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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 97 58
Rank change year-on-year +26 -39 -11
Permanent jobs citing GCP 346 274 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.77% 2.17% 4.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.86% 7.58% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 96 164 313
10th Percentile £46,625 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,438 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,853 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -8.37% +2.66%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,875 £92,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 2,497 3,617 3,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.21% 28.58% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 2,075 2,907
10th Percentile £27,050 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -2.37%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 2025. 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 +56 294 £65,000 +8.33% 109
Yorkshire -45 39 £75,000 +15.38% 56
North East +11 15 £60,000 -23.08% 20
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 41 (11.85%) Confluence
2 9 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
1 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 343 (99.13%) AWS
2 334 (96.53%) Azure
3 12 (3.47%) GitHub
4 10 (2.89%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (2.60%) SaaS
5 9 (2.60%) Serverless
6 8 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (2.02%) dbt
7 7 (2.02%) OCI
8 6 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.73%) Pulumi
9 5 (1.45%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.16%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.16%) PaaS
10 4 (1.16%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (0.87%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.76%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.89%) Firewall
3 8 (2.31%) VPN
4 7 (2.02%) BGP
4 7 (2.02%) Network Security
5 6 (1.73%) OSPF
5 6 (1.73%) VLAN
6 3 (0.87%) PuTTY
6 3 (0.87%) SAN
7 2 (0.58%) DNS
7 2 (0.58%) LAN
7 2 (0.58%) WAN
8 1 (0.29%) AMQP
8 1 (0.29%) Broadband
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.29%) DAB
8 1 (0.29%) DHCP
8 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.65%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.91%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.76%) MySQL
6 10 (2.89%) BigQuery
6 10 (2.89%) Power BI
7 9 (2.60%) Big Data
7 9 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.60%) Tableau
8 7 (2.02%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.02%) Redis
9 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.16%) Looker
11 4 (1.16%) Metadata
12 3 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 48 (13.87%) GitLab
2 44 (12.72%) JIRA
3 43 (12.43%) Bitbucket
3 43 (12.43%) SonarQube
4 40 (11.56%) Cucumber
4 40 (11.56%) Maven
4 40 (11.56%) Selenium
4 40 (11.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (4.34%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.02%) Git
7 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.58%) MLflow
9 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
General
1 212 (61.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 69 (19.94%) Finance
3 43 (12.43%) Banking
4 32 (9.25%) Social Skills
5 15 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.05%) Marketing
7 13 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.47%) Retail
9 8 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Electronics
11 2 (0.58%) Law
11 2 (0.58%) Legal
11 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 216 (62.43%) Software Engineer
2 206 (59.54%) Senior
3 173 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 29 (8.38%) Architect
5 25 (7.23%) Developer
6 23 (6.65%) Lead
7 21 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.91%) AWS Architect
8 17 (4.91%) AWS Solution Architect
9 16 (4.62%) TOGAF Architect
10 15 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (2.60%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (2.60%) DevOps Architect
12 9 (2.60%) Senior Architect
12 9 (2.60%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.31%) Analyst
13 8 (2.31%) Azure Architect
14 7 (2.02%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.02%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (52.02%) Node.js
2 176 (50.87%) .NET
3 53 (15.32%) Kafka
3 53 (15.32%) React
4 50 (14.45%) Spring
4 50 (14.45%) Spring Boot
5 47 (13.58%) Hibernate
6 46 (13.29%) CSS
6 46 (13.29%) HTML
7 41 (11.85%) Redux
8 40 (11.56%) JPA
9 21 (6.07%) RESTful
10 13 (3.76%) Django
11 8 (2.31%) FastAPI
12 7 (2.02%) Celery
12 7 (2.02%) Flask
12 7 (2.02%) Vue
13 6 (1.73%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 176 (50.87%) Linux Command Line
2 173 (50.00%) Cyberattack
3 172 (49.71%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (13.29%) Product Ownership
5 42 (12.14%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (8.09%) Cloud Native
7 17 (4.91%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.29%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.29%) IoT
13 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.29%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 187 (54.05%) Linux
2 10 (2.89%) Windows
3 9 (2.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) CentOS
4 1 (0.29%) Debian
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (79.48%) Agile
2 250 (72.25%) Microservices
3 234 (67.63%) Software Engineering
4 197 (56.94%) Mentoring
5 190 (54.91%) Machine Learning
6 186 (53.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 182 (52.60%) Data Engineering
8 178 (51.45%) User Experience
9 176 (50.87%) Cloud Security
9 176 (50.87%) Scrum
10 110 (31.79%) CI/CD
11 104 (30.06%) DevOps
12 85 (24.57%) Containerisation
13 74 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (17.34%) Clean Code
15 57 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
16 56 (16.18%) Performance Optimisation
17 52 (15.03%) TDD
18 51 (14.74%) SDLC
19 49 (14.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 248 (71.68%) Java
2 243 (70.23%) Python
3 228 (65.90%) JavaScript
4 175 (50.58%) Go
5 173 (50.00%) C++
6 172 (49.71%) Rust
7 75 (21.68%) SQL
8 21 (6.07%) C#
9 8 (2.31%) Bash
10 6 (1.73%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.45%) R
12 4 (1.16%) PHP
13 3 (0.87%) PROC SQL
13 3 (0.87%) Scala
14 1 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 185 (53.47%) AWS Certification
1 185 (53.47%) Security Cleared
2 181 (52.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 175 (50.58%) DV Cleared
4 172 (49.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 15 (4.34%) Degree
6 13 (3.76%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.47%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.29%) CBAP
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
11 1 (0.29%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.29%) CRISC
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.29%) OSCE
11 1 (0.29%) OSCP
11 1 (0.29%) PhD
11 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.87%) QA
2 14 (4.05%) GDPR
3 11 (3.18%) NIST
4 9 (2.60%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (30.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) HDFS
2 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.16%) vSphere
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 93 (26.88%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.23%) Terraform
3 20 (5.78%) Ansible
4 11 (3.18%) Grafana
5 7 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.87%) Control-M
6 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.87%) Kibana
6 3 (0.87%) logstash
6 3 (0.87%) Oozie
6 3 (0.87%) Puppet
7 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.29%) cPanel
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.29%) Nmap
8 1 (0.29%) Plesk
8 1 (0.29%) SCOM
8 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (14.74%) Google
2 40 (11.56%) Solace
3 9 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.31%) Databricks
5 6 (1.73%) Oracle
5 6 (1.73%) SAP
6 5 (1.45%) Informatica
7 4 (1.16%) HubSpot
7 4 (1.16%) IBM
7 4 (1.16%) VMware
8 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.87%) Dell
8 3 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco
9 2 (0.58%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.58%) Palantir
9 2 (0.58%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.58%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow