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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 86 103
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -46
Permanent jobs citing GCP 364 339 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 3.60% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.07% 13.80% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 268 89 170
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,700 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £74,786
90th Percentile £95,375 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 5,152 2,456 4,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.46% 26.05% 29.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,696 1,711 2,459
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -31 217 £70,000 +7.69% 262
Yorkshire -5 76 £70,000 -6.67% 116
North East -8 71 £79,500 +44.55% 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 29 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.57%) Apache
4 7 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.30%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 267 (73.35%) AWS
2 245 (67.31%) Azure
3 32 (8.79%) SaaS
4 26 (7.14%) Serverless
5 25 (6.87%) dbt
6 23 (6.32%) GitHub
7 19 (5.22%) Google Analytics
7 19 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 16 (4.40%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (3.30%) Google Tag Manager
11 11 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.75%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.85%) Firewall
2 11 (3.02%) Internet
2 11 (3.02%) Network Security
3 8 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.10%) HTTP
4 4 (1.10%) SAN
4 4 (1.10%) VPN
5 3 (0.82%) AMQP
6 2 (0.55%) DNS
6 2 (0.55%) LAN
6 2 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) SSL
7 1 (0.27%) VLAN
7 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.27%) Wireless
7 1 (0.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.01%) BigQuery
2 40 (10.99%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (6.04%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.77%) Metadata
5 19 (5.22%) Looker
6 18 (4.95%) Power BI
7 14 (3.85%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.30%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 11 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.92%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.65%) Big Data
11 6 (1.65%) MySQL
12 5 (1.37%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.37%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (1.37%) Tableau
13 3 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
13 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (11.81%) Git
2 20 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.47%) GitLab
3 9 (2.47%) JIRA
4 6 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.10%) Postman
6 3 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.82%) Selenium
6 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 84 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (15.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.79%) Finance
6 14 (3.85%) Retail
7 8 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.65%) Law
9 5 (1.37%) Local Government
10 4 (1.10%) Legal
10 4 (1.10%) Marketing
10 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.82%) Banking
11 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.55%) Advertising
12 2 (0.55%) Games
12 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Publishing
13 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (25.82%) Senior
2 59 (16.21%) Data Engineer
3 58 (15.93%) Architect
4 49 (13.46%) Lead
5 40 (10.99%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (8.79%) Analyst
8 30 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 27 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 24 (6.59%) Developer
11 21 (5.77%) Data Architect
12 20 (5.49%) Software Engineer
13 18 (4.95%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (4.40%) Python Engineer
15 15 (4.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 15 (4.12%) Databricks Engineer
15 15 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
16 14 (3.85%) GCP Data Engineer
16 14 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
16 14 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (20.33%) Terraform
2 23 (6.32%) LangChain
3 22 (6.04%) LlamaIndex
4 18 (4.95%) React
5 16 (4.40%) Middleware
6 14 (3.85%) .NET
7 13 (3.57%) Node.js
8 12 (3.30%) JWT
8 12 (3.30%) OAuth
9 11 (3.02%) REST
10 10 (2.75%) Kafka
10 10 (2.75%) OpenID
10 10 (2.75%) SAML
10 10 (2.75%) Spring
10 10 (2.75%) Spring Boot
11 9 (2.47%) FastAPI
11 9 (2.47%) Web Services
12 8 (2.20%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.20%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.20%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 64 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.42%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.40%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.02%) Life Science
5 11 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.02%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.92%) Online Gambling
8 7 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.54%) Linux
2 8 (2.20%) Windows
3 7 (1.92%) Unix
4 5 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.10%) CentOS
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.82%) Debian
6 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.55%) Android
7 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 125 (34.34%) AI
3 112 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 103 (28.30%) DevOps
5 102 (28.02%) Agile
6 91 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (19.51%) Data Engineering
9 67 (18.41%) Analytics
10 63 (17.31%) Machine Learning
11 62 (17.03%) Software Engineering
12 58 (15.93%) Decision-Making
13 56 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (14.84%) Containerisation
15 49 (13.46%) Cloud Security
15 49 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (12.91%) Data Modelling
16 47 (12.91%) Data Pipeline
17 46 (12.64%) ETL
18 45 (12.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 157 (43.13%) Python
2 96 (26.37%) SQL
3 38 (10.44%) Java
4 25 (6.87%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.95%) Scala
7 15 (4.12%) Go
8 13 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.30%) Bash
10 11 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.47%) C#
12 8 (2.20%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.10%) Bicep
14 2 (0.55%) C++
14 2 (0.55%) Swift
15 1 (0.27%) PHP
15 1 (0.27%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (8.24%) AWS Certification
2 29 (7.97%) Degree
3 26 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (6.32%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.77%) Azure Certification
6 19 (5.22%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.02%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.75%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.65%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.37%) CISM
12 5 (1.37%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.10%) MBA
14 3 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.82%) CCSP
14 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.82%) CISSP
15 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.55%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.40%) GDPR
3 14 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.30%) QA
5 11 (3.02%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.47%) NIST
7 8 (2.20%) NCSC
8 5 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (16.48%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.10%) vSphere
4 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.85%) Grafana
3 12 (3.30%) Ansible
4 11 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.75%) Puppet
6 6 (1.65%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.37%) Istio
8 3 (0.82%) Control-M
8 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.82%) linkerd
9 1 (0.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 113 (31.04%) Google
2 51 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.97%) Databricks
4 23 (6.32%) Adobe
5 14 (3.85%) Apple
6 13 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.75%) Splunk
8 5 (1.37%) New Relic
8 5 (1.37%) SAP
8 5 (1.37%) VMware
9 4 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.82%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.82%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco
12 1 (0.27%) Aruba
12 1 (0.27%) Citrix
12 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.27%) Salesforce