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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 84 32
Rank change year-on-year +11 -52 +10
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,809 2,597 6,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.67% 2.89% 7.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.88% 8.41% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,724 3,020
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £142,500 £133,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% -

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 14,050 30,881 37,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.49% 34.38% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,440 24,362 24,827
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £105,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 31 May 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 31 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 +1 806 £95,500 +0.53% 1,190
North of England -4 438 £75,000 +15.27% 281
North West +15 330 £78,810 +16.76% 186
South East +39 179 £65,000 +5.26% 116
Midlands -2 112 £65,000 - 106
Yorkshire -9 96 £75,000 +15.27% 76
South West +1 88 £70,996 +7.79% 81
West Midlands +6 65 £65,000 -10.96% 77
East of England +35 52 £50,000 -9.09% 48
East Midlands +21 47 £65,000 +18.18% 28
North East +9 12 £58,250 -22.33% 20
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
1 142 (7.85%) Confluence
2 122 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.43%) Apache
5 11 (0.61%) CMS
5 11 (0.61%) nginx
6 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.28%) SAS
9 4 (0.22%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.55%) Maya
2 10 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.055%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.44%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.17%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.055%) Lorenzo
5 1 (0.055%) Magento
5 1 (0.055%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.055%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,544 (85.35%) AWS
2 1,415 (78.22%) Azure
3 286 (15.81%) Serverless
4 233 (12.88%) AWS Lambda
5 136 (7.52%) dbt
6 88 (4.86%) Snowflake
7 83 (4.59%) SaaS
8 75 (4.15%) Power Platform
9 64 (3.54%) GitHub
10 51 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
11 45 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (2.10%) PaaS
13 35 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 33 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (1.71%) Pulumi
17 27 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 23 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (12.22%) Broadband
2 98 (5.42%) Firewall
3 55 (3.04%) Network Security
4 49 (2.71%) DNS
5 37 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.99%) WAN
7 35 (1.93%) VPN
8 34 (1.88%) LAN
9 26 (1.44%) SD-WAN
10 23 (1.27%) Ethernet
11 22 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (1.16%) BGP
13 20 (1.11%) DHCP
14 19 (1.05%) OSPF
15 13 (0.72%) MPLS
16 12 (0.66%) SAN
17 10 (0.55%) VLAN
18 9 (0.50%) HTTP
18 9 (0.50%) NAS
19 6 (0.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 160 (8.84%) NoSQL
3 142 (7.85%) SQL Server
4 113 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 107 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
6 102 (5.64%) BigQuery
7 98 (5.42%) Apache Iceberg
7 98 (5.42%) Data Lake
8 97 (5.36%) MySQL
9 96 (5.31%) Dremio
10 85 (4.70%) Apache Arrow
11 81 (4.48%) MongoDB
12 69 (3.81%) Power BI
13 63 (3.48%) Metadata
14 47 (2.60%) Big Data
15 46 (2.54%) Relational Database
16 37 (2.05%) Tableau
17 35 (1.93%) Hadoop
18 34 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
19 28 (1.55%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 175 (9.67%) JIRA
2 160 (8.84%) Git
3 147 (8.13%) GitLab
4 134 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 132 (7.30%) SonarQube
6 124 (6.85%) Maven
7 122 (6.74%) Selenium
8 119 (6.58%) Cucumber
9 115 (6.36%) Bitbucket
10 88 (4.86%) Jenkins
11 22 (1.22%) CircleCI
12 16 (0.88%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.83%) JUnit
14 12 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.61%) Postman
15 11 (0.61%) TeamCity
15 11 (0.61%) webpack
16 10 (0.55%) JMeter
17 8 (0.44%) Appium
General
1 675 (37.31%) Finance
2 410 (22.66%) Banking
3 398 (22.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 394 (21.78%) Analytical Skills
5 372 (20.56%) Social Skills
6 158 (8.73%) Law
7 144 (7.96%) Front Office
8 63 (3.48%) Marketing
9 61 (3.37%) Retail
10 56 (3.10%) Games
10 56 (3.10%) Public Sector
11 50 (2.76%) Legal
11 50 (2.76%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.60%) Retail Banking
14 27 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 26 (1.44%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 756 (41.79%) Senior
2 557 (30.79%) Software Engineer
3 253 (13.99%) Developer
4 223 (12.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 223 (12.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 220 (12.16%) Architect
6 212 (11.72%) Lead
7 115 (6.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 100 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 98 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
10 97 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 87 (4.81%) Python Engineer
12 85 (4.70%) AWS Software Engineer
13 78 (4.31%) AWS Developer
14 72 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (3.98%) Python Developer
15 64 (3.54%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.26%) Python Software Engineer
17 57 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
18 55 (3.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (21.67%) Node.js
2 337 (18.63%) React
3 218 (12.05%) .NET
4 208 (11.50%) Kafka
5 192 (10.61%) Spring Boot
