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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 33 45
Rank change year-on-year -56 +12 +8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,021 7,261 11,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 7.02% 7.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.53% 16.43% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,979 3,570 4,511
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,975 £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% - +12.87%
75th Percentile £102,500 £101,438 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £123,937 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,783 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.74% +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 35,418 44,196 75,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 29,064 41,941
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 £96,250 £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 6 May 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 6 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
England -53 2,565 £80,000 - 706
UK excluding London -71 1,625 £65,783 +2.74% 359
Work from Home -32 1,335 £77,500 - 403
London -19 1,238 £95,000 +8.57% 400
North of England -53 514 £69,447 +6.84% 90
Scotland -52 294 £69,750 +15.77% 38
South West -24 280 £70,000 +7.69% 65
North West -67 257 £69,447 +11.12% 51
Yorkshire -19 206 £68,000 -0.75% 30
South East -100 206 £60,000 -14.29% 73
Midlands -86 203 £65,000 +18.18% 37
West Midlands -84 130 £75,000 +30.43% 23
East Midlands -52 76 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East of England -67 68 £55,000 -8.33% 27
North East +2 51 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Wales -22 45 £62,500 +21.83% 15
Northern Ireland -20 14 £90,000 +71.43% 20
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1

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
1 311 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
2 298 (9.86%) Apache
3 178 (5.89%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 47 (1.56%) Confluence
6 31 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.96%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.93%) Captiva
8 28 (0.93%) FileNet
9 22 (0.73%) nginx
10 21 (0.70%) IIS
11 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.43%) SAS
13 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
14 9 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
15 8 (0.26%) WordPress
16 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.13%) Luigi
18 3 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.066%) 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 2 (0.066%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.066%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.033%) HFM
4 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,257 (74.71%) AWS
2 2,056 (68.06%) Azure
3 312 (10.33%) SaaS
4 220 (7.28%) GitHub
5 199 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
6 170 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 166 (5.49%) dbt
8 162 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 149 (4.93%) Power Platform
10 128 (4.24%) PaaS
11 119 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
12 104 (3.44%) Serverless
13 86 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
13 86 (2.85%) IaaS
14 85 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 68 (2.25%) Amazon S3
16 62 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
18 50 (1.66%) OpenShift
19 45 (1.49%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 170 (5.63%) Firewall
2 77 (2.55%) DNS
3 69 (2.28%) WAN
4 64 (2.12%) VPN
5 46 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 45 (1.49%) LAN
7 36 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.03%) AMQP
9 30 (0.99%) SAN
10 27 (0.89%) Network Security
11 22 (0.73%) DHCP
12 21 (0.70%) Internet
12 21 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.56%) VoIP
14 15 (0.50%) VLAN
15 14 (0.46%) BGP
15 14 (0.46%) Wireless
16 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (19.50%) BigQuery
2 419 (13.87%) Looker
3 372 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
4 260 (8.61%) Data Lake
5 226 (7.48%) Apache Ignite
6 166 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
7 159 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 156 (5.16%) SQL Server
9 150 (4.97%) Big Data
10 136 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
11 133 (4.40%) Power BI
12 129 (4.27%) Hadoop
13 118 (3.91%) Apache Arrow
13 118 (3.91%) Dremio
14 117 (3.87%) MySQL
15 106 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
16 98 (3.24%) Relational Database
17 88 (2.91%) Tableau
18 63 (2.09%) MongoDB
19 55 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 227 (7.51%) Git
2 219 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 100 (3.31%) JIRA
4 75 (2.48%) Cypress.io
5 72 (2.38%) GitLab
6 46 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 46 (1.52%) Selenium
7 41 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
8 25 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
8 25 (0.83%) Spinnaker
9 23 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.63%) Maven
11 18 (0.60%) JUnit
12 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.36%) webpack
15 9 (0.30%) JMeter
15 9 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
16 8 (0.26%) git-flow
17 7 (0.23%) Appium
General
1 1,014 (33.57%) Finance
2 571 (18.90%) Banking
3 562 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 554 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
5 380 (12.58%) Front Office
6 274 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
8 163 (5.40%) Law
9 149 (4.93%) Retail
10 119 (3.94%) Investment Banking
11 101 (3.34%) Legal
12 99 (3.28%) Marketing
13 92 (3.05%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.38%) Billing
15 46 (1.52%) Back Office
16 38 (1.26%) Retail Banking
17 37 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 35 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 32 (1.06%) Telecoms
20 27 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 633 (20.95%) Software Engineer
2 613 (20.29%) Senior
3 585 (19.36%) Architect
4 554 (18.34%) Developer
5 442 (14.63%) Data Engineer
6 325 (10.76%) Lead
