GCP Job Trends in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 84 75
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 -45
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,218 1,580 2,297
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.03% 3.57% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.01% 9.51% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 767 1,062 1,800
10th Percentile £45,450 £48,787 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,064
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £122,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -3.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,271 16,622 25,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.86% 37.54% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,237 10,008 21,587
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,919
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

GCP job vacancy trend in England

GCP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in England

GCP
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. 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 0 738 £85,000 -8.11% 341
North of England -63 171 £70,932 +2.23% 125
South East -22 134 £70,000 +16.67% 159
North West -20 100 £71,000 +2.33% 67
Midlands +8 65 £67,500 - 42
South West -42 54 £71,250 -1.03% 66
Yorkshire -69 50 £70,932 -1.47% 36
East Midlands -10 33 £62,000 -4.62% 16
West Midlands +7 31 £70,466 +4.20% 26
North East -1 21 £60,000 -13.43% 22
East of England +18 18 £60,100 +6.84% 24
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 79 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (5.42%) Apache Spark
3 35 (2.87%) Apache
4 11 (0.90%) Confluence
5 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.74%) IIS
6 9 (0.74%) nginx
7 8 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.57%) SAS
9 5 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.33%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.16%) WordPress
13 1 (0.082%) CMS
13 1 (0.082%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.082%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.33%) Maya
4 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) Trello
5 1 (0.082%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) SAP IBP
1 5 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Shopify
3 1 (0.082%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.082%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.082%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.082%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.082%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (84.15%) AWS
2 881 (72.33%) Azure
3 158 (12.97%) SaaS
4 131 (10.76%) GitHub
5 91 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (5.99%) dbt
7 64 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 63 (5.17%) Serverless
9 57 (4.68%) Snowflake
10 53 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 38 (3.12%) PaaS
13 31 (2.55%) Datadog
14 29 (2.38%) IaaS
15 26 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (2.05%) Cloud Run
17 24 (1.97%) Entra ID
17 24 (1.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 86 (7.06%) Firewall
2 58 (4.76%) DNS
3 46 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 41 (3.37%) VPN
5 38 (3.12%) Network Security
6 33 (2.71%) Broadband
7 27 (2.22%) DHCP
8 23 (1.89%) WAN
9 15 (1.23%) HTTP
9 15 (1.23%) LAN
10 13 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.57%) AMQP
11 7 (0.57%) BGP
11 7 (0.57%) OSPF
11 7 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.49%) VLAN
13 5 (0.41%) MPLS
13 5 (0.41%) MQTT
13 5 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.00%) BigQuery
2 115 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 78 (6.40%) Metadata
5 72 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
6 66 (5.42%) Data Lake
7 56 (4.60%) MySQL
8 51 (4.19%) Power BI
9 48 (3.94%) MongoDB
10 46 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
11 44 (3.61%) Big Data
12 39 (3.20%) Relational Database
13 37 (3.04%) Tableau
14 35 (2.87%) SQL Server
15 34 (2.79%) Looker
16 30 (2.46%) Hadoop
17 29 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (2.13%) Redis
19 21 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
20 20 (1.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 99 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 61 (5.01%) Git
3 60 (4.93%) TeamCity
4 56 (4.60%) GitLab
5 25 (2.05%) JIRA
6 19 (1.56%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.15%) MLflow
8 8 (0.66%) Storybook
9 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.41%) git-flow
10 5 (0.41%) webpack
11 4 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.33%) ERwin
11 4 (0.33%) Mocha
11 4 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.33%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.25%) JMeter
12 3 (0.25%) Postman
12 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 363 (29.80%) Finance
2 358 (29.39%) Social Skills
3 157 (12.89%) Banking
4 152 (12.48%) Law
5 132 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 125 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
7 114 (9.36%) Retail
8 94 (7.72%) Financial Institution
9 83 (6.81%) Public Sector
10 77 (6.32%) Telecoms
11 48 (3.94%) Marketing
12 45 (3.69%) Back Office
13 35 (2.87%) Legal
14 30 (2.46%) Retail Banking
15 29 (2.38%) Front Office
15 29 (2.38%) Manufacturing
16 28 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (1.31%) Electronics
19 12 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 289 (23.73%) Senior
2 202 (16.58%) Architect
3 186 (15.27%) Software Engineer
4 152 (12.48%) Developer
5 141 (11.58%) Lead
6 99 (8.13%) Data Engineer
