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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 51 94
Rank change year-on-year -72 +43 +13
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,616 3,504 2,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 5.92% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.86% 15.36% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,336 1,261
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,066 £64,828 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.72% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%

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 23,568 22,818 28,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.90% 38.57% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17,428 13,622 19,487
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,348 £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 19 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 19 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 -57 505 £67,500 +3.85% 113
Scotland -58 289 £69,500 +15.83% 39
South West -17 281 £70,000 +7.69% 53
North West -69 255 £67,500 +3.85% 59
South East -102 216 £61,000 -12.86% 151
Yorkshire -28 198 £67,082 -0.62% 44
Midlands -95 193 £65,000 +18.18% 46
West Midlands -96 123 £74,000 +25.42% 31
East Midlands -55 70 £55,000 - 15
East of England -76 67 £55,000 -8.33% 22
North East +5 52 £71,250 +29.55% 10
Wales -34 43 £57,500 +5.50% 15
Northern Ireland -22 16 £90,000 +71.43% 21
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 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 53 (3.28%) Apache
3 46 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.92%) Confluence
5 29 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.11%) WebSphere
8 17 (1.05%) Captiva
8 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
8 17 (1.05%) FileNet
8 17 (1.05%) IIS
9 12 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.62%) nginx
10 10 (0.62%) SAS
11 7 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
11 7 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.25%) Luigi
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) Skype for Business
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 1,118 (69.18%) AWS
2 1,090 (67.45%) Azure
3 226 (13.99%) SaaS
4 158 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
5 136 (8.42%) GitHub
6 119 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
8 70 (4.33%) Power Platform
9 61 (3.77%) Serverless
10 58 (3.59%) PaaS
11 48 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (2.85%) OpenShift
13 45 (2.78%) Amazon S3
13 45 (2.78%) Snowflake
14 44 (2.72%) IaaS
15 39 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.98%) Slack
17 31 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
18 29 (1.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.75%) Firewall
2 56 (3.47%) WAN
3 52 (3.22%) VPN
4 30 (1.86%) LAN
4 30 (1.86%) SD-WAN
5 27 (1.67%) AMQP
6 25 (1.55%) SAN
7 23 (1.42%) DNS
8 19 (1.18%) Network Security
9 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
10 16 (0.99%) DHCP
11 15 (0.93%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.93%) VoIP
12 13 (0.80%) VLAN
12 13 (0.80%) Wireless
13 12 (0.74%) BGP
13 12 (0.74%) iSCSI
13 12 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
14 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (27.17%) BigQuery
2 371 (22.96%) Looker
3 272 (16.83%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (7.18%) Data Lake
5 110 (6.81%) Big Data
6 107 (6.62%) SQL Server
7 81 (5.01%) MySQL
8 80 (4.95%) NoSQL
9 67 (4.15%) Hadoop
9 67 (4.15%) Power BI
10 63 (3.90%) Relational Database
11 55 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
12 53 (3.28%) Tableau
13 47 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
15 34 (2.10%) Redis
16 30 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
18 23 (1.42%) Scylla
19 20 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 144 (8.91%) Git
2 113 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 57 (3.53%) JIRA
4 44 (2.72%) Selenium
5 37 (2.29%) GitLab
6 29 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
8 24 (1.49%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.05%) Spinnaker
10 14 (0.87%) 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%) PHPUnit
16 5 (0.31%) webpack
17 4 (0.25%) Jasmine
17 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 434 (26.86%) Finance
2 397 (24.57%) Analytical Skills
3 294 (18.19%) Social Skills
4 229 (14.17%) Banking
5 145 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 122 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
7 107 (6.62%) Law
8 75 (4.64%) Retail
9 72 (4.46%) Billing
10 69 (4.27%) Legal
11 61 (3.77%) Marketing
12 32 (1.98%) Aerospace
13 25 (1.55%) Public Sector
14 18 (1.11%) Games
14 18 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 318 (19.68%) Architect
2 288 (17.82%) Data Engineer
3 286 (17.70%) Software Engineer
4 273 (16.89%) Senior
5 186 (11.51%) Principal Engineer
6 178 (11.01%) Lead
7 162 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
8 158 (9.78%) Principal Data Engineer
9 126 (7.80%) Developer
10 112 (6.93%) Data Architect
11 100 (6.19%) Data Manager
12 99 (6.13%) Cloud Architect
13 92 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
14 85 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
15 79 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
16 74 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
17 66 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
18 60 (3.71%) Java Engineer
19 57 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
