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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 62 77
Rank change year-on-year -66 +15 -51
Permanent jobs citing GCP 216 261 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.31% 4.07% 3.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 11.61% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 158 218 329
10th Percentile £45,875 £46,250 £37,600
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,188 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,375 £98,931 £96,539
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 5,669 2,248 5,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.35% 35.08% 35.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,642 1,725 4,835
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £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 £93,634 £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 10 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 10 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 -40 119 £74,651 -0.47% 62
Yorkshire -79 67 £70,932 -2.16% 41
North East -15 30 £50,000 -23.08% 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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.17%) Apache
3 3 (1.39%) Confluence
3 3 (1.39%) SAS
4 2 (0.93%) CICS
4 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 170 (78.70%) AWS
2 167 (77.31%) Azure
3 34 (15.74%) GitHub
4 30 (13.89%) Serverless
5 24 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (6.48%) dbt
8 14 (6.48%) Power Platform
8 14 (6.48%) SaaS
9 13 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.17%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.24%) Google Analytics
13 7 (3.24%) Pulumi
14 5 (2.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.57%) Firewall
2 23 (10.65%) TCP/IP
3 18 (8.33%) DNS
3 18 (8.33%) HTTP
4 5 (2.31%) AMQP
5 4 (1.85%) VPN
6 3 (1.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.46%) Internet
7 1 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.96%) BigQuery
2 21 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.80%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.87%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.41%) Metadata
6 15 (6.94%) Data Lake
7 13 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.02%) MySQL
7 13 (6.02%) Power BI
8 11 (5.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (4.63%) Looker
10 9 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.70%) Big Data
12 7 (3.24%) Hadoop
12 7 (3.24%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.78%) Tableau
14 5 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 32 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.48%) Git
3 11 (5.09%) GitLab
4 5 (2.31%) JIRA
5 4 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.39%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.39%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) Gatling
7 1 (0.46%) JMeter
7 1 (0.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (10.19%) Finance
3 21 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 20 (9.26%) Law
5 19 (8.80%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.31%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.85%) Marketing
9 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (31.02%) Senior
2 39 (18.06%) Architect
3 29 (13.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.50%) Developer
5 23 (10.65%) Lead
6 22 (10.19%) Data Engineer
7 20 (9.26%) Software Engineer
8 17 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Analyst
10 13 (6.02%) Data Architect
10 13 (6.02%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.09%) AWS Architect
11 11 (5.09%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.09%) GCP Engineer
11 11 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.17%) Project Manager
12 9 (4.17%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.20%) React
2 19 (8.80%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (7.87%) Django
4 15 (6.94%) RESTful
5 14 (6.48%) Node.js
6 13 (6.02%) REST
7 12 (5.56%) FastAPI
8 11 (5.09%) Spring
8 11 (5.09%) Spring Boot
9 9 (4.17%) .NET
10 8 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.70%) CSS
10 8 (3.70%) HTML
11 6 (2.78%) Celery
11 6 (2.78%) Flask
11 6 (2.78%) Kafka
11 6 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.78%) Vue
12 5 (2.31%) gRPC
12 5 (2.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.48%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.39%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.93%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.26%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Windows
3 6 (2.78%) CentOS
3 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.31%) Debian
4 5 (2.31%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (43.98%) CI/CD
1 95 (43.98%) DevOps
2 69 (31.94%) Containerisation
3 68 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (25.00%) Agile
4 54 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (19.91%) Mentoring
6 33 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 32 (14.81%) AI
8 30 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
9 29 (13.43%) Analytics
9 29 (13.43%) Data Modelling
9 29 (13.43%) Observability
10 27 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (11.57%) Microservices
11 25 (11.57%) Software Engineering
12 23 (10.65%) Data Governance
13 22 (10.19%) Data Engineering
13 22 (10.19%) DevSecOps
13 22 (10.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 102 (47.22%) Python
2 49 (22.69%) SQL
3 28 (12.96%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.50%) Java
5 26 (12.04%) Go
6 19 (8.80%) Bash
7 17 (7.87%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.24%) PHP
9 6 (2.78%) Scala
10 5 (2.31%) C#
11 3 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (6.94%) Degree
2 13 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.39%) CISSP
7 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.93%) CCSP
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.93%) CISM
7 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.93%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.46%) CISA
8 1 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.46%) GSEC
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.17%) QA
3 6 (2.78%) GDPR
3 6 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (17.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.93%) vSphere
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (29.63%) Terraform
2 45 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 34 (15.74%) Ansible
4 29 (13.43%) Grafana
5 27 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.31%) Puppet
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.39%) cPanel
7 3 (1.39%) Plesk
7 3 (1.39%) Rancher
8 2 (0.93%) Istio
9 1 (0.46%) Control-M
9 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.46%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 59 (27.31%) Google
2 19 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.24%) Databricks
4 6 (2.78%) Oracle
4 6 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.31%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.85%) Adobe
6 4 (1.85%) Informatica
6 4 (1.85%) Palantir
7 3 (1.39%) Apple
7 3 (1.39%) Pega
7 3 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.39%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.39%) UiPath
7 3 (1.39%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) SAP
9 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco
9 1 (0.46%) Dell
9 1 (0.46%) Proofpoint