GCP Job Trends in the Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 194 93
Rank change year-on-year +74 -101 -28
Permanent jobs citing GCP 94 71 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.67% 0.80% 2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 3.04% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 69 27 135
10th Percentile £42,250 £50,850 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £58,750 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +15.51% -14.29%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,375 £76,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,500 £85,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,623 2,334 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.82% 26.41% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 1,369 1,742
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,520 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GCP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the Midlands

GCP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
West Midlands +46 48 £65,000 -6.22% 50
East Midlands +34 44 £55,000 -12.00% 32
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (9.57%) SharePoint
1 9 (9.57%) Skype for Business
2 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) IIS
3 1 (1.06%) SAS
3 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (85.11%) Azure
2 74 (78.72%) AWS
3 13 (13.83%) Power Platform
4 12 (12.77%) Snowflake
5 11 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (10.64%) SaaS
7 9 (9.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.32%) PaaS
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.26%) Datadog
10 4 (4.26%) IaaS
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.19%) dbt
11 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) Skype
2 5 (5.32%) Firewall
3 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 4 (4.26%) VPN
4 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.13%) Broadband
5 2 (2.13%) VoIP
6 1 (1.06%) BGP
6 1 (1.06%) DHCP
6 1 (1.06%) LAN
6 1 (1.06%) MPLS
6 1 (1.06%) NAS
6 1 (1.06%) Network Security
6 1 (1.06%) OSPF
6 1 (1.06%) PuTTY
6 1 (1.06%) SAN
6 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.83%) Power BI
3 12 (12.77%) BigQuery
3 12 (12.77%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.57%) DTS
4 9 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (8.51%) Big Data
5 8 (8.51%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.38%) MySQL
7 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.26%) Tableau
8 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.13%) Redis
9 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.06%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Git
2 6 (6.38%) JIRA
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.06%) JUnit
3 1 (1.06%) MLflow
3 1 (1.06%) Mockito
General
1 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.47%) Retail
3 9 (9.57%) Manufacturing
4 7 (7.45%) Marketing
5 6 (6.38%) Finance
5 6 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Automotive
8 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (27.66%) Architect
2 15 (15.96%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Support
5 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 12 (12.77%) Senior
5 12 (12.77%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Lead
6 8 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) SQL Developer
7 7 (7.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Database Developer
8 6 (6.38%) SQL Database Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Django
2 7 (7.45%) Flask
3 6 (6.38%) RESTful
4 5 (5.32%) .NET
5 4 (4.26%) OAuth
5 4 (4.26%) Spring
6 3 (3.19%) SAML
7 2 (2.13%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.13%) Laravel
7 2 (2.13%) PySpark
7 2 (2.13%) Vue
8 1 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.06%) JWT
8 1 (1.06%) Kafka
8 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.06%) Pandas
8 1 (1.06%) Plotly
8 1 (1.06%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.06%) Shiny
8 1 (1.06%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Cloud Native
1 12 (12.77%) Video Conferencing
2 11 (11.70%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.57%) CMDB
4 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.19%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) IoT
6 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Windows
1 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
1 9 (9.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (7.45%) Linux
3 4 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.17%) DevOps
2 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
3 22 (23.40%) Agile
4 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.15%) Enterprise Architecture
6 15 (15.96%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
7 14 (14.89%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (14.89%) Microservices
7 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.83%) AI
8 13 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (13.83%) Containerisation
8 13 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (11.70%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.70%) TOGAF
10 11 (11.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.66%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) SQL
3 10 (10.64%) Java
3 10 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.51%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.26%) C#
5 4 (4.26%) R
5 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.13%) Bash
7 2 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (1.06%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.32%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.19%) CCSP
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.19%) CISSP
6 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.06%) CBAP
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (18.09%) Docker
2 13 (13.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (18.09%) Terraform
2 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.57%) Nagios
3 9 (9.57%) ZABBIX
4 7 (7.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Kibana
5 1 (1.06%) logstash
5 1 (1.06%) Oozie
Vendors
1 33 (35.11%) Google
2 17 (18.09%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.70%) Databricks
4 10 (10.64%) VMware
5 9 (9.57%) BMC
5 9 (9.57%) Citrix
5 9 (9.57%) Darktrace
5 9 (9.57%) Proofpoint
5 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
5 9 (9.57%) SolarWinds
5 9 (9.57%) Tanium
5 9 (9.57%) Trend Micro
6 3 (3.19%) Adobe
6 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.13%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) Zoho
8 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.06%) New Relic