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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 84 63
Rank change year-on-year -44 -21 -33
Permanent jobs citing GCP 150 262 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.31% 2.97% 4.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.51% 9.10% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 118 178 364
10th Percentile £46,675 £47,419 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £68,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -2.08% +1.36%
75th Percentile £83,438 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £77,250
% change year-on-year -8.82% +10.03% -3.44%

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 4,278 2,878 4,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.27% 32.62% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,957 1,593 3,643
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,050 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -8 95 £70,966 +13.55% 85
Yorkshire -65 40 £70,932 +4.31% 69
North East -1 15 £65,000 -6.22% 30
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 16 (10.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.33%) WordPress
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 133 (88.67%) AWS
2 128 (85.33%) Azure
3 21 (14.00%) Serverless
4 17 (11.33%) GitHub
5 15 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.33%) Power Platform
9 8 (5.33%) SaaS
10 7 (4.67%) dbt
11 5 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.33%) Pulumi
11 5 (3.33%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.67%) PaaS
13 3 (2.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.33%) Firewall
2 13 (8.67%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.00%) DNS
4 8 (5.33%) HTTP
5 4 (2.67%) AMQP
5 4 (2.67%) VPN
6 2 (1.33%) SAN
7 1 (0.67%) Broadband
7 1 (0.67%) DAB
7 1 (0.67%) DHCP
7 1 (0.67%) LAN
7 1 (0.67%) Network Security
7 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.33%) BigQuery
4 13 (8.67%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.33%) Big Data
5 11 (7.33%) Metadata
5 11 (7.33%) MySQL
6 9 (6.00%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.67%) Power BI
8 7 (4.67%) Tableau
9 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.00%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.33%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.33%) Looker
10 5 (3.33%) Redis
10 5 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.67%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 20 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.33%) GitLab
3 8 (5.33%) Git
4 5 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.33%) JIRA
6 2 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
General
1 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.33%) Finance
3 13 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.33%) Law
4 11 (7.33%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.00%) Marketing
6 4 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.33%) Electronics
8 2 (1.33%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (27.33%) Senior
2 26 (17.33%) Architect
3 23 (15.33%) Developer
4 21 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.00%) Lead
5 15 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.00%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Data Architect
8 9 (6.00%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.67%) Analyst
10 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Manager
10 7 (4.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 7 (4.67%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (4.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.67%) React
2 15 (10.00%) RESTful
3 14 (9.33%) Spring
3 14 (9.33%) Spring Boot
4 13 (8.67%) Django
5 11 (7.33%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (6.67%) Node.js
7 9 (6.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.00%) REST
7 9 (6.00%) Vue
8 8 (5.33%) FastAPI
9 7 (4.67%) CSS
9 7 (4.67%) Hibernate
9 7 (4.67%) HTML
10 6 (4.00%) Kafka
11 5 (3.33%) Celery
11 5 (3.33%) Flask
11 5 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.67%) gRPC
12 4 (2.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.33%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.00%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.33%) NHS
7 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) IoT
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.00%) Linux
2 12 (8.00%) Windows
3 6 (4.00%) Unix
4 5 (3.33%) CentOS
4 5 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.67%) Debian
5 4 (2.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 75 (50.00%) DevOps
3 57 (38.00%) Containerisation
4 53 (35.33%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (33.33%) Agile
6 48 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (18.00%) Microservices
8 26 (17.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 24 (16.00%) Software Engineering
10 22 (14.67%) Mentoring
11 21 (14.00%) Observability
12 20 (13.33%) Open Source
12 20 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (12.00%) Data Science
14 17 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.67%) AI
15 16 (10.67%) Computer Science
15 16 (10.67%) Data Engineering
15 16 (10.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.67%) Python
2 33 (22.00%) SQL
3 29 (19.33%) Java
4 19 (12.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.33%) Go
6 12 (8.00%) Bash
7 11 (7.33%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.33%) Scala
9 7 (4.67%) C#
9 7 (4.67%) PHP
10 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Degree
2 14 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.33%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CISA
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CRISC
8 1 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.00%) QA
2 4 (2.67%) GDPR
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (29.33%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.00%) vSphere
3 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Firmware
3 1 (0.67%) HDFS
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 44 (29.33%) Terraform
3 29 (19.33%) Ansible
4 21 (14.00%) Grafana
5 18 (12.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.00%) Puppet
7 3 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.00%) cPanel
7 3 (2.00%) Plesk
7 3 (2.00%) Rancher
8 2 (1.33%) Control-M
8 2 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (32.00%) Google
2 11 (7.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle
4 6 (4.00%) Databricks
4 6 (4.00%) Informatica
5 5 (3.33%) Palantir
5 5 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.67%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.67%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.67%) VMware
7 3 (2.00%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.33%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.33%) Dell
8 2 (1.33%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.33%) SAP
8 2 (1.33%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.33%) UiPath
9 1 (0.67%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.67%) Pega