GCP Jobs in Manchester

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 62 16
Rank change year-on-year +30 -46 +40
Permanent jobs citing GCP 195 195 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.82% 3.58% 12.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.66% 9.30% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 79 133 169
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,875 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +8.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £97,528 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £141,151 £89,750 £102,500
North West median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +3.85% +12.44%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 944 2,097 2,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 42.68% 38.53% 49.55%
Number of salaries quoted 598 1,633 1,351
10th Percentile £31,338 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -3.40% +4.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 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
Salford +12 7 £62,563 -13.71% 1
Altrincham +5 7 - - 6
Oldham +1 7 - -
Stockport - 7 - - 74
Cheadle +7 6 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 6 - - 7
Sale - 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Bury +7 5 - - 6
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bolton -16 1 - - 119
Wigan - 1 - -
GCP
North West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 21 (10.77%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) Apache
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.03%) CMS
2 2 (1.03%) WordPress
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 168 (86.15%) Azure
2 166 (85.13%) AWS
3 13 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 12 (6.15%) Cloud Composer
5 6 (3.08%) dbt
6 5 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.05%) Apigee
7 4 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (1.54%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (1.54%) Pulumi
8 3 (1.54%) Serverless
9 2 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.03%) GitHub
9 2 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.10%) DNS
2 5 (2.56%) DHCP
2 5 (2.56%) NAS
2 5 (2.56%) SAN
2 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.56%) VSAN
3 2 (1.03%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.74%) MySQL
2 16 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 15 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 14 (7.18%) Cloud Spanner
4 14 (7.18%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.05%) Power BI
6 4 (2.05%) Tableau
7 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.54%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.51%) Big Data
8 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (15.38%) Git
2 25 (12.82%) JIRA
3 21 (10.77%) SonarQube
4 13 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.67%) Selenium
5 12 (6.15%) GitLab
5 12 (6.15%) Maven
5 12 (6.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.62%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (2.05%) Appium
8 4 (2.05%) Fiddler
8 4 (2.05%) JMeter
8 4 (2.05%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.05%) Postman
9 3 (1.54%) JUnit
10 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (48.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 72 (36.92%) Finance
3 58 (29.74%) Banking
4 32 (16.41%) Social Skills
5 19 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.08%) Games
7 5 (2.56%) Cantonese Language
7 5 (2.56%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.05%) Marketing
9 3 (1.54%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (59.49%) Software Engineer
2 114 (58.46%) Senior
3 95 (48.72%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (10.26%) Lead
5 11 (5.64%) Architect
6 9 (4.62%) AWS Architect
7 8 (4.10%) AWS Solution Architect
7 8 (4.10%) Developer
7 8 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.10%) TOGAF Architect
8 7 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (3.59%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.08%) DevOps Architect
9 6 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.08%) PHP Developer
9 6 (3.08%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.08%) Senior PHP Developer
9 6 (3.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (56.41%) Node.js
2 84 (43.08%) .NET
3 34 (17.44%) React
4 30 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 28 (14.36%) Spring
6 20 (10.26%) CSS
6 20 (10.26%) HTML
7 15 (7.69%) RESTful
8 14 (7.18%) Hibernate
9 13 (6.67%) Kafka
10 9 (4.62%) JPA
10 9 (4.62%) Redux
11 7 (3.59%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.59%) Playwright
12 6 (3.08%) LAMP
13 5 (2.56%) Django
13 5 (2.56%) jQuery
13 5 (2.56%) Middleware
13 5 (2.56%) Vue
14 3 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 82 (42.05%) Cyberattack
1 82 (42.05%) Linux Command Line
1 82 (42.05%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.21%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.51%) PKI
9 1 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 103 (52.82%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Windows
3 7 (3.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (72.82%) Agile
2 135 (69.23%) Software Engineering
3 120 (61.54%) Mentoring
4 117 (60.00%) Microservices
5 97 (49.74%) Machine Learning
6 92 (47.18%) Data Engineering
7 88 (45.13%) User Experience
8 86 (44.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 85 (43.59%) Cloud Security
10 84 (43.08%) Scrum
11 52 (26.67%) DevOps
12 51 (26.15%) CI/CD
13 38 (19.49%) Test Automation
14 34 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (15.90%) TDD
16 26 (13.33%) Containerisation
17 25 (12.82%) Code Quality
18 20 (10.26%) Roadmaps
18 20 (10.26%) SDLC
19 19 (9.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 142 (72.82%) Java
2 127 (65.13%) JavaScript
3 126 (64.62%) Python
4 92 (47.18%) Go
5 84 (43.08%) C++
6 82 (42.05%) Rust
7 36 (18.46%) SQL
8 15 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.13%) C#
10 8 (4.10%) PHP
11 4 (2.05%) Bash
12 3 (1.54%) R
13 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.51%) Perl
14 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
14 1 (0.51%) Scala
14 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (45.64%) AWS Certification
1 89 (45.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 86 (44.10%) Security Cleared
3 83 (42.56%) DV Cleared
4 82 (42.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (5.64%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.62%) Degree
7 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.05%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.05%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.51%) CEH
12 1 (0.51%) MCSA
12 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) QA
2 7 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.08%) GDPR
3 6 (3.08%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.08%) NIST
4 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (26.15%) Docker
2 5 (2.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (27.18%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.79%) Terraform
3 5 (2.56%) Grafana
3 5 (2.56%) Istio
3 5 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.05%) Ansible
5 3 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.51%) Automic
6 1 (0.51%) Consul
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.51%) Rancher
6 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (30.77%) Google
2 11 (5.64%) Oracle
3 9 (4.62%) Solace
4 7 (3.59%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.56%) VMware
6 3 (1.54%) Splunk
6 3 (1.54%) Twitter
7 2 (1.03%) Databricks
7 2 (1.03%) IBM
7 2 (1.03%) New Relic
8 1 (0.51%) Confluent
8 1 (0.51%) Dell
8 1 (0.51%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.51%) Informatica
8 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.51%) Qualys
8 1 (0.51%) Revolut
8 1 (0.51%) SAP
8 1 (0.51%) Zend