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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 64 90
Rank change year-on-year -35 +26 -64
Permanent jobs citing GCP 307 437 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 5.14% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.06% 18.06% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 235 178 276
10th Percentile £44,850 £46,850 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £55,688 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £65,033
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +15.33% +0.05%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £77,554
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,931 £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 5,062 2,420 6,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.03% 28.45% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,461 1,641 5,068
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,759
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 26 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 26 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 -31 185 £72,500 -8.01% 84
Yorkshire -43 78 £70,932 -10.00% 26
North East -13 44 £70,000 +23.89% 12
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 31 (10.10%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.98%) SAS
6 2 (0.65%) CICS
6 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.91%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 223 (72.64%) AWS
2 217 (70.68%) Azure
3 35 (11.40%) GitHub
4 27 (8.79%) SaaS
5 26 (8.47%) Serverless
6 23 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.17%) Power Platform
8 21 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (6.51%) dbt
10 13 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (4.23%) Snowflake
11 12 (3.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.58%) Google Analytics
13 10 (3.26%) Pulumi
14 9 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (1.95%) Cloud Functions
17 6 (1.95%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.49%) Firewall
2 16 (5.21%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.56%) DNS
3 14 (4.56%) HTTP
4 11 (3.58%) Network Security
5 6 (1.95%) VPN
6 2 (0.65%) AMQP
6 2 (0.65%) SAN
7 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.66%) BigQuery
2 30 (9.77%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (6.84%) Metadata
3 21 (6.84%) Power BI
4 20 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.54%) Data Lake
5 17 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.54%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.56%) Looker
6 14 (4.56%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.91%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.93%) MySQL
9 8 (2.61%) Data Vault
10 7 (2.28%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.28%) Tableau
11 6 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (1.30%) Big Data
12 4 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (11.07%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.19%) Git
3 9 (2.93%) JIRA
4 6 (1.95%) GitLab
5 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.30%) Postman
6 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.98%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.98%) Selenium
6 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.14%) Finance
3 25 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.84%) Law
5 17 (5.54%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.95%) Retail
7 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.98%) Banking
8 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.98%) Local Government
9 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.65%) Games
9 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (31.27%) Senior
2 52 (16.94%) Architect
3 47 (15.31%) Data Engineer
4 36 (11.73%) GCP Engineer
5 35 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (10.42%) Lead
7 28 (9.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (8.79%) Analyst
9 25 (8.14%) Developer
10 24 (7.82%) Data Architect
11 18 (5.86%) Software Engineer
12 16 (5.21%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
14 14 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (4.56%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (4.23%) Security Architect
15 13 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
16 11 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (3.58%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.47%) React
2 17 (5.54%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.56%) .NET
3 14 (4.56%) JWT
3 14 (4.56%) OAuth
4 12 (3.91%) Kafka
4 12 (3.91%) RESTful
5 11 (3.58%) Django
5 11 (3.58%) LangChain
5 11 (3.58%) Node.js
6 10 (3.26%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.26%) LlamaIndex
6 10 (3.26%) OpenID
6 10 (3.26%) REST
6 10 (3.26%) SAML
7 8 (2.61%) OAuth2
7 8 (2.61%) Spring
7 8 (2.61%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.28%) Middleware
9 6 (1.95%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.54%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.89%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.93%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.61%) Life Science
7 7 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.98%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.98%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.65%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.84%) Linux
2 9 (2.93%) Windows
3 4 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) CentOS
5 2 (0.65%) Debian
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (35.18%) CI/CD
2 95 (30.94%) DevOps
3 75 (24.43%) Mentoring
4 72 (23.45%) AI
5 68 (22.15%) Agile
6 67 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (17.59%) Containerisation
8 52 (16.94%) Analytics
8 52 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (15.64%) Data Modelling
10 40 (13.03%) Data Engineering
11 39 (12.70%) Data Governance
11 39 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (12.70%) Software Engineering
12 36 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (11.40%) Data Architecture
13 35 (11.40%) ETL
14 33 (10.75%) Decision-Making
15 32 (10.42%) Roadmaps
16 31 (10.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 136 (44.30%) Python
2 79 (25.73%) SQL
3 33 (10.75%) Java
4 22 (7.17%) JavaScript
5 21 (6.84%) Go
5 21 (6.84%) TypeScript
6 17 (5.54%) Bash
7 15 (4.89%) Scala
8 11 (3.58%) C#
9 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.65%) Bicep
11 2 (0.65%) PHP
11 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (7.49%) Degree
2 12 (3.91%) AWS Certification
2 12 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.58%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.93%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.61%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.63%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.30%) CCSP
8 4 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.30%) CISSP
8 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.98%) CISM
10 2 (0.65%) MBA
11 1 (0.33%) GSEC
11 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.36%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.23%) GDPR
2 13 (4.23%) QA
3 11 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.93%) NIST
5 7 (2.28%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (12.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (24.10%) Terraform
2 46 (14.98%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.82%) Grafana
4 22 (7.17%) Ansible
5 20 (6.51%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.30%) Istio
6 4 (1.30%) Puppet
7 3 (0.98%) Control-M
7 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.65%) linkerd
8 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (26.38%) Google
2 34 (11.07%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.82%) Databricks
4 14 (4.56%) Adobe
5 13 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.91%) Apple
7 5 (1.63%) SAP
8 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.98%) Pega
8 3 (0.98%) Splunk
8 3 (0.98%) VMware
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle
9 2 (0.65%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.65%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.65%) UiPath
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco
10 1 (0.33%) Dell
10 1 (0.33%) Informatica
10 1 (0.33%) Proofpoint