GCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 121 51 93
Rank change year-on-year -70 +42 +14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,621 3,460 2,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.28% 5.74% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.88% 15.04% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 917 1,338 1,277
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,066 £63,400 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +1.44% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £99,825 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +13.48%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,551 23,002 28,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 38.17% 40.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,426 13,785 19,710
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -55 505 £68,000 +4.62% 89
Scotland -54 296 £69,750 +15.77% 38
South West -17 284 £70,000 +11.11% 65
North West -69 252 £69,447 +11.12% 47
South East -104 206 £60,500 -13.57% 68
Yorkshire -21 201 £68,000 -0.75% 33
Midlands -92 199 £65,000 +18.18% 36
West Midlands -92 126 £73,000 +26.96% 23
East Midlands -53 74 £55,000 - 13
East of England -76 68 £55,000 -8.33% 29
North East +5 52 £71,250 +29.55% 9
Wales -25 44 £62,500 +21.83% 13
Northern Ireland -18 14 £90,000 +71.43% 17
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 89 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 52 (3.21%) Apache
3 46 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.91%) Confluence
5 29 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.42%) WebSphere
7 22 (1.36%) Captiva
7 22 (1.36%) FileNet
8 20 (1.23%) SharePoint
9 19 (1.17%) IIS
10 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.74%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.62%) nginx
12 10 (0.62%) SAS
13 6 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
13 6 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.25%) Luigi
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.062%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Simulink
2 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.12%) Sketch
2 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.062%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,111 (68.54%) AWS
2 1,096 (67.61%) Azure
3 229 (14.13%) SaaS
4 159 (9.81%) Microsoft 365
5 137 (8.45%) GitHub
6 120 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
8 72 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 61 (3.76%) PaaS
9 61 (3.76%) Serverless
10 46 (2.84%) IaaS
11 45 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (2.78%) OpenShift
11 45 (2.78%) Snowflake
12 44 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (1.97%) Slack
15 30 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (1.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.79%) Firewall
2 55 (3.39%) WAN
3 53 (3.27%) VPN
4 30 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 29 (1.79%) LAN
6 26 (1.60%) AMQP
6 26 (1.60%) DNS
7 25 (1.54%) SAN
8 19 (1.17%) DHCP
8 19 (1.17%) Network Security
9 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
10 16 (0.99%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.99%) VoIP
11 14 (0.86%) VLAN
12 13 (0.80%) BGP
12 13 (0.80%) Wireless
13 12 (0.74%) iSCSI
13 12 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
13 12 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (27.39%) BigQuery
2 370 (22.83%) Looker
3 278 (17.15%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (7.40%) Data Lake
5 110 (6.79%) Big Data
6 109 (6.72%) SQL Server
7 86 (5.31%) NoSQL
8 79 (4.87%) MySQL
9 70 (4.32%) Hadoop
10 67 (4.13%) Power BI
11 62 (3.82%) Relational Database
12 55 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (3.27%) Tableau
14 47 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
15 39 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
16 33 (2.04%) Redis
17 30 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
19 23 (1.42%) Scylla
20 20 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 140 (8.64%) Git
2 114 (7.03%) Jenkins
3 62 (3.82%) JIRA
4 40 (2.47%) Selenium
5 35 (2.16%) GitLab
6 34 (2.10%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
8 22 (1.36%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.05%) Spinnaker
10 15 (0.93%) JUnit
11 13 (0.80%) Maven
12 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.37%) Appium
15 6 (0.37%) JMeter
16 5 (0.31%) webpack
17 4 (0.25%) Jasmine
17 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
17 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 448 (27.64%) Finance
2 398 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
3 288 (17.77%) Social Skills
4 248 (15.30%) Banking
5 145 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (7.71%) Presentation Skills
7 107 (6.60%) Law
8 75 (4.63%) Retail
9 72 (4.44%) Billing
10 69 (4.26%) Legal
11 61 (3.76%) Marketing
12 32 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.42%) Public Sector
14 18 (1.11%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.05%) Games
15 17 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 320 (19.74%) Architect
2 289 (17.83%) Data Engineer
2 289 (17.83%) Software Engineer
3 268 (16.53%) Senior
4 187 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
5 179 (11.04%) Lead
6 162 (9.99%) Platform Engineer
7 158 (9.75%) Principal Data Engineer
8 124 (7.65%) Developer
9 110 (6.79%) Data Architect
10 100 (6.17%) Data Manager
11 98 (6.05%) Cloud Architect
12 90 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
13 85 (5.24%) Engineering Manager
14 78 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
