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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 58 94
Rank change year-on-year -46 +36 -68
Permanent jobs citing GCP 293 439 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.47% 5.39% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.96% 18.32% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 222 178 284
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,188 £55,688 £48,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £89,688 £97,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,931 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -

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 4,915 2,396 6,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.71% 29.41% 32.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 1,615 5,163
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,200 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,125
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 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
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 15 June 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 June 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 -33 175 £72,500 -8.01% 84
Yorkshire -45 77 £70,932 -7.77% 29
North East -19 41 £67,500 +21.08% 14
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 28 (9.56%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (5.46%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.44%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) CICS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.10%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 216 (73.72%) AWS
2 211 (72.01%) Azure
3 35 (11.95%) GitHub
4 26 (8.87%) SaaS
5 25 (8.53%) Serverless
6 23 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.17%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.14%) dbt
10 12 (4.10%) Snowflake
11 11 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (3.41%) Pulumi
13 9 (3.07%) Google Analytics
14 7 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (2.05%) Cloudflare
16 5 (1.71%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.85%) Firewall
2 17 (5.80%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.12%) DNS
3 15 (5.12%) HTTP
4 10 (3.41%) Network Security
5 6 (2.05%) VPN
6 3 (1.02%) AMQP
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
7 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.99%) BigQuery
2 26 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.83%) Power BI
4 19 (6.48%) Metadata
5 17 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.80%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.46%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (4.78%) NoSQL
9 12 (4.10%) Looker
9 12 (4.10%) MongoDB
10 9 (3.07%) MySQL
11 8 (2.73%) Data Vault
12 7 (2.39%) Big Data
12 7 (2.39%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.39%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (2.39%) Tableau
13 5 (1.71%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.37%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (11.60%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.12%) Git
3 8 (2.73%) GitLab
3 8 (2.73%) JIRA
4 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.02%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.02%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.02%) Postman
5 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.68%) MLflow
6 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.34%) Gatling
7 1 (0.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (7.85%) Finance
5 22 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.17%) Law
7 18 (6.14%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.02%) Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.02%) Local Government
11 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (31.40%) Senior
2 51 (17.41%) Architect
3 39 (13.31%) Data Engineer
4 33 (11.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (10.24%) GCP Engineer
6 30 (10.24%) Lead
7 26 (8.87%) Analyst
8 24 (8.19%) Developer
9 23 (7.85%) Data Architect
10 19 (6.48%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (4.78%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.78%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.44%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (4.10%) Lead Data Engineer
14 11 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.87%) React
2 18 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.78%) JWT
3 14 (4.78%) OAuth
4 13 (4.44%) Node.js
5 11 (3.75%) .NET
5 11 (3.75%) Django
5 11 (3.75%) LangChain
5 11 (3.75%) REST
5 11 (3.75%) RESTful
6 10 (3.41%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.41%) Kafka
6 10 (3.41%) LlamaIndex
6 10 (3.41%) OpenID
6 10 (3.41%) SAML
7 8 (2.73%) OAuth2
7 8 (2.73%) Spring
7 8 (2.73%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.39%) Middleware
9 6 (2.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.41%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.46%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.78%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.73%) Life Science
7 7 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Online Gambling
10 3 (1.02%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.68%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.17%) Linux
2 9 (3.07%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) CentOS
3 3 (1.02%) Debian
3 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.02%) Unix
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (36.86%) CI/CD
2 97 (33.11%) DevOps
3 71 (24.23%) AI
4 70 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (22.87%) Agile
5 67 (22.87%) Mentoring
6 55 (18.77%) Containerisation
7 48 (16.38%) Analytics
7 48 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (15.70%) Data Modelling
9 38 (12.97%) Data Engineering
9 38 (12.97%) Software Engineering
10 37 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (11.95%) Data Governance
12 33 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (10.92%) Data Architecture
13 32 (10.92%) ETL
14 30 (10.24%) Machine Learning
15 29 (9.90%) Decision-Making
16 27 (9.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.37%) Python
2 69 (23.55%) SQL
3 33 (11.26%) Java
4 24 (8.19%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.85%) Go
6 19 (6.48%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.14%) Bash
8 14 (4.78%) Scala
9 10 (3.41%) C#
10 5 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (8.19%) Degree
2 12 (4.10%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.39%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.71%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.37%) CCSP
7 4 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.37%) CISSP
8 3 (1.02%) CISM
8 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) CISA
10 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.97%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.10%) GDPR
2 12 (4.10%) QA
3 8 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.39%) NIST
4 7 (2.39%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (12.97%) Docker
2 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (25.60%) Terraform
2 48 (16.38%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.22%) Grafana
4 25 (8.53%) Ansible
5 23 (7.85%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.71%) Puppet
7 4 (1.37%) Istio
8 3 (1.02%) Control-M
8 3 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.68%) linkerd
9 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 76 (25.94%) Google
2 32 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.48%) Databricks
4 13 (4.44%) Adobe
4 13 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.10%) Apple
6 5 (1.71%) SAP
7 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.02%) Pega
7 3 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.02%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.02%) VMware
8 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle
8 2 (0.68%) Splunk
8 2 (0.68%) UiPath
9 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.34%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.34%) Informatica
9 1 (0.34%) Zscaler