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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 62 83
Rank change year-on-year -62 +21 -55
Permanent jobs citing GCP 266 428 472
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 5.52% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.58% 18.04% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 199 174 311
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £56,563 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,528 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,542 £90,822
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 5,807 2,373 6,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.38% 30.62% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,139 1,527 5,027
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 28 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 28 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 -46 154 £75,000 -6.25% 107
Yorkshire -61 78 £70,466 -6.05% 30
North East -20 34 £63,750 +12.83% 18
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 24 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.38%) Apache
4 3 (1.13%) Confluence
4 3 (1.13%) SAS
5 2 (0.75%) CICS
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.51%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 197 (74.06%) AWS
2 193 (72.56%) Azure
3 32 (12.03%) GitHub
4 27 (10.15%) Serverless
5 25 (9.40%) SaaS
6 21 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (6.77%) dbt
7 18 (6.77%) Power Platform
8 12 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (4.14%) Snowflake
10 10 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (3.38%) Pulumi
12 8 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.01%) Google Analytics
13 7 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.26%) Cloudflare
15 5 (1.88%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.27%) Firewall
2 17 (6.39%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.64%) DNS
3 15 (5.64%) HTTP
4 9 (3.38%) Network Security
5 6 (2.26%) VPN
6 3 (1.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.04%) BigQuery
2 24 (9.02%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.14%) Metadata
4 18 (6.77%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.39%) Power BI
6 16 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (5.26%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.89%) MySQL
9 13 (4.89%) SQL Server
10 12 (4.51%) MongoDB
11 11 (4.14%) Looker
12 9 (3.38%) Relational Database
13 8 (3.01%) Semantic Layer
14 7 (2.63%) Big Data
14 7 (2.63%) Data Vault
15 6 (2.26%) Tableau
16 5 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.88%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (12.03%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.26%) Git
3 8 (3.01%) GitLab
4 7 (2.63%) JIRA
5 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.13%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.38%) Gatling
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 47 (17.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.65%) Finance
4 22 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.77%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.02%) Law
8 5 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.13%) Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (32.71%) Senior
2 49 (18.42%) Architect
3 30 (11.28%) Data Engineer
3 30 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (10.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (10.53%) Lead
6 26 (9.77%) Developer
7 24 (9.02%) Analyst
7 24 (9.02%) GCP Engineer
8 21 (7.89%) Data Architect
9 15 (5.64%) Security Architect
9 15 (5.64%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.76%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) Senior Architect
13 10 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (3.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.53%) React
2 17 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (4.89%) JWT
3 13 (4.89%) OAuth
4 12 (4.51%) Node.js
4 12 (4.51%) REST
4 12 (4.51%) RESTful
5 10 (3.76%) .NET
5 10 (3.76%) Django
5 10 (3.76%) LangChain
6 9 (3.38%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.38%) LlamaIndex
6 9 (3.38%) OpenID
6 9 (3.38%) SAML
7 8 (3.01%) Kafka
7 8 (3.01%) Spring
7 8 (3.01%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.63%) Middleware
8 7 (2.63%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.26%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.54%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.39%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.14%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.01%) Life Science
6 8 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.14%) Linux
2 6 (2.26%) Windows
3 3 (1.13%) CentOS
3 3 (1.13%) Debian
3 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.13%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (37.97%) CI/CD
2 94 (35.34%) DevOps
3 66 (24.81%) Agile
4 64 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (23.31%) AI
5 62 (23.31%) Mentoring
6 56 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 45 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.41%) Data Modelling
9 40 (15.04%) Analytics
10 33 (12.41%) Data Governance
11 32 (12.03%) Software Engineering
12 31 (11.65%) Data Engineering
12 31 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (11.65%) ETL
13 28 (10.53%) Data Architecture
14 27 (10.15%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (9.77%) Microservices
16 25 (9.40%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 114 (42.86%) Python
2 57 (21.43%) SQL
3 30 (11.28%) Java
4 25 (9.40%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.65%) Go
6 19 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.39%) Bash
8 9 (3.38%) C#
9 7 (2.63%) Scala
10 5 (1.88%) PHP
11 4 (1.50%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.38%) C
14 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (7.52%) Degree
2 12 (4.51%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.26%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.88%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.50%) CCSP
8 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.50%) CISSP
8 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.13%) CISM
10 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.14%) QA
3 10 (3.76%) GDPR
4 7 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.26%) NIST
6 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (12.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (25.56%) Terraform
2 41 (15.41%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.40%) Ansible
3 25 (9.40%) Grafana
4 22 (8.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.50%) Puppet
6 3 (1.13%) Istio
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.75%) Control-M
7 2 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.75%) Rancher
8 1 (0.38%) linkerd
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 68 (25.56%) Google
2 30 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.89%) Adobe
3 13 (4.89%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.51%) Apple
5 8 (3.01%) Databricks
6 5 (1.88%) SAP
7 3 (1.13%) Pega
7 3 (1.13%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.13%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.75%) Informatica
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle
8 2 (0.75%) UiPath
8 2 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.38%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco
9 1 (0.38%) Dell
9 1 (0.38%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.38%) TIBCO