7 275 (9.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 217 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
9 199 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
10 193 (6.39%) Python Developer
11 182 (6.02%) Principal Data Engineer
12 178 (5.89%) Solutions Architect
13 175 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 172 (5.69%) Python Engineer
15 169 (5.59%) Data Architect
16 162 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
17 147 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
18 140 (4.63%) Python Software Engineer
19 137 (4.53%) Senior Developer
20 119 (3.94%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (16.58%) React
2 264 (8.74%) gRPC
3 243 (8.04%) AngularJS
4 233 (7.71%) Redux
5 224 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
6 209 (6.92%) .NET
7 195 (6.45%) Node.js
8 185 (6.12%) Kafka
9 152 (5.03%) Pandas
10 143 (4.73%) Vue
11 139 (4.60%) Material-UI
12 126 (4.17%) REST
13 124 (4.10%) NumPy
14 121 (4.01%) Spring
15 113 (3.74%) SciPy
16 99 (3.28%) GraphQL
17 89 (2.95%) RESTful
18 88 (2.91%) CSS
19 85 (2.81%) .NET Core
20 83 (2.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 380 (12.58%) Fixed Income
2 342 (11.32%) Public Cloud
3 312 (10.33%) Hedge funds
4 288 (9.53%) Self-Motivation
5 287 (9.50%) Equities
6 239 (7.91%) Derivative
7 200 (6.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 179 (5.93%) Cloud Native
9 157 (5.20%) Product Ownership
10 139 (4.60%) Algorithms
11 110 (3.64%) PKI
12 98 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.85%) Onboarding
14 77 (2.55%) Management Information System
15 73 (2.42%) Data Structures
16 58 (1.92%) Private Cloud
17 57 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (1.72%) Data Centre
19 45 (1.49%) Mobile App
20 42 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 324 (10.72%) Linux
2 222 (7.35%) Windows
3 85 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 81 (2.68%) Unix
5 43 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 39 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.16%) CentOS
8 34 (1.13%) Android
9 31 (1.03%) Debian
10 27 (0.89%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 11 (0.36%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.26%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
16 6 (0.20%) VMS
17 2 (0.066%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,521 (50.35%) Agile
2 970 (32.11%) Software Engineering
3 865 (28.63%) DevOps
4 779 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
5 601 (19.89%) Mentoring
6 573 (18.97%) CI/CD
7 567 (18.77%) Data Engineering
8 438 (14.50%) Asset Management
9 430 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
10 417 (13.80%) ETL
11 405 (13.41%) Analytics
12 397 (13.14%) Data Science
13 386 (12.78%) Machine Learning
14 374 (12.38%) Data Modelling
15 355 (11.75%) Data Pipeline
16 341 (11.29%) Artificial Intelligence
17 338 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 329 (10.89%) Investment Management
19 307 (10.16%) Full Stack Development
20 303 (10.03%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,166 (38.60%) Python
2 705 (23.34%) SQL
3 665 (22.01%) Java
4 526 (17.41%) JavaScript
5 487 (16.12%) TypeScript
6 245 (8.11%) C#
7 161 (5.33%) Go
8 126 (4.17%) Scala
9 119 (3.94%) Bash
10 89 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 85 (2.81%) R
12 65 (2.15%) PHP
13 56 (1.85%) Kotlin
14 45 (1.49%) Ruby
15 42 (1.39%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.96%) Groovy
17 28 (0.93%) T-SQL
18 23 (0.76%) C++
19 17 (0.56%) Perl
20 13 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 356 (11.78%) Degree
2 172 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 164 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 128 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 96 (3.18%) AWS Certification
6 71 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 49 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.52%) CISSP
12 31 (1.03%) CCNA
12 31 (1.03%) CISM
13 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 19 (0.63%) GIAC
16 19 (0.63%) PhD
17 15 (0.50%) ISSMP
17 15 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (10.96%) GDPR
2 204 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 187 (6.19%) QA
4 51 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.13%) NIST
7 20 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.63%) SLA
9 15 (0.50%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.26%) NCSC
11 8 (0.26%) PSD2
11 8 (0.26%) WCAG
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.099%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.099%) GRC
15 3 (0.099%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 402 (13.31%) Docker
2 127 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (3.38%) Active Directory
4 62 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.60%) XenApp
7 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.43%) XenDesktop
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
12 6 (0.20%) vSphere
13 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.066%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.066%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 527 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 479 (15.86%) Terraform
3 212 (7.02%) Ansible
4 81 (2.68%) Puppet
5 57 (1.89%) Grafana
6 53 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 47 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.83%) Nagios
9 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.66%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (0.53%) SCCM
13 15 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.46%) Istio
15 12 (0.40%) Graphite
15 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.40%) VxRail
16 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.33%) Packer
16 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,359 (44.99%) Google
2 424 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 153 (5.06%) VMware
4 136 (4.50%) Oracle
5 113 (3.74%) Databricks
6 93 (3.08%) Cisco
7 88 (2.91%) IBM
8 61 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.82%) SAP
10 54 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 53 (1.75%) Dell
12 41 (1.36%) Alteryx
13 38 (1.26%) Bloomberg
14 35 (1.16%) Citrix
15 28 (0.93%) Kofax
15 28 (0.93%) Pega
16 25 (0.83%) NetApp
16 25 (0.83%) SaltStack
16 25 (0.83%) Splunk
17 21 (0.70%) Fortinet