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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 86 47
Rank change year-on-year -40 -39 -14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 143 251 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 2.75% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 8.62% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 112 173 346
10th Percentile £47,625 £47,500 £43,312
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% -
75th Percentile £84,063 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.60% -0.46%

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 4,121 2,913 3,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.77% 31.93% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,863 1,620 2,869
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -13 90 £70,000 +12.00% 112
Yorkshire -59 43 £75,000 +11.94% 123
North East +1 12 £62,500 -9.82% 40
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 14 (9.79%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.40%) WordPress
5 1 (0.70%) nginx
5 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 131 (91.61%) AWS
2 126 (88.11%) Azure
3 18 (12.59%) Serverless
4 13 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (8.39%) SaaS
6 10 (6.99%) GitHub
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.90%) dbt
8 7 (4.90%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.50%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.50%) Pulumi
10 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.80%) PaaS
12 3 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.99%) Firewall
2 9 (6.29%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.20%) DNS
4 4 (2.80%) HTTP
5 3 (2.10%) AMQP
5 3 (2.10%) VPN
6 2 (1.40%) SAN
7 1 (0.70%) BGP
7 1 (0.70%) Broadband
7 1 (0.70%) DAB
7 1 (0.70%) DHCP
7 1 (0.70%) LAN
7 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.99%) MongoDB
1 20 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.19%) MySQL
3 14 (9.79%) BigQuery
4 13 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 10 (6.99%) Big Data
6 8 (5.59%) Hadoop
7 7 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.20%) Power BI
8 6 (4.20%) Redis
8 6 (4.20%) Tableau
9 5 (3.50%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.50%) Looker
9 5 (3.50%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.80%) Metadata
11 3 (2.10%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.49%) GitLab
3 7 (4.90%) Git
4 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.40%) JIRA
6 2 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
General
1 35 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.78%) Finance
3 13 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.39%) Marketing
5 8 (5.59%) Retail
6 7 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.90%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.20%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.70%) Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (20.98%) Senior
2 27 (18.88%) Developer
3 23 (16.08%) Architect
4 22 (15.38%) Lead
5 19 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Lead DevOps
8 9 (6.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 8 (5.59%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.90%) Analyst
10 7 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (4.90%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.90%) PHP Developer
10 7 (4.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.99%) React
2 19 (13.29%) RESTful
3 13 (9.09%) Django
4 12 (8.39%) Spring
4 12 (8.39%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.99%) Node.js
6 8 (5.59%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.59%) REST
6 8 (5.59%) Vue
7 7 (4.90%) CSS
7 7 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (4.90%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.90%) HTML
7 7 (4.90%) Kafka
8 6 (4.20%) Celery
8 6 (4.20%) Flask
8 6 (4.20%) Hibernate
8 6 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.50%) gRPC
9 5 (3.50%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.89%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.20%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (3.50%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.10%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.40%) NHS
9 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) IoT
9 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.29%) Linux
2 13 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (4.20%) Unix
4 4 (2.80%) CentOS
4 4 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.10%) Debian
5 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (51.05%) CI/CD
2 64 (44.76%) DevOps
3 52 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (34.27%) Agile
4 49 (34.27%) Containerisation
5 42 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (20.28%) Microservices
7 25 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (17.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 22 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 21 (14.69%) Observability
9 21 (14.69%) Software Engineering
10 20 (13.99%) AI
10 20 (13.99%) Clean Code
10 20 (13.99%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (13.29%) Roadmaps
12 17 (11.89%) Analytics
12 17 (11.89%) Data Science
12 17 (11.89%) Open Source
13 15 (10.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.76%) Python
2 31 (21.68%) SQL
3 27 (18.88%) Java
4 18 (12.59%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.99%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.29%) Go
7 8 (5.59%) Bash
7 8 (5.59%) C#
7 8 (5.59%) PHP
7 8 (5.59%) Scala
8 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (10.49%) Degree
1 15 (10.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CISA
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) CRISC
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.50%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.10%) NIST
3 3 (2.10%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) GRC
4 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.70%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.10%) vSphere
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Firmware
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (32.87%) Kubernetes
2 36 (25.17%) Terraform
3 25 (17.48%) Ansible
4 19 (13.29%) Grafana
5 16 (11.19%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.50%) Puppet
7 3 (2.10%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.10%) cPanel
7 3 (2.10%) Plesk
8 2 (1.40%) Control-M
8 2 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.40%) Rancher
9 1 (0.70%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (28.67%) Google
2 8 (5.59%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Databricks
4 5 (3.50%) Informatica
4 5 (3.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.50%) Palantir
5 4 (2.80%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.80%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.80%) VMware
6 3 (2.10%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.10%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.40%) Dell
7 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.40%) SAP
7 2 (1.40%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.70%) Adobe
8 1 (0.70%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.70%) UiPath