GCP Engineer Jobs in England

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > England

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 804 664
Rank change year-on-year +143 -140 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 30 39 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.045% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.048% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 214
10th Percentile £49,018 £52,500 £43,411
25th Percentile £78,750 £61,180 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,813 £91,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £89,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £73,854
% change year-on-year +17.24% -1.83% -7.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured GCP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP Engineer in England.

Salary trend for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP Engineer in England

GCP Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
London +110 21 £85,000 +1.49% 16
South West +106 3 £48,507 -37.41%
South East +102 3 £67,500 -15.63% 10
East of England - 2 £67,500 - 2
North of England +41 1 £85,000 +22.40% 5
North West -4 1 £85,000 +22.40% 2
GCP Engineer
UK

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, GCP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (80.00%) GCP
2 23 (76.67%) Python
3 22 (73.33%) Google
4 21 (70.00%) Kubernetes
5 19 (63.33%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (56.67%) Terraform
6 17 (56.67%) Docker
6 17 (56.67%) Agile
7 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
7 14 (46.67%) SaaS
8 13 (43.33%) REST
8 13 (43.33%) Process Improvement
8 13 (43.33%) Flask
8 13 (43.33%) Web Application Development
8 13 (43.33%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (43.33%) FastAPI
9 8 (26.67%) DevOps
9 8 (26.67%) SQL
10 7 (23.33%) Java
11 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 5 (16.67%) Banking
12 5 (16.67%) Microservices
12 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 4 (13.33%) SDLC
13 4 (13.33%) Azure
13 4 (13.33%) ETL
13 4 (13.33%) Finance

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Solr
1 2 (6.67%) nginx
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) GCP
2 14 (46.67%) SaaS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.67%) dbt
4 2 (6.67%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
2 2 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) Multicast
3 1 (3.33%) SSH
3 1 (3.33%) Unicast
3 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) Couchbase
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (16.67%) Banking
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) FastAPI
1 13 (43.33%) Flask
1 13 (43.33%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Jinja
3 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (56.67%) Agile
3 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 13 (43.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (43.33%) Process Improvement
4 13 (43.33%) Web Application Development
5 8 (26.67%) DevOps
6 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.67%) Microservices
8 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 4 (13.33%) ETL
8 4 (13.33%) SDLC
8 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (10.00%) Data Mapping
9 3 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (10.00%) Domain Models
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
5 1 (3.33%) Go
5 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.67%) PhD
3 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) CCSK
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (56.67%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) New Relic
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle