GCP Data Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer - Google Cloud Platform salary in Manchester is £66,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - 219
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Data Engineer 7 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.11% - 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 - £85,000
75th Percentile £67,625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £66,750 - £80,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,932 2,175 5,472
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 91.39% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,677 1,295 4,136
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.46% -7.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £96,750 £91,079 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%

GCP Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'GCP Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

GCP Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

GCP Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for GCP Data Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for GCP Data Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 2 July 2026, GCP Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring GCP Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) dbt
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform

GCP Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform