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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 60 92
Rank change year-on-year -45 +32 -66
Permanent jobs citing GCP 285 438 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.44% 5.46% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 18.39% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 216 179 287
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,125 £55,875 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,779 £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 4,885 2,382 6,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.75% 29.67% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,297 1,601 5,136
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
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 £72,750 £68,938
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 12 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 12 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 -31 168 £74,651 -5.28% 103
Yorkshire -51 77 £70,932 -5.42% 27
North East -11 40 £67,500 +19.47% 13
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 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.21%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.05%) SAS
5 2 (0.70%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.21%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 210 (73.68%) AWS
2 205 (71.93%) Azure
3 34 (11.93%) GitHub
4 26 (9.12%) SaaS
5 24 (8.42%) Serverless
6 22 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (7.37%) Power Platform
8 18 (6.32%) dbt
9 12 (4.21%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.51%) Pulumi
12 9 (3.16%) Google Analytics
13 8 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.11%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.07%) Firewall
2 17 (5.96%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.26%) DNS
3 15 (5.26%) HTTP
4 10 (3.51%) Network Security
5 6 (2.11%) VPN
6 3 (1.05%) AMQP
7 1 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.39%) BigQuery
2 26 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.02%) Power BI
4 19 (6.67%) Metadata
5 17 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.96%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.91%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.56%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.21%) Looker
10 10 (3.51%) MySQL
11 8 (2.81%) Data Vault
12 7 (2.46%) Big Data
12 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.46%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (2.46%) Tableau
13 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (11.23%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.56%) Git
3 8 (2.81%) GitLab
3 8 (2.81%) JIRA
4 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.05%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.70%) MLflow
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) Gatling
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 52 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (8.07%) Finance
5 20 (7.02%) Law
5 20 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.32%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.40%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.05%) Banking
9 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (31.23%) Senior
2 51 (17.89%) Architect
3 38 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 33 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (10.53%) Lead
7 27 (9.47%) GCP Engineer
8 26 (9.12%) Analyst
9 23 (8.07%) Data Architect
10 22 (7.72%) Developer
11 16 (5.61%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.91%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.91%) Security Architect
13 13 (4.56%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (4.56%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
15 11 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (3.51%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.12%) React
2 18 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.91%) JWT
3 14 (4.91%) OAuth
4 13 (4.56%) Node.js
5 11 (3.86%) .NET
5 11 (3.86%) Django
5 11 (3.86%) RESTful
6 10 (3.51%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.51%) LangChain
6 10 (3.51%) OpenID
6 10 (3.51%) REST
6 10 (3.51%) SAML
7 9 (3.16%) Kafka
7 9 (3.16%) LlamaIndex
8 8 (2.81%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.46%) Middleware
9 7 (2.46%) Spring
9 7 (2.46%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.96%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.86%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.81%) Life Science
6 8 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.05%) Online Gambling
10 3 (1.05%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.72%) Linux
2 9 (3.16%) Windows
3 3 (1.05%) CentOS
3 3 (1.05%) Debian
3 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.05%) Unix
3 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 97 (34.04%) DevOps
3 70 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (23.16%) AI
5 65 (22.81%) Agile
6 64 (22.46%) Mentoring
7 54 (18.95%) Containerisation
8 49 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (16.49%) Analytics
10 46 (16.14%) Data Modelling
11 37 (12.98%) Data Engineering
12 36 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (12.28%) Data Governance
14 34 (11.93%) Software Engineering
15 32 (11.23%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (11.23%) ETL
16 31 (10.88%) Data Architecture
17 29 (10.18%) Machine Learning
18 28 (9.82%) Decision-Making
19 27 (9.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 128 (44.91%) Python
2 68 (23.86%) SQL
3 31 (10.88%) Java
4 23 (8.07%) Go
4 23 (8.07%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.32%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.96%) Bash
7 12 (4.21%) Scala
8 10 (3.51%) C#
9 5 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.70%) PHP
11 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (8.07%) Degree
2 12 (4.21%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.75%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.40%) CCSP
8 4 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.40%) CISSP
9 3 (1.05%) CISM
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.21%) GDPR
3 11 (3.86%) QA
4 8 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.46%) NIST
5 7 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (11.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (26.32%) Terraform
2 44 (15.44%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.12%) Ansible
3 26 (9.12%) Grafana
4 22 (7.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.40%) Puppet
6 3 (1.05%) Control-M
6 3 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.05%) Istio
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.70%) Rancher
8 1 (0.35%) linkerd
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (25.96%) Google
2 32 (11.23%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.32%) Databricks
4 13 (4.56%) Adobe
4 13 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.21%) Apple
6 5 (1.75%) SAP
7 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.05%) Pega
7 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.05%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.05%) VMware
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle
8 2 (0.70%) UiPath
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco
9 1 (0.35%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.35%) Dell
9 1 (0.35%) Informatica
9 1 (0.35%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.35%) Splunk