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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 60 90
Rank change year-on-year -43 +30 -64
Permanent jobs citing GCP 295 436 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.47% 5.29% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.94% 18.32% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 224 176 283
10th Percentile £44,825 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,836 £56,063 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,237 £87,500
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 4,964 2,380 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.80% 28.88% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,368 1,606 5,198
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -30 177 £72,500 -8.01% 118
Yorkshire -49 76 £70,000 -11.18% 31
North East -18 42 £68,403 +22.70% 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 29 (9.83%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.07%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) CICS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.07%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 216 (73.22%) AWS
2 212 (71.86%) Azure
3 35 (11.86%) GitHub
4 26 (8.81%) SaaS
5 24 (8.14%) Serverless
6 23 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (7.46%) Power Platform
8 18 (6.10%) dbt
9 12 (4.07%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.39%) Google Analytics
11 10 (3.39%) Pulumi
12 6 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.03%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.69%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.80%) Firewall
2 17 (5.76%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.08%) DNS
3 15 (5.08%) HTTP
4 10 (3.39%) Network Security
5 6 (2.03%) VPN
6 2 (0.68%) AMQP
6 2 (0.68%) SAN
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.24%) BigQuery
2 26 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (7.12%) Power BI
4 19 (6.44%) Metadata
5 17 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.76%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.42%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (4.75%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.41%) Looker
10 12 (4.07%) MongoDB
11 9 (3.05%) MySQL
12 8 (2.71%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.37%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.37%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (2.37%) Tableau
14 6 (2.03%) Big Data
15 4 (1.36%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 34 (11.53%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.08%) Git
3 8 (2.71%) JIRA
4 7 (2.37%) GitLab
5 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.02%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.02%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.02%) Postman
6 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.68%) MLflow
7 2 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) Gatling
8 1 (0.34%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (7.80%) Finance
4 23 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.12%) Law
6 18 (6.10%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.69%) Retail
8 3 (1.02%) Banking
8 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.02%) Local Government
9 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (30.85%) Senior
2 51 (17.29%) Architect
3 40 (13.56%) Data Engineer
4 33 (11.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (10.17%) GCP Engineer
6 28 (9.49%) Lead
7 27 (9.15%) Analyst
8 24 (8.14%) Developer
9 23 (7.80%) Data Architect
10 18 (6.10%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (4.75%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.75%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.75%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (4.07%) Lead Data Engineer
14 11 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.47%) React
2 18 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.75%) JWT
3 14 (4.75%) OAuth
4 12 (4.07%) Node.js
5 11 (3.73%) .NET
5 11 (3.73%) Django
5 11 (3.73%) LangChain
5 11 (3.73%) RESTful
6 10 (3.39%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.39%) Kafka
6 10 (3.39%) LlamaIndex
6 10 (3.39%) OpenID
6 10 (3.39%) REST
6 10 (3.39%) SAML
7 8 (2.71%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.37%) Middleware
8 7 (2.37%) Spring
8 7 (2.37%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.42%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.75%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.71%) Life Science
7 7 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) Online Gambling
11 3 (1.02%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.68%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.12%) Linux
2 9 (3.05%) Windows
3 4 (1.36%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) CentOS
5 2 (0.68%) Debian
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (36.27%) CI/CD
2 96 (32.54%) DevOps
3 72 (24.41%) AI
4 68 (23.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (23.05%) Mentoring
5 64 (21.69%) Agile
6 54 (18.31%) Containerisation
7 50 (16.95%) Analytics
8 49 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (15.59%) Data Modelling
10 38 (12.88%) Data Engineering
11 37 (12.54%) Data Pipeline
11 37 (12.54%) Software Engineering
12 35 (11.86%) Data Governance
13 34 (11.53%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (10.85%) Data Architecture
14 32 (10.85%) ETL
15 31 (10.51%) Machine Learning
16 29 (9.83%) Decision-Making
17 28 (9.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.41%) Python
2 72 (24.41%) SQL
3 32 (10.85%) Java
4 23 (7.80%) Go
4 23 (7.80%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.44%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.10%) Bash
7 14 (4.75%) Scala
8 10 (3.39%) C#
9 5 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (8.14%) Degree
2 12 (4.07%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.39%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.71%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.37%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.69%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.36%) CCSP
8 4 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.36%) CISSP
8 4 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.02%) CISM
9 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.34%) CISA
11 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.07%) GDPR
2 12 (4.07%) QA
3 9 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.71%) NIST
5 7 (2.37%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (12.54%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (24.75%) Terraform
2 46 (15.59%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.81%) Grafana
4 23 (7.80%) Ansible
5 22 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Istio
6 4 (1.36%) Puppet
7 3 (1.02%) Control-M
7 3 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.68%) linkerd
8 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 76 (25.76%) Google
2 32 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.78%) Databricks
4 13 (4.41%) Adobe
4 13 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.07%) Apple
6 5 (1.69%) SAP
7 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.02%) Pega
7 3 (1.02%) VMware
8 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle
8 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.68%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.68%) Splunk
8 2 (0.68%) UiPath
9 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.34%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.34%) Zscaler