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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 72 79
Rank change year-on-year -53 +7 -51
Permanent jobs citing GCP 241 305 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.30% 4.24% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.97% 13.20% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 172 201 330
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,195 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £74,870 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.81% +6.84%
75th Percentile £89,063 £97,528 £82,536
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £79,738
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.60% -0.33%

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 6,063 2,311 5,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 32.74% 32.13% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,775 1,711 4,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,886 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £69,775
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 5 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 5 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 -35 134 £74,651 -5.28% 82
Yorkshire -79 78 £70,932 -3.74% 32
North East -14 29 £48,750 -22.00% 25
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 21 (8.71%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (6.64%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.73%) Apache
4 3 (1.24%) Confluence
4 3 (1.24%) SAS
5 2 (0.83%) CICS
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.15%) Cloudability
2 4 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (73.86%) AWS
2 176 (73.03%) Azure
3 34 (14.11%) GitHub
4 27 (11.20%) Serverless
5 24 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (7.47%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.22%) dbt
8 15 (6.22%) SaaS
9 12 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.56%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (3.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.90%) Google Analytics
13 7 (2.90%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (2.07%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.37%) Firewall
2 20 (8.30%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.47%) DNS
3 18 (7.47%) HTTP
4 7 (2.90%) Network Security
5 5 (2.07%) VPN
6 4 (1.66%) AMQP
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.69%) BigQuery
2 21 (8.71%) Metadata
3 18 (7.47%) MySQL
4 17 (7.05%) Power BI
5 16 (6.64%) Data Lake
5 16 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.64%) MongoDB
6 15 (6.22%) NoSQL
6 15 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.98%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.15%) Looker
9 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.73%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.90%) Big Data
10 7 (2.90%) Data Vault
11 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.49%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.49%) Tableau
12 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (13.28%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.81%) Git
3 10 (4.15%) GitLab
4 5 (2.07%) JIRA
5 4 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.24%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.24%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) Gatling
7 1 (0.41%) JMeter
7 1 (0.41%) MLflow
7 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.79%) Finance
3 25 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.71%) Telecoms
6 20 (8.30%) Law
7 19 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.66%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.66%) Retail
9 3 (1.24%) Banking
9 3 (1.24%) Marketing
10 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (33.20%) Senior
2 44 (18.26%) Architect
3 33 (13.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.20%) Data Engineer
4 27 (11.20%) Developer
5 26 (10.79%) Lead
6 24 (9.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (8.71%) Analyst
8 18 (7.47%) Data Architect
8 18 (7.47%) GCP Engineer
9 17 (7.05%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.22%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Security Architect
12 11 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (4.15%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.73%) Python Engineer
14 9 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (3.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.28%) React
2 19 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (5.81%) Node.js
4 13 (5.39%) REST
5 12 (4.98%) RESTful
6 11 (4.56%) .NET
7 10 (4.15%) Django
8 8 (3.32%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.32%) Spring
8 8 (3.32%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.90%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.90%) CSS
9 7 (2.90%) HTML
9 7 (2.90%) Kafka
10 6 (2.49%) Middleware
11 5 (2.07%) Laravel
11 5 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.66%) CSS3
12 4 (1.66%) gRPC
12 4 (1.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (7.05%) Public Cloud
3 10 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.83%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.83%) NHS
8 2 (0.83%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.30%) Linux
2 8 (3.32%) Windows
3 5 (2.07%) CentOS
3 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.66%) Debian
4 4 (1.66%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.83%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (39.42%) CI/CD
1 95 (39.42%) DevOps
2 65 (26.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (25.31%) Agile
4 59 (24.48%) Containerisation
5 53 (21.99%) Mentoring
6 50 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (16.18%) AI
8 36 (14.94%) Data Modelling
9 33 (13.69%) Analytics
10 31 (12.86%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (12.03%) Data Governance
11 29 (12.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (11.20%) Continuous Delivery
12 27 (11.20%) Microservices
13 26 (10.79%) Data Engineering
14 25 (10.37%) Data Architecture
14 25 (10.37%) DevSecOps
14 25 (10.37%) Roadmaps
15 24 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (41.49%) Python
2 51 (21.16%) SQL
3 27 (11.20%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.79%) Go
4 26 (10.79%) Java
5 18 (7.47%) Bash
5 18 (7.47%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.90%) C#
6 7 (2.90%) PHP
6 7 (2.90%) Scala
7 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.24%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (7.47%) Degree
2 10 (4.15%) AWS Certification
2 10 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.49%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.66%) CCSP
6 4 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.66%) CISSP
6 4 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.66%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.24%) CISM
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) CISA
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.79%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.73%) QA
3 8 (3.32%) GDPR
4 7 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.07%) NIST
6 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (12.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (26.97%) Terraform
2 36 (14.94%) Kubernetes
3 33 (13.69%) Ansible
4 29 (12.03%) Grafana
5 27 (11.20%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.66%) Puppet
7 3 (1.24%) Rancher
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.83%) cPanel
8 2 (0.83%) Istio
8 2 (0.83%) Plesk
9 1 (0.41%) Control-M
9 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 63 (26.14%) Google
2 27 (11.20%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.56%) Adobe
4 10 (4.15%) Apple
4 10 (4.15%) Databricks
4 10 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.49%) Oracle
6 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.66%) Informatica
7 4 (1.66%) Palantir
7 4 (1.66%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.66%) SAP
8 3 (1.24%) Pega
8 3 (1.24%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.24%) UiPath
9 2 (0.83%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco
10 1 (0.41%) Dell
10 1 (0.41%) Proofpoint