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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 72 55
Rank change year-on-year +8 -17 +2
Permanent jobs citing GCP 14 17 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.34% 1.83% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.09% 5.84% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 14
10th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £41,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,438 £83,075
90th Percentile - £87,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.60% -0.46%

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 275 291 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 26.37% 31.26% 39.17%
Number of salaries quoted 203 153 251
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,777 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £89,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 January 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 15 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
Tyne and Wear +1 11 £60,000 -17.24% 27
Durham +9 3 £73,801 +6.48%
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) dbt
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (21.43%) Pulumi
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Sentry
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) HTTP
3 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) Redis
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Law
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (21.43%) Django
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS3
3 1 (7.14%) Express.js
3 1 (7.14%) hapi
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) NestJS
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (21.43%) Static Code Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (14.29%) Control-M
4 2 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 2 (14.29%) VMware