7 72 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 70 (5.75%) Data Architect
9 65 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 58 (4.76%) Analyst
11 47 (3.86%) Python Engineer
11 47 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 42 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (3.28%) Security Engineer
14 39 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
15 38 (3.12%) Senior Developer
16 37 (3.04%) Support Engineer
17 36 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
17 36 (2.96%) Engineering Manager
17 36 (2.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (12.81%) React
2 112 (9.20%) Node.js
3 82 (6.73%) Kafka
4 81 (6.65%) .NET
5 72 (5.91%) RESTful
6 48 (3.94%) AngularJS
7 47 (3.86%) Django
8 46 (3.78%) REST
9 43 (3.53%) HTML
10 40 (3.28%) CSS
10 40 (3.28%) Vue
11 39 (3.20%) gRPC
11 39 (3.20%) Spring
12 32 (2.63%) Spring Boot
13 29 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (2.38%) TensorFlow
14 28 (2.30%) OAuth
14 28 (2.30%) PyTorch
15 27 (2.22%) Pandas
15 27 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 262 (21.51%) Cloud Native
2 135 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.78%) Security Posture
5 38 (3.12%) Algorithms
6 36 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 32 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 28 (2.30%) Blog
10 26 (2.13%) Fixed Income
10 26 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
11 25 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (1.89%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.81%) Equities
14 21 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 125 (10.26%) Linux
2 87 (7.14%) Windows
3 46 (3.78%) Unix
4 23 (1.89%) Android
5 18 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.82%) CentOS
8 7 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.57%) VMS
9 6 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.41%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.25%) SUSE
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (40.56%) CI/CD
2 369 (30.30%) Agile
3 355 (29.15%) DevOps
4 326 (26.77%) Software Engineering
5 289 (23.73%) AI
6 258 (21.18%) Containerisation
7 250 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 245 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (19.54%) Microservices
10 214 (17.57%) Mentoring
11 199 (16.34%) Analytics
12 188 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 175 (14.37%) Machine Learning
14 162 (13.30%) Computer Science
15 158 (12.97%) Roadmaps
16 150 (12.32%) Test Automation
17 147 (12.07%) Data Modelling
18 143 (11.74%) Data Science
19 134 (11.00%) Clean Code
20 130 (10.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 489 (40.15%) Python
2 216 (17.73%) Java
3 197 (16.17%) SQL
4 179 (14.70%) TypeScript
5 168 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 111 (9.11%) Go
7 99 (8.13%) Bash
8 76 (6.24%) PowerShell
9 69 (5.67%) C#
10 44 (3.61%) Scala
11 33 (2.71%) C++
12 26 (2.13%) PHP
13 15 (1.23%) Rust
14 12 (0.99%) R
15 10 (0.82%) C
16 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.57%) Ruby
18 6 (0.49%) Bicep
18 6 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (17.24%) Degree
2 138 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 129 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 95 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 77 (6.32%) AWS Certification
6 73 (5.99%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.94%) DV Cleared
8 39 (3.20%) Master's Degree
9 34 (2.79%) CISSP
10 18 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.31%) PhD
12 15 (1.23%) OSCP
13 14 (1.15%) ISTQB
14 13 (1.07%) CREST Certified
15 11 (0.90%) CCSK
16 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.74%) GIAC
17 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 58 (4.76%) GDPR
2 58 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (4.11%) NIST
3 50 (4.11%) QA
4 32 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.30%) SOC 2
6 27 (2.22%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.48%) GRC
8 17 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.74%) NIST 800
10 9 (0.74%) SLA
11 7 (0.57%) EU AI Act
12 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 2 (0.16%) PSD2
16 2 (0.16%) SOC 1
System Software
1 283 (23.23%) Docker
2 50 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 12 (0.99%) KVM
5 5 (0.41%) vSphere
6 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.082%) Firmware
8 1 (0.082%) HDFS
8 1 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 368 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 338 (27.75%) Terraform
3 135 (11.08%) Grafana
4 124 (10.18%) Ansible
5 88 (7.22%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.72%) Argo
7 10 (0.82%) Puppet
8 9 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (0.74%) Nagios
9 8 (0.66%) Cilium
9 8 (0.66%) Istio
10 7 (0.57%) Rancher
10 7 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.49%) linkerd
11 6 (0.49%) Mesos
11 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.33%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.33%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 320 (26.27%) Google
2 122 (10.02%) Microsoft
3 44 (3.61%) Databricks
4 37 (3.04%) VMware
5 32 (2.63%) Oracle
6 27 (2.22%) SAP
7 25 (2.05%) Informatica
8 20 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 19 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.56%) Splunk
10 18 (1.48%) Typelevel
11 15 (1.23%) Adobe
12 14 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.15%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (0.99%) Cisco
14 12 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.99%) Talend
15 11 (0.90%) IBM