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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 85 52
Rank change year-on-year -32 -33 -23
Permanent jobs citing GCP 155 250 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.42% 2.75% 4.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 8.59% 12.56%
Number of salaries quoted 121 170 342
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,132 £42,874
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -6.40% +1.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,900 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -6.06% +3.60% -0.46%

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 4,188 2,912 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.30% 32.05% 39.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,916 1,616 2,865
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,963 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -12 96 £70,466 +12.75% 71
Yorkshire -51 46 £71,000 +5.97% 53
North East +3 15 £63,750 -8.02% 21
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 17 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.29%) WordPress
5 1 (0.65%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (90.32%) AWS
2 134 (86.45%) Azure
3 21 (13.55%) Serverless
4 15 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (9.03%) GitHub
6 11 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (7.10%) SaaS
7 10 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.81%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.16%) dbt
9 8 (5.16%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (3.23%) Pulumi
10 5 (3.23%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.58%) PaaS
12 3 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.39%) Firewall
2 11 (7.10%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.16%) DNS
4 6 (3.87%) HTTP
5 4 (2.58%) AMQP
5 4 (2.58%) VPN
6 2 (1.29%) SAN
7 1 (0.65%) BGP
7 1 (0.65%) Broadband
7 1 (0.65%) DAB
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) LAN
7 1 (0.65%) Network Security
7 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.26%) MongoDB
1 19 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.68%) BigQuery
2 15 (9.68%) MySQL
3 14 (9.03%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.10%) Big Data
4 11 (7.10%) Metadata
5 9 (5.81%) Hadoop
6 8 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.16%) Power BI
6 8 (5.16%) Tableau
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.52%) Data Lake
7 7 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.87%) Redis
9 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.23%) Looker
9 5 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.58%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 19 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.68%) GitLab
3 8 (5.16%) Git
4 5 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.29%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.29%) JIRA
6 2 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
General
1 37 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.48%) Finance
3 14 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.45%) Marketing
6 9 (5.81%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.16%) Law
8 6 (3.87%) Retail
9 4 (2.58%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.65%) Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (26.45%) Senior
2 29 (18.71%) Architect
3 25 (16.13%) Developer
4 20 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (12.26%) Lead
6 14 (9.03%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.39%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.81%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.16%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (5.16%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 8 (5.16%) Lead DevOps
10 8 (5.16%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Project Manager
10 8 (5.16%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Analyst
11 7 (4.52%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.52%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.55%) React
2 18 (11.61%) RESTful
3 13 (8.39%) Django
3 13 (8.39%) Spring
3 13 (8.39%) Spring Boot
4 11 (7.10%) Node.js
5 9 (5.81%) AngularJS
5 9 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.81%) REST
6 8 (5.16%) Vue
7 7 (4.52%) CSS
7 7 (4.52%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.52%) HTML
7 7 (4.52%) Kafka
8 6 (3.87%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.23%) Celery
9 5 (3.23%) Flask
9 5 (3.23%) gRPC
9 5 (3.23%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.97%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.74%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.81%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.58%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.94%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.29%) NHS
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.55%) Linux
2 13 (8.39%) Windows
3 6 (3.87%) Unix
4 5 (3.23%) CentOS
4 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.58%) Debian
5 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.19%) CI/CD
2 75 (48.39%) DevOps
3 58 (37.42%) Containerisation
4 56 (36.13%) Agile
5 53 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (30.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (18.71%) Microservices
8 26 (16.77%) Mentoring
8 26 (16.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 23 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (14.84%) Software Engineering
10 21 (13.55%) Observability
11 20 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (12.26%) AI
13 18 (11.61%) Clean Code
13 18 (11.61%) Open Source
13 18 (11.61%) Roadmaps
14 17 (10.97%) Data Science
15 16 (10.32%) Analytics
15 16 (10.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (45.16%) Python
2 34 (21.94%) SQL
3 30 (19.35%) Java
4 19 (12.26%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.74%) Go
6 10 (6.45%) Bash
6 10 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.16%) C#
7 8 (5.16%) PHP
7 8 (5.16%) Scala
8 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.68%) Degree
2 15 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.29%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISA
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CRISC
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.87%) QA
2 5 (3.23%) GDPR
3 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.94%) NIST
3 3 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.65%) GRC
4 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (31.61%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.94%) vSphere
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) HDFS
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (31.61%) Kubernetes
2 41 (26.45%) Terraform
3 28 (18.06%) Ansible
4 20 (12.90%) Grafana
5 17 (10.97%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.87%) Puppet
7 3 (1.94%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.94%) cPanel
7 3 (1.94%) Plesk
7 3 (1.94%) Rancher
8 2 (1.29%) Control-M
8 2 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.65%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.65%) Nagios
Vendors
1 50 (32.26%) Google
2 11 (7.10%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.16%) Oracle
4 6 (3.87%) Databricks
4 6 (3.87%) Informatica
5 5 (3.23%) Palantir
5 5 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.58%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.58%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.58%) VMware
7 3 (1.94%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.29%) Dell
8 2 (1.29%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.29%) SAP
8 2 (1.29%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.65%) Pega
9 1 (0.65%) UiPath