GCP Job Trends in Darlington

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 11.54% 4.84% 5.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.86% 14.29% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +23.81%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 26.92% 33.87% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 16
10th Percentile £67,179 £46,713 £30,125
25th Percentile £68,813 £56,495 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +60.25% -8.95%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,858 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,860 £79,600 £74,935
Durham median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +6.93% +26.25%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Darlington

GCP
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google