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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 65 68
Rank change year-on-year -71 +3 -43
Permanent jobs citing GCP 184 268 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.29% 3.87% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.66% 11.10% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 142 219 346
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,813 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.84% +6.13%
75th Percentile £84,688 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £78,126
% change year-on-year -6.06% +5.60% -2.34%

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 5,029 2,415 5,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.16% 34.87% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,359 1,674 4,570
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,825 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -30 105 £70,932 -1.47% 67
Yorkshire -78 54 £70,932 -1.47% 49
North East -4 25 £50,000 -25.54% 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 15 (8.15%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.35%) Apache
4 4 (2.17%) SAS
5 2 (1.09%) CICS
5 2 (1.09%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.54%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 154 (83.70%) AWS
1 154 (83.70%) Azure
2 32 (17.39%) GitHub
3 26 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (13.59%) Serverless
5 24 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (8.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.61%) dbt
9 12 (6.52%) Power Platform
10 10 (5.43%) SaaS
11 9 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.89%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.35%) PaaS
13 7 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.80%) Pulumi
14 6 (3.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.59%) TCP/IP
2 24 (13.04%) Firewall
3 18 (9.78%) DNS
3 18 (9.78%) HTTP
4 4 (2.17%) AMQP
4 4 (2.17%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) Network Security
5 2 (1.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.96%) BigQuery
2 19 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.15%) Metadata
3 15 (8.15%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.61%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.52%) MySQL
5 12 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 11 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (5.98%) Power BI
7 10 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (4.35%) Looker
10 7 (3.80%) Redis
10 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.26%) Big Data
11 6 (3.26%) Hadoop
11 6 (3.26%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (3.26%) Tableau
12 4 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 35 (19.02%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.61%) Git
3 13 (7.07%) GitLab
4 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.63%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.63%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.09%) JIRA
6 2 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 44 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.96%) Finance
3 21 (11.41%) Telecoms
4 20 (10.87%) Law
4 20 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.26%) Marketing
7 4 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Electronics
9 2 (1.09%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (30.98%) Senior
2 31 (16.85%) Architect
2 31 (16.85%) Developer
3 30 (16.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 16 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.15%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.15%) Lead
6 12 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (5.43%) Python Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (4.89%) Data Architect
8 9 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Senior Architect
9 8 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.35%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 8 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.93%) React
2 21 (11.41%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (9.78%) RESTful
4 17 (9.24%) Node.js
5 16 (8.70%) Django
6 14 (7.61%) Spring
6 14 (7.61%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.07%) REST
8 11 (5.98%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.98%) CSS
8 11 (5.98%) HTML
9 9 (4.89%) FastAPI
9 9 (4.89%) Vue
10 7 (3.80%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.26%) CSS3
11 6 (3.26%) HTML5
11 6 (3.26%) Kafka
12 5 (2.72%) Celery
12 5 (2.72%) Laravel
12 5 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.48%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.43%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.63%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.09%) NHS
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Clustering
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.96%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) Unix
4 5 (2.72%) CentOS
4 5 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.17%) Debian
5 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (54.35%) CI/CD
2 91 (49.46%) DevOps
3 71 (38.59%) Containerisation
4 63 (34.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (31.52%) Agile
6 52 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (20.65%) Mentoring
8 34 (18.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (16.85%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (14.13%) Continuous Delivery
10 26 (14.13%) Microservices
10 26 (14.13%) Observability
11 23 (12.50%) DevSecOps
12 22 (11.96%) Data Modelling
12 22 (11.96%) Open Source
12 22 (11.96%) Software Engineering
13 21 (11.41%) Analytics
14 20 (10.87%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 19 (10.33%) High Availability
15 19 (10.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 86 (46.74%) Python
2 39 (21.20%) SQL
3 33 (17.93%) Java
4 29 (15.76%) JavaScript
5 25 (13.59%) Go
6 20 (10.87%) Bash
7 16 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.35%) PHP
9 6 (3.26%) Scala
10 4 (2.17%) C#
10 4 (2.17%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.07%) Degree
4 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) CISM
6 1 (0.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.35%) QA
3 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) GDPR
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (23.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (32.61%) Terraform
2 47 (25.54%) Kubernetes
3 35 (19.02%) Ansible
4 30 (16.30%) Grafana
5 27 (14.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.72%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.17%) Puppet
8 3 (1.63%) cPanel
8 3 (1.63%) Plesk
8 3 (1.63%) Rancher
9 2 (1.09%) Control-M
9 2 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.54%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 58 (31.52%) Google
2 11 (5.98%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.35%) Oracle
4 5 (2.72%) Databricks
4 5 (2.72%) Informatica
4 5 (2.72%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.17%) Palantir
5 4 (2.17%) Pega
5 4 (2.17%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.17%) VMware
6 3 (1.63%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.63%) UiPath
7 2 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.09%) Dell
7 2 (1.09%) SAP
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe
8 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.54%) F5
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.54%) Splunk