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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 58 82
Rank change year-on-year -63 +24 -55
Permanent jobs citing GCP 274 433 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.37% 5.52% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.71% 17.99% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 207 176 301
10th Percentile £45,750 £47,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £56,063 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +15.27% +0.10%
75th Percentile £89,375 £97,528 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,237 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -

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 5,820 2,407 6,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.20% 30.68% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,176 1,555 5,037
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -44 161 £75,000 -5.55% 106
Yorkshire -56 78 £70,466 -6.05% 28
North East -19 35 £67,500 +15.88% 19
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 25 (9.12%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.65%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) SAS
5 2 (0.73%) CICS
5 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.38%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.36%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 202 (73.72%) AWS
2 197 (71.90%) Azure
3 32 (11.68%) GitHub
4 27 (9.85%) Serverless
5 26 (9.49%) SaaS
6 21 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (6.57%) dbt
7 18 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 12 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (4.38%) Snowflake
9 11 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (3.65%) Pulumi
11 9 (3.28%) Google Analytics
12 8 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.19%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.03%) Firewall
2 17 (6.20%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.47%) DNS
3 15 (5.47%) HTTP
4 9 (3.28%) Network Security
5 6 (2.19%) VPN
6 3 (1.09%) AMQP
7 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.33%) BigQuery
2 25 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (6.93%) Metadata
4 18 (6.57%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (6.20%) Power BI
6 16 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (5.11%) NoSQL
7 14 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.74%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.74%) MySQL
9 12 (4.38%) Looker
10 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.92%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (2.55%) Big Data
12 7 (2.55%) Data Vault
13 6 (2.19%) Tableau
14 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.82%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (11.68%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.11%) Git
3 8 (2.92%) GitLab
4 7 (2.55%) JIRA
5 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.09%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) Gatling
8 1 (0.36%) JMeter
8 1 (0.36%) MLflow
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 50 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.39%) Finance
3 23 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.57%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.20%) Law
7 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.46%) Retail
9 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.09%) Banking
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (32.48%) Senior
2 50 (18.25%) Architect
3 32 (11.68%) Data Engineer
4 30 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (10.58%) Lead
6 25 (9.12%) Analyst
6 25 (9.12%) Developer
6 25 (9.12%) GCP Engineer
7 21 (7.66%) Data Architect
8 16 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.47%) Security Architect
10 14 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.74%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Senior Architect
14 9 (3.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.22%) React
2 17 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (5.11%) JWT
3 14 (5.11%) OAuth
4 13 (4.74%) Node.js
5 12 (4.38%) REST
5 12 (4.38%) RESTful
6 11 (4.01%) Django
7 10 (3.65%) .NET
7 10 (3.65%) FastAPI
7 10 (3.65%) LangChain
7 10 (3.65%) OpenID
7 10 (3.65%) SAML
8 9 (3.28%) LlamaIndex
9 8 (2.92%) Kafka
9 8 (2.92%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.55%) Middleware
10 7 (2.55%) Spring
10 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.19%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.20%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.01%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.92%) Life Science
6 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.46%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.09%) Online Gambling
9 3 (1.09%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.73%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.73%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.30%) Linux
2 7 (2.55%) Windows
3 3 (1.09%) CentOS
3 3 (1.09%) Debian
3 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (37.59%) CI/CD
2 94 (34.31%) DevOps
3 68 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (24.09%) Agile
5 64 (23.36%) AI
5 64 (23.36%) Mentoring
6 55 (20.07%) Containerisation
7 45 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (15.69%) Data Modelling
9 42 (15.33%) Analytics
10 34 (12.41%) Data Engineering
10 34 (12.41%) Data Governance
11 33 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (12.04%) ETL
11 33 (12.04%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.58%) Data Architecture
13 28 (10.22%) Machine Learning
14 27 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (9.85%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (9.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.70%) Python
2 59 (21.53%) SQL
3 29 (10.58%) Java
4 25 (9.12%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.39%) Go
6 20 (7.30%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.20%) Bash
8 9 (3.28%) C#
9 8 (2.92%) Scala
10 5 (1.82%) PHP
11 4 (1.46%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) C
14 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (7.30%) Degree
2 12 (4.38%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (4.01%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.82%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.46%) CCSP
8 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.46%) CISSP
9 3 (1.09%) CISM
10 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.41%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.01%) GDPR
2 11 (4.01%) QA
3 7 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.19%) NIST
5 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (12.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (25.91%) Terraform
2 42 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.12%) Ansible
3 25 (9.12%) Grafana
4 22 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.46%) Puppet
6 3 (1.09%) Istio
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.73%) Control-M
7 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.73%) Rancher
8 1 (0.36%) linkerd
8 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 70 (25.55%) Google
2 30 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.74%) Adobe
3 13 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.38%) Apple
5 10 (3.65%) Databricks
6 5 (1.82%) SAP
7 3 (1.09%) Pega
7 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.09%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.73%) Informatica
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle
8 2 (0.73%) UiPath
8 2 (0.73%) VMware
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco
9 1 (0.36%) Dell
9 1 (0.36%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.36%) Splunk
9 1 (0.36%) TIBCO