15 77 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
16 66 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
17 61 (3.76%) Java Engineer
18 58 (3.58%) Java Software Engineer
19 53 (3.27%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (10.24%) React
2 108 (6.66%) AngularJS
3 94 (5.80%) Kafka
4 93 (5.74%) Spring
5 80 (4.94%) Node.js
6 73 (4.50%) REST
6 73 (4.50%) Spring Boot
7 60 (3.70%) CSS
7 60 (3.70%) GraphQL
8 57 (3.52%) HTML
9 54 (3.33%) .NET
9 54 (3.33%) RESTful
10 46 (2.84%) PySpark
11 33 (2.04%) gRPC
12 32 (1.97%) Vue
13 31 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (1.67%) OpenAPI
14 27 (1.67%) Swagger
15 26 (1.60%) jQuery
15 26 (1.60%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 275 (16.96%) Public Cloud
2 259 (15.98%) Self-Motivation
3 130 (8.02%) Product Ownership
4 115 (7.09%) Cloud Native
5 102 (6.29%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.32%) PKI
7 57 (3.52%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 46 (2.84%) Private Cloud
9 40 (2.47%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.79%) Mainframe
11 29 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.54%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.48%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.36%) DataPower
15 20 (1.23%) IoT
16 19 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
17 18 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 204 (12.58%) Linux
2 151 (9.32%) Windows
3 72 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 62 (3.82%) Unix
5 38 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 36 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 32 (1.97%) Debian
8 27 (1.67%) CentOS
9 17 (1.05%) Android
10 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.56%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.49%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.37%) Mesosphere
13 6 (0.37%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (49.48%) Agile
2 556 (34.30%) DevOps
3 545 (33.62%) Problem-Solving
4 448 (27.64%) Mentoring
5 447 (27.58%) Data Engineering
6 363 (22.39%) Platform Engineering
6 363 (22.39%) Software Engineering
7 322 (19.86%) CI/CD
8 265 (16.35%) Data Science
9 261 (16.10%) ETL
10 244 (15.05%) Data Modelling
11 236 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
12 202 (12.46%) Change Management
13 194 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 193 (11.91%) Project Management
15 184 (11.35%) Analytics
16 182 (11.23%) Microservices
17 176 (10.86%) Roadmaps
18 170 (10.49%) Containerisation
19 163 (10.06%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 393 (24.24%) Python
2 349 (21.53%) SQL
3 321 (19.80%) Java
4 187 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 92 (5.68%) TypeScript
6 90 (5.55%) Go
7 76 (4.69%) C#
8 62 (3.82%) Bash
9 52 (3.21%) Scala
10 51 (3.15%) PowerShell
11 48 (2.96%) PHP
12 25 (1.54%) Groovy
13 24 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.99%) C++
14 16 (0.99%) R
15 10 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.37%) Bicep
17 6 (0.37%) Ruby
18 5 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 135 (8.33%) Degree
2 86 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 60 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.02%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (1.73%) CCNA
8 25 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.74%) MCSE
11 12 (0.74%) OCP
11 12 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.68%) CCNP
13 10 (0.62%) CISSP
14 9 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (17.09%) GDPR
2 139 (8.57%) Data Quality
3 113 (6.97%) QA
4 16 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.86%) SLA
6 12 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.68%) NIST
8 8 (0.49%) PSD2
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.19%) GRC
11 3 (0.19%) NCSC
11 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.12%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.062%) Basel III
13 1 (0.062%) PMO
13 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 213 (13.14%) Docker
2 98 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (4.75%) Active Directory
4 55 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 17 (1.05%) XenApp
6 14 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.74%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.37%) vSphere
10 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.062%) KVM
Systems Management
1 289 (17.83%) Kubernetes
2 247 (15.24%) Terraform
3 117 (7.22%) Ansible
4 54 (3.33%) Puppet
5 45 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 30 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.42%) Grafana
8 19 (1.17%) ZABBIX
9 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.86%) Nagios
11 13 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.80%) SCCM
12 12 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.74%) VxRail
13 9 (0.56%) WSUS
14 8 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.37%) Istio
15 6 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 878 (54.16%) Google
2 254 (15.67%) Microsoft
3 123 (7.59%) VMware
4 94 (5.80%) Oracle
5 74 (4.57%) IBM
6 67 (4.13%) Cisco
7 49 (3.02%) Dell
8 48 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 41 (2.53%) Alteryx
10 36 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 33 (2.04%) Citrix
12 31 (1.91%) SAP
13 30 (1.85%) Databricks
14 26 (1.60%) SaltStack
15 25 (1.54%) NetApp
16 22 (1.36%) Kofax
16 22 (1.36%) Pega
17 19 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 18 (1.11%) SolarWinds
18 18 (1.11%) Teradata