GCP Job Trends in Lancashire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 66 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 -22 -11
Permanent jobs citing GCP 2 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.17% 0.63% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 2.73% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £55,500 £49,000 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £74,375 -
90th Percentile £64,500 £86,750 -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 686 183 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 59.97% 22.96% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 68 91 95
10th Percentile £25,875 £37,500 £27,900
25th Percentile £27,000 £41,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £60,625 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £64,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Lancashire

GCP
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing GCP

GCP
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Burnley 0 1 £60,000 -
Accrington - 1 £60,000 -
GCP
North West

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google