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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -70 +12 -47
Permanent jobs citing GCP 186 272 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.24% 4.26% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.55% 12.15% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 140 226 338
10th Percentile £44,975 £45,625 £42,334
25th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,466 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +2.84% +6.13%
75th Percentile £82,813 £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 5,243 2,238 5,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.95% 35.06% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,399 1,677 4,705
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,700 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £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 £74,145 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £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 26 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 26 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 -44 103 £74,051 -1.27% 62
Yorkshire -84 56 £70,466 -2.81% 41
North East -14 27 £47,500 -29.27% 24
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 (8.06%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.30%) Apache
4 4 (2.15%) SAS
5 2 (1.08%) CICS
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.08%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.54%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 155 (83.33%) Azure
2 153 (82.26%) AWS
3 30 (16.13%) GitHub
4 25 (13.44%) Serverless
5 24 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (8.60%) dbt
8 15 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (6.99%) Power Platform
9 13 (6.99%) SaaS
10 9 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.84%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.30%) PaaS
12 7 (3.76%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.76%) Pulumi
13 6 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.44%) Firewall
1 25 (13.44%) TCP/IP
2 18 (9.68%) DNS
2 18 (9.68%) HTTP
3 4 (2.15%) AMQP
3 4 (2.15%) VPN
4 2 (1.08%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) Internet
5 1 (0.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.90%) BigQuery
2 19 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.06%) Metadata
3 15 (8.06%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.53%) Data Lake
5 13 (6.99%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.45%) MySQL
6 12 (6.45%) Power BI
7 11 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.84%) Looker
10 8 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.76%) Big Data
11 7 (3.76%) Redis
11 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.23%) Hadoop
12 6 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (3.23%) Tableau
13 4 (2.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (17.74%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.53%) Git
2 14 (7.53%) GitLab
3 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.61%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.61%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.54%) Gatling
5 1 (0.54%) JMeter
5 1 (0.54%) MLflow
5 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.83%) Finance
3 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 21 (11.29%) Telecoms
4 20 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.75%) Law
5 6 (3.23%) Marketing
6 4 (2.15%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Electronics
8 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (29.57%) Senior
2 34 (18.28%) Architect
3 29 (15.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (12.90%) Developer
5 18 (9.68%) Lead
6 17 (9.14%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.60%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.53%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (5.38%) AWS Architect
10 10 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (5.38%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Analyst
11 9 (4.84%) Data Architect
11 9 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Senior Architect
12 8 (4.30%) GCP Architect
12 8 (4.30%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.67%) React
2 20 (10.75%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (8.60%) Django
4 14 (7.53%) Node.js
4 14 (7.53%) RESTful
5 13 (6.99%) REST
6 10 (5.38%) Spring
6 10 (5.38%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.84%) FastAPI
8 8 (4.30%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.30%) CSS
8 8 (4.30%) HTML
9 7 (3.76%) .NET
10 5 (2.69%) Celery
10 5 (2.69%) Flask
10 5 (2.69%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.69%) Kafka
10 5 (2.69%) Laravel
10 5 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.08%) NHS
9 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.54%) Clustering
9 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.29%) Linux
2 9 (4.84%) Windows
3 7 (3.76%) Unix
4 5 (2.69%) CentOS
4 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.15%) Debian
5 4 (2.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 90 (48.39%) DevOps
3 67 (36.02%) Containerisation
4 64 (34.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (27.96%) Agile
5 52 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.43%) Mentoring
7 34 (18.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 30 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (14.52%) Continuous Delivery
10 26 (13.98%) Observability
11 25 (13.44%) Data Modelling
12 24 (12.90%) Analytics
13 23 (12.37%) DevSecOps
13 23 (12.37%) Microservices
14 21 (11.29%) AI
14 21 (11.29%) Software Engineering
14 21 (11.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 20 (10.75%) Open Source
16 19 (10.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 92 (49.46%) Python
2 39 (20.97%) SQL
3 26 (13.98%) Java
3 26 (13.98%) JavaScript
4 25 (13.44%) Go
5 20 (10.75%) Bash
6 15 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.30%) PHP
8 6 (3.23%) Scala
9 4 (2.15%) C#
10 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.61%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.99%) Degree
2 13 (6.99%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CCSP
6 1 (0.54%) CISA
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CISM
6 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.54%) GSEC
6 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.38%) QA
3 5 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.61%) GDPR
4 3 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.08%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (20.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (32.26%) Terraform
2 41 (22.04%) Kubernetes
3 34 (18.28%) Ansible
4 30 (16.13%) Grafana
5 27 (14.52%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.69%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.15%) Puppet
8 3 (1.61%) cPanel
8 3 (1.61%) Plesk
8 3 (1.61%) Rancher
9 1 (0.54%) Control-M
9 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.54%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 54 (29.03%) Google
2 13 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.76%) Databricks
3 7 (3.76%) Oracle
4 5 (2.69%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.15%) Informatica
5 4 (2.15%) Palantir
5 4 (2.15%) Pega
5 4 (2.15%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.61%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.61%) UiPath
6 3 (1.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.08%) SAP
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe
8 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco
8 1 (0.54%) Dell
8 1 (0.54%) F5
8 1 (0.54%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.54%) Splunk