GCP Job Trends in the North East

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 55 68
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -2
Permanent jobs citing GCP 41 13 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.72% 1.91% 2.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.18% 7.14% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 37 12 26
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,900 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.08% -25.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £80,250 £74,258 £83,759
90th Percentile £97,500 - £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 501 182 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.01% 26.69% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 320 127 619
10th Percentile £33,625 £25,870 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £77,100
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the North East

GCP
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North East over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in the North East

GCP
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Tyne and Wear -11 40 £67,500 +22.73% 12
Durham -13 1 - - 1
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (14.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (87.80%) AWS
1 36 (87.80%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) GitHub
3 10 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.32%) Google Analytics
4 3 (7.32%) Google Tag Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) Serverless
4 3 (7.32%) Vertex AI
5 2 (4.88%) Dagster
5 2 (4.88%) dbt
5 2 (4.88%) Pulumi
5 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.44%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) Firewall
1 11 (26.83%) TCP/IP
2 10 (24.39%) DNS
2 10 (24.39%) HTTP
3 3 (7.32%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (9.76%) BigQuery
1 4 (9.76%) Data Vault
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (7.32%) Looker
2 3 (7.32%) Metadata
2 3 (7.32%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
3 3 (7.32%) Artifactory
3 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.32%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.44%) Gatling
4 1 (2.44%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (24.39%) Law
1 10 (24.39%) Telecoms
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Lead
4 5 (12.20%) Data Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Python Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Security Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (9.76%) LangChain
2 4 (9.76%) LlamaIndex
3 2 (4.88%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) Django
4 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.44%) Playwright
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) AI Agents
3 4 (9.76%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (9.76%) Life Science
3 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
5 2 (4.88%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.44%) Online Gambling
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) DevOps
2 20 (48.78%) CI/CD
3 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
4 13 (31.71%) Continuous Delivery
4 13 (31.71%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (31.71%) DevSecOps
4 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (29.27%) Agile
6 11 (26.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 10 (24.39%) Analytics
7 10 (24.39%) High Availability
7 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (24.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (24.39%) Static Code Analysis
8 7 (17.07%) Data Governance
8 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
8 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
8 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 10 (24.39%) Bash
3 10 (24.39%) Go
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 5 (12.20%) C#
6 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (9.76%) CCSP
2 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.76%) CISSP
3 3 (7.32%) CISM
3 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CISA
5 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) GSEC
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.76%) NIST
3 3 (7.32%) QA
4 2 (4.88%) GDPR
5 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Terraform
2 14 (34.15%) Grafana
3 13 (31.71%) Ansible
4 10 (24.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.76%) Kubernetes
6 3 (7.32%) Control-M
6 3 (7.32%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Dataiku
5 1 (2.44%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.44%) Zscaler