6 185 (10.23%) Spring
7 168 (9.29%) HTML
8 167 (9.23%) CSS
9 166 (9.18%) Redux
10 133 (7.35%) AngularJS
11 122 (6.74%) Hibernate
12 120 (6.63%) Vue
13 111 (6.14%) JPA
14 110 (6.08%) Pandas
15 101 (5.58%) NumPy
16 96 (5.31%) SciPy
17 79 (4.37%) RESTful
18 67 (3.70%) REST
19 47 (2.60%) PySpark
20 37 (2.05%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 402 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 187 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 180 (9.95%) Product Ownership
4 178 (9.84%) Cyberattack
5 146 (8.07%) Cloud Native
6 137 (7.57%) Fixed Income
7 125 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
8 121 (6.69%) Public Cloud
9 90 (4.98%) Equities
10 83 (4.59%) Management Information System
11 80 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 66 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
13 50 (2.76%) Algorithms
14 45 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
15 44 (2.43%) Mobile App
16 37 (2.05%) Security Posture
17 36 (1.99%) Data Centre
18 32 (1.77%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
20 29 (1.60%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 297 (16.42%) Linux
2 65 (3.59%) Windows
3 26 (1.44%) Unix
4 17 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.39%) CentOS
6 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (0.22%) zOS
8 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) Rocky
8 3 (0.17%) VMS
9 2 (0.11%) Android
9 2 (0.11%) Solaris
9 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.055%) SUSE
10 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,031 (56.99%) Agile
2 772 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 697 (38.53%) Software Engineering
4 571 (31.56%) Mentoring
5 555 (30.68%) Machine Learning
6 501 (27.69%) DevOps
7 500 (27.64%) Microservices
8 495 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
9 359 (19.85%) Clean Code
10 355 (19.62%) Data Science
11 337 (18.63%) Data Engineering
12 332 (18.35%) Containerisation
13 282 (15.59%) Cloud Security
14 255 (14.10%) Analytics
15 241 (13.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 237 (13.10%) Test Automation
17 225 (12.44%) User Experience
18 221 (12.22%) Performance Metrics
18 221 (12.22%) Personalization
19 220 (12.16%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (56.00%) Python
2 589 (32.56%) JavaScript
3 582 (32.17%) Java
4 430 (23.77%) SQL
5 412 (22.78%) TypeScript
6 253 (13.99%) Go
7 190 (10.50%) C++
8 181 (10.01%) Rust
9 79 (4.37%) Bash
10 60 (3.32%) C#
10 60 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 51 (2.82%) PHP
12 48 (2.65%) Scala
13 22 (1.22%) R
14 13 (0.72%) Bicep
14 13 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.55%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.44%) Ruby
18 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 436 (24.10%) Degree
2 268 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 264 (14.59%) AWS Certification
4 224 (12.38%) PhD
5 208 (11.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 191 (10.56%) DV Cleared
7 179 (9.89%) AWS Certified Developer
8 98 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 76 (4.20%) Azure Certification
10 75 (4.15%) SC Cleared
11 62 (3.43%) Master's Degree
12 36 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (1.33%) CISSP
14 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (1.05%) CCNP
16 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.83%) CCNA
17 13 (0.72%) CCSP
17 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
18 11 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (10.45%) QA
2 84 (4.64%) GDPR
3 58 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.87%) NIST
6 42 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 22 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.39%) SLA
11 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.28%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) Basel II
13 4 (0.22%) Basel III
13 4 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.22%) GRC
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS
13 4 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 448 (24.77%) Docker
2 33 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 28 (1.55%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.55%) vSphere
9 7 (0.39%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Flume
10 6 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.33%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.17%) HDFS
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
13 2 (0.11%) SRDF
13 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.11%) XenApp
13 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 507 (28.03%) Kubernetes
2 305 (16.86%) Terraform
3 123 (6.80%) Ansible
4 75 (4.15%) Grafana
5 61 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.82%) Puppet
7 29 (1.60%) Istio
8 27 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 25 (1.38%) Nagios
10 24 (1.33%) FortiGate
11 18 (1.00%) Argo
12 10 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
12 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.39%) Podman
13 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.33%) Consul
14 6 (0.33%) Oozie
14 6 (0.33%) SCCM
14 6 (0.33%) vMotion
15 5 (0.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 411 (22.72%) Google
2 165 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 108 (5.97%) Solace
4 82 (4.53%) Databricks
5 75 (4.15%) VMware
6 47 (2.60%) Oracle
7 38 (2.10%) Cisco
8 34 (1.88%) F5
9 27 (1.49%) Splunk
10 26 (1.44%) SAP
11 25 (1.38%) CheckPoint
12 22 (1.22%) Blue Coat
13 17 (0.94%) SolarWinds
14 16 (0.88%) IBM
15 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.72%) Citrix
17 12 (0.66%) Hitachi
17 12 (0.66%) Informatica
18 11 (0.61%) Palo Alto
18 11 (0.61%) Symantec