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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -45 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing GCP 28 98 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.35% 9.91% 10.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.57% 24.38% 23.25%
Number of salaries quoted 25 71 103
10th Percentile £45,500 £52,500 £50,388
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £79,569 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +12.74% +5.67%
75th Percentile £77,750 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £78,790 £98,474 £103,013
Scotland median annual salary £67,000 £75,780 £70,576
% change year-on-year -11.59% +7.37% +8.58%

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 426 402 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.71% 40.65% 45.60%
Number of salaries quoted 166 225 467
10th Percentile £26,250 £39,615 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,125 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.11% +10.83% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £72,466
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 15 March 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 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.71%) Confluence
3 2 (7.14%) Apache
4 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) dbt
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (14.29%) Pulumi
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (10.71%) PaaS
4 3 (10.71%) Sentry
5 2 (7.14%) Apigee
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Run
5 2 (7.14%) Dataform
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) BGP
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
1 4 (14.29%) LAN
1 4 (14.29%) MPLS
1 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 4 (14.29%) WAN
1 4 (14.29%) Wireless
2 3 (10.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (14.29%) Redis
4 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (39.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Lead
2 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Junior
4 2 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) React
3 4 (14.29%) CSS
3 4 (14.29%) Django
3 4 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.57%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.57%) Next.js
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
1 4 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
4 11 (39.29%) Observability
4 11 (39.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 9 (32.14%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 7 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
8 5 (17.86%) Kanban
8 5 (17.86%) Scrum
9 4 (14.29%) Analytics
9 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
9 4 (14.29%) Microservices
9 4 (14.29%) People Management
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) Grafana
3 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Google
2 7 (25.00%) Pega
3 4 (14.29%) F5
3 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 4 (14.29%) Splunk
4 3 (10.71%) Databricks
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) FIS