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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 73 85
Rank change year-on-year -31 +12 -29
Permanent jobs citing GCP 342 399 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 4.17% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.38% 15.44% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 253 137 201
10th Percentile £43,950 £45,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +15.19% -4.36%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £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 5,361 2,584 4,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.43% 26.98% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,742 1,800 3,423
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -24 209 £70,932 -10.00% 160
Yorkshire -34 76 £70,932 -1.82% 86
North East -9 57 £73,750 +28.26% 28
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 33 (9.65%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.39%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.80%) Apache
4 5 (1.46%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) SAS
6 2 (0.58%) CICS
6 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.51%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 242 (70.76%) AWS
2 231 (67.54%) Azure
3 31 (9.06%) dbt
4 29 (8.48%) GitHub
5 27 (7.89%) Serverless
6 26 (7.60%) SaaS
7 22 (6.43%) Power Platform
8 20 (5.85%) Google Analytics
8 20 (5.85%) Snowflake
9 17 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.22%) Google Tag Manager
14 10 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.92%) Pulumi
15 9 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
16 8 (2.34%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.56%) Firewall
2 15 (4.39%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.22%) Network Security
4 10 (2.92%) HTTP
5 7 (2.05%) DNS
6 4 (1.17%) SAN
6 4 (1.17%) VPN
7 2 (0.58%) AMQP
8 1 (0.29%) DHCP
8 1 (0.29%) Internet
8 1 (0.29%) LAN
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.54%) BigQuery
2 45 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (7.31%) SQL Server
5 22 (6.43%) Power BI
6 21 (6.14%) Looker
7 19 (5.56%) Metadata
8 17 (4.97%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.97%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (3.80%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.05%) Data Vault
11 7 (2.05%) MySQL
11 7 (2.05%) Tableau
12 5 (1.46%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.17%) Big Data
13 4 (1.17%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (9.36%) Git
2 27 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.92%) JIRA
4 7 (2.05%) GitLab
5 6 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.17%) Postman
6 4 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.88%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.88%) Selenium
7 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.58%) MLflow
9 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) Gatling
9 1 (0.29%) JMeter
9 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 86 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 32 (9.36%) Finance
6 12 (3.51%) Law
6 12 (3.51%) Retail
7 10 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.46%) Local Government
10 4 (1.17%) Legal
11 3 (0.88%) Banking
11 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Advertising
12 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.58%) Games
12 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Marketing
12 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (28.95%) Senior
2 61 (17.84%) Data Engineer
3 50 (14.62%) Architect
4 45 (13.16%) Lead
5 39 (11.40%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (9.36%) Analyst
8 26 (7.60%) Developer
9 22 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (5.26%) Python Engineer
11 18 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 17 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 16 (4.68%) Data Architect
13 16 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
13 16 (4.68%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.51%) Security Architect
17 11 (3.22%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.89%) React
2 16 (4.68%) .NET
2 16 (4.68%) LangChain
3 15 (4.39%) LlamaIndex
4 14 (4.09%) Kafka
5 13 (3.80%) JWT
5 13 (3.80%) Node.js
5 13 (3.80%) OAuth
5 13 (3.80%) REST
6 11 (3.22%) RESTful
7 10 (2.92%) Django
7 10 (2.92%) OpenID
7 10 (2.92%) SAML
8 9 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.63%) Spring
8 9 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.34%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.34%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.05%) Middleware
11 6 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.68%) AI Agents
4 15 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.22%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.92%) Life Science
7 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.05%) Online Gambling
11 6 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.36%) Linux
2 9 (2.63%) Unix
3 8 (2.34%) Windows
4 4 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.88%) CentOS
6 2 (0.58%) Android
6 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) Debian
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (34.80%) CI/CD
2 99 (28.95%) AI
3 96 (28.07%) DevOps
4 91 (26.61%) Mentoring
5 88 (25.73%) Agile
6 77 (22.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (19.01%) Analytics
9 62 (18.13%) Data Engineering
10 54 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 51 (14.91%) Data Modelling
12 49 (14.33%) Machine Learning
13 48 (14.04%) Decision-Making
14 47 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (13.45%) ETL
16 44 (12.87%) Containerisation
17 42 (12.28%) Roadmaps
18 40 (11.70%) Data Governance
19 39 (11.40%) Technical Leadership
20 38 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 157 (45.91%) Python
2 99 (28.95%) SQL
3 41 (11.99%) Java
4 27 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.85%) Go
7 17 (4.97%) Scala
8 15 (4.39%) Bash
9 12 (3.51%) C#
10 8 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.05%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.58%) Bicep
13 2 (0.58%) Swift
14 1 (0.29%) C
14 1 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Rust
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (9.36%) Degree
2 22 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.14%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.92%) DBS Check
8 9 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.46%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.17%) CCSP
11 4 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.17%) CISSP
11 4 (1.17%) MBA
12 3 (0.88%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) CISA
13 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.91%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.97%) GDPR
3 16 (4.68%) QA
4 13 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.92%) NIST
6 8 (2.34%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.88%) NCSC
8 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (14.62%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.17%) vSphere
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 75 (21.93%) Terraform
2 54 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 19 (5.56%) Grafana
4 15 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.09%) Ansible
6 7 (2.05%) Puppet
7 5 (1.46%) Istio
8 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.88%) Control-M
9 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.88%) linkerd
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 98 (28.65%) Google
2 35 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.48%) Databricks
4 16 (4.68%) Adobe
5 14 (4.09%) Apple
6 13 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.05%) Splunk
8 5 (1.46%) SAP
8 5 (1.46%) VMware
9 4 (1.17%) New Relic
10 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.88%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.88%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.88%) Pega
10 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco
11 2 (0.58%) Oracle
11 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
12 1 (0.29%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.29%) Proofpoint