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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 95 57
Rank change year-on-year -38 -38 -16
Permanent jobs citing GCP 147 274 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.50% 2.20% 4.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.91% 7.68% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 105 168 297
10th Percentile £46,600 £48,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +1.07%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,500 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 2,996 3,570 3,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.50% 28.72% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 2,004 2,740
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,200 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -6 91 £65,000 +6.12% 158
Yorkshire -47 43 £71,000 +7.98% 51
North East +5 15 £60,000 -24.02% 14
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 12 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.72%) SAS
4 3 (2.04%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
1 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 143 (97.28%) AWS
2 135 (91.84%) Azure
3 13 (8.84%) Serverless
4 11 (7.48%) GitHub
5 10 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.12%) SaaS
7 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.76%) OCI
8 6 (4.08%) dbt
8 6 (4.08%) Pulumi
9 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.40%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.72%) PaaS
10 4 (2.72%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.04%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.16%) TCP/IP
2 10 (6.80%) Firewall
3 8 (5.44%) VPN
4 6 (4.08%) BGP
4 6 (4.08%) Network Security
5 5 (3.40%) OSPF
5 5 (3.40%) VLAN
6 3 (2.04%) PuTTY
6 3 (2.04%) SAN
7 2 (1.36%) AMQP
7 2 (1.36%) DNS
7 2 (1.36%) LAN
7 2 (1.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.68%) Broadband
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.68%) DAB
8 1 (0.68%) DHCP
8 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.65%) NoSQL
3 20 (13.61%) MongoDB
4 15 (10.20%) MySQL
5 10 (6.80%) Big Data
5 10 (6.80%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (6.12%) Power BI
7 8 (5.44%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.44%) Tableau
8 7 (4.76%) Redis
8 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.08%) Metadata
10 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.72%) Looker
12 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.80%) GitLab
3 7 (4.76%) Git
4 4 (2.72%) JIRA
5 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.36%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.68%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.77%) Finance
3 17 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.84%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (8.84%) Marketing
5 11 (7.48%) Retail
6 10 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.04%) Banking
7 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Electronics
8 2 (1.36%) Law
8 2 (1.36%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (23.13%) Senior
2 33 (22.45%) Architect
3 26 (17.69%) Developer
4 23 (15.65%) Lead
4 23 (15.65%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (12.24%) AWS Architect
5 18 (12.24%) AWS Solution Architect
6 15 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.20%) TOGAF Architect
7 10 (6.80%) Azure Architect
7 10 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.44%) DevOps Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Senior Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.76%) Lead Software Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) RESTful
2 15 (10.20%) React
3 14 (9.52%) Django
4 13 (8.84%) Kafka
4 13 (8.84%) Spring
4 13 (8.84%) Spring Boot
5 9 (6.12%) FastAPI
5 9 (6.12%) Node.js
6 8 (5.44%) Celery
6 8 (5.44%) Flask
6 8 (5.44%) Hibernate
6 8 (5.44%) Vue
7 7 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (4.08%) CSS
8 6 (4.08%) gRPC
8 6 (4.08%) HTML
8 6 (4.08%) REST
9 5 (3.40%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.09%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.88%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.72%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.36%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) PMI
8 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.88%) Linux
2 11 (7.48%) Windows
3 9 (6.12%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) CentOS
4 2 (1.36%) Debian
4 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (51.02%) CI/CD
2 68 (46.26%) DevOps
3 63 (42.86%) Agile
3 63 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (34.69%) Containerisation
5 39 (26.53%) Microservices
6 35 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (19.05%) Roadmaps
9 27 (18.37%) AI
10 26 (17.69%) Mentoring
11 24 (16.33%) Software Engineering
12 21 (14.29%) Business Strategy
12 21 (14.29%) Clean Code
12 21 (14.29%) Data Science
12 21 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
12 21 (14.29%) Machine Learning
12 21 (14.29%) Open Source
13 20 (13.61%) Decision-Making
14 19 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 71 (48.30%) Python
2 37 (25.17%) Java
3 36 (24.49%) SQL
4 20 (13.61%) C#
5 15 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.44%) Bash
7 6 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.40%) Scala
9 4 (2.72%) PHP
9 4 (2.72%) R
10 3 (2.04%) PROC SQL
11 2 (1.36%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (10.20%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.36%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) CBAP
10 1 (0.68%) CISA
10 1 (0.68%) CISM
10 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.68%) CRISC
10 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.84%) GDPR
2 11 (7.48%) NIST
3 9 (6.12%) QA
4 8 (5.44%) HIPAA
5 7 (4.76%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.68%) SLA
8 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (44.90%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) HDFS
2 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.72%) vSphere
3 3 (2.04%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (38.78%) Kubernetes
2 27 (18.37%) Terraform
3 21 (14.29%) Ansible
4 13 (8.84%) Grafana
5 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.72%) Puppet
7 3 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.04%) Control-M
7 3 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.04%) Kibana
7 3 (2.04%) logstash
7 3 (2.04%) Oozie
8 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.68%) cPanel
9 1 (0.68%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.68%) Nmap
9 1 (0.68%) Plesk
9 1 (0.68%) SCOM
9 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (36.05%) Google
2 10 (6.80%) Databricks
2 10 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.44%) Oracle
4 7 (4.76%) Informatica
5 6 (4.08%) SAP
6 4 (2.72%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.72%) Palantir
6 4 (2.72%) VMware
7 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.04%) Dell
7 3 (2.04%) IBM
7 3 (2.04%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.36%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco
8 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.36%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.36%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.36%) TIBCO