Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 706 943
Rank change year-on-year -149 +237 -303
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 41 270 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33 230 177
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,358 £53,750
25th Percentile £61,180 £50,625 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +8.47%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £106,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £59,526 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.96% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GCP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Engineer within the UK 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
England -100 40 £70,000 -3.59% 14
Work from Home -20 30 £69,724 +0.40% 9
UK excluding London -66 20 £69,447 +16.67% 3
London +5 17 £85,000 +6.25% 8
North of England +12 12 £69,447 +27.22% 2
North West +9 12 £69,447 +27.22% 1
South West -20 6 £77,500 +11.60%
South East +25 1 £80,000 +14.29% 1
West Midlands +23 1 £44,700 -39.39%
Midlands +3 1 £44,700 -39.39% 1

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, GCP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (92.68%) GCP
2 23 (56.10%) Python
3 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
4 19 (46.34%) Finance
5 18 (43.90%) AWS
6 17 (41.46%) Terraform
7 16 (39.02%) DevOps
7 16 (39.02%) Google
7 16 (39.02%) Linux
8 15 (36.59%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (34.15%) Agile
9 14 (34.15%) Banking
9 14 (34.15%) GitHub
10 13 (31.71%) Kafka
10 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
10 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
11 12 (29.27%) Firewall
12 10 (24.39%) BigQuery
12 10 (24.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (21.95%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (21.95%) Retail
13 9 (21.95%) Java
13 9 (21.95%) Bash
14 8 (19.51%) DNS
14 8 (19.51%) Data Management
14 8 (19.51%) Apache Spark
14 8 (19.51%) Go
14 8 (19.51%) Jenkins

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (19.51%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.76%) nginx
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 38 (92.68%) GCP
2 18 (43.90%) AWS
3 14 (34.15%) GitHub
4 10 (24.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (14.63%) Azure
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.88%) Anthos
6 2 (4.88%) Apigee
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) Datadog
6 2 (4.88%) Kong
6 2 (4.88%) Stackdriver
7 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) Firewall
2 8 (19.51%) DNS
3 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.88%) HTTP
4 2 (4.88%) HTTPS
4 2 (4.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.88%) Couchbase
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.88%) MySQL
2 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
1 8 (19.51%) Spinnaker
General
1 19 (46.34%) Finance
2 14 (34.15%) Banking
3 9 (21.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (21.95%) Retail
4 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Law
6 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) PySpark
2 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.44%) JWT
3 1 (2.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.20%) Blog
2 5 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) PropTech
5 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) DevOps
2 15 (36.59%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (34.15%) Agile
4 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (21.95%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (19.51%) Data Management
6 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (17.07%) Load Balancing
8 6 (14.63%) Fintech
9 5 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (12.20%) Data Engineering
9 5 (12.20%) Disruptive Innovation
9 5 (12.20%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.20%) Translating Business Requirements
10 4 (9.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) Bash
2 9 (21.95%) Java
3 8 (19.51%) Go
4 6 (14.63%) SQL
5 2 (4.88%) PHP
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) Lua
6 1 (2.44%) Ruby
6 1 (2.44%) Rust
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
2 17 (41.46%) Terraform
3 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.76%) Istio
5 3 (7.32%) Ansible
6 2 (4.88%) Grafana
6 2 (4.88%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Google
2 8 (19.51%) Confluent
3 2 (4.88%) F5
3 2 (4.88%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (4.88%) New Relic
3 2 (4.88%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Brio