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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 85 84
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -29
Permanent jobs citing GCP 351 350 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.50% 3.73% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.82% 14.23% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 264 93 180
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,500 £46,200
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,461 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,813 £85,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £95,875 £93,022 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 5,145 2,459 4,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.96% 26.19% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,686 1,705 2,679
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

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 September 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 September 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 -29 209 £70,000 - 132
Yorkshire -28 74 £70,000 -6.67% 76
North East -5 68 £78,500 +52.43% 25
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 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.70%) Apache
4 9 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.42%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 255 (72.65%) AWS
2 237 (67.52%) Azure
3 34 (9.69%) SaaS
4 26 (7.41%) dbt
4 26 (7.41%) Serverless
5 23 (6.55%) GitHub
6 20 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.41%) Google Analytics
8 17 (4.84%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
12 10 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.85%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.56%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.27%) Firewall
2 12 (3.42%) Network Security
3 8 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.42%) VPN
5 4 (1.14%) HTTP
5 4 (1.14%) SAN
6 3 (0.85%) AMQP
7 2 (0.57%) LAN
7 2 (0.57%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) DHCP
8 1 (0.28%) DNS
8 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.28%) Internet
8 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.81%) BigQuery
2 41 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (6.84%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (5.98%) Metadata
6 20 (5.70%) Looker
7 19 (5.41%) Power BI
8 15 (4.27%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.42%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.13%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.99%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.71%) Big Data
13 6 (1.71%) MySQL
13 6 (1.71%) Tableau
14 5 (1.42%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.42%) Metadata Repository
15 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.85%) Pinecone
15 3 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (9.12%) Git
2 20 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.85%) JIRA
4 9 (2.56%) GitLab
5 6 (1.71%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.14%) Postman
7 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.85%) Selenium
7 3 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.57%) MLflow
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Gatling
9 1 (0.28%) JMeter
9 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (15.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.97%) Finance
6 14 (3.99%) Retail
7 8 (2.28%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.71%) Law
9 5 (1.42%) Local Government
10 4 (1.14%) Legal
10 4 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.85%) Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.57%) Games
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (27.35%) Senior
2 61 (17.38%) Architect
3 60 (17.09%) Data Engineer
4 49 (13.96%) Lead
5 41 (11.68%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.55%) Analyst
8 25 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 22 (6.27%) Developer
10 21 (5.98%) Data Architect
10 21 (5.98%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (4.56%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.27%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 15 (4.27%) Databricks Engineer
13 15 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (3.99%) GCP Data Engineer
14 14 (3.99%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (20.80%) Terraform
2 22 (6.27%) LangChain
3 21 (5.98%) LlamaIndex
4 19 (5.41%) React
5 15 (4.27%) .NET
6 13 (3.70%) Middleware
6 13 (3.70%) Node.js
7 12 (3.42%) JWT
7 12 (3.42%) OAuth
8 11 (3.13%) Kafka
8 11 (3.13%) REST
9 10 (2.85%) OpenID
9 10 (2.85%) SAML
9 10 (2.85%) Spring
9 10 (2.85%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.85%) Web Services
10 8 (2.28%) FastAPI
10 8 (2.28%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.28%) Pulumi
11 7 (1.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.52%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.84%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.13%) Life Science
5 11 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.99%) Online Gambling
9 6 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.83%) Linux
2 8 (2.28%) Windows
3 7 (1.99%) Unix
4 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.14%) CentOS
5 4 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.85%) Debian
6 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.57%) Android
7 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (34.47%) CI/CD
2 119 (33.90%) AI
3 100 (28.49%) Agile
4 96 (27.35%) Mentoring
5 91 (25.93%) DevOps
6 79 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 77 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (20.23%) Data Engineering
9 67 (19.09%) Analytics
10 62 (17.66%) Machine Learning
10 62 (17.66%) Software Engineering
11 57 (16.24%) Decision-Making
12 56 (15.95%) Technical Leadership
13 50 (14.25%) Data Modelling
14 47 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (13.39%) ETL
14 47 (13.39%) Roadmaps
15 45 (12.82%) Data Governance
16 44 (12.54%) Containerisation
17 40 (11.40%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 158 (45.01%) Python
2 94 (26.78%) SQL
3 38 (10.83%) Java
4 25 (7.12%) TypeScript
5 21 (5.98%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.13%) Scala
7 15 (4.27%) Go
8 11 (3.13%) Bash
8 11 (3.13%) C#
9 10 (2.85%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.99%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Bicep
12 2 (0.57%) C++
12 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.57%) Swift
13 1 (0.28%) C
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (8.55%) Degree
2 28 (7.98%) AWS Certification
3 24 (6.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (6.27%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.13%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.13%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.85%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.71%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.42%) CISM
12 5 (1.42%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.14%) CCSP
13 4 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.14%) CISSP
13 4 (1.14%) MBA
14 3 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.57%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.13%) GDPR
3 15 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.70%) QA
5 12 (3.42%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.85%) NIST
7 7 (1.99%) NCSC
7 7 (1.99%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (13.96%) Docker
2 7 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.14%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 55 (15.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.99%) Grafana
3 12 (3.42%) Ansible
4 10 (2.85%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.85%) Puppet
5 6 (1.71%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.42%) Istio
7 3 (0.85%) Control-M
7 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.85%) linkerd
8 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 102 (29.06%) Google
2 44 (12.54%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.55%) Databricks
4 23 (6.55%) Adobe
5 14 (3.99%) Apple
6 13 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.28%) Splunk
8 5 (1.42%) New Relic
8 5 (1.42%) SAP
8 5 (1.42%) VMware
9 4 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco
10 3 (0.85%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.85%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.28%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.28%) Okta
11 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto