Developer
7 20 (7.78%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (6.61%) Senior Developer
10 15 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (5.84%) Data Scientist
11 13 (5.06%) Data Architect
12 12 (4.67%) Infrastructure Manager
12 12 (4.67%) Senior Data Scientist
13 11 (4.28%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 11 (4.28%) GCP Engineer
14 10 (3.89%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.01%) React
2 22 (8.56%) Node.js
3 18 (7.00%) AngularJS
4 17 (6.61%) Kafka
5 16 (6.23%) REST
6 15 (5.84%) Spring
7 14 (5.45%) .NET
8 13 (5.06%) RESTful
9 12 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (4.67%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.28%) gRPC
10 11 (4.28%) Material-UI
10 11 (4.28%) OpenAPI
10 11 (4.28%) Swagger
11 10 (3.89%) CSS
12 9 (3.50%) Web Services
13 8 (3.11%) Laravel
14 7 (2.72%) .NET Framework
15 6 (2.33%) HTML
15 6 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.18%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (13.23%) Public Cloud
3 26 (10.12%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.17%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.84%) Mainframe
6 14 (5.45%) PKI
7 12 (4.67%) PMI
8 9 (3.50%) Blockchain
8 9 (3.50%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.11%) PropTech
10 7 (2.72%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.72%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (2.33%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.95%) IoT
12 5 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.56%) NFT
13 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.90%) Linux
2 19 (7.39%) Windows
3 13 (5.06%) Unix
4 11 (4.28%) CentOS
4 11 (4.28%) Debian
4 11 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.28%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.33%) Android
5 6 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (61.87%) Agile
2 80 (31.13%) Mentoring
3 66 (25.68%) DevOps
4 62 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (23.35%) Data Engineering
6 55 (21.40%) Data Science
6 55 (21.40%) Platform Engineering
7 53 (20.62%) Software Engineering
8 50 (19.46%) Data Pipeline
9 35 (13.62%) Project Management
10 34 (13.23%) Analytics
10 34 (13.23%) Change Management
11 33 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 32 (12.45%) CI/CD
13 31 (12.06%) Visualisation
14 30 (11.67%) Roadmaps
15 29 (11.28%) Data Management
15 29 (11.28%) DataOps
16 28 (10.89%) Data Governance
16 28 (10.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.52%) Python
2 65 (25.29%) SQL
3 45 (17.51%) Java
4 36 (14.01%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.61%) C#
5 17 (6.61%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.89%) Bash
6 10 (3.89%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.50%) PHP
8 6 (2.33%) Go
8 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.95%) Perl
9 5 (1.95%) R
10 4 (1.56%) Scala
11 3 (1.17%) Groovy
11 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Julia
13 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (11.28%) Degree
2 17 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.67%) PMI Certification
5 12 (4.67%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.89%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.33%) CCNA
9 5 (1.95%) OCP
9 5 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.78%) CEH
10 2 (0.78%) CISM
10 2 (0.78%) CISSP
10 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.34%) GDPR
2 20 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (11.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.23%) Docker
4 9 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 42 (16.34%) Terraform
3 24 (9.34%) Ansible
4 17 (6.61%) Puppet
5 12 (4.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (4.67%) Opsgenie
5 12 (4.67%) VxRail
5 12 (4.67%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.56%) Grafana
7 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 122 (47.47%) Google
2 45 (17.51%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.28%) VMware
4 17 (6.61%) Cisco
5 16 (6.23%) IBM
6 14 (5.45%) Oracle
7 13 (5.06%) Fortinet
7 13 (5.06%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.67%) Dell
8 12 (4.67%) NetApp
9 11 (4.28%) Red Hat
9 11 (4.28%) SaltStack
10 10 (3.89%) Teradata
11 7 (2.72%) Confluent
11 7 (2.72%) SAP
12 5 (1.95%) Citrix
13 4 (1.56%) Juniper
13 4 (1.56%) Kofax
13 4 (1.56%) Pega
13 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow