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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 59 78
Rank change year-on-year -71 +19 -52
Permanent jobs citing GCP 197 270 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.27% 4.23% 3.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.64% 12.06% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 146 224 330
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,013
25th Percentile £52,813 £52,500 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £84,688 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% +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 5,419 2,238 5,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.03% 35.06% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 1,693 4,751
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -42 110 £74,651 -0.47% 62
Yorkshire -84 60 £70,932 -2.16% 41
North East -15 27 £47,500 -29.27% 24
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 15 (7.61%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.06%) Apache
4 4 (2.03%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) CICS
5 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.02%) WordPress
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 159 (80.71%) AWS
1 159 (80.71%) Azure
2 33 (16.75%) GitHub
3 26 (13.20%) Serverless
4 24 (12.18%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (8.63%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (8.12%) dbt
8 15 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (6.60%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.09%) SaaS
11 9 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.06%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.55%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (3.55%) PaaS
13 7 (3.55%) Pulumi
14 6 (3.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.69%) Firewall
1 25 (12.69%) TCP/IP
2 18 (9.14%) DNS
2 18 (9.14%) HTTP
3 4 (2.03%) AMQP
3 4 (2.03%) VPN
4 2 (1.02%) Network Security
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.69%) BigQuery
2 20 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.12%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.61%) Metadata
5 14 (7.11%) Data Lake
5 14 (7.11%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.09%) MySQL
6 12 (6.09%) Power BI
7 11 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.57%) Looker
9 8 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.55%) Big Data
10 7 (3.55%) Redis
11 6 (3.05%) Hadoop
11 6 (3.05%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.05%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (3.05%) Tableau
12 4 (2.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (16.75%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.11%) Git
3 13 (6.60%) GitLab
4 4 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.03%) JIRA
5 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.52%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.51%) Gatling
6 1 (0.51%) JMeter
6 1 (0.51%) MLflow
6 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.17%) Finance
3 21 (10.66%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.66%) Telecoms
4 20 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.15%) Law
5 6 (3.05%) Marketing
6 4 (2.03%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Electronics
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Advertising
9 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (29.95%) Senior
2 35 (17.77%) Architect
3 30 (15.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.69%) Developer
5 19 (9.64%) Lead
6 17 (8.63%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.63%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.61%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.58%) AWS Architect
8 11 (5.58%) Python Engineer
8 11 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.08%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) Analyst
10 9 (4.57%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) Senior Architect
11 8 (4.06%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.24%) React
2 20 (10.15%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (8.63%) Django
4 14 (7.11%) RESTful
5 13 (6.60%) Node.js
5 13 (6.60%) REST
6 10 (5.08%) FastAPI
6 10 (5.08%) Spring
6 10 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 8 (4.06%) CSS
7 8 (4.06%) HTML
8 7 (3.55%) .NET
8 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.54%) Celery
9 5 (2.54%) Flask
9 5 (2.54%) Hibernate
9 5 (2.54%) Kafka
9 5 (2.54%) Laravel
9 5 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.15%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.60%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.57%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.52%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.02%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.02%) NHS
10 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.51%) Clustering
10 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.15%) Linux
2 8 (4.06%) Windows
3 7 (3.55%) Unix
4 5 (2.54%) CentOS
4 5 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.03%) Debian
5 4 (2.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (48.22%) CI/CD
2 94 (47.72%) DevOps
3 67 (34.01%) Containerisation
3 67 (34.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (26.90%) Agile
5 52 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (19.29%) Mentoring
7 36 (18.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 30 (15.23%) Continuous Integration
9 29 (14.72%) Observability
10 27 (13.71%) Continuous Delivery
11 26 (13.20%) Analytics
12 25 (12.69%) AI
12 25 (12.69%) Data Modelling
13 23 (11.68%) Microservices
14 22 (11.17%) DevSecOps
15 21 (10.66%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.66%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 20 (10.15%) Open Source
17 19 (9.64%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 96 (48.73%) Python
2 41 (20.81%) SQL
3 26 (13.20%) Go
3 26 (13.20%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.69%) Java
5 20 (10.15%) Bash
6 16 (8.12%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.55%) PHP
8 6 (3.05%) Scala
9 4 (2.03%) C#
9 4 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (7.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.60%) Degree
2 13 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.02%) CISSP
6 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CCSP
6 1 (0.51%) CISA
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.51%) CISM
6 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.51%) GSEC
6 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.57%) QA
3 6 (3.05%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.52%) GDPR
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (19.80%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (31.98%) Terraform
2 43 (21.83%) Kubernetes
3 34 (17.26%) Ansible
4 29 (14.72%) Grafana
5 27 (13.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.54%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.03%) Puppet
8 3 (1.52%) cPanel
8 3 (1.52%) Plesk
8 3 (1.52%) Rancher
9 1 (0.51%) Control-M
9 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.51%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.51%) Istio
9 1 (0.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 56 (28.43%) Google
2 13 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.55%) Databricks
4 6 (3.05%) Oracle
5 5 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.03%) Informatica
6 4 (2.03%) Palantir
6 4 (2.03%) Pega
6 4 (2.03%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.52%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.52%) UiPath
7 3 (1.52%) VMware
8 2 (1.02%) SAP
9 1 (0.51%) Adobe
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Dell
9 1 (0.51%) F5
9 1 (0.51%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.51%) Splunk