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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 75 98
Rank change year-on-year -33 +23 -40
Permanent jobs citing GCP 344 339 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.43% 3.72% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.21% 13.66% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 253 91 163
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,250
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 4,773 2,482 3,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.85% 27.21% 28.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,602 1,712 2,121
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,241 £84,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -48 204 £70,000 +7.69% 179
North East -16 72 £79,500 +44.55% 39
Yorkshire -9 68 £70,000 -6.67% 84
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 23 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.49%) Apache
4 7 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.03%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 261 (75.87%) AWS
2 237 (68.90%) Azure
3 27 (7.85%) SaaS
4 24 (6.98%) dbt
5 23 (6.69%) GitHub
6 19 (5.52%) Google Analytics
6 19 (5.52%) Serverless
7 18 (5.23%) Power Platform
8 15 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.07%) Snowflake
10 13 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.78%) Google Tag Manager
11 12 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.36%) Firewall
2 12 (3.49%) Internet
3 10 (2.91%) Network Security
4 8 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.16%) HTTP
5 4 (1.16%) SAN
5 4 (1.16%) VPN
6 2 (0.58%) AMQP
6 2 (0.58%) DNS
6 2 (0.58%) LAN
6 2 (0.58%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) DHCP
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
7 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.95%) BigQuery
2 36 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (6.40%) Metadata
4 19 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (5.52%) Looker
4 19 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.94%) Power BI
6 10 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.03%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.74%) MySQL
9 6 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (1.45%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.45%) Tableau
11 4 (1.16%) Big Data
11 4 (1.16%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.16%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (13.95%) Git
2 21 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.20%) GitLab
4 7 (2.03%) JIRA
5 6 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.45%) Postman
7 4 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.87%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.87%) Selenium
8 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 81 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (16.86%) Public Sector
4 55 (15.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (8.14%) Finance
6 13 (3.78%) Retail
7 6 (1.74%) Law
7 6 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.45%) Marketing
9 4 (1.16%) Legal
9 4 (1.16%) Local Government
10 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Publishing
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 78 (22.67%) Senior
2 57 (16.57%) Data Engineer
3 51 (14.83%) Architect
4 45 (13.08%) Lead
5 37 (10.76%) GCP Engineer
6 31 (9.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (8.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (7.85%) Analyst
10 24 (6.98%) Developer
11 17 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (4.94%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.65%) Data Architect
13 15 (4.36%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 15 (4.36%) Databricks Engineer
13 15 (4.36%) Technical Architect
14 14 (4.07%) GCP Data Engineer
14 14 (4.07%) Python Engineer
15 13 (3.78%) Security Engineer
16 12 (3.49%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (21.22%) Terraform
2 25 (7.27%) LangChain
3 24 (6.98%) LlamaIndex
4 19 (5.52%) Middleware
5 17 (4.94%) Node.js
6 16 (4.65%) React
7 12 (3.49%) REST
8 10 (2.91%) .NET
8 10 (2.91%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.91%) JWT
8 10 (2.91%) OAuth
8 10 (2.91%) OpenID
8 10 (2.91%) SAML
8 10 (2.91%) Spring
8 10 (2.91%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.91%) Web Services
9 9 (2.62%) Kafka
10 7 (2.03%) PySpark
10 7 (2.03%) Swagger
11 6 (1.74%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.01%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.94%) AI Agents
3 17 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.20%) Life Science
5 11 (3.20%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.03%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.45%) Online Gambling
11 4 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.21%) Linux
2 8 (2.33%) Windows
3 7 (2.03%) Unix
4 4 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.87%) CentOS
6 2 (0.58%) Android
6 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) Debian
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (39.53%) CI/CD
2 122 (35.47%) AI
3 106 (30.81%) Mentoring
4 101 (29.36%) Agile
5 97 (28.20%) DevOps
6 89 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (20.93%) Data Engineering
9 70 (20.35%) Machine Learning
10 65 (18.90%) Decision-Making
11 64 (18.60%) Analytics
12 63 (18.31%) Software Engineering
13 58 (16.86%) Technical Leadership
14 57 (16.57%) Containerisation
15 55 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (15.41%) Cloud Security
17 48 (13.95%) LLM
18 47 (13.66%) Data Pipeline
19 45 (13.08%) Data Modelling
20 43 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 153 (44.48%) Python
2 95 (27.62%) SQL
3 36 (10.47%) Java
4 27 (7.85%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.40%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.23%) Scala
7 15 (4.36%) Bash
8 14 (4.07%) Go
8 14 (4.07%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.03%) C#
12 6 (1.74%) Bicep
13 2 (0.58%) C++
13 2 (0.58%) Swift
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Rust
14 1 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (9.01%) Degree
2 29 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 28 (8.14%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.98%) Security Cleared
5 22 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 21 (6.10%) SC Cleared
7 14 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.20%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.62%) DBS Check
10 8 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.16%) CISM
11 4 (1.16%) MBA
12 3 (0.87%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.58%) CISSP
13 2 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.58%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.58%) ECSA
13 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.66%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.07%) GDPR
2 14 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.91%) NIST
4 10 (2.91%) QA
5 9 (2.62%) NCSC
6 4 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) COBIT
9 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 66 (19.19%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) vSphere
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 60 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.07%) Grafana
3 12 (3.49%) Ansible
4 11 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.62%) Puppet
6 6 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.87%) Control-M
7 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.87%) Istio
7 3 (0.87%) linkerd
8 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 108 (31.40%) Google
2 45 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 27 (7.85%) Databricks
4 18 (5.23%) Adobe
5 12 (3.49%) Splunk
6 9 (2.62%) Apple
7 8 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.45%) New Relic
8 5 (1.45%) VMware
9 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.87%) Foundry
9 3 (0.87%) Palantir
9 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.87%) SAP
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco
10 2 (0.58%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.29%) Okta
11 1 (0.29%) OneTrust