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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 33 90
Rank change year-on-year -54 +57 -10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 296 363 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.40% 7.84% 3.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.07% 22.13% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 128 147 115
10th Percentile £46,306 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,750 £60,249 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.77% -3.60% +0.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,119 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +13.48%

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 2,940 1,640 2,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.73% 35.41% 34.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 919 1,299
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,625 £71,250 £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 8 May 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 8 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
Edinburgh +2 144 £70,576 +8.58% 18
Glasgow -90 137 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Lanarkshire - 8 - - 4
Aberdeen - 4 £50,000 - 1
Dundee -11 2 - - 3
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 29 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.74%) Cloud Foundry
3 7 (2.36%) Captiva
3 7 (2.36%) FileNet
3 7 (2.36%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.69%) Confluence
5 4 (1.35%) Apache
5 4 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 218 (73.65%) AWS
2 198 (66.89%) Azure
3 57 (19.26%) SaaS
4 24 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 23 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (7.77%) Google Docs
5 23 (7.77%) Lucidchart
5 23 (7.77%) Miro
5 23 (7.77%) Slack
6 20 (6.76%) PaaS
7 18 (6.08%) IaaS
7 18 (6.08%) Power Platform
8 16 (5.41%) GitHub
9 15 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.73%) ChatGPT
11 8 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.35%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (1.35%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.74%) Kerberos
2 16 (5.41%) VPN
3 14 (4.73%) WAN
4 13 (4.39%) Firewall
4 13 (4.39%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.69%) Internet
6 3 (1.01%) BGP
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.57%) Data Lake
2 39 (13.18%) Qlik Sense
3 35 (11.82%) Big Data
4 30 (10.14%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (8.45%) Hadoop
6 24 (8.11%) Redis
7 23 (7.77%) Scylla
8 22 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (6.76%) BigQuery
10 19 (6.42%) SQL Server
11 18 (6.08%) Power BI
12 17 (5.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (5.74%) CockroachDB
12 17 (5.74%) Looker
13 7 (2.36%) NoSQL
14 6 (2.03%) Tableau
15 5 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
16 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
16 1 (0.34%) Apache Accumulo
16 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.77%) Git
3 19 (6.42%) JIRA
4 8 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.69%) Maven
5 5 (1.69%) Selenium
5 5 (1.69%) Spinnaker
5 5 (1.69%) webpack
6 4 (1.35%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (1.01%) JUnit
7 3 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 171 (57.77%) Finance
2 131 (44.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 98 (33.11%) Law
4 82 (27.70%) Banking
5 56 (18.92%) Social Skills
6 43 (14.53%) Legal
7 34 (11.49%) Marketing
8 26 (8.78%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.39%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.36%) Billing
12 6 (2.03%) Retail
13 5 (1.69%) Games
14 3 (1.01%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 149 (50.34%) Software Engineer
2 70 (23.65%) Senior
3 54 (18.24%) Data Engineer
3 54 (18.24%) Lead
4 48 (16.22%) Java Engineer
4 48 (16.22%) Java Software Engineer
5 45 (15.20%) Lead Software Engineer
5 45 (15.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (13.18%) Lead Java Engineer
7 36 (12.16%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (10.81%) Architect
9 31 (10.47%) Senior Java Engineer
9 31 (10.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 26 (8.78%) Principal Software Engineer
11 25 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (7.09%) Data Manager
13 18 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (6.08%) Azure Software Engineer
14 15 (5.07%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (19.26%) Kafka
2 40 (13.51%) GraphQL
3 39 (13.18%) PySpark
4 34 (11.49%) Spring
5 23 (7.77%) Spring Boot
6 21 (7.09%) REST
7 17 (5.74%) OAuth
8 16 (5.41%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.07%) React
10 14 (4.73%) .NET
10 14 (4.73%) RESTful
11 11 (3.72%) CSS
11 11 (3.72%) HTML
12 9 (3.04%) .NET Core
12 9 (3.04%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (2.70%) Vue
13 8 (2.70%) Web Services
14 5 (1.69%) Middleware
14 5 (1.69%) Redux
15 4 (1.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 99 (33.45%) Public Cloud
2 77 (26.01%) Algorithms
3 43 (14.53%) Onboarding
4 36 (12.16%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.77%) Data Structures
6 19 (6.42%) Private Cloud
7 14 (4.73%) PKI
7 14 (4.73%) Product Ownership
8 13 (4.39%) Data Centre
8 13 (4.39%) Replication
9 11 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.36%) DataPower
11 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.69%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.35%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.35%) Mainframe
13 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.01%) Mobile Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.81%) Linux
2 26 (8.78%) Windows
3 13 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.72%) Unix
5 4 (1.35%) Mesosphere
6 3 (1.01%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (66.89%) Agile
2 161 (54.39%) Software Engineering
3 106 (35.81%) SDLC
4 102 (34.46%) Operational Stability
5 96 (32.43%) Machine Learning
6 88 (29.73%) Artificial Intelligence
7 81 (27.36%) DevOps
8 80 (27.03%) CI/CD
9 77 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (20.61%) Community of Practice
11 58 (19.59%) Visualisation
12 55 (18.58%) Data Science
13 51 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (15.88%) Mentoring
16 45 (15.20%) Client Onboarding
17 44 (14.86%) OO
17 44 (14.86%) Risk Management
18 43 (14.53%) KYC
19 39 (13.18%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 153 (51.69%) Java
2 107 (36.15%) Python
3 58 (19.59%) SQL
4 30 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.46%) Go
5 28 (9.46%) Scala
6 27 (9.12%) Bash
7 14 (4.73%) C#
8 8 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.03%) Groovy
9 6 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.01%) C++
11 3 (1.01%) R
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) Ruby
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (5.41%) CCNA
1 16 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (3.72%) Degree
3 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.35%) OCP
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.01%) CCNP
7 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.41%) GDPR
2 13 (4.39%) QA
3 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Basel III
5 1 (0.34%) CRD IV
System Software
1 29 (9.80%) Docker
2 13 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (4.39%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (27.70%) Kubernetes
2 67 (22.64%) Terraform
3 31 (10.47%) Ansible
4 13 (4.39%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.38%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.69%) Puppet
7 4 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.68%) Istio
8 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.34%) Rancher
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 132 (44.59%) Google
2 39 (13.18%) Alteryx
3 24 (8.11%) Dell
4 18 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 17 (5.74%) VMware
6 16 (5.41%) IBM
6 16 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.39%) Cisco
7 13 (4.39%) NetApp
8 8 (2.70%) OpenAI
8 8 (2.70%) Oracle
9 7 (2.36%) Kofax
9 7 (2.36%) Pega
9 7 (2.36%) SAP
10 5 (1.69%) Databricks
11 1 (0.34%) Adobe
11 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.34%) StreamSets