GCP Jobs in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 31 81
Rank change year-on-year -59 +50 -3
Permanent jobs citing GCP 287 386 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.27% 8.15% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.83% 22.91% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 123 158 121
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,487 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,706 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +4.51% -
75th Percentile £86,875 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +12.28%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,921 1,685 2,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.51% 35.57% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 948 1,287
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,338 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh -1 142 £70,576 +5.67% 21
Glasgow -95 131 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Lanarkshire - 8 - - 4
Aberdeen - 4 £50,000 - 2
Dundee -11 2 - - 2
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 28 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.92%) Cloud Foundry
3 7 (2.44%) Captiva
3 7 (2.44%) FileNet
3 7 (2.44%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.74%) Confluence
5 4 (1.39%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.39%) SAS
6 3 (1.05%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 210 (73.17%) AWS
2 193 (67.25%) Azure
3 56 (19.51%) SaaS
4 24 (8.36%) Amazon S3
5 23 (8.01%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (8.01%) Google Docs
5 23 (8.01%) Lucidchart
5 23 (8.01%) Miro
5 23 (8.01%) Slack
6 20 (6.97%) PaaS
7 18 (6.27%) IaaS
8 17 (5.92%) Power Platform
9 16 (5.57%) GitHub
10 15 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (4.88%) ChatGPT
12 13 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.39%) IBM Cloud
14 4 (1.39%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.92%) Kerberos
2 16 (5.57%) VPN
3 14 (4.88%) WAN
4 13 (4.53%) Firewall
4 13 (4.53%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.74%) Internet
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.07%) Data Lake
2 37 (12.89%) Qlik Sense
3 34 (11.85%) Big Data
4 30 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (8.71%) Hadoop
6 24 (8.36%) Redis
7 23 (8.01%) Scylla
8 22 (7.67%) BigQuery
8 22 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (5.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (5.92%) CockroachDB
9 17 (5.92%) Looker
9 17 (5.92%) Power BI
9 17 (5.92%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.44%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.09%) Tableau
12 4 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.35%) HBase
13 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (8.01%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.97%) Git
3 19 (6.62%) JIRA
4 8 (2.79%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.74%) Maven
5 5 (1.74%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.39%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.39%) Selenium
7 3 (1.05%) JUnit
7 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.70%) webpack
9 1 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 170 (59.23%) Finance
2 125 (43.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 95 (33.10%) Law
4 80 (27.87%) Banking
5 57 (19.86%) Social Skills
6 41 (14.29%) Legal
7 34 (11.85%) Marketing
8 26 (9.06%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.18%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.44%) Billing
12 6 (2.09%) Retail
13 5 (1.74%) Games
14 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.05%) Private Banking
15 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 148 (51.57%) Software Engineer
2 69 (24.04%) Senior
3 55 (19.16%) Lead
4 50 (17.42%) Data Engineer
5 47 (16.38%) Java Engineer
5 47 (16.38%) Java Software Engineer
5 47 (16.38%) Lead Software Engineer
6 45 (15.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 39 (13.59%) Lead Java Engineer
8 36 (12.54%) Principal Engineer
9 32 (11.15%) Architect
10 31 (10.80%) Senior Java Engineer
10 31 (10.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 26 (9.06%) Principal Software Engineer
12 25 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (7.32%) Data Manager
14 18 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (6.27%) Azure Software Engineer
15 15 (5.23%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (19.51%) Kafka
2 40 (13.94%) GraphQL
3 37 (12.89%) PySpark
4 32 (11.15%) Spring
5 22 (7.67%) Spring Boot
6 21 (7.32%) REST
7 17 (5.92%) OAuth
8 16 (5.57%) AngularJS
9 14 (4.88%) .NET
9 14 (4.88%) RESTful
10 12 (4.18%) React
11 11 (3.83%) CSS
11 11 (3.83%) HTML
12 9 (3.14%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (2.79%) Vue
13 8 (2.79%) Web Services
14 5 (1.74%) Middleware
15 4 (1.39%) JSON
15 4 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 96 (33.45%) Public Cloud
2 74 (25.78%) Algorithms
3 41 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 36 (12.54%) Cloud Native
5 23 (8.01%) Data Structures
6 19 (6.62%) Private Cloud
7 16 (5.57%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.88%) PKI
9 13 (4.53%) Data Centre
9 13 (4.53%) Replication
10 10 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.44%) DataPower
12 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.74%) Online Banking
13 4 (1.39%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.39%) Mainframe
14 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 2 (0.70%) Credit Risk
16 1 (0.35%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.15%) Linux
2 26 (9.06%) Windows
3 13 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.83%) Unix
5 4 (1.39%) Mesosphere
6 3 (1.05%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (67.94%) Agile
2 160 (55.75%) Software Engineering
3 103 (35.89%) SDLC
4 99 (34.49%) Operational Stability
5 93 (32.40%) Machine Learning
6 87 (30.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 80 (27.87%) DevOps
8 77 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
9 74 (25.78%) CI/CD
10 58 (20.21%) Community of Practice
11 56 (19.51%) Data Science
12 54 (18.82%) Visualisation
13 51 (17.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 49 (17.07%) Mentoring
15 46 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (14.98%) Client Onboarding
17 42 (14.63%) OO
17 42 (14.63%) Risk Management
18 41 (14.29%) KYC
19 39 (13.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 147 (51.22%) Java
2 103 (35.89%) Python
3 55 (19.16%) SQL
4 28 (9.76%) Go
4 28 (9.76%) Scala
5 27 (9.41%) Bash
5 27 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.18%) C#
7 8 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.09%) Groovy
9 4 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.05%) C++
10 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.70%) PHP
11 2 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (5.57%) CCNA
1 16 (5.57%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (3.83%) Degree
3 6 (2.09%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.39%) OCP
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.05%) CCNP
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.57%) GDPR
2 12 (4.18%) QA
3 6 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Basel III
5 1 (0.35%) CRD IV
System Software
1 28 (9.76%) Docker
2 13 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (4.53%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 69 (24.04%) Terraform
3 31 (10.80%) Ansible
4 13 (4.53%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.48%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.74%) Puppet
7 4 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.70%) Istio
8 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.35%) Rancher
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 129 (44.95%) Google
2 37 (12.89%) Alteryx
3 24 (8.36%) Dell
4 18 (6.27%) Microsoft
5 17 (5.92%) VMware
6 16 (5.57%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.23%) IBM
8 13 (4.53%) Cisco
8 13 (4.53%) NetApp
9 8 (2.79%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.79%) Oracle
10 7 (2.44%) Kofax
10 7 (2.44%) Pega
10 7 (2.44%) SAP
11 5 (1.74%) Databricks
12 1 (0.35%) Adobe
12 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.35%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.35%) StreamSets