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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 82 78
Rank change year-on-year -46 -4 -54
Permanent jobs citing GCP 229 251 484
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.29% 3.59% 2.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 11.01% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 164 208 329
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,775 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £73,685 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% +6.10% +6.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,715 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £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 5,993 2,280 5,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.88% 32.61% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,717 1,739 4,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -19 124 £75,000 -3.23% 75
Yorkshire -79 73 £70,932 -2.16% 32
North East -23 32 £60,000 -4.00% 19
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 18 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (6.99%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.93%) Apache
4 3 (1.31%) Confluence
4 3 (1.31%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) CICS
5 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) WordPress
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Cloudability
2 3 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (77.29%) AWS
2 175 (76.42%) Azure
3 34 (14.85%) GitHub
4 30 (13.10%) Serverless
5 24 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.42%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.55%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (6.55%) dbt
9 14 (6.11%) SaaS
10 12 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.93%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (3.49%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.06%) Google Analytics
13 7 (3.06%) Pulumi
14 5 (2.18%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.48%) Firewall
2 23 (10.04%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.86%) DNS
3 18 (7.86%) HTTP
4 5 (2.18%) Network Security
5 4 (1.75%) AMQP
5 4 (1.75%) VPN
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.10%) BigQuery
2 20 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.30%) Metadata
4 18 (7.86%) MongoDB
5 17 (7.42%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.99%) Data Lake
6 16 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (6.99%) Power BI
7 15 (6.55%) MySQL
8 12 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (4.37%) Looker
10 9 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.49%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.06%) Big Data
12 7 (3.06%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (2.62%) DynamoDB
13 6 (2.62%) Hadoop
13 6 (2.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (13.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.11%) Git
3 11 (4.80%) GitLab
4 5 (2.18%) JIRA
5 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.31%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.31%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.44%) Gatling
7 1 (0.44%) JMeter
7 1 (0.44%) MLflow
7 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.92%) Finance
3 24 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.73%) Law
5 20 (8.73%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.75%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.75%) Marketing
8 3 (1.31%) Banking
8 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (32.31%) Senior
2 43 (18.78%) Architect
3 31 (13.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.23%) Developer
5 26 (11.35%) Data Engineer
6 25 (10.92%) Lead
7 19 (8.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (7.86%) Software Engineer
9 16 (6.99%) Analyst
9 16 (6.99%) Senior Developer
10 15 (6.55%) Data Architect
11 13 (5.68%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (5.24%) AWS Architect
13 11 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.80%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (4.80%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.37%) Security Architect
14 10 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (3.93%) Senior Architect
15 9 (3.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.41%) React
2 19 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (6.55%) Django
4 14 (6.11%) RESTful
5 13 (5.68%) Node.js
6 12 (5.24%) REST
7 10 (4.37%) .NET
7 10 (4.37%) FastAPI
7 10 (4.37%) Spring
7 10 (4.37%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.49%) CSS
8 8 (3.49%) HTML
9 7 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.06%) Kafka
10 5 (2.18%) Celery
10 5 (2.18%) Flask
10 5 (2.18%) Laravel
10 5 (2.18%) Middleware
10 5 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.61%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.55%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.31%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.87%) NHS
8 2 (0.87%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.87%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.44%) Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.73%) Linux
2 7 (3.06%) Windows
3 5 (2.18%) CentOS
3 5 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.18%) Unix
4 4 (1.75%) Debian
4 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.23%) DevOps
2 97 (42.36%) CI/CD
3 66 (28.82%) Containerisation
3 66 (28.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (25.33%) Agile
5 57 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (20.52%) Mentoring
7 34 (14.85%) AI
8 33 (14.41%) Data Modelling
9 32 (13.97%) Analytics
9 32 (13.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (12.23%) Observability
12 27 (11.79%) Continuous Delivery
13 26 (11.35%) Data Engineering
13 26 (11.35%) Data Governance
13 26 (11.35%) Microservices
14 25 (10.92%) Software Engineering
15 24 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (10.48%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 103 (44.98%) Python
2 52 (22.71%) SQL
3 28 (12.23%) Java
4 27 (11.79%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.35%) Go
6 18 (7.86%) Bash
7 17 (7.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.06%) PHP
8 7 (3.06%) Scala
9 6 (2.62%) C#
10 3 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (7.86%) Degree
2 12 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.37%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.62%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.18%) CISSP
6 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.75%) CISM
6 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.31%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CISA
9 1 (0.44%) GSEC
9 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.93%) QA
3 7 (3.06%) GDPR
3 7 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.18%) NIST
6 3 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (15.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (27.51%) Terraform
2 41 (17.90%) Kubernetes
3 33 (14.41%) Ansible
4 30 (13.10%) Grafana
5 28 (12.23%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.75%) Puppet
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.31%) cPanel
7 3 (1.31%) Plesk
7 3 (1.31%) Rancher
8 2 (0.87%) Istio
9 1 (0.44%) Control-M
9 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.44%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 61 (26.64%) Google
2 24 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.49%) Databricks
4 7 (3.06%) Adobe
5 6 (2.62%) Apple
5 6 (2.62%) Oracle
5 6 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.18%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.75%) Informatica
7 4 (1.75%) Palantir
7 4 (1.75%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.31%) Pega
8 3 (1.31%) SAP
8 3 (1.31%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.31%) UiPath
9 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.44%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.44%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.44%) Splunk