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 citing GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	123	143	97
Rank change year-on-year	+20	-46	-40
Permanent jobs citing GCP	310	147	269
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	1.28%	1.48%	2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category	6.57%	4.98%	7.66%
Number of salaries quoted	225	105	162
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£46,600	£48,250
25^th Percentile	£58,750	£52,500	£48,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£70,000	£70,000	£62,500
Median % change year-on-year	-	+12.00%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£87,500	£82,500	£77,500
90^th Percentile	£97,500	£90,000	£87,375
England median annual salary	£80,000	£80,000	£85,000
% change year-on-year	-	-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 citing cloud computing skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	4,715	2,950	3,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	19.52%	29.80%	28.56%
Number of salaries quoted	3,501	1,865	1,952
10^th Percentile	£31,125	£27,700	£32,000
25^th Percentile	£42,500	£33,125	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£71,250	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£92,500	£82,500	£82,500
England median annual salary	£63,500	£57,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+10.43%	-11.54%	+4.00%

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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 11 November 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 11 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	+6	177	£70,000	+7.69%	199
North East	-15	75	£80,500	+34.17%	26
Yorkshire	-29	58	£70,932	-2.83%	84
GCP England

GCP Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 11 November 2026, job vacancies citing GCP also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region citing GCP.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	76.1%	236
2	Azure	69.4%	215
3	Python	49.4%	153
4	CI/CD	43.5%	135
5	AI	39.7%	123
6	Google	36.1%	112
7	Mentoring	33.2%	103
8	Agile	31.3%	97
8	DevOps	31.3%	97
10	Infrastructure as Code	28.7%	89
11	SQL	28.4%	88
12	Problem-Solving	24.5%	76
13	Data Engineering	23.2%	72
14	Machine Learning	22.3%	69
15	Docker	21.6%	67
16	Terraform	21.3%	66
17	Containerisation	21.0%	65
18	Analytics	20.3%	63
18	Software Engineering	20.3%	63
20	Decision-Making	20.0%	62
20	Kubernetes	20.0%	62
22	Technical Leadership	19.0%	59
23	Platform Engineering	16.5%	51
24	Cloud Security	16.1%	50
25	LLM	15.8%	49
26	Git	15.2%	47
27	Observability	14.5%	45
28	BigQuery	13.5%	42
29	Microsoft	13.2%	41
29	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	13.2%	41

GCP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	76.1%	236
2	Azure	69.4%	215
3	GitHub	7.4%	23
4	Serverless	7.1%	22
5	SaaS	6.8%	21
6	Google Analytics	6.1%	19
7	dbt	5.8%	18
8	AWS Lambda	5.2%	16
9	AWS CloudFormation	4.8%	15
10	Cloud Computing	4.5%	14
10	Power Platform	4.5%	14
12	GitHub Actions	4.2%	13
12	Google Tag Manager	4.2%	13
14	Amazon S3	3.9%	12
14	Snowflake	3.9%	12
16	Google Kubernetes Engine	3.5%	11
17	Microsoft 365	3.2%	10
17	Microsoft Copilot	3.2%	10
19	Microsoft Purview	2.9%	9
20	Cloud Functions	2.6%	8