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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 74 66
Rank change year-on-year -54 -8 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 156 262 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.29% 3.17% 3.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.55% 9.39% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 123 183 368
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £68,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -2.08% +3.82%
75th Percentile £83,125 £88,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +10.39% -3.75%

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 4,399 2,791 4,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.48% 33.76% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 1,564 4,017
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,688 £41,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,020 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,100 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -15 97 £70,932 +5.63% 67
Yorkshire -71 42 £70,932 +4.31% 36
North East -5 17 £62,500 -9.82% 16
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 15 (9.62%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.85%) Apache
4 2 (1.28%) WordPress
5 1 (0.64%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (89.10%) AWS
2 134 (85.90%) Azure
3 23 (14.74%) GitHub
3 23 (14.74%) Serverless
4 19 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.77%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.77%) SaaS
10 8 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (5.13%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.49%) dbt
12 5 (3.21%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (3.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (3.21%) Pulumi
12 5 (3.21%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.56%) PaaS
14 3 (1.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.54%) Firewall
2 17 (10.90%) TCP/IP
3 13 (8.33%) DNS
4 12 (7.69%) HTTP
5 4 (2.56%) AMQP
5 4 (2.56%) VPN
6 2 (1.28%) SAN
7 1 (0.64%) Broadband
7 1 (0.64%) DAB
7 1 (0.64%) DHCP
7 1 (0.64%) LAN
7 1 (0.64%) Network Security
7 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.97%) BigQuery
3 13 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 12 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.05%) Big Data
5 11 (7.05%) Metadata
5 11 (7.05%) MySQL
6 9 (5.77%) Hadoop
7 8 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (4.49%) Power BI
8 7 (4.49%) Tableau
9 6 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.85%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.21%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.21%) Looker
10 5 (3.21%) Redis
10 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.33%) GitLab
3 8 (5.13%) Git
4 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.28%) JIRA
6 2 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
General
1 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.03%) Finance
3 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.62%) Law
4 15 (9.62%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.85%) Marketing
7 4 (2.56%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.28%) Electronics
9 2 (1.28%) Retail
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (26.92%) Senior
2 27 (17.31%) Architect
3 25 (16.03%) Developer
3 25 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.62%) Lead
5 14 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (7.05%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.77%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (5.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 8 (5.13%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.13%) Project Manager
10 8 (5.13%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Analyst
11 7 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.49%) PHP Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.74%) React
2 15 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (8.97%) RESTful
3 14 (8.97%) Spring
3 14 (8.97%) Spring Boot
4 12 (7.69%) Django
5 11 (7.05%) Node.js
6 10 (6.41%) REST
7 9 (5.77%) AngularJS
8 8 (5.13%) Vue
9 7 (4.49%) CSS
9 7 (4.49%) FastAPI
9 7 (4.49%) Hibernate
9 7 (4.49%) HTML
10 6 (3.85%) Kafka
11 5 (3.21%) Laravel
11 5 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.56%) .NET
12 4 (2.56%) Material-UI
12 4 (2.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.05%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.77%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.92%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.28%) NHS
7 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.64%) IoT
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.82%) Linux
2 12 (7.69%) Windows
3 6 (3.85%) Unix
4 5 (3.21%) CentOS
4 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.56%) Debian
5 4 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 79 (50.64%) DevOps
3 63 (40.38%) Containerisation
4 53 (33.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (33.97%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (32.05%) Agile
6 29 (18.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 28 (17.95%) Microservices
8 24 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 23 (14.74%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (14.74%) Software Engineering
10 20 (12.82%) Observability
11 19 (12.18%) Open Source
11 19 (12.18%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (11.54%) Continuous Delivery
13 17 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (10.90%) DevSecOps
14 16 (10.26%) AI
14 16 (10.26%) Data Science
15 15 (9.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 71 (45.51%) Python
2 30 (19.23%) SQL
3 29 (18.59%) Java
4 23 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 20 (12.82%) Go
6 16 (10.26%) Bash
7 12 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.13%) PHP
9 7 (4.49%) C#
9 7 (4.49%) Scala
10 3 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (9.62%) Degree
2 14 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.28%) CISSP
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CISA
8 1 (0.64%) CISM
8 1 (0.64%) CRISC
8 1 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.85%) QA
2 4 (2.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.28%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (26.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.92%) vSphere
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) HDFS
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (31.41%) Terraform
2 48 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 32 (20.51%) Ansible
4 24 (15.38%) Grafana
5 21 (13.46%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.85%) Puppet
7 3 (1.92%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.92%) cPanel
7 3 (1.92%) Plesk
7 3 (1.92%) Rancher
8 2 (1.28%) Control-M
8 2 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.64%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.64%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (31.41%) Google
2 11 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.85%) Informatica
3 6 (3.85%) Oracle
4 5 (3.21%) Databricks
4 5 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.56%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.56%) Palantir
5 4 (2.56%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.56%) VMware
6 3 (1.92%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.28%) Dell
7 2 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.28%) SAP
7 2 (1.28%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.28%) UiPath
8 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.64%) Pega