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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 88 47
Rank change year-on-year -43 -41 -6
Permanent jobs citing GCP 150 288 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.59% 2.38% 5.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.94% 8.03% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 110 181 310
10th Percentile £46,725 £47,231 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.00% +3.65%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,250 £87,500 £93,750
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 3,038 3,587 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 32.17% 29.58% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,889 2,042 2,638
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -3 95 £65,000 +4.00% 57
Yorkshire -44 41 £70,000 +15.24% 20
North East +8 16 £60,000 -20.00% 11
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 13 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.00%) Apache
3 3 (2.00%) SAS
4 2 (1.33%) WordPress
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Magento
1 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 144 (96.00%) AWS
2 138 (92.00%) Azure
3 14 (9.33%) Serverless
4 12 (8.00%) GitHub
5 11 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.00%) SaaS
7 8 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.67%) dbt
9 5 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.33%) Pulumi
9 5 (3.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.67%) PaaS
11 3 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 9 (6.00%) Firewall
3 5 (3.33%) DNS
4 4 (2.67%) SAN
5 3 (2.00%) HTTP
5 3 (2.00%) VPN
6 2 (1.33%) AMQP
6 2 (1.33%) LAN
6 2 (1.33%) PuTTY
6 2 (1.33%) WAN
7 1 (0.67%) BGP
7 1 (0.67%) Broadband
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.67%) DAB
7 1 (0.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.67%) Network Security
7 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.67%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.67%) MongoDB
2 22 (14.67%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.67%) MySQL
4 11 (7.33%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.00%) Big Data
5 9 (6.00%) Power BI
6 8 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.33%) Tableau
7 7 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (4.67%) Hadoop
7 7 (4.67%) Redis
7 7 (4.67%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.00%) Metadata
9 5 (3.33%) Looker
10 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.33%) HBase
11 2 (1.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 15 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.00%) GitLab
3 10 (6.67%) Git
4 5 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.67%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.67%) JIRA
5 4 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (2.67%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.67%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.33%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.67%) MLflow
General
1 41 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.33%) Finance
3 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.67%) Marketing
4 11 (7.33%) Influencing Skills
4 11 (7.33%) Retail
5 10 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.00%) Law
6 6 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.33%) Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Electronics
9 2 (1.33%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 35 (23.33%) Senior
2 33 (22.00%) Architect
3 28 (18.67%) Developer
4 22 (14.67%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (14.00%) Lead
6 19 (12.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (11.33%) AWS Architect
7 17 (11.33%) AWS Solution Architect
8 13 (8.67%) TOGAF Architect
9 10 (6.67%) Azure Architect
10 9 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (5.33%) Analyst
12 7 (4.67%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Lead Software Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Senior Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.33%) RESTful
2 18 (12.00%) React
3 15 (10.00%) Django
4 12 (8.00%) Kafka
4 12 (8.00%) Spring
4 12 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.67%) Node.js
6 9 (6.00%) FastAPI
7 8 (5.33%) Celery
7 8 (5.33%) CSS
7 8 (5.33%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.33%) Flask
7 8 (5.33%) HTML
7 8 (5.33%) Vue
8 7 (4.67%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.67%) Hibernate
8 7 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.00%) gRPC
9 6 (4.00%) REST
10 5 (3.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.33%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.67%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.33%) NHS
7 2 (1.33%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.67%) Linux
2 14 (9.33%) Windows
3 8 (5.33%) Unix
4 3 (2.00%) CentOS
4 3 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.33%) Debian
5 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 69 (46.00%) DevOps
3 62 (41.33%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (40.00%) Agile
5 55 (36.67%) Containerisation
6 38 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (25.33%) Microservices
7 28 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (18.00%) AI
8 27 (18.00%) Mentoring
9 26 (17.33%) Roadmaps
10 22 (14.67%) Clean Code
10 22 (14.67%) Data Science
10 22 (14.67%) Machine Learning
11 21 (14.00%) Enterprise Architecture
11 21 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 20 (13.33%) Open Source
12 20 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (12.67%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 70 (46.67%) Python
2 37 (24.67%) SQL
3 36 (24.00%) Java
4 20 (13.33%) C#
5 16 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.67%) Bash
7 7 (4.67%) Go
7 7 (4.67%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.00%) PHP
8 6 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.00%) Scala
9 3 (2.00%) R
10 2 (1.33%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.67%) C++
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Degree
2 14 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.33%) CISSP
10 1 (0.67%) CBAP
10 1 (0.67%) CISA
10 1 (0.67%) CISM
10 1 (0.67%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.67%) CRISC
10 1 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.67%) GDPR
2 10 (6.67%) NIST
3 8 (5.33%) QA
4 7 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.67%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.33%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (44.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.33%) vSphere
3 3 (2.00%) HDFS
4 2 (1.33%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.67%) Firmware
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 33 (22.00%) Terraform
3 22 (14.67%) Ansible
4 18 (12.00%) Grafana
5 13 (8.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.67%) Control-M
6 4 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.67%) Puppet
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.00%) cPanel
7 3 (2.00%) Plesk
8 2 (1.33%) Kibana
8 2 (1.33%) logstash
8 2 (1.33%) Oozie
8 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.67%) Nagios
9 1 (0.67%) Nmap
9 1 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 52 (34.67%) Google
2 10 (6.67%) Databricks
2 10 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.00%) Oracle
4 6 (4.00%) Informatica
4 6 (4.00%) VMware
5 5 (3.33%) Palantir
5 5 (3.33%) SAP
6 4 (2.67%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.67%) HubSpot
7 3 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.33%) Dell
8 2 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.33%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.33%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.33%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.33%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.33%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow