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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 63 78
Rank change year-on-year -55 +15 -49
Permanent jobs citing GCP 264 427 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 5.52% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.61% 17.75% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 197 174 319
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,563 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,528 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,542 £96,539
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 5,728 2,405 6,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.32% 31.08% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 1,535 5,008
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,350 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -47 150 £75,000 -6.25% 95
Yorkshire -53 81 £70,000 -6.67% 31
North East -18 33 £60,000 +6.19% 18
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 25 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.30%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.41%) Apache
4 3 (1.14%) Confluence
4 3 (1.14%) SAS
5 2 (0.76%) CICS
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.55%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 196 (74.24%) AWS
2 193 (73.11%) Azure
3 31 (11.74%) GitHub
4 24 (9.09%) Serverless
5 23 (8.71%) SaaS
6 21 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (7.20%) dbt
8 19 (7.20%) Power Platform
9 12 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 11 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.03%) Google Analytics
12 8 (3.03%) Pulumi
13 7 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.27%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.71%) Firewall
2 17 (6.44%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.68%) DNS
3 15 (5.68%) HTTP
4 8 (3.03%) Network Security
5 6 (2.27%) VPN
6 3 (1.14%) AMQP
7 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.15%) BigQuery
2 22 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.58%) Metadata
4 18 (6.82%) Data Lake
4 18 (6.82%) Power BI
5 16 (6.06%) MySQL
5 16 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (5.68%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.55%) Looker
9 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.41%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.65%) Big Data
10 7 (2.65%) Data Vault
10 7 (2.65%) Tableau
11 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.68%) Git
3 9 (3.41%) GitLab
4 6 (2.27%) JIRA
5 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.14%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.14%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.38%) Gatling
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 47 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.47%) Finance
4 22 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.06%) Law
8 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.14%) Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (33.33%) Senior
2 46 (17.42%) Architect
3 31 (11.74%) Data Engineer
3 31 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (10.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (10.23%) Lead
6 25 (9.47%) Developer
7 24 (9.09%) Analyst
8 23 (8.71%) GCP Engineer
9 20 (7.58%) Data Architect
10 15 (5.68%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.30%) Security Architect
12 13 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (4.92%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.79%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.79%) Senior Architect
16 9 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.61%) React
2 17 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (4.55%) Node.js
3 12 (4.55%) REST
3 12 (4.55%) RESTful
4 11 (4.17%) JWT
4 11 (4.17%) OAuth
5 10 (3.79%) .NET
5 10 (3.79%) Django
5 10 (3.79%) LangChain
6 9 (3.41%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.41%) LlamaIndex
7 7 (2.65%) Kafka
7 7 (2.65%) Middleware
7 7 (2.65%) OpenID
7 7 (2.65%) SAML
7 7 (2.65%) Spring
7 7 (2.65%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.27%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.79%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.03%) Life Science
6 8 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.14%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.76%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.76%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.58%) Linux
2 8 (3.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) CentOS
3 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.14%) Debian
4 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.76%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 94 (35.61%) DevOps
3 68 (25.76%) Agile
4 63 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (22.35%) AI
5 59 (22.35%) Mentoring
6 54 (20.45%) Containerisation
7 46 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (15.15%) Analytics
8 40 (15.15%) Data Modelling
9 32 (12.12%) Data Governance
10 31 (11.74%) Software Engineering
11 30 (11.36%) Data Engineering
11 30 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (10.98%) ETL
13 27 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
13 27 (10.23%) Microservices
14 26 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (9.85%) Data Architecture
14 26 (9.85%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 114 (43.18%) Python
2 58 (21.97%) SQL
3 29 (10.98%) Java
4 25 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.71%) Go
6 19 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.06%) Bash
8 9 (3.41%) C#
9 7 (2.65%) Scala
10 5 (1.89%) PHP
11 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (7.58%) Degree
2 12 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (3.79%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.89%) SAP Certification
8 4 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.52%) CCSP
8 4 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.52%) CISSP
8 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.14%) CISM
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.74%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.17%) GDPR
2 11 (4.17%) QA
3 7 (2.65%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.89%) NIST
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (25.76%) Terraform
2 40 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.61%) Ansible
4 26 (9.85%) Grafana
5 23 (8.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.52%) Puppet
7 3 (1.14%) Istio
7 3 (1.14%) Rancher
8 2 (0.76%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.76%) Control-M
8 2 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.38%) linkerd
9 1 (0.38%) Nagios
9 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 68 (25.76%) Google
2 30 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.92%) Adobe
4 12 (4.55%) Apple
4 12 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.79%) Databricks
6 5 (1.89%) SAP
7 4 (1.52%) Oracle
7 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.14%) Pega
8 3 (1.14%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.14%) VMware
9 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.76%) Informatica
9 2 (0.76%) Palantir
9 2 (0.76%) UiPath
10 1 (0.38%) Cisco
10 1 (0.38%) Dell
10 1 (0.38%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.38%) TIBCO