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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 58 75
Rank change year-on-year -72 +17 -48
Permanent jobs citing GCP 208 263 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.32% 4.14% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 11.82% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 155 220 330
10th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,626 £96,539
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 5,466 2,225 5,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.67% 35.01% 35.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,534 1,705 4,795
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,950 £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 £74,145 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,293 £89,500 £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 4 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 4 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 -40 113 £74,651 -0.47% 62
Yorkshire -77 65 £70,932 -2.16% 41
North East -8 30 £50,000 -25.54% 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 16 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (7.21%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.44%) SAS
5 2 (0.96%) CICS
5 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.96%) WordPress
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 166 (79.81%) AWS
2 165 (79.33%) Azure
3 34 (16.35%) GitHub
4 27 (12.98%) Serverless
5 24 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.17%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (7.69%) dbt
9 14 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (6.73%) Power Platform
9 14 (6.73%) SaaS
10 9 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.33%) Pulumi
11 8 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.85%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.37%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (3.37%) Google Analytics
12 7 (3.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.02%) Firewall
1 25 (12.02%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.65%) DNS
2 18 (8.65%) HTTP
3 4 (1.92%) AMQP
3 4 (1.92%) VPN
4 2 (0.96%) Network Security
5 1 (0.48%) Internet
5 1 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.46%) BigQuery
2 21 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.17%) MongoDB
4 16 (7.69%) Metadata
4 16 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.21%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.25%) Power BI
7 12 (5.77%) MySQL
8 11 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (4.81%) Looker
10 8 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (3.37%) Big Data
11 7 (3.37%) Redis
11 7 (3.37%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.88%) Hadoop
12 6 (2.88%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (2.88%) Tableau
13 5 (2.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (15.87%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.73%) Git
3 12 (5.77%) GitLab
4 4 (1.92%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.92%) JIRA
5 3 (1.44%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.44%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.48%) Gatling
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) MLflow
6 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.06%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.58%) Finance
4 21 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.10%) Telecoms
5 20 (9.62%) Law
6 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.88%) Marketing
7 4 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.96%) Electronics
9 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Advertising
10 1 (0.48%) Games
10 1 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (31.73%) Senior
2 37 (17.79%) Architect
3 30 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.98%) Developer
5 21 (10.10%) Lead
6 20 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.77%) Analyst
10 12 (5.77%) Data Architect
11 11 (5.29%) AWS Architect
11 11 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.29%) GCP Engineer
11 11 (5.29%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.33%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.87%) React
2 19 (9.13%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (8.17%) Django
4 14 (6.73%) RESTful
5 13 (6.25%) Node.js
6 12 (5.77%) REST
7 10 (4.81%) FastAPI
7 10 (4.81%) Spring
7 10 (4.81%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.33%) .NET
9 8 (3.85%) CSS
9 8 (3.85%) HTML
10 7 (3.37%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.88%) Kafka
12 5 (2.40%) Celery
12 5 (2.40%) Flask
12 5 (2.40%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.40%) Laravel
12 5 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.73%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.96%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 2 (0.96%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.96%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.48%) Clustering
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.62%) Linux
2 8 (3.85%) Windows
3 7 (3.37%) Unix
4 5 (2.40%) CentOS
4 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.92%) Debian
5 4 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (45.67%) CI/CD
1 95 (45.67%) DevOps
2 69 (33.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (32.69%) Containerisation
4 54 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (25.00%) Agile
6 43 (20.67%) Mentoring
7 36 (17.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 30 (14.42%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (14.42%) Observability
9 29 (13.94%) AI
10 28 (13.46%) Analytics
10 28 (13.46%) Data Modelling
11 27 (12.98%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (11.06%) Microservices
12 23 (11.06%) Software Engineering
13 22 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (10.10%) Data Engineering
14 21 (10.10%) Data Governance
14 21 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 102 (49.04%) Python
2 47 (22.60%) SQL
3 27 (12.98%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.50%) Go
4 26 (12.50%) Java
5 19 (9.13%) Bash
6 17 (8.17%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.37%) PHP
8 6 (2.88%) Scala
9 5 (2.40%) C#
10 3 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.73%) Degree
2 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.96%) CISSP
6 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.48%) CCSP
6 1 (0.48%) CISA
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.48%) CISM
6 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) GSEC
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.33%) QA
3 6 (2.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.40%) GDPR
5 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (18.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.96%) vSphere
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (31.25%) Terraform
2 43 (20.67%) Kubernetes
3 33 (15.87%) Ansible
4 29 (13.94%) Grafana
5 27 (12.98%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.92%) Puppet
8 3 (1.44%) cPanel
8 3 (1.44%) Plesk
8 3 (1.44%) Rancher
9 2 (0.96%) Istio
10 1 (0.48%) Control-M
10 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 60 (28.85%) Google
2 18 (8.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.37%) Databricks
4 6 (2.88%) Oracle
5 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.92%) Informatica
6 4 (1.92%) Palantir
6 4 (1.92%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.44%) Adobe
7 3 (1.44%) Pega
7 3 (1.44%) SAP
7 3 (1.44%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.44%) UiPath
7 3 (1.44%) VMware
8 2 (0.96%) Apple
8 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.48%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.48%) Zscaler