GCP Job Trends in Edinburgh

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 29 15
Rank change year-on-year -55 -14 +13
Permanent jobs citing GCP 18 84 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.67% 7.61% 13.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.67% 17.72% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14 50 121
10th Percentile £48,300 £52,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,750 £57,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +2.73% +12.74%
75th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £83,312 £98,626 £117,236
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% +17.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 490 474 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.50% 42.93% 48.10%
Number of salaries quoted 154 204 427
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £49,938 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% -0.80% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £92,161
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

GCP
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in Edinburgh

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) AWS
1 17 (94.44%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) dbt
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (22.22%) Pulumi
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (16.67%) PaaS
5 3 (16.67%) Sentry
6 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
1 6 (33.33%) LAN
1 6 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (22.22%) BGP
2 4 (22.22%) MPLS
2 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (22.22%) Wireless
3 3 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (11.11%) DHCP
4 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (22.22%) Redis
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Tech for Good
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Product Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (22.22%) Django
2 4 (22.22%) React
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Public Cloud
2 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Observability
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
7 4 (22.22%) Kanban
7 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
7 4 (22.22%) People Management
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
7 4 (22.22%) Tech Ops
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Google
1 5 (27.78%) SolarWinds
1 5 (27.78%) Splunk
2 4 (22.22%) F5
2 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 3 (16.67%) Databricks