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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 69 91
Rank change year-on-year -33 +22 -46
Permanent jobs citing GCP 316 423 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.53% 4.51% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.06% 16.50% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 240 158 255
10th Percentile £44,650 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,125 £53,125 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £79,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,931 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.13%

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 5,214 2,563 6,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.23% 27.34% 32.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,584 1,763 4,795
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,100 £28,888
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £78,312 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,759
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 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -31 190 £72,500 -7.24% 101
Yorkshire -28 81 £70,932 -5.26% 37
North East -15 45 £70,000 +21.74% 19
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 29 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.75%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.43%) Apache
4 4 (1.27%) Confluence
5 3 (0.95%) SAS
6 2 (0.63%) CICS
6 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.32%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.80%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 228 (72.15%) AWS
2 222 (70.25%) Azure
3 35 (11.08%) GitHub
4 28 (8.86%) Serverless
5 26 (8.23%) SaaS
6 24 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (6.96%) Power Platform
9 20 (6.33%) dbt
10 14 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (4.11%) Snowflake
12 12 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.48%) Google Analytics
14 10 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.16%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.90%) Cloudflare
17 5 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.59%) Firewall
2 17 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.75%) DNS
4 14 (4.43%) HTTP
5 12 (3.80%) Network Security
6 5 (1.58%) VPN
7 3 (0.95%) AMQP
7 3 (0.95%) SAN
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.61%) BigQuery
2 32 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (6.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (6.65%) Metadata
3 21 (6.65%) Power BI
4 18 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.75%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.75%) NoSQL
7 14 (4.43%) Looker
8 13 (4.11%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.85%) MySQL
10 8 (2.53%) Data Vault
11 7 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.22%) Tableau
12 5 (1.58%) Big Data
13 4 (1.27%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 35 (11.08%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.01%) Git
3 9 (2.85%) JIRA
4 6 (1.90%) GitLab
5 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.27%) Postman
5 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.95%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.95%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.95%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.95%) Selenium
6 3 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.28%) Finance
6 21 (6.65%) Law
7 17 (5.38%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.90%) Retail
9 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.95%) Banking
10 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.95%) Local Government
11 2 (0.63%) Games
11 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (31.01%) Senior
2 52 (16.46%) Architect
3 48 (15.19%) Data Engineer
4 40 (12.66%) GCP Engineer
5 39 (12.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (10.44%) Lead
7 29 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (8.54%) Analyst
9 25 (7.91%) Developer
10 24 (7.59%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.70%) Software Engineer
12 17 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.75%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (4.43%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.11%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (3.80%) Security Architect
17 11 (3.48%) GCP Data Engineer
17 11 (3.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.86%) React
2 17 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (4.11%) .NET
3 13 (4.11%) JWT
3 13 (4.11%) Kafka
3 13 (4.11%) Node.js
3 13 (4.11%) OAuth
3 13 (4.11%) RESTful
4 12 (3.80%) Django
5 11 (3.48%) FastAPI
5 11 (3.48%) LangChain
5 11 (3.48%) REST
6 10 (3.16%) LlamaIndex
6 10 (3.16%) OpenID
6 10 (3.16%) SAML
7 9 (2.85%) Spring
7 9 (2.85%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.53%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.22%) Middleware
9 7 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.38%) AI Agents
3 17 (5.38%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.48%) Security Posture
5 10 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.53%) Life Science
8 7 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.95%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.91%) Linux
2 7 (2.22%) Windows
3 6 (1.90%) Unix
4 4 (1.27%) CentOS
4 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.95%) Debian
5 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (35.13%) CI/CD
2 102 (32.28%) DevOps
3 78 (24.68%) Mentoring
4 77 (24.37%) AI
5 72 (22.78%) Agile
6 70 (22.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (18.67%) Containerisation
8 57 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (16.46%) Analytics
10 49 (15.51%) Data Modelling
11 42 (13.29%) Data Engineering
12 41 (12.97%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (12.97%) Software Engineering
13 39 (12.34%) Data Governance
14 36 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
14 36 (11.39%) ETL
15 35 (11.08%) Data Architecture
15 35 (11.08%) Decision-Making
15 35 (11.08%) Roadmaps
16 31 (9.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 139 (43.99%) Python
2 79 (25.00%) SQL
3 36 (11.39%) Java
4 26 (8.23%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.59%) Go
6 20 (6.33%) Bash
6 20 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.06%) Scala
8 11 (3.48%) C#
9 7 (2.22%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.63%) Bicep
11 2 (0.63%) PHP
11 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (7.91%) Degree
2 12 (3.80%) AWS Certification
2 12 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.16%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.58%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.27%) CCSP
7 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.27%) CISSP
8 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.95%) CISM
8 3 (0.95%) MBA
9 1 (0.32%) GSEC
9 1 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.11%) GDPR
2 13 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.11%) QA
3 10 (3.16%) NIST
4 7 (2.22%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (12.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.95%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) KVM
4 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (24.37%) Terraform
2 51 (16.14%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.59%) Ansible
3 24 (7.59%) Grafana
4 20 (6.33%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.22%) Puppet
6 4 (1.27%) Istio
7 3 (0.95%) Control-M
7 3 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.63%) linkerd
9 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (26.27%) Google
2 34 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.59%) Databricks
4 15 (4.75%) Adobe
5 13 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.80%) Apple
7 5 (1.58%) SAP
8 4 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.27%) VMware
9 3 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.95%) Pega
9 3 (0.95%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.95%) Splunk
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle
10 2 (0.63%) UiPath
11 1 (0.32%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.32%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.32%) Zscaler