GCP Jobs in England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 88 32
Rank change year-on-year +14 -56 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,830 2,669 5,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.72% 2.79% 7.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.92% 8.41% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,754 2,974
10th Percentile £47,575 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,813 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £82,000 £78,126 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.96% -2.34% -

All Cloud 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 14,169 31,749 35,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.79% 33.22% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9,568 24,721 24,474
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in England

GCP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for GCP in England

GCP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 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 -1 822 £96,000 -1.54% 1,536
North of England +13 441 £75,000 +15.38% 430
North West +30 334 £78,810 +18.96% 281
South East +29 179 £65,000 +11.11% 693
Midlands +14 116 £62,500 -5.66% 117
Yorkshire -7 94 £76,905 +28.18% 120
South West +9 91 £70,000 +8.66% 136
West Midlands +7 65 £63,750 -13.85% 55
East of England +27 54 £52,500 -4.55% 67
East Midlands +31 51 £57,500 +2.22% 60
North East +11 13 £56,500 -24.67% 29
GCP
UK

GCP
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
1 144 (7.87%) Confluence
2 125 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 41 (2.24%) Apache
5 11 (0.60%) CMS
5 11 (0.60%) nginx
6 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.33%) SAS
7 6 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) IIS
10 2 (0.11%) Luigi
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.055%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.055%) Ethereum
Applications
1 10 (0.55%) Maya
2 8 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.49%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.055%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.055%) Magento
4 1 (0.055%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.055%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,567 (85.63%) AWS
2 1,434 (78.36%) Azure
3 283 (15.46%) Serverless
4 233 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
5 131 (7.16%) dbt
6 90 (4.92%) Snowflake
7 77 (4.21%) SaaS
8 74 (4.04%) GitHub
9 73 (3.99%) Power Platform
10 53 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
14 33 (1.80%) PaaS
15 32 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (1.58%) Pulumi
18 27 (1.48%) IaaS
19 24 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 221 (12.08%) Broadband
2 93 (5.08%) Firewall
3 53 (2.90%) Network Security
4 50 (2.73%) DNS
5 37 (2.02%) VPN
6 35 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.80%) LAN
7 33 (1.80%) WAN
8 22 (1.20%) SD-WAN
9 21 (1.15%) BGP
9 21 (1.15%) Ethernet
10 20 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
10 20 (1.09%) DHCP
11 19 (1.04%) OSPF
12 13 (0.71%) MPLS
13 12 (0.66%) SAN
14 10 (0.55%) VLAN
15 9 (0.49%) NAS
16 8 (0.44%) HTTP
17 6 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 163 (8.91%) NoSQL
3 142 (7.76%) SQL Server
4 119 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (6.07%) BigQuery
6 106 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
7 101 (5.52%) Data Lake
8 98 (5.36%) Apache Iceberg
9 94 (5.14%) Dremio
10 88 (4.81%) MySQL
11 86 (4.70%) Apache Arrow
12 80 (4.37%) MongoDB
13 67 (3.66%) Metadata
13 67 (3.66%) Power BI
14 60 (3.28%) Relational Database
15 53 (2.90%) Big Data
16 37 (2.02%) Hadoop
17 35 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
17 35 (1.91%) Tableau
18 26 (1.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 178 (9.73%) JIRA
2 149 (8.14%) Git
3 148 (8.09%) GitLab
4 134 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
5 132 (7.21%) SonarQube
6 123 (6.72%) Maven
7 119 (6.50%) Cucumber
7 119 (6.50%) Selenium
8 115 (6.28%) Bitbucket
9 78 (4.26%) Jenkins
10 24 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.71%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.66%) JUnit
14 11 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.60%) webpack
15 8 (0.44%) Appium
15 8 (0.44%) Postman
16 7 (0.38%) JMeter
General
1 702 (38.36%) Finance
2 433 (23.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 419 (22.90%) Banking
4 397 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
5 377 (20.60%) Social Skills
6 183 (10.00%) Law
7 141 (7.70%) Front Office
8 85 (4.64%) Marketing
9 61 (3.33%) Retail
10 60 (3.28%) Public Sector
11 56 (3.06%) Legal
12 51 (2.79%) Games
13 42 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.58%) Retail Banking
16 28 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 27 (1.48%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
19 14 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
20 13 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 749 (40.93%) Senior
2 579 (31.64%) Software Engineer
3 249 (13.61%) Developer
4 232 (12.68%) Lead
5 228 (12.46%) Architect
6 226 (12.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 223 (12.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 115 (6.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 102 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
9 102 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
10 100 (5.46%) Data Engineer
11 86 (4.70%) AWS Software Engineer
12 84 (4.59%) Python Engineer
13 78 (4.26%) AWS Developer
14 73 (3.99%) Python Developer
15 61 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
