GCP Engineer Jobs in London

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
England > London

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 488 488
Rank change year-on-year +108 0 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 21 17 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.072% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.077% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 130
10th Percentile - £54,000 £49,809
25th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £60,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% - +1.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £106,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +17.24% -3.33% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for GCP Engineer in London

GCP Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (95.24%) GCP
2 19 (90.48%) Python
3 18 (85.71%) Google
3 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
4 16 (76.19%) Docker
5 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (66.67%) Containerisation
6 14 (66.67%) Terraform
6 14 (66.67%) SaaS
6 14 (66.67%) Agile
7 13 (61.90%) REST
7 13 (61.90%) Process Improvement
7 13 (61.90%) Web Application Development
7 13 (61.90%) Flask
7 13 (61.90%) FastAPI
7 13 (61.90%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (23.81%) SQL
9 3 (14.29%) Java
9 3 (14.29%) DevOps
9 3 (14.29%) Microservices
9 3 (14.29%) Kafka
9 3 (14.29%) Azure
9 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
9 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
9 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
10 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (9.52%) Databricks
10 2 (9.52%) Fivetran

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) GCP
2 14 (66.67%) SaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) dbt
4 2 (9.52%) Fivetran
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Google App Engine
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Multicast
1 1 (4.76%) SSH
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) Unicast
1 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Law
2 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) FastAPI
1 13 (61.90%) Flask
1 13 (61.90%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Beam
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 14 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 13 (61.90%) Architectural Patterns
3 13 (61.90%) Process Improvement
3 13 (61.90%) Web Application Development
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
5 2 (9.52%) Coaching
5 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Design Patterns
5 2 (9.52%) Low Latency
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
1 2 (9.52%) PhD
2 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CCSK
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 14 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft