GCP Job Trends in London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 39 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -13
Permanent jobs citing GCP 642 994 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.54% 6.40% 5.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.09% 14.12% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 385 610 925
10th Percentile £56,250 £66,225 £58,800
25th Percentile £68,813 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £92,500 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +0.36% +5.34%
75th Percentile £113,750 £116,250 £117,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £140,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £78,750 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.60% -0.46%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,787 7,042 8,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.90% 45.32% 46.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,755 4,500 7,005
10th Percentile £37,375 £45,000 £43,350
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GCP job vacancy trend in London

GCP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in London

GCP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London +16 90 £95,000 +8.57% 74
West London +2 5 £77,500 -6.06% 12
South London +39 3 - - 6
North London +6 1 £72,500 +93.33% 1
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 67 (10.44%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (6.54%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.80%) Apache
4 7 (1.09%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.62%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.09%) Maya
1 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (1.40%) SAP IBP
1 9 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 549 (85.51%) AWS
2 451 (70.25%) Azure
3 82 (12.77%) SaaS
4 63 (9.81%) GitHub
5 51 (7.94%) dbt
6 45 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (6.07%) Snowflake
8 33 (5.14%) Power Platform
9 27 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (3.89%) Cloud Run
11 23 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.27%) PaaS
13 20 (3.12%) Google Compute Engine
13 20 (3.12%) Serverless
14 19 (2.96%) IaaS
15 18 (2.80%) Cloud Functions
16 17 (2.65%) Datadog
17 15 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (2.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.21%) Firewall
2 16 (2.49%) Network Security
3 13 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.87%) VPN
5 10 (1.56%) WAN
6 9 (1.40%) DNS
7 7 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.93%) VLAN
9 4 (0.62%) BGP
9 4 (0.62%) Broadband
9 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.62%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.62%) LAN
9 4 (0.62%) OSPF
10 3 (0.47%) SCCP
10 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.31%) MQTT
11 2 (0.31%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (12.62%) BigQuery
3 56 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.79%) NoSQL
5 47 (7.32%) Data Lake
5 47 (7.32%) Metadata
6 37 (5.76%) Relational Database
7 33 (5.14%) MongoDB
8 28 (4.36%) Power BI
9 27 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (4.21%) Big Data
10 26 (4.05%) MySQL
11 23 (3.58%) Apache Arrow
11 23 (3.58%) Apache Iceberg
11 23 (3.58%) Dremio
11 23 (3.58%) Tableau
12 22 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (3.43%) Hadoop
12 22 (3.43%) SQL Server
13 17 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 46 (7.17%) Jenkins
2 28 (4.36%) Git
3 24 (3.74%) TeamCity
4 19 (2.96%) GitLab
5 14 (2.18%) JIRA
5 14 (2.18%) MLflow
6 8 (1.25%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.09%) Storybook
8 5 (0.78%) JMeter
8 5 (0.78%) webpack
9 4 (0.62%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.62%) ERwin
9 4 (0.62%) Mocha
9 4 (0.62%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.62%) Postman
9 4 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.47%) Selenium
11 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 247 (38.47%) Finance
2 192 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 111 (17.29%) Banking
4 96 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (12.77%) Law
6 77 (11.99%) Financial Institution
7 76 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (9.66%) Retail
9 52 (8.10%) Telecoms
10 34 (5.30%) Marketing
11 33 (5.14%) Public Sector
12 32 (4.98%) Retail Banking
13 27 (4.21%) Front Office
14 25 (3.89%) Back Office
15 24 (3.74%) Legal
15 24 (3.74%) Manufacturing
16 21 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (2.02%) Electronics
19 12 (1.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 159 (24.77%) Senior
2 114 (17.76%) Architect
3 113 (17.60%) Software Engineer
4 81 (12.62%) Lead
5 77 (11.99%) Developer
6 63 (9.81%) Data Engineer
7 49 (7.63%) Data Architect
8 43 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (5.30%) Python Engineer
10 33 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (4.83%) Python Developer
13 29 (4.52%) Analyst
14 27 (4.21%) GCP Engineer
15 26 (4.05%) Security Engineer
16 24 (3.74%) Python Software Engineer
