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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 81 100
Rank change year-on-year -27 +19 -39
Permanent jobs citing GCP 349 373 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 3.91% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.66% 14.56% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 259 113 190
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,300 £40,993
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £132,921 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%

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 5,238 2,562 4,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.05% 26.83% 29.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,718 1,784 3,240
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,001
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -29 211 £70,000 -11.18% 73
Yorkshire -30 74 £70,000 -3.45% 48
North East 0 64 £76,750 +39.55% 26
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 30 (8.60%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.44%) Apache
4 8 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.43%) Confluence
6 2 (0.57%) CICS
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.44%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 252 (72.21%) AWS
2 236 (67.62%) Azure
3 33 (9.46%) SaaS
4 27 (7.74%) dbt
4 27 (7.74%) GitHub
5 24 (6.88%) Serverless
6 19 (5.44%) Google Analytics
6 19 (5.44%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.87%) Snowflake
8 14 (4.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.15%) Google Tag Manager
10 11 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.58%) Cloud Functions
12 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.87%) Firewall
2 12 (3.44%) Network Security
3 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.72%) HTTP
5 5 (1.43%) VPN
6 4 (1.15%) SAN
7 3 (0.86%) DNS
8 2 (0.57%) AMQP
8 2 (0.57%) LAN
8 2 (0.57%) WAN
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) DHCP
9 1 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.29%) Wireless
9 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.19%) BigQuery
2 41 (11.75%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.16%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 20 (5.73%) Looker
6 19 (5.44%) Power BI
7 18 (5.16%) Metadata
8 15 (4.30%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.44%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.15%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.01%) Data Vault
12 7 (2.01%) MySQL
13 6 (1.72%) Tableau
14 5 (1.43%) Relational Database
15 4 (1.15%) Big Data
15 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.86%) Delta Lake
16 3 (0.86%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (10.32%) Git
2 25 (7.16%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.87%) JIRA
4 9 (2.58%) GitLab
5 6 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.15%) Postman
7 3 (0.86%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.86%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.86%) Selenium
7 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.57%) MLflow
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 88 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.32%) Finance
6 15 (4.30%) Retail
7 8 (2.29%) Law
7 8 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.43%) Local Government
10 4 (1.15%) Legal
11 3 (0.86%) Banking
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.57%) Games
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (27.22%) Senior
2 61 (17.48%) Data Engineer
3 55 (15.76%) Architect
4 46 (13.18%) Lead
5 42 (12.03%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.60%) Analyst
8 26 (7.45%) Developer
9 21 (6.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 20 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.73%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (5.16%) Data Architect
13 16 (4.58%) Python Engineer
14 15 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (4.30%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.01%) GCP Data Engineer
15 14 (4.01%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
17 12 (3.44%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (21.49%) Terraform
2 23 (6.59%) React
3 19 (5.44%) LangChain
4 18 (5.16%) LlamaIndex
5 15 (4.30%) .NET
6 14 (4.01%) Kafka
7 13 (3.72%) JWT
7 13 (3.72%) Middleware
7 13 (3.72%) OAuth
8 12 (3.44%) Node.js
8 12 (3.44%) REST
9 10 (2.87%) OpenID
9 10 (2.87%) RESTful
9 10 (2.87%) SAML
10 9 (2.58%) Spring
10 9 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.29%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.29%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.29%) Pulumi
11 8 (2.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.58%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.44%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.15%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.87%) Life Science
8 9 (2.58%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.01%) Online Gambling
10 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.88%) Linux
2 8 (2.29%) Windows
3 7 (2.01%) Unix
4 4 (1.15%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.86%) CentOS
6 2 (0.57%) Android
6 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.57%) Debian
6 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 110 (31.52%) AI
3 96 (27.51%) Agile
4 95 (27.22%) Mentoring
5 93 (26.65%) DevOps
6 79 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (19.20%) Data Engineering
9 66 (18.91%) Analytics
10 60 (17.19%) Software Engineering
11 58 (16.62%) Machine Learning
12 54 (15.47%) Decision-Making
13 51 (14.61%) Data Modelling
14 49 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (13.75%) ETL
16 47 (13.47%) Data Pipeline
17 44 (12.61%) Roadmaps
18 42 (12.03%) Containerisation
18 42 (12.03%) Data Governance
19 38 (10.89%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 157 (44.99%) Python
2 97 (27.79%) SQL
3 40 (11.46%) Java
4 25 (7.16%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.88%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.87%) Go
6 17 (4.87%) Scala
7 13 (3.72%) Bash
8 12 (3.44%) C#
9 10 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Bicep
12 2 (0.57%) C++
12 2 (0.57%) Swift
13 1 (0.29%) C
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) Rust
13 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (8.88%) Degree
2 24 (6.88%) AWS Certification
3 21 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (6.02%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.87%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.58%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.87%) DBS Check
8 10 (2.87%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.43%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.15%) CCSP
11 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.15%) CISSP
11 4 (1.15%) MBA
12 3 (0.86%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) GSEC
13 1 (0.29%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.16%) GDPR
3 15 (4.30%) QA
4 13 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.87%) NIST
6 9 (2.58%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.43%) NCSC
9 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (14.04%) Docker
2 7 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.15%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 54 (15.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.30%) Grafana
3 13 (3.72%) Ansible
4 11 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.58%) Puppet
6 6 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.43%) Istio
8 3 (0.86%) Control-M
8 3 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.86%) linkerd
9 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 100 (28.65%) Google
2 40 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.31%) Databricks
4 22 (6.30%) Adobe
5 14 (4.01%) Apple
6 13 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.29%) Splunk
8 5 (1.43%) New Relic
8 5 (1.43%) SAP
8 5 (1.43%) VMware
9 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.86%) Cisco
9 3 (0.86%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.86%) Pega
9 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.57%) Oracle
10 2 (0.57%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.29%) Citrix
11 1 (0.29%) Dell