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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 62 77
Rank change year-on-year -60 +15 -49
Permanent jobs citing GCP 257 441 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.34% 5.58% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.53% 17.46% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 191 187 319
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £53,132 £49,375
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,000 £96,539
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 5,672 2,526 5,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.55% 31.98% 35.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,999 1,670 4,994
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,575
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £83,563
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 20 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 20 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 -53 144 £75,000 -4.83% 81
Yorkshire -57 81 £70,466 -5.96% 27
North East -18 32 £60,000 +3.00% 20
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 25 (9.73%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.50%) Apache
4 3 (1.17%) Confluence
4 3 (1.17%) SAS
5 2 (0.78%) CICS
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (4.67%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 190 (73.93%) AWS
2 187 (72.76%) Azure
3 31 (12.06%) GitHub
4 24 (9.34%) Serverless
5 22 (8.56%) SaaS
6 21 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (7.39%) dbt
8 19 (7.39%) Power Platform
9 12 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (4.67%) Snowflake
10 11 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.72%) Google Analytics
13 7 (2.72%) Pulumi
14 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.56%) Firewall
2 17 (6.61%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.84%) DNS
3 15 (5.84%) HTTP
4 7 (2.72%) Network Security
5 5 (1.95%) VPN
6 3 (1.17%) AMQP
7 1 (0.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.18%) BigQuery
2 21 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.78%) Metadata
4 18 (7.00%) Data Lake
4 18 (7.00%) Power BI
5 16 (6.23%) MySQL
5 16 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (5.84%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.84%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.28%) Looker
9 9 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.50%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.72%) Data Vault
10 7 (2.72%) Tableau
11 6 (2.33%) Big Data
11 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.45%) Git
3 8 (3.11%) GitLab
4 6 (2.33%) JIRA
5 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.17%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.17%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.39%) Gatling
8 1 (0.39%) JMeter
8 1 (0.39%) MLflow
8 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.73%) Finance
4 21 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.00%) Telecoms
7 17 (6.61%) Law
8 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.56%) Retail
10 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.17%) Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (33.46%) Senior
2 46 (17.90%) Architect
3 31 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.67%) Data Engineer
5 29 (11.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (10.12%) Lead
7 25 (9.73%) Developer
8 24 (9.34%) Analyst
9 21 (8.17%) GCP Engineer
10 20 (7.78%) Data Architect
11 15 (5.84%) Software Engineer
12 14 (5.45%) Security Architect
13 13 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (5.06%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.67%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (3.89%) Senior Architect
17 9 (3.50%) Python Engineer
17 9 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.89%) React
2 17 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (4.67%) Node.js
3 12 (4.67%) REST
3 12 (4.67%) RESTful
4 10 (3.89%) .NET
4 10 (3.89%) Django
4 10 (3.89%) JWT
4 10 (3.89%) OAuth
5 9 (3.50%) FastAPI
6 7 (2.72%) Kafka
6 7 (2.72%) LangChain
6 7 (2.72%) LlamaIndex
6 7 (2.72%) Middleware
6 7 (2.72%) Spring
6 7 (2.72%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.33%) OpenID
7 6 (2.33%) SAML
8 5 (1.95%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.95%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.50%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.33%) Life Science
7 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.78%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.78%) Linux
2 8 (3.11%) Windows
3 4 (1.56%) CentOS
3 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.17%) Debian
4 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (36.96%) CI/CD
2 93 (36.19%) DevOps
3 65 (25.29%) Agile
4 60 (23.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (22.57%) Mentoring
6 54 (21.01%) AI
7 52 (20.23%) Containerisation
8 45 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (14.79%) Analytics
10 37 (14.40%) Data Modelling
11 31 (12.06%) Data Governance
12 28 (10.89%) Data Engineering
12 28 (10.89%) ETL
12 28 (10.89%) Software Engineering
13 27 (10.51%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (10.12%) Data Architecture
14 26 (10.12%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (10.12%) Microservices
15 25 (9.73%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 108 (42.02%) Python
2 57 (22.18%) SQL
3 28 (10.89%) Java
4 24 (9.34%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.56%) Go
6 18 (7.00%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.84%) Bash
8 8 (3.11%) C#
9 7 (2.72%) Scala
10 5 (1.95%) PHP
11 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (7.78%) Degree
2 12 (4.67%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.11%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.95%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.56%) CCSP
7 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.56%) CISSP
8 3 (1.17%) CISM
8 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.28%) QA
3 10 (3.89%) GDPR
4 7 (2.72%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.95%) NIST
6 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (12.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) vSphere
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (25.29%) Terraform
2 38 (14.79%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.89%) Ansible
4 25 (9.73%) Grafana
5 22 (8.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.17%) Puppet
6 3 (1.17%) Rancher
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.78%) Control-M
7 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.78%) Istio
8 1 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (25.29%) Google
2 30 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.06%) Adobe
4 12 (4.67%) Apple
4 12 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.89%) Databricks
6 5 (1.95%) SAP
7 4 (1.56%) Oracle
7 4 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.17%) Pega
8 3 (1.17%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.17%) UiPath
8 3 (1.17%) VMware
9 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.78%) Informatica
9 2 (0.78%) Palantir
10 1 (0.39%) Cisco
10 1 (0.39%) Dell
10 1 (0.39%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.39%) TIBCO