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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 55 80
Rank change year-on-year -71 +25 -53
Permanent jobs citing GCP 253 450 481
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.37% 6.02% 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.34% 17.93% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 183 197 324
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £74,870 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +10.10% +4.62%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,528 £81,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,000 £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 5,831 2,510 5,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.47% 33.56% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,880 1,706 4,968
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,918 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,103 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.64% +8.00% -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 May 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 May 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 -56 142 £75,000 -4.83% 73
Yorkshire -73 78 £70,932 -5.26% 37
North East -22 33 £60,000 -4.00% 22
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 23 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.56%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.19%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) CICS
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 188 (74.31%) AWS
2 185 (73.12%) Azure
3 34 (13.44%) GitHub
4 26 (10.28%) Serverless
5 24 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (7.91%) SaaS
8 19 (7.51%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.72%) dbt
10 12 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.35%) Snowflake
12 10 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.77%) Google Analytics
15 6 (2.37%) Cloudflare
15 6 (2.37%) OpenShift
15 6 (2.37%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.88%) Firewall
2 20 (7.91%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.11%) DNS
3 18 (7.11%) HTTP
4 7 (2.77%) Network Security
5 5 (1.98%) VPN
6 3 (1.19%) AMQP
7 1 (0.40%) Internet
7 1 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.23%) BigQuery
2 19 (7.51%) Metadata
3 18 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (7.11%) Power BI
4 17 (6.72%) Data Lake
5 16 (6.32%) MySQL
5 16 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.93%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.93%) NoSQL
7 14 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.35%) Looker
9 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.56%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.77%) Data Vault
10 7 (2.77%) Tableau
11 6 (2.37%) Big Data
11 6 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.98%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (12.65%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.53%) Git
3 9 (3.56%) GitLab
4 7 (2.77%) JIRA
5 6 (2.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.19%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.19%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Gatling
7 1 (0.40%) JMeter
7 1 (0.40%) MLflow
7 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
General
1 47 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (11.07%) Finance
3 21 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (8.30%) Telecoms
4 20 (7.91%) Law
4 20 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.58%) Retail
7 3 (1.19%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.19%) Banking
7 3 (1.19%) Marketing
8 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Advertising
9 1 (0.40%) Games
9 1 (0.40%) Local Government
9 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (32.81%) Senior
2 45 (17.79%) Architect
3 34 (13.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (10.67%) Data Engineer
4 27 (10.67%) Developer
5 26 (10.28%) Lead
6 24 (9.49%) Analyst
7 18 (7.11%) Data Architect
7 18 (7.11%) GCP Engineer
8 16 (6.32%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (5.14%) Security Architect
10 13 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.95%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.56%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (3.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.25%) React
2 21 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (5.14%) Node.js
4 12 (4.74%) REST
4 12 (4.74%) RESTful
5 11 (4.35%) .NET
5 11 (4.35%) Django
6 9 (3.56%) FastAPI
7 8 (3.16%) JWT
7 8 (3.16%) OAuth
8 7 (2.77%) CSS
8 7 (2.77%) HTML
8 7 (2.77%) Kafka
8 7 (2.77%) Middleware
8 7 (2.77%) Spring
8 7 (2.77%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.37%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.98%) LangChain
10 5 (1.98%) Laravel
10 5 (1.98%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.72%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.58%) Life Science
10 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.79%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.79%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.79%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.30%) Linux
2 9 (3.56%) Windows
3 4 (1.58%) CentOS
3 4 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.19%) Debian
4 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.79%) Unix
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (38.74%) CI/CD
2 96 (37.94%) DevOps
3 65 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (24.11%) Agile
5 58 (22.92%) Containerisation
6 56 (22.13%) Mentoring
7 50 (19.76%) AI
7 50 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.23%) Analytics
9 35 (13.83%) Data Modelling
10 31 (12.25%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (11.07%) Data Governance
12 27 (10.67%) Continuous Delivery
12 27 (10.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (10.67%) Software Engineering
13 26 (10.28%) Data Engineering
13 26 (10.28%) Microservices
14 25 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (9.88%) Data Architecture
15 24 (9.49%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 106 (41.90%) Python
2 53 (20.95%) SQL
3 29 (11.46%) Java
4 26 (10.28%) Go
4 26 (10.28%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.11%) Bash
7 9 (3.56%) C#
8 7 (2.77%) PHP
9 6 (2.37%) Scala
10 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (7.91%) Degree
2 12 (4.74%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.16%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.37%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.37%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.98%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.58%) CCSP
7 4 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.58%) CISSP
8 3 (1.19%) CISM
8 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.56%) GDPR
2 9 (3.56%) QA
3 7 (2.77%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.98%) NIST
5 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (12.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) vSphere
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (26.48%) Terraform
2 39 (15.42%) Kubernetes
3 33 (13.04%) Ansible
4 30 (11.86%) Grafana
5 26 (10.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.19%) Control-M
6 3 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.19%) Puppet
6 3 (1.19%) Rancher
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.79%) cPanel
7 2 (0.79%) Istio
7 2 (0.79%) Plesk
8 1 (0.40%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (24.51%) Google
2 31 (12.25%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.14%) Adobe
4 12 (4.74%) Apple
4 12 (4.74%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.16%) Databricks
6 5 (1.98%) SAP
7 4 (1.58%) Oracle
7 4 (1.58%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.58%) VMware
8 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.19%) Pega
8 3 (1.19%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.19%) UiPath
9 2 (0.79%) Informatica
9 2 (0.79%) Palantir
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco
10 1 (0.40%) Dell
10 1 (0.40%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.40%) TIBCO