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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 62 88
Rank change year-on-year -42 +26 -62
Permanent jobs citing GCP 297 434 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.48% 5.20% 2.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.91% 18.08% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 226 176 287
10th Percentile £44,875 £47,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,875 £56,063 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £89,688 £97,528 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,237 £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 5,027 2,401 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.98% 28.75% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,426 1,626 5,191
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
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 21 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 21 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 -31 177 £72,500 -8.01% 75
Yorkshire -47 77 £70,932 -10.00% 23
North East -17 43 £70,000 +25.56% 9
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 30 (10.10%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.04%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) SAS
5 2 (0.67%) CICS
5 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 217 (73.06%) AWS
2 211 (71.04%) Azure
3 33 (11.11%) GitHub
4 27 (9.09%) SaaS
5 25 (8.42%) Serverless
6 22 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 21 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.06%) dbt
10 13 (4.38%) Snowflake
11 12 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (4.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (3.70%) Google Analytics
13 10 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (3.37%) Pulumi
14 9 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (2.02%) Cloudflare
17 5 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.74%) Firewall
2 16 (5.39%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.71%) DNS
3 14 (4.71%) HTTP
4 11 (3.70%) Network Security
5 6 (2.02%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) AMQP
6 2 (0.67%) SAN
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.81%) BigQuery
2 28 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (7.07%) Metadata
3 21 (7.07%) Power BI
4 19 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.72%) Data Lake
6 16 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.39%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.71%) Looker
7 14 (4.71%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.04%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.03%) MySQL
10 8 (2.69%) Data Vault
11 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (2.36%) Tableau
12 5 (1.68%) Big Data
13 4 (1.35%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 32 (10.77%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.39%) Git
3 8 (2.69%) JIRA
4 7 (2.36%) GitLab
5 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.01%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.01%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.01%) Postman
6 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.67%) MLflow
7 2 (0.67%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) Gatling
8 1 (0.34%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 38 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.08%) Finance
5 20 (6.73%) Law
6 17 (5.72%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.02%) Retail
8 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.01%) Banking
9 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.01%) Local Government
10 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.67%) Games
10 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (30.98%) Senior
2 52 (17.51%) Architect
3 42 (14.14%) Data Engineer
4 34 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (10.44%) Lead
6 30 (10.10%) GCP Engineer
7 28 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (9.09%) Analyst
9 24 (8.08%) Data Architect
9 24 (8.08%) Developer
10 18 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 15 (5.05%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.38%) Security Architect
13 13 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (4.38%) Senior Developer
14 12 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (3.70%) Senior Architect
16 10 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.42%) React
2 17 (5.72%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.71%) JWT
3 14 (4.71%) OAuth
4 13 (4.38%) .NET
5 11 (3.70%) Django
5 11 (3.70%) Kafka
5 11 (3.70%) LangChain
5 11 (3.70%) Node.js
5 11 (3.70%) RESTful
6 10 (3.37%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.37%) LlamaIndex
6 10 (3.37%) OpenID
6 10 (3.37%) REST
6 10 (3.37%) SAML
7 8 (2.69%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.36%) Middleware
8 7 (2.36%) Spring
8 7 (2.36%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.68%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.72%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.71%) AI Agents
5 9 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.69%) Life Science
6 8 (2.69%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Online Gambling
11 3 (1.01%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.67%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.07%) Linux
2 9 (3.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.67%) CentOS
5 2 (0.67%) Debian
5 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.69%) CI/CD
2 96 (32.32%) DevOps
3 71 (23.91%) AI
4 70 (23.57%) Mentoring
5 67 (22.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (22.22%) Agile
7 53 (17.85%) Containerisation
8 51 (17.17%) Analytics
8 51 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (16.16%) Data Modelling
10 39 (13.13%) Data Engineering
11 38 (12.79%) Data Governance
12 37 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
12 37 (12.46%) Software Engineering
13 35 (11.78%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (11.45%) Data Architecture
15 33 (11.11%) ETL
16 32 (10.77%) Decision-Making
17 31 (10.44%) Machine Learning
18 30 (10.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.44%) Python
2 75 (25.25%) SQL
3 32 (10.77%) Java
4 22 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.07%) Go
6 20 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.72%) Bash
8 13 (4.38%) Scala
9 11 (3.70%) C#
10 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (8.08%) Degree
2 12 (4.04%) AWS Certification
2 12 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.69%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.68%) SAP Certification
6 4 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.35%) CCSP
6 4 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.35%) CISSP
6 4 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.01%) CISM
8 2 (0.67%) MBA
9 1 (0.34%) GSEC
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.13%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.38%) GDPR
3 12 (4.04%) QA
4 10 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.69%) NIST
6 7 (2.36%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (12.46%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (24.24%) Terraform
2 46 (15.49%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.42%) Grafana
4 22 (7.41%) Ansible
5 21 (7.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.35%) Istio
6 4 (1.35%) Puppet
7 3 (1.01%) Control-M
7 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.67%) linkerd
8 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (26.94%) Google
2 33 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.41%) Databricks
4 14 (4.71%) Adobe
5 13 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.04%) Apple
7 5 (1.68%) SAP
8 3 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.01%) Pega
8 3 (1.01%) VMware
9 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.67%) Oracle
9 2 (0.67%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.67%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.67%) Splunk
9 2 (0.67%) UiPath
10 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.34%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.34%) Zscaler