20 51 (3.16%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (10.40%) React
2 109 (6.75%) AngularJS
3 92 (5.69%) Kafka
3 92 (5.69%) Spring
4 83 (5.14%) Node.js
5 74 (4.58%) REST
5 74 (4.58%) Spring Boot
6 63 (3.90%) CSS
7 59 (3.65%) GraphQL
7 59 (3.65%) HTML
8 57 (3.53%) RESTful
9 51 (3.16%) .NET
10 46 (2.85%) PySpark
11 34 (2.10%) gRPC
12 33 (2.04%) Vue
13 32 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
14 28 (1.73%) jQuery
14 28 (1.73%) OpenAPI
14 28 (1.73%) Swagger
15 27 (1.67%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 276 (17.08%) Public Cloud
2 260 (16.09%) Self-Motivation
3 126 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 116 (7.18%) Cloud Native
5 102 (6.31%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.33%) PKI
7 59 (3.65%) Onboarding
8 43 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 41 (2.54%) Private Cloud
10 38 (2.35%) Data Centre
11 36 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (1.55%) Mainframe
15 21 (1.30%) Blockchain
16 20 (1.24%) IoT
17 19 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
18 18 (1.11%) Replication
19 17 (1.05%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 195 (12.07%) Linux
2 150 (9.28%) Windows
3 72 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 55 (3.40%) Unix
5 40 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 37 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (2.10%) Debian
8 28 (1.73%) CentOS
9 17 (1.05%) Android
10 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.56%) Windows 10
11 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.43%) Solaris
14 6 (0.37%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.12%) VMS
16 2 (0.12%) Windows Vista
17 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (48.82%) Agile
2 547 (33.85%) DevOps
3 545 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
4 446 (27.60%) Mentoring
5 444 (27.48%) Data Engineering
6 363 (22.46%) Platform Engineering
7 357 (22.09%) Software Engineering
8 322 (19.93%) CI/CD
9 260 (16.09%) ETL
10 258 (15.97%) Data Science
11 238 (14.73%) Data Modelling
12 234 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
13 197 (12.19%) Change Management
14 196 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 193 (11.94%) Project Management
16 180 (11.14%) Analytics
17 176 (10.89%) Microservices
18 170 (10.52%) Roadmaps
19 168 (10.40%) Containerisation
20 158 (9.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 393 (24.32%) Python
2 336 (20.79%) SQL
3 314 (19.43%) Java
4 194 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 91 (5.63%) Go
5 91 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 73 (4.52%) C#
7 61 (3.77%) Bash
8 53 (3.28%) PHP
9 51 (3.16%) Scala
10 48 (2.97%) PowerShell
11 25 (1.55%) Groovy
12 24 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.99%) R
14 15 (0.93%) C++
15 10 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.43%) Ruby
17 6 (0.37%) Bicep
18 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 138 (8.54%) Degree
2 88 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 63 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 52 (3.22%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.66%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (1.73%) CCNA
8 26 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.74%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.68%) CCNP
12 11 (0.68%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.68%) MCSE
13 10 (0.62%) CISSP
14 9 (0.56%) CISM
14 9 (0.56%) MCITP
15 8 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (16.83%) GDPR
2 136 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 113 (6.99%) QA
4 16 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.87%) SLA
6 11 (0.68%) NIST
7 8 (0.50%) PSD2
8 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.19%) GRC
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
10 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.12%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.062%) Basel III
12 1 (0.062%) PMO
12 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 220 (13.61%) Docker
2 98 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 55 (3.40%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.11%) XenApp
6 14 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.80%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.43%) vSphere
10 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.062%) KVM
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 292 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 251 (15.53%) Terraform
3 118 (7.30%) Ansible
4 57 (3.53%) Puppet
5 47 (2.91%) Progress Chef
6 29 (1.79%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.42%) Grafana
8 19 (1.18%) ZABBIX
9 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.87%) Nagios
10 14 (0.87%) SCCM
11 13 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 13 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.74%) VxRail
13 8 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
14 7 (0.43%) WSUS
15 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.37%) Istio
15 6 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 878 (54.33%) Google
2 253 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 123 (7.61%) VMware
4 88 (5.45%) Oracle
5 69 (4.27%) IBM
6 68 (4.21%) Cisco
7 49 (3.03%) Dell
7 49 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 41 (2.54%) Alteryx
9 33 (2.04%) Citrix
10 31 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 30 (1.86%) Databricks
12 27 (1.67%) SaltStack
13 26 (1.61%) SAP
14 25 (1.55%) NetApp
15 19 (1.18%) Fortinet
16 18 (1.11%) Teradata
17 17 (1.05%) HP
17 17 (1.05%) Kofax
17 17 (1.05%) Pega