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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 88 46
Rank change year-on-year -48 -42 -7
Permanent jobs citing GCP 139 273 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.39% 2.51% 5.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 8.12% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 101 178 327
10th Percentile £46,750 £46,936 £43,900
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +0.80%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £96,539
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 3,771 3,362 3,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.68% 30.90% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,935 2,623
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,820 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,340 £84,951
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 12 December 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 12 December 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 -11 85 £63,500 +1.60% 138
Yorkshire -60 42 £70,000 +15.24% 88
North East +4 14 £60,000 -17.24% 16
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 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.16%) Apache
3 3 (2.16%) SAS
4 2 (1.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 133 (95.68%) AWS
2 127 (91.37%) Azure
3 15 (10.79%) Serverless
4 11 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (7.19%) GitHub
6 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.47%) SaaS
7 8 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.04%) dbt
9 5 (3.60%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.60%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.60%) Pulumi
9 5 (3.60%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.88%) PaaS
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (2.16%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.76%) Firewall
1 8 (5.76%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.60%) DNS
3 3 (2.16%) HTTP
3 3 (2.16%) SAN
4 2 (1.44%) AMQP
4 2 (1.44%) PuTTY
4 2 (1.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.72%) BGP
5 1 (0.72%) Broadband
5 1 (0.72%) DAB
5 1 (0.72%) DHCP
5 1 (0.72%) LAN
5 1 (0.72%) WAN
5 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.27%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (15.83%) MongoDB
3 20 (14.39%) NoSQL
4 15 (10.79%) MySQL
5 11 (7.91%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.47%) Big Data
6 9 (6.47%) Power BI
7 8 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (5.76%) Tableau
8 7 (5.04%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.32%) Metadata
9 6 (4.32%) Redis
10 5 (3.60%) Looker
10 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.16%) TIBCO EBX
12 2 (1.44%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 15 (10.79%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.63%) GitLab
3 7 (5.04%) Git
4 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.16%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.16%) JIRA
5 3 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.16%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.44%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.72%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.72%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 37 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 14 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.07%) Marketing
4 10 (7.19%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.19%) Retail
5 8 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Law
6 6 (4.32%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.44%) Electronics
9 2 (1.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (23.02%) Senior
2 30 (21.58%) Architect
3 24 (17.27%) Developer
4 22 (15.83%) Lead
5 18 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.95%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (10.07%) AWS Architect
6 14 (10.07%) AWS Solution Architect
7 9 (6.47%) Azure Architect
7 9 (6.47%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) TOGAF Architect
8 8 (5.76%) Analyst
8 8 (5.76%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Lead Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Lead Software Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.39%) RESTful
2 16 (11.51%) React
3 15 (10.79%) Django
4 13 (9.35%) Spring
4 13 (9.35%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.91%) Kafka
6 9 (6.47%) FastAPI
7 8 (5.76%) Celery
7 8 (5.76%) Flask
7 8 (5.76%) Hibernate
7 8 (5.76%) Node.js
7 8 (5.76%) Vue
8 7 (5.04%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.32%) CSS
9 6 (4.32%) gRPC
9 6 (4.32%) HTML
9 6 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.60%) REST
10 5 (3.60%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.39%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.47%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.04%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.16%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.44%) NHS
10 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.72%) IoT
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.23%) Linux
2 12 (8.63%) Windows
3 8 (5.76%) Unix
4 3 (2.16%) CentOS
4 3 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.44%) Debian
5 2 (1.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (53.24%) CI/CD
2 64 (46.04%) DevOps
3 58 (41.73%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (39.57%) Agile
5 53 (38.13%) Containerisation
6 37 (26.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (24.46%) Microservices
8 28 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (19.42%) Mentoring
10 25 (17.99%) Roadmaps
11 24 (17.27%) AI
12 23 (16.55%) Clean Code
13 22 (15.83%) Data Science
14 21 (15.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
15 20 (14.39%) Machine Learning
15 20 (14.39%) Open Source
15 20 (14.39%) Performance Optimisation
16 18 (12.95%) Analytics
16 18 (12.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.48%) Python
2 33 (23.74%) Java
3 32 (23.02%) SQL
4 13 (9.35%) C#
4 13 (9.35%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.19%) Bash
6 7 (5.04%) Go
7 6 (4.32%) Scala
7 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.60%) PHP
8 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.16%) R
10 2 (1.44%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.72%) C++
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Degree
1 14 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.04%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) CBAP
9 1 (0.72%) CISA
9 1 (0.72%) CISM
9 1 (0.72%) CRISC
9 1 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.72%) OSCE
9 1 (0.72%) OSCP
9 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) GDPR
2 8 (5.76%) NIST
2 8 (5.76%) QA
3 7 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.60%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (43.17%) Docker
2 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.88%) vSphere
3 3 (2.16%) HDFS
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.72%) Firmware
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (37.41%) Kubernetes
2 32 (23.02%) Terraform
3 21 (15.11%) Ansible
4 17 (12.23%) Grafana
5 13 (9.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.88%) Puppet
7 3 (2.16%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.16%) Control-M
7 3 (2.16%) cPanel
7 3 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.16%) Plesk
8 2 (1.44%) Kibana
8 2 (1.44%) logstash
8 2 (1.44%) Oozie
8 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.72%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.72%) Nagios
9 1 (0.72%) Nmap
9 1 (0.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (30.22%) Google
2 9 (6.47%) Databricks
3 8 (5.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.76%) Oracle
4 7 (5.04%) Informatica
5 5 (3.60%) Palantir
5 5 (3.60%) VMware
6 4 (2.88%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.88%) SAP
7 3 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.16%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.44%) Dell
8 2 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.44%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.44%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.44%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.72%) UiPath