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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -64 -11 -35
Permanent jobs citing GCP 176 263 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.36% 3.40% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 9.92% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 142 204 350
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,544 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £69,384 £69,474
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -0.13% +4.02%
75th Percentile £83,438 £93,382 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -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 4,704 2,650 4,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.38% 34.24% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,183 1,551 4,056
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -29 101 £71,000 +2.33% 68
Yorkshire -71 52 £70,932 -1.47% 34
North East -8 23 £60,000 -13.43% 23
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 16 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.55%) Apache
4 4 (2.27%) SAS
5 2 (1.14%) WordPress
6 1 (0.57%) nginx
6 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (85.23%) AWS
2 148 (84.09%) Azure
3 27 (15.34%) GitHub
3 27 (15.34%) Serverless
4 23 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (8.52%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
9 12 (6.82%) dbt
10 10 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.11%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.11%) SaaS
12 8 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.55%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (3.98%) Pulumi
14 6 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (3.41%) PaaS
15 5 (2.84%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.07%) TCP/IP
2 22 (12.50%) Firewall
3 17 (9.66%) DNS
4 16 (9.09%) HTTP
5 4 (2.27%) AMQP
5 4 (2.27%) VPN
6 2 (1.14%) SAN
7 1 (0.57%) Broadband
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) LAN
7 1 (0.57%) Network Security
7 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.07%) BigQuery
2 18 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.52%) Metadata
4 14 (7.95%) MongoDB
5 13 (7.39%) Data Lake
5 13 (7.39%) Power BI
6 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 11 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (6.25%) Big Data
7 11 (6.25%) MySQL
8 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (5.68%) Looker
9 9 (5.11%) Hadoop
10 8 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (4.55%) Tableau
11 7 (3.98%) Redis
12 6 (3.41%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (2.84%) DynamoDB
13 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (16.48%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.39%) GitLab
3 9 (5.11%) Git
4 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.14%) JIRA
6 2 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
General
1 41 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.20%) Finance
3 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.80%) Law
4 19 (10.80%) Telecoms
5 17 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Marketing
7 4 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.14%) Electronics
9 2 (1.14%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (28.98%) Senior
2 32 (18.18%) Architect
3 29 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (13.64%) Developer
5 17 (9.66%) Lead
6 15 (8.52%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.95%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.25%) Analyst
9 11 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.11%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Senior Architect
12 8 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
12 8 (4.55%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 8 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Project Manager
13 7 (3.98%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.91%) React
2 19 (10.80%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (8.52%) Django
3 15 (8.52%) Node.js
3 15 (8.52%) RESTful
4 13 (7.39%) Spring
4 13 (7.39%) Spring Boot
5 11 (6.25%) REST
6 9 (5.11%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.11%) Vue
7 8 (4.55%) FastAPI
8 7 (3.98%) CSS
8 7 (3.98%) HTML
9 6 (3.41%) Hibernate
9 6 (3.41%) Kafka
10 5 (2.84%) .NET
10 5 (2.84%) Celery
10 5 (2.84%) Flask
10 5 (2.84%) Laravel
10 5 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.11%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.70%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.14%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) IoT
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.07%) Linux
2 12 (6.82%) Windows
3 8 (4.55%) Unix
4 5 (2.84%) CentOS
4 5 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.27%) Debian
5 4 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (53.98%) CI/CD
2 85 (48.30%) DevOps
3 71 (40.34%) Containerisation
4 58 (32.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (30.68%) Agile
7 35 (19.89%) Mentoring
8 32 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (17.61%) Microservices
10 29 (16.48%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (13.07%) Observability
12 23 (13.07%) Software Engineering
13 21 (11.93%) DevSecOps
14 20 (11.36%) Open Source
15 19 (10.80%) Analytics
15 19 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (10.80%) Data Science
15 19 (10.80%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (10.23%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.59%) Python
2 38 (21.59%) SQL
3 31 (17.61%) Java
4 27 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.07%) Go
6 19 (10.80%) Bash
7 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.55%) PHP
9 7 (3.98%) C#
9 7 (3.98%) Scala
10 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.09%) Degree
1 16 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CISA
7 1 (0.57%) CISM
7 1 (0.57%) CRISC
7 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) GDPR
4 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (26.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.70%) vSphere
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Firmware
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (31.82%) Terraform
2 49 (27.84%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.45%) Ansible
4 28 (15.91%) Grafana
5 25 (14.20%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.41%) Puppet
7 5 (2.84%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.70%) cPanel
8 3 (1.70%) Plesk
8 3 (1.70%) Rancher
9 2 (1.14%) Control-M
9 2 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.57%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (33.52%) Google
2 12 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.41%) Oracle
4 5 (2.84%) Informatica
4 5 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.27%) Databricks
5 4 (2.27%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.27%) Palantir
5 4 (2.27%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.27%) VMware
6 3 (1.70%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.14%) SAP
7 2 (1.14%) UiPath
8 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.57%) F5
8 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.57%) Pega
8 1 (0.57%) SnapLogic