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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 94 46
Rank change year-on-year -37 -48 -5
Permanent jobs citing GCP 147 250 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.39% 2.58% 5.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.55% 7.97% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 109 161 313
10th Percentile £46,950 £47,231 £44,200
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.98% +1.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,145 £84,056
90th Percentile £93,000 £87,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 4,146 3,138 2,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 39.21% 32.44% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 1,750 2,486
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £41,074
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,397 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -1.10% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,688 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 89 £65,000 +8.33% 55
Yorkshire -41 47 £70,000 +16.67% 34
North East +3 13 £61,250 -11.63% 11
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 13 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.40%) Apache
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.36%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (95.24%) AWS
2 134 (91.16%) Azure
3 18 (12.24%) Serverless
4 13 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (7.48%) SaaS
6 10 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (6.12%) GitHub
7 9 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.76%) dbt
8 7 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 7 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.40%) Pulumi
10 5 (3.40%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.72%) PaaS
12 3 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (2.04%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) Firewall
1 9 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.08%) DNS
3 4 (2.72%) HTTP
4 3 (2.04%) AMQP
4 3 (2.04%) SAN
5 2 (1.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) BGP
6 1 (0.68%) Broadband
6 1 (0.68%) DAB
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) LAN
6 1 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.65%) MongoDB
1 23 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.24%) NoSQL
3 17 (11.56%) MySQL
4 10 (6.80%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.12%) Big Data
6 7 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.76%) Power BI
7 6 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.08%) Redis
7 6 (4.08%) Tableau
8 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.40%) Looker
9 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.72%) Metadata
10 3 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.04%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.52%) GitLab
3 7 (4.76%) Git
4 5 (3.40%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.04%) JIRA
5 3 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.68%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.37%) Finance
3 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.52%) Marketing
5 10 (6.80%) Retail
6 7 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.76%) Law
6 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.36%) Electronics
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (21.77%) Senior
2 30 (20.41%) Architect
3 28 (19.05%) Developer
4 23 (15.65%) Lead
5 20 (13.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (10.88%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (8.16%) AWS Architect
7 12 (8.16%) AWS Solution Architect
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Azure Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Lead DevOps
9 8 (5.44%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Software Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) SaaS Developer
10 7 (4.76%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) RESTful
2 20 (13.61%) React
3 15 (10.20%) Django
4 13 (8.84%) Spring
4 13 (8.84%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.80%) Node.js
6 9 (6.12%) FastAPI
6 9 (6.12%) Kafka
7 8 (5.44%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.44%) Celery
7 8 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.44%) Flask
7 8 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (5.44%) REST
7 8 (5.44%) Vue
8 7 (4.76%) CSS
8 7 (4.76%) gRPC
8 7 (4.76%) Hibernate
8 7 (4.76%) HTML
9 5 (3.40%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.04%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.36%) NHS
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.61%) Linux
2 12 (8.16%) Windows
3 6 (4.08%) Unix
4 4 (2.72%) CentOS
4 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.04%) Debian
5 3 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 67 (45.58%) DevOps
3 58 (39.46%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (38.78%) Agile
5 54 (36.73%) Containerisation
6 41 (27.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (24.49%) Microservices
8 27 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.69%) Mentoring
10 24 (16.33%) Roadmaps
10 24 (16.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (15.65%) AI
12 22 (14.97%) Clean Code
13 20 (13.61%) Observability
13 20 (13.61%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (13.61%) Software Engineering
14 19 (12.93%) Data Science
14 19 (12.93%) Open Source
15 18 (12.24%) Machine Learning
16 17 (11.56%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 68 (46.26%) Python
2 32 (21.77%) Java
2 32 (21.77%) SQL
3 19 (12.93%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.16%) C#
5 10 (6.80%) Go
6 9 (6.12%) Bash
7 8 (5.44%) PHP
7 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.76%) Scala
9 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Degree
1 15 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.40%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CBAP
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.68%) CRISC
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.68%) OSCE
8 1 (0.68%) OSCP
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) GDPR
2 7 (4.76%) NIST
3 6 (4.08%) QA
4 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.72%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.68%) GRC
8 1 (0.68%) SLA
8 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (40.14%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.72%) vSphere
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (36.05%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.81%) Terraform
3 25 (17.01%) Ansible
4 19 (12.93%) Grafana
5 15 (10.20%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.40%) Puppet
7 3 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.04%) Control-M
7 3 (2.04%) cPanel
7 3 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.04%) Plesk
8 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.36%) Rancher
9 1 (0.68%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.68%) Nagios
9 1 (0.68%) Nmap
Vendors
1 41 (27.89%) Google
2 8 (5.44%) Oracle
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.08%) Databricks
5 5 (3.40%) Informatica
5 5 (3.40%) Palantir
5 5 (3.40%) VMware
6 4 (2.72%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.04%) SaltStack
7 3 (2.04%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.36%) Dell
8 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (1.36%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.68%) Adobe
9 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.68%) UiPath