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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 99 56
Rank change year-on-year -35 -43 -15
Permanent jobs citing GCP 143 274 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.49% 2.23% 5.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.82% 7.76% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 104 167 303
10th Percentile £46,825 £48,250 £43,049
25th Percentile £53,438 £48,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -6.40% +3.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,750 £87,500 £92,387
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 2,964 3,533 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.93% 28.80% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,867 1,973 2,750
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -2 88 £65,000 +4.00% 155
Yorkshire -49 41 £70,000 +4.48% 48
North East +7 16 £60,000 -24.02% 13
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 11 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Magento
1 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (97.20%) AWS
2 132 (92.31%) Azure
3 13 (9.09%) Serverless
4 12 (8.39%) GitHub
5 10 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (6.29%) SaaS
7 8 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.20%) dbt
9 6 (4.20%) OCI
10 5 (3.50%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.50%) Pulumi
11 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.80%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.80%) PaaS
11 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.79%) TCP/IP
2 12 (8.39%) Firewall
3 7 (4.90%) VPN
4 5 (3.50%) BGP
4 5 (3.50%) DNS
4 5 (3.50%) Network Security
5 4 (2.80%) OSPF
5 4 (2.80%) SAN
5 4 (2.80%) VLAN
6 3 (2.10%) HTTP
7 2 (1.40%) AMQP
7 2 (1.40%) LAN
7 2 (1.40%) PuTTY
7 2 (1.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.70%) Broadband
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.70%) DAB
8 1 (0.70%) DHCP
8 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (14.69%) NoSQL
3 20 (13.99%) MongoDB
4 14 (9.79%) MySQL
5 9 (6.29%) Big Data
5 9 (6.29%) BigQuery
6 8 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.59%) Power BI
7 7 (4.90%) Hadoop
7 7 (4.90%) Redis
7 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.90%) Tableau
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.50%) Metadata
10 4 (2.80%) Looker
11 2 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.40%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (1.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.49%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.99%) GitLab
3 6 (4.20%) Git
4 4 (2.80%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.80%) JIRA
4 4 (2.80%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.80%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.80%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.40%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.70%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.70%) MLflow
General
1 38 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.68%) Finance
3 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Marketing
5 11 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (7.69%) Retail
6 9 (6.29%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.50%) Law
9 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.40%) Banking
10 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Electronics
10 2 (1.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (22.38%) Senior
2 31 (21.68%) Architect
3 26 (18.18%) Developer
4 22 (15.38%) Lead
5 21 (14.69%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (11.19%) AWS Architect
7 16 (11.19%) AWS Solution Architect
8 13 (9.09%) TOGAF Architect
9 9 (6.29%) Azure Architect
9 9 (6.29%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.59%) Analyst
10 8 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Lead Software Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Architect
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.38%) RESTful
2 15 (10.49%) React
3 14 (9.79%) Django
4 13 (9.09%) Spring
4 13 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 12 (8.39%) Kafka
6 9 (6.29%) FastAPI
6 9 (6.29%) Node.js
7 8 (5.59%) Celery
7 8 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.59%) Flask
7 8 (5.59%) Hibernate
7 8 (5.59%) Vue
8 7 (4.90%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.20%) CSS
9 6 (4.20%) gRPC
9 6 (4.20%) HTML
9 6 (4.20%) REST
10 5 (3.50%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.59%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.90%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.50%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.70%) PMI
9 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.89%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows
3 8 (5.59%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) CentOS
4 2 (1.40%) Debian
4 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (53.15%) CI/CD
2 68 (47.55%) DevOps
3 62 (43.36%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (40.56%) Agile
5 54 (37.76%) Containerisation
6 38 (26.57%) Microservices
7 36 (25.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (18.18%) AI
9 26 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 24 (16.78%) Mentoring
11 21 (14.69%) Clean Code
11 21 (14.69%) Software Engineering
12 20 (13.99%) Data Science
12 20 (13.99%) Decision-Making
12 20 (13.99%) Machine Learning
12 20 (13.99%) Open Source
12 20 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (13.29%) Enterprise Architecture
13 19 (13.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (48.95%) Python
2 35 (24.48%) Java
3 34 (23.78%) SQL
4 20 (13.99%) C#
5 14 (9.79%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.99%) Bash
7 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.20%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.50%) Go
8 5 (3.50%) Scala
9 4 (2.80%) PHP
10 3 (2.10%) R
11 2 (1.40%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.70%) C++
12 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (10.49%) Degree
2 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.99%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.20%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) CBAP
9 1 (0.70%) CISA
9 1 (0.70%) CISM
9 1 (0.70%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.70%) CRISC
9 1 (0.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.39%) GDPR
2 10 (6.99%) NIST
3 8 (5.59%) QA
4 7 (4.90%) HIPAA
5 6 (4.20%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.70%) SLA
8 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (45.45%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) vSphere
3 4 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.10%) HDFS
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (39.16%) Kubernetes
2 30 (20.98%) Terraform
3 23 (16.08%) Ansible
4 16 (11.19%) Grafana
5 11 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.80%) Control-M
6 4 (2.80%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.80%) Puppet
7 3 (2.10%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.40%) Kibana
8 2 (1.40%) logstash
8 2 (1.40%) Oozie
8 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.70%) cPanel
9 1 (0.70%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.70%) Nmap
9 1 (0.70%) Plesk
Vendors
1 50 (34.97%) Google
2 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.29%) Databricks
4 8 (5.59%) Oracle
5 6 (4.20%) Informatica
6 5 (3.50%) SAP
6 5 (3.50%) VMware
7 4 (2.80%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.80%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.80%) Palantir
8 2 (1.40%) Dell
8 2 (1.40%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.40%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.40%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.40%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco
9 1 (0.70%) IBM