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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 160 88
Rank change year-on-year +17 -72 -32
Permanent jobs citing GCP 80 83 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.03% 1.25% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 3.90% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51 44 131
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,550 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,243 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,629 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +12.71% -8.95%
75th Percentile £84,313 £75,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.13% -

All Cloud Computing 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 2,843 2,127 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.44% 31.92% 38.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 1,220 1,722
10th Percentile £27,960 £32,475 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,510 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 1 January 2026.

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 1 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
East Midlands +3 40 £59,500 -8.46% 37
West Midlands +6 38 £71,901 +3.74% 52
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 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (11.25%) SharePoint
1 9 (11.25%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Strapi
2 1 (1.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.75%) Shopify
2 1 (1.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 69 (86.25%) Azure
2 63 (78.75%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (12.50%) SaaS
5 9 (11.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (8.75%) Serverless
7 6 (7.50%) PaaS
8 5 (6.25%) IaaS
8 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.00%) Datadog
10 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.75%) dbt
10 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) Skype
2 6 (7.50%) Firewall
3 4 (5.00%) DNS
3 4 (5.00%) VPN
4 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.50%) Broadband
5 2 (2.50%) VoIP
6 1 (1.25%) BGP
6 1 (1.25%) DHCP
6 1 (1.25%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) MPLS
6 1 (1.25%) NAS
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) OSPF
6 1 (1.25%) SAN
6 1 (1.25%) WAN
6 1 (1.25%) Wireless
6 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) DTS
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (6.25%) Power BI
5 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.75%) Redis
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.50%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.25%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) MLflow
4 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.25%) JUnit
4 1 (1.25%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.25%) Mockito
General
1 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Retail
3 10 (12.50%) Finance
4 9 (11.25%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.75%) Marketing
6 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Law
8 2 (2.50%) Automotive
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Architect
2 15 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Lead
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Architect
8 5 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Azure Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.25%) GCP Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
9 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) RESTful
2 5 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (2.50%) Django
3 2 (2.50%) Laravel
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth
3 2 (2.50%) React
4 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.25%) EDI
4 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.25%) JWT
4 1 (1.25%) Node.js
4 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.25%) SAML
4 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.25%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.25%) Vue
4 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 10 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (11.25%) CMDB
3 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
2 9 (11.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (7.50%) Linux
4 3 (3.75%) Unix
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.00%) DevOps
2 16 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (17.50%) CI/CD
3 14 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (16.25%) Agile
4 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
4 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (12.50%) AI
5 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 10 (12.50%) Microservices
5 10 (12.50%) Server Management
6 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (11.25%) Customer Service
6 9 (11.25%) Problem Management
6 9 (11.25%) Roadmaps
6 9 (11.25%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 15 (18.75%) SQL
3 11 (13.75%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.00%) Java
5 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.00%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.50%) C++
8 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.50%) PHP
8 2 (2.50%) R
9 1 (1.25%) Bash
9 1 (1.25%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CBAP
6 1 (1.25%) CCSP
6 1 (1.25%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.25%) GPEN
6 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) OSCP
6 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.75%) SLA
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) GRC
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.75%) Docker
3 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (11.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Nagios
2 9 (11.25%) Terraform
2 9 (11.25%) ZABBIX
3 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.50%) Ansible
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.25%) Nessus
5 1 (1.25%) Nmap
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) Google
2 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.50%) VMware
4 9 (11.25%) BMC
4 9 (11.25%) Citrix
4 9 (11.25%) Darktrace
4 9 (11.25%) Proofpoint
4 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
4 9 (11.25%) SolarWinds
4 9 (11.25%) Tanium
4 9 (11.25%) Trend Micro
5 5 (6.25%) Databricks
5 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.00%) Adobe
7 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (2.50%) Cisco
8 2 (2.50%) Zend
8 2 (2.50%) Zoho
9 1 (1.25%) Tealium
93 GCP jobs in the Midlands