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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 85 97
Rank change year-on-year -31 +12 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 339 339 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.41% 3.56% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.98% 13.70% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 250 91 167
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £47,950
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year - +14.37% -6.34%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,750
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 4,857 2,474 3,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.22% 25.96% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,557 1,704 2,185
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,143 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -1.56% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,422 £83,250
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -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 11 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 11 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 -33 199 £70,000 +7.69% 269
North East -12 72 £79,500 +44.55% 43
Yorkshire -16 68 £70,000 -6.67% 113
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 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.54%) Apache
4 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.59%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 255 (75.22%) AWS
2 235 (69.32%) Azure
3 27 (7.96%) SaaS
4 25 (7.37%) dbt
5 21 (6.19%) GitHub
6 19 (5.60%) Google Analytics
6 19 (5.60%) Serverless
7 17 (5.01%) Power Platform
8 15 (4.42%) Snowflake
9 14 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.83%) Google Tag Manager
11 12 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.13%) Firewall
2 12 (3.54%) Internet
3 9 (2.65%) Network Security
4 8 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.18%) HTTP
5 4 (1.18%) SAN
5 4 (1.18%) VPN
6 2 (0.59%) AMQP
6 2 (0.59%) DNS
6 2 (0.59%) LAN
6 2 (0.59%) 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%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.45%) BigQuery
2 35 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (6.78%) Metadata
4 19 (5.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 18 (5.31%) Looker
6 16 (4.72%) Power BI
7 9 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.36%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.06%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.77%) MySQL
10 6 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.47%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.47%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (1.47%) Spark SQL
12 4 (1.18%) Big Data
12 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (1.18%) Tableau
13 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (13.86%) Git
2 20 (5.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.24%) GitLab
4 6 (1.77%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.77%) JIRA
4 6 (1.77%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.47%) Postman
6 4 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.88%) Selenium
7 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 82 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (16.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 57 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.55%) Finance
5 14 (4.13%) Retail
6 6 (1.77%) Law
6 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.47%) Marketing
8 4 (1.18%) Legal
8 4 (1.18%) Local Government
8 4 (1.18%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Publishing
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 80 (23.60%) Senior
2 57 (16.81%) Data Engineer
3 52 (15.34%) Architect
4 45 (13.27%) Lead
5 37 (10.91%) GCP Engineer
6 31 (9.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (8.55%) Analyst
7 29 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (6.49%) Developer
10 17 (5.01%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.01%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.42%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 15 (4.42%) Databricks Engineer
12 15 (4.42%) Technical Architect
13 14 (4.13%) GCP Data Engineer
14 13 (3.83%) Python Engineer
14 13 (3.83%) Security Engineer
15 12 (3.54%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.94%) Terraform
2 25 (7.37%) LangChain
3 24 (7.08%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (5.01%) Middleware
4 17 (5.01%) Node.js
5 16 (4.72%) React
6 11 (3.24%) REST
7 10 (2.95%) .NET
7 10 (2.95%) AWS CDK
7 10 (2.95%) JWT
7 10 (2.95%) OAuth
7 10 (2.95%) OpenID
7 10 (2.95%) SAML
7 10 (2.95%) Web Services
8 9 (2.65%) Spring
8 9 (2.65%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.36%) Kafka
10 7 (2.06%) PySpark
10 7 (2.06%) Swagger
11 6 (1.77%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.85%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.01%) AI Agents
4 16 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.54%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.24%) Life Science
6 11 (3.24%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.06%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.47%) Online Gambling
12 4 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.09%) Linux
2 8 (2.36%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Unix
4 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.88%) 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 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (39.23%) CI/CD
2 120 (35.40%) AI
3 107 (31.56%) Mentoring
4 100 (29.50%) Agile
5 96 (28.32%) DevOps
6 87 (25.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 74 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (20.94%) Data Engineering
9 67 (19.76%) Machine Learning
10 65 (19.17%) Decision-Making
11 64 (18.88%) Analytics
12 61 (17.99%) Software Engineering
13 57 (16.81%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (15.93%) Containerisation
14 54 (15.93%) Platform Engineering
15 52 (15.34%) Cloud Security
16 47 (13.86%) LLM
17 46 (13.57%) Data Modelling
17 46 (13.57%) Data Pipeline
18 42 (12.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 150 (44.25%) Python
2 92 (27.14%) SQL
3 35 (10.32%) Java
4 27 (7.96%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.49%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.31%) Scala
7 14 (4.13%) Bash
7 14 (4.13%) Go
7 14 (4.13%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.54%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.36%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.06%) C#
11 6 (1.77%) Bicep
12 2 (0.59%) C++
12 2 (0.59%) Swift
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) Rust
13 1 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (8.85%) Degree
2 29 (8.55%) AWS Certification
3 28 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 21 (6.19%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.31%) SC Cleared
7 13 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.95%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.65%) DBS Check
11 8 (2.36%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.18%) MBA
13 3 (0.88%) CISM
13 3 (0.88%) SAP Certification
14 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.59%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.59%) ECSA
14 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.59%) OSCP
15 1 (0.29%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.57%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.13%) GDPR
3 12 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.95%) QA
6 9 (2.65%) NCSC
7 8 (2.36%) NIST
8 4 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.29%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 63 (18.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.18%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 57 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.13%) Grafana
3 11 (3.24%) Ansible
3 11 (3.24%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.65%) Puppet
5 6 (1.77%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.88%) Control-M
6 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.88%) Istio
6 3 (0.88%) linkerd
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 107 (31.56%) Google
2 47 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.26%) Databricks
4 20 (5.90%) Adobe
5 12 (3.54%) Splunk
6 11 (3.24%) Apple
7 10 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.47%) New Relic
8 5 (1.47%) VMware
9 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.88%) Foundry
9 3 (0.88%) Palantir
9 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.88%) SAP
10 2 (0.59%) Cisco
10 2 (0.59%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.29%) Citrix
11 1 (0.29%) Salesforce