Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 45
Rank change year-on-year -59 +14 +9
Permanent jobs citing GCP 2,991 7,547 10,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.05% 7.21% 6.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.50% 16.73% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 3,647 4,534
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,150 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +12.28%
75th Percentile £102,500 £101,217 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £123,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,832 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.38% +2.45% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP 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 -56 2,541 £80,000 - 660
UK excluding London -72 1,613 £66,832 +4.38% 336
Work from Home -32 1,344 £77,500 - 382
London -22 1,222 £95,000 +8.57% 379
North of England -51 507 £69,447 +6.84% 88
Scotland -59 287 £70,000 +11.63% 41
South West -15 281 £70,000 +7.69% 67
North West -70 253 £69,447 +12.92% 56
Midlands -94 206 £65,000 +18.18% 28
Yorkshire -23 204 £68,000 +0.74% 25
South East -96 204 £60,000 -14.29% 62
West Midlands -87 132 £75,000 +31.58% 18
East Midlands -50 77 £57,500 +4.55% 10
East of England -76 68 £55,000 -15.38% 27
North East +6 50 £71,250 +29.55% 7
Wales -20 46 £62,500 +22.30% 15
Northern Ireland -15 13 £115,000 +119.05% 14
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 2

GCP
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
1 287 (9.60%) Apache Airflow
2 276 (9.23%) Apache
3 186 (6.22%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 48 (1.60%) Confluence
6 30 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.97%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.94%) Captiva
8 28 (0.94%) FileNet
9 22 (0.74%) nginx
10 20 (0.67%) IIS
11 17 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
12 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.40%) SAS
13 8 (0.27%) WordPress
14 7 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
14 7 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
15 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.10%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.067%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.067%) Sketch
7 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.13%) Magento
3 3 (0.10%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.067%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.033%) HFM
5 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.033%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,212 (73.96%) AWS
2 2,036 (68.07%) Azure
3 311 (10.40%) SaaS
4 224 (7.49%) GitHub
5 197 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
6 160 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
7 157 (5.25%) dbt
8 156 (5.22%) Power Platform
9 154 (5.15%) Snowflake
10 126 (4.21%) PaaS
11 119 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
12 104 (3.48%) Serverless
13 91 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
14 84 (2.81%) IaaS
15 81 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
16 68 (2.27%) Amazon S3
17 62 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
18 55 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
19 49 (1.64%) OpenShift
20 43 (1.44%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 168 (5.62%) Firewall
2 78 (2.61%) DNS
3 66 (2.21%) WAN
4 65 (2.17%) VPN
5 48 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 44 (1.47%) LAN
7 35 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 30 (1.00%) AMQP
8 30 (1.00%) SAN
9 26 (0.87%) Network Security
10 23 (0.77%) DHCP
11 22 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (0.67%) Internet
13 17 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (0.57%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.57%) VoIP
14 15 (0.50%) BGP
14 15 (0.50%) VLAN
15 14 (0.47%) Wireless
16 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (19.86%) BigQuery
2 424 (14.18%) Looker
3 367 (12.27%) Data Warehouse
4 246 (8.22%) Data Lake
5 205 (6.85%) Apache Ignite
6 167 (5.58%) NoSQL
7 158 (5.28%) Big Data
7 158 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
8 156 (5.22%) SQL Server
9 140 (4.68%) Power BI
10 131 (4.38%) Hadoop
11 127 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
12 125 (4.18%) MySQL
13 109 (3.64%) Apache Arrow
13 109 (3.64%) Dremio
14 108 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
15 106 (3.54%) Relational Database
16 92 (3.08%) Tableau
17 64 (2.14%) MongoDB
18 54 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 230 (7.69%) Git
2 225 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 101 (3.38%) JIRA
4 67 (2.24%) GitLab
5 64 (2.14%) Cypress.io
6 44 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 44 (1.47%) Selenium
7 41 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
8 25 (0.84%) IBM UrbanCode
8 25 (0.84%) Spinnaker
9 23 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.67%) Maven
11 19 (0.64%) JUnit
12 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.37%) webpack
15 10 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.30%) git-flow
16 9 (0.30%) JMeter
17 7 (0.23%) Appium
General
1 1,003 (33.53%) Finance
2 558 (18.66%) Banking
3 557 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 554 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 365 (12.20%) Front Office
6 259 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 164 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 156 (5.22%) Retail
9 152 (5.08%) Law
10 109 (3.64%) Investment Banking
11 99 (3.31%) Marketing
12 93 (3.11%) Legal
13 92 (3.08%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.41%) Billing
15 46 (1.54%) Back Office
16 36 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 36 (1.20%) Retail Banking
17 34 (1.14%) Financial Institution
18 31 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 619 (20.70%) Software Engineer
2 607 (20.29%) Senior
3 574 (19.19%) Architect
4 547 (18.29%) Developer
5 439 (14.68%) Data Engineer
6 315 (10.53%) Lead
7 266 (8.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 215 (7.19%) Principal Engineer
9 198 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
10 181 (6.05%) Principal Data Engineer
11 178 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 178 (5.95%) Python Developer
12 168 (5.62%) Data Architect
12 168 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
13 163 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
14 157 (5.25%) Python Engineer
15 151 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
16 139 (4.65%) Senior Developer
17 125 (4.18%) Python Software Engineer
18 120 (4.01%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (16.55%) React
2 253 (8.46%) AngularJS
3 241 (8.06%) gRPC
4 222 (7.42%) Redux
5 214 (7.15%) .NET
6 202 (6.75%) Protocol Buffers
7 199 (6.65%) Kafka
8 198 (6.62%) Node.js
9 149 (4.98%) Vue
10 144 (4.81%) Pandas
11 128 (4.28%) REST
12 127 (4.25%) Material-UI
13 118 (3.95%) Spring
14 115 (3.84%) NumPy
15 104 (3.48%) GraphQL
15 104 (3.48%) SciPy
16 92 (3.08%) CSS
17 91 (3.04%) RESTful
18 87 (2.91%) .NET Core
19 86 (2.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 358 (11.97%) Fixed Income
2 339 (11.33%) Public Cloud
3 287 (9.60%) Self-Motivation
4 284 (9.50%) Hedge funds
5 266 (8.89%) Equities
6 228 (7.62%) Derivative
7 191 (6.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 174 (5.82%) Cloud Native
9 159 (5.32%) Product Ownership
10 138 (4.61%) Algorithms
11 109 (3.64%) PKI
12 99 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
13 84 (2.81%) Onboarding
14 74 (2.47%) Management Information System
15 70 (2.34%) Data Structures
16 58 (1.94%) Private Cloud
17 54 (1.81%) Data Centre
17 54 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
18 45 (1.50%) Mobile App
19 42 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 328 (10.97%) Linux
2 217 (7.26%) Windows
3 83 (2.77%) Unix
3 83 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 38 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (1.17%) Android
7 34 (1.14%) CentOS
8 30 (1.00%) Debian
9 28 (0.94%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.53%) zOS
11 11 (0.37%) Solaris
12 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
13 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.27%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
16 5 (0.17%) VMS
17 2 (0.067%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,508 (50.42%) Agile
2 950 (31.76%) Software Engineering
3 862 (28.82%) DevOps
4 772 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 606 (20.26%) Mentoring
6 569 (19.02%) CI/CD
7 566 (18.92%) Data Engineering
8 422 (14.11%) Platform Engineering
9 420 (14.04%) Asset Management
9 420 (14.04%) ETL
10 415 (13.87%) Analytics
11 397 (13.27%) Data Science
12 369 (12.34%) Machine Learning
13 367 (12.27%) Data Modelling
14 355 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
15 336 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 325 (10.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 317 (10.60%) Investment Management
18 300 (10.03%) Containerisation
19 299 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (38.05%) Python
2 701 (23.44%) SQL
3 646 (21.60%) Java
4 525 (17.55%) JavaScript
5 471 (15.75%) TypeScript
6 254 (8.49%) C#
7 160 (5.35%) Go
8 127 (4.25%) Scala
9 120 (4.01%) Bash
10 89 (2.98%) PowerShell
11 84 (2.81%) R
12 65 (2.17%) PHP
13 54 (1.81%) Kotlin
14 44 (1.47%) Ruby
15 43 (1.44%) Shell Script
16 30 (1.00%) Groovy
17 28 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.80%) C++
19 17 (0.57%) Perl
20 13 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 352 (11.77%) Degree
2 173 (5.78%) Security Cleared
3 156 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 89 (2.98%) AWS Certification
6 71 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 45 (1.50%) CISSP
12 31 (1.04%) CCNA
13 30 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.00%) CISM
14 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 20 (0.67%) PhD
16 18 (0.60%) GIAC
17 16 (0.53%) OCP
17 16 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (11.07%) GDPR
2 202 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 187 (6.25%) QA
4 48 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.10%) NIST
7 20 (0.67%) SLA
8 19 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.47%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.30%) WCAG
11 8 (0.27%) NCSC
11 8 (0.27%) PSD2
12 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.10%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.10%) GRC
14 3 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 396 (13.24%) Docker
2 124 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 59 (1.97%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.53%) XenApp
7 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.37%) XenDesktop
9 9 (0.30%) KVM
10 8 (0.27%) HDFS
11 6 (0.20%) vSphere
12 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.067%) Apache Flume
14 2 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.067%) Varnish
15 1 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 518 (17.32%) Kubernetes
2 477 (15.95%) Terraform
3 207 (6.92%) Ansible
4 79 (2.64%) Puppet
5 54 (1.81%) Grafana
6 52 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 44 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.84%) Nagios
9 21 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.67%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.50%) FortiGate
12 15 (0.50%) Istio
12 15 (0.50%) SCCM
13 12 (0.40%) Graphite
13 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.40%) VxRail
14 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.33%) Packer
14 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,339 (44.77%) Google
2 419 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 150 (5.02%) VMware
4 136 (4.55%) Oracle
5 112 (3.74%) Databricks
6 91 (3.04%) Cisco
7 89 (2.98%) IBM
8 62 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.87%) SAP
10 53 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 51 (1.71%) Dell
12 39 (1.30%) Alteryx
13 38 (1.27%) Bloomberg
14 33 (1.10%) Citrix
15 28 (0.94%) Kofax
15 28 (0.94%) Pega
16 25 (0.84%) NetApp
17 24 (0.80%) SaltStack
17 24 (0.80%) Splunk
18 20 (0.67%) Teradata