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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 79 106
Rank change year-on-year -29 +27 -45
Permanent jobs citing GCP 358 344 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.51% 3.65% 2.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.94% 14.00% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 269 93 174
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,800 £46,625
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 5,156 2,457 4,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.71% 26.10% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,691 1,709 2,586
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £79,500 £70,000 £69,950
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.51% -2.31%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -28 215 £70,000 +7.69% 255
North East -12 72 £78,500 +42.73% 40
Yorkshire -21 71 £70,000 -6.67% 105
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 29 (8.10%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.63%) Apache
4 8 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.35%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 263 (73.46%) AWS
2 243 (67.88%) Azure
3 32 (8.94%) SaaS
4 27 (7.54%) Serverless
5 25 (6.98%) dbt
6 24 (6.70%) GitHub
7 20 (5.59%) Google Analytics
7 20 (5.59%) Power Platform
8 16 (4.47%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (3.35%) Google Tag Manager
11 11 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.91%) Firewall
2 11 (3.07%) Network Security
3 8 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.12%) HTTP
4 4 (1.12%) SAN
4 4 (1.12%) VPN
5 3 (0.84%) AMQP
5 3 (0.84%) Internet
6 2 (0.56%) DNS
6 2 (0.56%) LAN
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) BGP
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.28%) DHCP
7 1 (0.28%) OSPF
7 1 (0.28%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) VLAN
7 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.28%) Wireless
7 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.53%) BigQuery
2 40 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (6.42%) SQL Server
4 22 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (5.87%) Metadata
6 20 (5.59%) Looker
7 19 (5.31%) Power BI
8 15 (4.19%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.07%) Data Lake
9 11 (3.07%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.96%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.68%) Big Data
12 6 (1.68%) MySQL
13 5 (1.40%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.40%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (1.40%) Tableau
14 3 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
14 3 (0.84%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 35 (9.78%) Git
2 21 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.79%) GitLab
3 10 (2.79%) JIRA
4 6 (1.68%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.68%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.12%) Postman
6 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.84%) Selenium
6 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) Gatling
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) MLflow
8 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 87 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (16.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 34 (9.50%) Finance
5 14 (3.91%) Retail
6 8 (2.23%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.68%) Law
8 5 (1.40%) Local Government
9 4 (1.12%) Legal
9 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.84%) Banking
10 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.84%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Advertising
11 2 (0.56%) Games
11 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Publishing
12 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (26.26%) Senior
2 61 (17.04%) Architect
3 60 (16.76%) Data Engineer
4 50 (13.97%) Lead
5 40 (11.17%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.38%) Analyst
8 27 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (6.42%) Developer
10 22 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.87%) Data Architect
12 20 (5.59%) Software Engineer
13 18 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (4.47%) Python Engineer
15 15 (4.19%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 15 (4.19%) Databricks Engineer
15 15 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
16 14 (3.91%) GCP Data Engineer
16 14 (3.91%) Lead Data Engineer
16 14 (3.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (20.39%) Terraform
2 23 (6.42%) LangChain
3 22 (6.15%) LlamaIndex
4 19 (5.31%) React
5 15 (4.19%) Middleware
6 14 (3.91%) .NET
7 13 (3.63%) Node.js
8 12 (3.35%) JWT
8 12 (3.35%) OAuth
9 11 (3.07%) REST
10 10 (2.79%) Kafka
10 10 (2.79%) OpenID
10 10 (2.79%) SAML
10 10 (2.79%) Web Services
11 9 (2.51%) Spring
11 9 (2.51%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.23%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.23%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.23%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.23%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.54%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.47%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.07%) Life Science
5 11 (3.07%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.51%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.96%) Online Gambling
9 6 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.50%) Linux
2 8 (2.23%) Windows
3 7 (1.96%) Unix
4 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.12%) CentOS
5 4 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.84%) Debian
6 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.56%) Android
7 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (34.64%) CI/CD
2 122 (34.08%) AI
3 103 (28.77%) Agile
4 102 (28.49%) Mentoring
5 95 (26.54%) DevOps
6 84 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (20.11%) Data Engineering
9 66 (18.44%) Analytics
10 63 (17.60%) Machine Learning
11 61 (17.04%) Software Engineering
12 58 (16.20%) Decision-Making
13 56 (15.64%) Technical Leadership
14 48 (13.41%) Containerisation
14 48 (13.41%) Data Modelling
14 48 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (12.85%) ETL
15 46 (12.85%) Roadmaps
16 44 (12.29%) Data Governance
17 41 (11.45%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 157 (43.85%) Python
2 95 (26.54%) SQL
3 37 (10.34%) Java
4 26 (7.26%) TypeScript
5 21 (5.87%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.03%) Scala
7 15 (4.19%) Go
8 12 (3.35%) Bash
9 10 (2.79%) C#
9 10 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.12%) Bicep
13 2 (0.56%) C++
13 2 (0.56%) Swift
13 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.28%) C
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) Rust
14 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (8.38%) AWS Certification
1 30 (8.38%) Degree
2 26 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (6.42%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.87%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.31%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.07%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.79%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.40%) CISM
11 5 (1.40%) SAP Certification
12 4 (1.12%) MBA
13 3 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.84%) CCSP
13 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.84%) CISSP
14 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.80%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.75%) GDPR
3 14 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.91%) QA
4 13 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.51%) NIST
6 8 (2.23%) NCSC
7 7 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (14.53%) Docker
2 7 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.12%) vSphere
4 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 56 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.19%) Grafana
3 12 (3.35%) Ansible
4 11 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.79%) Puppet
6 6 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.40%) Istio
8 3 (0.84%) Control-M
8 3 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.84%) linkerd
9 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 103 (28.77%) Google
2 45 (12.57%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.38%) Databricks
4 23 (6.42%) Adobe
5 14 (3.91%) Apple
6 13 (3.63%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.79%) Splunk
8 5 (1.40%) New Relic
8 5 (1.40%) SAP
8 5 (1.40%) VMware
9 4 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.84%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.84%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco
12 1 (0.28%) Aruba
12 1 (0.28%) Citrix
12 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.28%) Salesforce