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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 84 77
Rank change year-on-year -50 -7 -52
Permanent jobs citing GCP 227 252 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.31% 3.68% 2.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.86% 11.17% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 164 210 330
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,925 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +4.40% +6.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,875 £100,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +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 5,888 2,257 5,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.88% 32.99% 35.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,691 1,724 4,911
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,620 £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 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
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 18 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 18 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 -18 124 £75,000 - 60
Yorkshire -84 72 £70,932 -2.16% 33
North East -13 31 £55,000 -12.00% 12
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 (7.93%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (7.49%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.41%) Apache
4 3 (1.32%) Confluence
4 3 (1.32%) SAS
5 2 (0.88%) CICS
5 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.88%) WordPress
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.44%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Cloudability
2 3 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (77.97%) AWS
2 174 (76.65%) Azure
3 34 (14.98%) GitHub
4 31 (13.66%) Serverless
5 24 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (7.49%) Power Platform
8 16 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (6.61%) dbt
10 14 (6.17%) SaaS
11 13 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.96%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.96%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (3.08%) Google Analytics
15 7 (3.08%) Pulumi
16 5 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.57%) Firewall
2 23 (10.13%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.93%) DNS
3 18 (7.93%) HTTP
4 5 (2.20%) AMQP
5 4 (1.76%) Network Security
5 4 (1.76%) VPN
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.22%) BigQuery
2 21 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.37%) Metadata
3 19 (8.37%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.49%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.05%) Data Lake
5 16 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (7.05%) Power BI
6 14 (6.17%) MySQL
7 12 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (4.41%) Looker
9 9 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.52%) Big Data
10 8 (3.52%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.52%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.08%) Hadoop
11 7 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.64%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (14.10%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.17%) Git
3 11 (4.85%) GitLab
4 5 (2.20%) JIRA
5 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.32%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.32%) 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 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (10.57%) Finance
3 22 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.81%) Law
4 20 (8.81%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.20%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.76%) Marketing
8 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Banking
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) 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 73 (32.16%) Senior
2 42 (18.50%) Architect
3 31 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.33%) Developer
5 26 (11.45%) Data Engineer
6 25 (11.01%) Lead
7 19 (8.37%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (7.05%) Senior Developer
10 15 (6.61%) Analyst
10 15 (6.61%) Data Architect
11 12 (5.29%) AWS Architect
11 12 (5.29%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (5.29%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.85%) GCP Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (3.96%) Security Architect
14 9 (3.96%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.98%) React
2 19 (8.37%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (7.05%) Django
4 14 (6.17%) Node.js
4 14 (6.17%) RESTful
5 13 (5.73%) REST
6 11 (4.85%) FastAPI
6 11 (4.85%) Spring
6 11 (4.85%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.41%) .NET
8 8 (3.52%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.52%) CSS
8 8 (3.52%) HTML
9 7 (3.08%) Kafka
10 6 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.20%) Celery
11 5 (2.20%) Flask
11 5 (2.20%) gRPC
11 5 (2.20%) Laravel
11 5 (2.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.32%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.88%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.88%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.88%) NHS
8 2 (0.88%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.88%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.44%) Clustering
9 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.81%) Linux
2 7 (3.08%) Windows
3 6 (2.64%) CentOS
3 6 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.20%) Debian
4 5 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.61%) DevOps
2 97 (42.73%) CI/CD
3 68 (29.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (29.52%) Containerisation
5 58 (25.55%) Agile
6 56 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (20.26%) Mentoring
8 34 (14.98%) AI
9 33 (14.54%) Data Modelling
10 32 (14.10%) Analytics
10 32 (14.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (13.22%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (12.78%) Observability
13 27 (11.89%) Continuous Delivery
14 26 (11.45%) Data Engineering
14 26 (11.45%) Data Governance
14 26 (11.45%) Microservices
14 26 (11.45%) Software Engineering
15 24 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (10.13%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 105 (46.26%) Python
2 52 (22.91%) SQL
3 29 (12.78%) Java
4 28 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.45%) Go
6 18 (7.93%) Bash
7 17 (7.49%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.08%) PHP
8 7 (3.08%) Scala
9 6 (2.64%) C#
10 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (7.93%) Degree
2 13 (5.73%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.85%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.76%) CISSP
7 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.32%) CCSP
7 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.32%) CISM
7 3 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.32%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CISA
9 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.96%) QA
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
3 7 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.76%) NIST
6 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (15.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (28.19%) Terraform
2 43 (18.94%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.98%) Ansible
4 30 (13.22%) Grafana
5 28 (12.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.20%) Puppet
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.32%) cPanel
7 3 (1.32%) Plesk
7 3 (1.32%) Rancher
8 2 (0.88%) 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 (26.87%) Google
2 23 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.52%) Databricks
4 6 (2.64%) Adobe
4 6 (2.64%) Oracle
4 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.20%) Apple
5 5 (2.20%) SaltStack
5 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.76%) Informatica
6 4 (1.76%) Palantir
7 3 (1.32%) Pega
7 3 (1.32%) SAP
7 3 (1.32%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.32%) UiPath
8 2 (0.88%) VMware
9 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco
9 1 (0.44%) Dell
9 1 (0.44%) Proofpoint