17 23 (3.58%) AWS Developer
17 23 (3.58%) AWS Software Engineer
17 23 (3.58%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 22 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (14.33%) React
2 80 (12.46%) Node.js
3 51 (7.94%) Kafka
4 40 (6.23%) AngularJS
4 40 (6.23%) RESTful
5 38 (5.92%) Pandas
6 37 (5.76%) REST
7 36 (5.61%) Vue
8 29 (4.52%) NumPy
9 27 (4.21%) PyTorch
10 26 (4.05%) .NET
10 26 (4.05%) Django
11 24 (3.74%) HTML
11 24 (3.74%) SciPy
12 22 (3.43%) TensorFlow
13 20 (3.12%) FastAPI
13 20 (3.12%) OAuth
14 19 (2.96%) Spring
15 18 (2.80%) CSS
16 16 (2.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 140 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 79 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.67%) Algorithms
4 30 (4.67%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.36%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.58%) Equities
6 23 (3.58%) Fixed Income
6 23 (3.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 22 (3.43%) Data Structures
7 22 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (2.49%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (2.18%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.71%) Blog
13 10 (1.56%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.48%) Linux
2 36 (5.61%) Windows
3 27 (4.21%) Unix
4 17 (2.65%) Android
5 9 (1.40%) Mac OS
6 8 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.47%) CentOS
8 3 (0.47%) SUSE
8 3 (0.47%) VMS
8 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) Solaris
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (38.47%) CI/CD
2 213 (33.18%) AI
3 182 (28.35%) Agile
4 174 (27.10%) Software Engineering
5 164 (25.55%) DevOps
6 139 (21.65%) Analytics
7 123 (19.16%) Microservices
8 122 (19.00%) Machine Learning
9 120 (18.69%) Containerisation
10 117 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (17.29%) Computer Science
12 104 (16.20%) Roadmaps
13 101 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
14 99 (15.42%) Data Modelling
14 99 (15.42%) Mentoring
15 98 (15.26%) Data Pipeline
16 91 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (14.02%) Data Science
18 81 (12.62%) Data Engineering
19 70 (10.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 277 (43.15%) Python
2 113 (17.60%) Java
3 104 (16.20%) SQL
4 95 (14.80%) TypeScript
5 84 (13.08%) JavaScript
6 52 (8.10%) Bash
7 51 (7.94%) Go
8 37 (5.76%) PowerShell
9 36 (5.61%) C#
10 17 (2.65%) Scala
11 13 (2.02%) C++
12 8 (1.25%) PHP
13 7 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.93%) R
15 5 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.78%) Ruby
16 4 (0.62%) Bicep
16 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
17 3 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 150 (23.36%) Degree
2 82 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 64 (9.97%) Azure Certification
4 60 (9.35%) AWS Certification
5 41 (6.39%) Security Cleared
6 38 (5.92%) Master's Degree
7 27 (4.21%) SC Cleared
8 19 (2.96%) PhD
9 17 (2.65%) CISSP
10 15 (2.34%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.40%) PMI Certification
13 8 (1.25%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.09%) CCSK
14 7 (1.09%) OSCP
15 6 (0.93%) CREST Certified
15 6 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.62%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.85%) GDPR
2 36 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 26 (4.05%) NIST
5 19 (2.96%) QA
6 15 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.34%) PCI DSS
7 13 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (1.56%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.09%) EU AI Act
9 7 (1.09%) GRC
10 5 (0.78%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.62%) SLA
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.31%) PSD2
12 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 141 (21.96%) Docker
2 11 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.62%) KVM
5 2 (0.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.31%) NFS
5 2 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 191 (29.75%) Kubernetes
2 162 (25.23%) Terraform
3 49 (7.63%) Ansible
4 44 (6.85%) Grafana
5 42 (6.54%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.34%) Argo
7 6 (0.93%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.62%) Cilium
9 3 (0.47%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.47%) Istio
9 3 (0.47%) linkerd
9 3 (0.47%) Mesos
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.47%) Rancher
10 2 (0.31%) CASB
10 2 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.31%) Puppet
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (21.96%) Google
2 62 (9.66%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.36%) Databricks
4 24 (3.74%) SAP
5 19 (2.96%) Informatica
5 19 (2.96%) Oracle
6 14 (2.18%) VMware
7 13 (2.02%) Talend
8 12 (1.87%) IBM
8 12 (1.87%) Splunk
9 10 (1.56%) Ariba
10 9 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.25%) Adobe
11 8 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.25%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.09%) Dell
12 7 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.93%) Fortinet