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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 76 95
Rank change year-on-year -27 +19 -36
Permanent jobs citing GCP 338 380 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.51% 3.93% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.39% 14.68% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 248 120 192
10th Percentile £43,375 £46,125 £41,230
25th Percentile £58,750 £51,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,082
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +2.65%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,063 £76,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,115 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%

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 5,286 2,589 4,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.68% 26.78% 30.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,703 1,808 3,308
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -28 208 £70,000 -3.45% 91
Yorkshire -19 72 £70,466 -2.46% 51
North East -17 58 £73,750 +34.09% 29
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 30 (8.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.55%) Apache
4 5 (1.48%) Confluence
4 5 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) CICS
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.55%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 244 (72.19%) AWS
2 228 (67.46%) Azure
3 30 (8.88%) SaaS
4 28 (8.28%) GitHub
5 26 (7.69%) dbt
6 25 (7.40%) Serverless
7 18 (5.33%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.03%) Google Analytics
8 17 (5.03%) Snowflake
9 15 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.96%) Google Tag Manager
13 9 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.66%) Cloud Functions
14 8 (2.37%) Amazon S3
14 8 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.62%) Firewall
2 12 (3.55%) Network Security
2 12 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.37%) HTTP
4 5 (1.48%) DNS
4 5 (1.48%) VPN
5 4 (1.18%) SAN
6 2 (0.59%) AMQP
6 2 (0.59%) LAN
6 2 (0.59%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.30%) VLAN
7 1 (0.30%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.30%) Wireless
7 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (15.09%) BigQuery
2 40 (11.83%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.40%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.33%) Looker
5 18 (5.33%) Power BI
6 16 (4.73%) Metadata
6 16 (4.73%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.55%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.25%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.07%) Data Vault
9 7 (2.07%) MySQL
10 6 (1.78%) Tableau
11 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.18%) Big Data
12 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.89%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.89%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (10.65%) Git
2 25 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.96%) JIRA
4 7 (2.07%) GitLab
5 6 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.18%) Postman
6 4 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.89%) Selenium
7 3 (0.89%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.59%) MLflow
8 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.30%) Gatling
9 1 (0.30%) JMeter
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 87 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (10.65%) Finance
5 33 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.14%) Retail
7 10 (2.96%) Law
8 8 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.48%) Local Government
10 4 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (0.89%) Banking
11 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Advertising
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Marketing
12 2 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (27.81%) Senior
2 57 (16.86%) Data Engineer
3 50 (14.79%) Architect
4 43 (12.72%) Lead
5 38 (11.24%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (8.58%) Analyst
8 27 (7.99%) Developer
9 20 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (5.92%) Software Engineer
10 19 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 17 (5.03%) Python Engineer
12 16 (4.73%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.73%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (4.14%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.55%) Security Architect
17 10 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.69%) React
2 16 (4.73%) .NET
2 16 (4.73%) LangChain
3 15 (4.44%) LlamaIndex
4 14 (4.14%) Kafka
5 13 (3.85%) JWT
5 13 (3.85%) OAuth
5 13 (3.85%) REST
6 12 (3.55%) Node.js
7 10 (2.96%) Middleware
7 10 (2.96%) OpenID
7 10 (2.96%) RESTful
7 10 (2.96%) SAML
8 9 (2.66%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.66%) Spring
8 9 (2.66%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.37%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.07%) Django
10 7 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (1.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.73%) AI Agents
4 15 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.55%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.25%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.96%) Life Science
8 9 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.07%) Online Gambling
10 7 (2.07%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.47%) Linux
2 8 (2.37%) Windows
3 7 (2.07%) Unix
4 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.89%) CentOS
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.59%) Debian
6 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Solaris
7 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (34.32%) CI/CD
2 103 (30.47%) AI
3 92 (27.22%) DevOps
4 87 (25.74%) Mentoring
5 85 (25.15%) Agile
6 77 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (18.05%) Analytics
9 60 (17.75%) Software Engineering
10 59 (17.46%) Data Engineering
11 53 (15.68%) Machine Learning
12 51 (15.09%) Decision-Making
13 48 (14.20%) Data Modelling
14 46 (13.61%) ETL
15 45 (13.31%) Data Pipeline
16 43 (12.72%) Roadmaps
17 42 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
18 39 (11.54%) Containerisation
19 38 (11.24%) Data Governance
20 36 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 155 (45.86%) Python
2 95 (28.11%) SQL
3 40 (11.83%) Java
4 27 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.40%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.62%) Go
7 17 (5.03%) Scala
8 13 (3.85%) Bash
9 12 (3.55%) C#
10 8 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) Bicep
13 2 (0.59%) C++
13 2 (0.59%) Swift
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) Rust
14 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (9.17%) Degree
2 21 (6.21%) AWS Certification
3 20 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 16 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.73%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.66%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.48%) SAP Certification
10 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.18%) CCSP
10 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.18%) CISSP
10 4 (1.18%) MBA
11 3 (0.89%) CISM
12 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.03%) GDPR
3 15 (4.44%) QA
4 13 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.96%) NIST
6 7 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.07%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.89%) NCSC
7 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (14.20%) Docker
2 7 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.18%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (21.60%) Terraform
2 54 (15.98%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.03%) Grafana
4 13 (3.85%) Ansible
4 13 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.07%) Puppet
6 5 (1.48%) Istio
7 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.89%) Control-M
8 3 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.89%) linkerd
9 1 (0.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 94 (27.81%) Google
2 37 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.58%) Databricks
4 19 (5.62%) Adobe
5 14 (4.14%) Apple
6 13 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.37%) Splunk
8 5 (1.48%) New Relic
8 5 (1.48%) SAP
8 5 (1.48%) VMware
9 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.89%) Cisco
9 3 (0.89%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.89%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.89%) Pega
9 3 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle
10 2 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.30%) Citrix
11 1 (0.30%) Dell