GCP Job Trends in Belfast

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 12 12 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 3.57% 3.82% 4.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.12% 10.53% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £56,250 - £60,200
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £65,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,154 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +10.22% +9.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £99,500 £74,375
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £77,154 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% +10.22% +9.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Belfast

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 99 114 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 29.46% 36.31% 37.70%
Number of salaries quoted 46 38 78
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,847 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,715 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% +19.43% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,500 £69,950
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £78,750
County Antrim median annual salary £70,000 £59,715 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.22% +19.43% -7.41%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

GCP job vacancy trend in Belfast

GCP
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Belfast over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in Belfast

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (33.33%) Serverless
5 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Functions
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (16.67%) dbt
6 2 (16.67%) Pulumi
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (8.33%) PaaS
7 1 (8.33%) Sentry
7 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Internet
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) MPLS
1 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (16.67%) SNA
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
1 2 (16.67%) WLAN
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (25.00%) Next.js
2 3 (25.00%) React
2 3 (25.00%) Vue
3 2 (16.67%) Django
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Mentoring
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) AI
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) LLM
4 4 (33.33%) User Experience
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (25.00%) Observability
5 3 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) Product Management
6 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNP
1 2 (16.67%) CCSP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft