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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 67 91
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 -43
Permanent jobs citing GCP 306 416 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 4.41% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.85% 16.28% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 231 151 236
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,865
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.46% +3.58%

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 5,230 2,556 5,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.88% 27.07% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,628 1,764 4,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -30 187 £71,716 -9.00% 72
Yorkshire -25 75 £70,000 -6.50% 25
North East -14 44 £70,000 +21.74% 17
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 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.92%) Apache
2 12 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.31%) Confluence
4 3 (0.98%) SAS
5 2 (0.65%) CICS
5 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.92%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 218 (71.24%) AWS
2 212 (69.28%) Azure
3 31 (10.13%) GitHub
4 25 (8.17%) SaaS
4 25 (8.17%) Serverless
5 22 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.54%) dbt
7 20 (6.54%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.58%) Snowflake
9 13 (4.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (4.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.59%) Google Analytics
11 10 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.27%) Pulumi
12 8 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.96%) Cloudflare
15 5 (1.63%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.19%) Firewall
2 16 (5.23%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.25%) DNS
3 13 (4.25%) HTTP
4 11 (3.59%) Network Security
5 4 (1.31%) VPN
6 3 (0.98%) SAN
7 2 (0.65%) AMQP
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.05%) BigQuery
2 31 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.21%) Power BI
5 18 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.58%) Looker
7 14 (4.58%) Metadata
8 13 (4.25%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.25%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.59%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.61%) Data Vault
10 8 (2.61%) MySQL
11 7 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.63%) Tableau
13 4 (1.31%) Big Data
13 4 (1.31%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.98%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (10.46%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.54%) Git
3 9 (2.94%) JIRA
4 5 (1.63%) GitLab
5 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.31%) Postman
5 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.98%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.98%) Selenium
6 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (7.84%) Finance
5 19 (6.21%) Law
5 19 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.90%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.96%) Retail
8 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.98%) Banking
9 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.98%) Local Government
10 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.65%) Games
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (28.43%) Senior
2 50 (16.34%) Data Engineer
3 46 (15.03%) Architect
4 38 (12.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (12.42%) GCP Engineer
5 34 (11.11%) Lead
6 29 (9.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.82%) Analyst
8 26 (8.50%) Developer
9 17 (5.56%) Data Architect
10 16 (5.23%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (4.90%) Python Engineer
11 15 (4.90%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.92%) Security Architect
15 11 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.59%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.82%) React
2 15 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.58%) .NET
4 13 (4.25%) JWT
4 13 (4.25%) Kafka
4 13 (4.25%) OAuth
5 12 (3.92%) Node.js
6 11 (3.59%) LangChain
6 11 (3.59%) REST
7 10 (3.27%) Django
7 10 (3.27%) LlamaIndex
7 10 (3.27%) OpenID
7 10 (3.27%) RESTful
7 10 (3.27%) SAML
8 9 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.61%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.29%) Middleware
10 7 (2.29%) Spring
10 7 (2.29%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.34%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.23%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.59%) Security Posture
5 10 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.27%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.61%) Life Science
8 6 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.31%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.98%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.50%) Linux
2 7 (2.29%) Windows
3 6 (1.96%) Unix
4 3 (0.98%) CentOS
4 3 (0.98%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Debian
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (32.68%) CI/CD
2 91 (29.74%) DevOps
3 76 (24.84%) AI
4 72 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 66 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (20.92%) Agile
7 57 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (16.67%) Analytics
9 48 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 43 (14.05%) Data Modelling
11 42 (13.73%) Data Engineering
12 40 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (13.07%) Software Engineering
13 34 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (11.11%) Decision-Making
13 34 (11.11%) ETL
13 34 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 33 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (10.46%) Cloud Security
15 32 (10.46%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 136 (44.44%) Python
2 78 (25.49%) SQL
3 34 (11.11%) Java
4 26 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.84%) Go
6 21 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.54%) Bash
8 16 (5.23%) Scala
9 11 (3.59%) C#
10 7 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Bicep
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (8.17%) Degree
2 12 (3.92%) AWS Certification
2 12 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.59%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.27%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.63%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.31%) CCSP
8 4 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.31%) CISSP
8 4 (1.31%) MBA
9 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.98%) CISM
10 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.25%) GDPR
2 13 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.25%) QA
3 10 (3.27%) NIST
4 7 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (12.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) vSphere
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) KVM
4 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (23.86%) Terraform
2 47 (15.36%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.84%) Grafana
4 20 (6.54%) Ansible
4 20 (6.54%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.96%) Puppet
6 4 (1.31%) Istio
7 3 (0.98%) Control-M
7 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 77 (25.16%) Google
2 28 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.50%) Databricks
4 16 (5.23%) Adobe
5 13 (4.25%) Apple
5 13 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.63%) SAP
7 4 (1.31%) Splunk
7 4 (1.31%) VMware
8 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.98%) Pega
8 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle
9 2 (0.65%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.65%) UiPath
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco
10 1 (0.33%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.33%) Dell
10 1 (0.33%) Proofpoint