15 61 (3.33%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.22%) Python Software Engineer
17 58 (3.17%) Java Engineer
17 58 (3.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (20.77%) Node.js
2 336 (18.36%) React
3 227 (12.40%) Kafka
4 220 (12.02%) .NET
5 203 (11.09%) Spring Boot
6 195 (10.66%) Spring
7 165 (9.02%) CSS
7 165 (9.02%) HTML
8 161 (8.80%) Redux
9 134 (7.32%) AngularJS
10 123 (6.72%) Hibernate
10 123 (6.72%) Vue
11 111 (6.07%) JPA
12 109 (5.96%) Pandas
13 99 (5.41%) NumPy
14 94 (5.14%) SciPy
15 91 (4.97%) RESTful
16 65 (3.55%) REST
17 46 (2.51%) PySpark
18 44 (2.40%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 404 (22.08%) Self-Motivation
2 186 (10.16%) Linux Command Line
3 179 (9.78%) Product Ownership
4 178 (9.73%) Cyberattack
5 162 (8.85%) Cloud Native
6 135 (7.38%) Fixed Income
7 126 (6.89%) Enterprise Software
8 113 (6.17%) Public Cloud
9 95 (5.19%) Equities
10 87 (4.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 76 (4.15%) Management Information System
12 69 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
13 51 (2.79%) Algorithms
14 45 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (2.35%) Mobile App
16 39 (2.13%) Data Structures
17 33 (1.80%) Security Posture
18 32 (1.75%) Data Centre
19 30 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
19 30 (1.64%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 280 (15.30%) Linux
2 52 (2.84%) Windows
3 26 (1.42%) Unix
4 16 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.22%) CentOS
6 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.22%) zOS
7 3 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.16%) Rocky
8 2 (0.11%) Android
8 2 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.055%) SUSE
9 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,064 (58.14%) Agile
2 776 (42.40%) CI/CD
3 719 (39.29%) Software Engineering
4 581 (31.75%) Mentoring
5 564 (30.82%) Machine Learning
6 511 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
7 509 (27.81%) Microservices
8 493 (26.94%) DevOps
9 367 (20.05%) Data Science
10 360 (19.67%) Clean Code
11 338 (18.47%) Containerisation
11 338 (18.47%) Data Engineering
12 271 (14.81%) Cloud Security
13 256 (13.99%) Analytics
14 245 (13.39%) Test Automation
15 241 (13.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 228 (12.46%) User Experience
17 222 (12.13%) Personalization
18 221 (12.08%) Performance Metrics
19 220 (12.02%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,007 (55.03%) Python
2 603 (32.95%) Java
3 578 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 432 (23.61%) SQL
5 411 (22.46%) TypeScript
6 258 (14.10%) Go
7 191 (10.44%) C++
8 181 (9.89%) Rust
9 73 (3.99%) Bash
10 62 (3.39%) C#
11 55 (3.01%) PowerShell
12 47 (2.57%) PHP
13 46 (2.51%) Scala
14 27 (1.48%) R
15 23 (1.26%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.60%) Bicep
18 9 (0.49%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.38%) PL/SQL
19 7 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 423 (23.11%) Degree
2 275 (15.03%) Security Cleared
3 272 (14.86%) AWS Certification
4 227 (12.40%) PhD
5 210 (11.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 197 (10.77%) DV Cleared
7 178 (9.73%) AWS Certified Developer
8 94 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 82 (4.48%) Azure Certification
10 80 (4.37%) SC Cleared
11 61 (3.33%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.15%) CISSP
13 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.04%) CCNP
15 17 (0.93%) CCNA
16 14 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.66%) CCSP
17 12 (0.66%) CISM
18 11 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (10.16%) QA
2 85 (4.64%) GDPR
3 63 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.79%) NIST
6 40 (2.19%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.26%) HIPAA
8 18 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.38%) SLA
13 6 (0.33%) GRC
13 6 (0.33%) NCSC
14 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.22%) Basel II
15 4 (0.22%) Basel III
15 4 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
15 4 (0.22%) IFRS
15 4 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 455 (24.86%) Docker
2 32 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 18 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.55%) vSphere
8 7 (0.38%) Apache Flume
8 7 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.22%) HDFS
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) SRDF
12 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 511 (27.92%) Kubernetes
2 295 (16.12%) Terraform
3 109 (5.96%) Ansible
4 72 (3.93%) Grafana
5 59 (3.22%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.75%) Puppet
7 26 (1.42%) Istio
8 24 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.26%) Nagios
10 22 (1.20%) FortiGate
11 20 (1.09%) Argo
12 10 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
12 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.38%) Oozie
13 7 (0.38%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.33%) SCCM
14 6 (0.33%) vMotion
15 5 (0.27%) Kibana
15 5 (0.27%) logstash
15 5 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 418 (22.84%) Google
2 163 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 108 (5.90%) Solace
4 84 (4.59%) Databricks
5 73 (3.99%) VMware
6 48 (2.62%) Oracle
7 35 (1.91%) Cisco
8 33 (1.80%) F5
9 31 (1.69%) SAP
10 25 (1.37%) Splunk
11 23 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 20 (1.09%) Blue Coat
13 18 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 15 (0.82%) IBM
14 15 (0.82%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.71%) Citrix
15 13 (0.71%) Informatica
16 12 (0.66%) Hitachi
17 11 (0.60%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.60%) Symantec