GCP Job Trends in the North of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 73 82
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 -27
Permanent jobs citing GCP 338 399 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 4.17% 2.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.33% 15.45% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 251 137 208
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £71,991 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +12.93% -2.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,342 2,583 4,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.39% 27.00% 31.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,734 1,797 3,455
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the North of England

GCP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
North West -26 207 £70,932 -10.00% 165
Yorkshire -20 76 £70,932 -1.82% 88
North East -12 55 £73,750 +28.26% 29
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 33 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.14%) Apache
4 4 (1.18%) Confluence
5 3 (0.89%) SAS
6 2 (0.59%) CICS
6 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.55%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 239 (70.71%) AWS
2 227 (67.16%) Azure
3 31 (9.17%) dbt
4 28 (8.28%) GitHub
5 27 (7.99%) Serverless
6 25 (7.40%) SaaS
7 22 (6.51%) Power Platform
8 20 (5.92%) Google Analytics
8 20 (5.92%) Snowflake
9 16 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.25%) Google Tag Manager
14 10 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.96%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.66%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.66%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.62%) Firewall
2 15 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.25%) Network Security
4 10 (2.96%) HTTP
5 7 (2.07%) DNS
6 4 (1.18%) SAN
6 4 (1.18%) VPN
7 2 (0.59%) AMQP
8 1 (0.30%) DHCP
8 1 (0.30%) Internet
8 1 (0.30%) LAN
8 1 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.75%) BigQuery
2 45 (13.31%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (8.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (7.40%) SQL Server
5 22 (6.51%) Power BI
6 21 (6.21%) Looker
7 20 (5.92%) Metadata
8 18 (5.33%) Data Lake
9 16 (4.73%) NoSQL
10 14 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.85%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.37%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.07%) MySQL
13 7 (2.07%) Tableau
14 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
15 4 (1.18%) Big Data
15 4 (1.18%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
16 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 32 (9.47%) Git
2 27 (7.99%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.66%) JIRA
4 6 (1.78%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.78%) GitLab
5 4 (1.18%) Postman
5 4 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.89%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.89%) Selenium
6 3 (0.89%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.59%) MLflow
8 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) JMeter
8 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 85 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.88%) Finance
6 12 (3.55%) Law
6 12 (3.55%) Retail
7 9 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.48%) Local Government
10 4 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (0.89%) Banking
11 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Advertising
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Marketing
12 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (29.29%) Senior
2 61 (18.05%) Data Engineer
3 50 (14.79%) Architect
4 43 (12.72%) Lead
5 39 (11.54%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (9.47%) Analyst
8 26 (7.69%) Developer
9 22 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.92%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.33%) Python Engineer
11 18 (5.33%) Software Engineer
12 17 (5.03%) Data Architect
13 16 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
13 16 (4.73%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 15 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.55%) Security Architect
17 11 (3.25%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.69%) React
2 15 (4.44%) .NET
2 15 (4.44%) LangChain
3 14 (4.14%) Kafka
3 14 (4.14%) LlamaIndex
4 13 (3.85%) JWT
4 13 (3.85%) Node.js
4 13 (3.85%) OAuth
4 13 (3.85%) REST
5 11 (3.25%) RESTful
6 10 (2.96%) Django
6 10 (2.96%) OpenID
6 10 (2.96%) SAML
7 9 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.66%) Spring
7 9 (2.66%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.37%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.37%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.07%) Middleware
10 6 (1.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.73%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.25%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.66%) Life Science
6 9 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.07%) Online Gambling
9 6 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.47%) Linux
2 9 (2.66%) Unix
3 8 (2.37%) Windows
4 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.89%) CentOS
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.59%) Debian
6 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Solaris
7 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (34.32%) CI/CD
2 96 (28.40%) AI
3 94 (27.81%) DevOps
4 90 (26.63%) Mentoring
5 84 (24.85%) Agile
6 76 (22.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (19.53%) Analytics
9 62 (18.34%) Data Engineering
10 53 (15.68%) Software Engineering
11 52 (15.38%) Data Modelling
12 48 (14.20%) Decision-Making
13 47 (13.91%) Data Pipeline
13 47 (13.91%) ETL
13 47 (13.91%) Machine Learning
14 43 (12.72%) Containerisation
15 42 (12.43%) Roadmaps
16 41 (12.13%) Data Governance
17 39 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 154 (45.56%) Python
2 99 (29.29%) SQL
3 41 (12.13%) Java
4 26 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.10%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.92%) Go
7 17 (5.03%) Scala
8 15 (4.44%) Bash
9 12 (3.55%) C#
10 8 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) Bicep
13 2 (0.59%) Swift
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (9.17%) Degree
2 21 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.92%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.96%) DBS Check
9 9 (2.66%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.48%) SAP Certification
12 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.18%) CCSP
12 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.18%) CISSP
12 4 (1.18%) MBA
13 3 (0.89%) CISM
14 1 (0.30%) CISA
14 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.03%) GDPR
3 16 (4.73%) QA
4 13 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.96%) NIST
6 8 (2.37%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.07%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.59%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (14.50%) Docker
2 7 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.18%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 74 (21.89%) Terraform
2 52 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 19 (5.62%) Grafana
4 15 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.14%) Ansible
6 7 (2.07%) Puppet
7 5 (1.48%) Istio
8 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.89%) Control-M
9 3 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.89%) linkerd
10 2 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 96 (28.40%) Google
2 35 (10.36%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.58%) Databricks
4 16 (4.73%) Adobe
5 14 (4.14%) Apple
6 13 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.07%) Splunk
8 5 (1.48%) SAP
8 5 (1.48%) VMware
9 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.89%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.89%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.89%) New Relic
9 3 (0.89%) Pega
9 3 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.59%) Cisco
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle
10 2 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.30%) Citrix
11 1 (0.30%) Dell