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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 87 49
Rank change year-on-year -46 -38 -16
Permanent jobs citing GCP 146 253 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.37% 2.74% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.53% 8.54% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 111 175 335
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.47% +0.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £83,302
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.60% -0.46%

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 4,141 2,963 3,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.73% 32.07% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,873 1,645 2,710
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,650 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -7.31%

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 7 January 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 January 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 90 £70,000 +12.00% 73
Yorkshire -47 46 £73,000 +12.31% 74
North East +1 12 £62,500 -9.82% 24
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 14 (9.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.42%) Apache
4 2 (1.37%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (92.47%) AWS
2 130 (89.04%) Azure
3 18 (12.33%) Serverless
4 13 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (8.22%) SaaS
6 10 (6.85%) GitHub
7 9 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.79%) dbt
8 7 (4.79%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.42%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (3.42%) Pulumi
10 5 (3.42%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.74%) PaaS
12 3 (2.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.85%) Firewall
2 9 (6.16%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.11%) DNS
4 4 (2.74%) HTTP
5 3 (2.05%) AMQP
5 3 (2.05%) VPN
6 2 (1.37%) SAN
7 1 (0.68%) BGP
7 1 (0.68%) Broadband
7 1 (0.68%) DAB
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
7 1 (0.68%) LAN
7 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.07%) MongoDB
1 22 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.64%) MySQL
3 15 (10.27%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.90%) BigQuery
5 10 (6.85%) Big Data
6 8 (5.48%) Hadoop
7 7 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.11%) Power BI
8 6 (4.11%) Redis
8 6 (4.11%) Tableau
9 5 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.42%) Looker
10 4 (2.74%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.74%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.74%) Metadata
10 4 (2.74%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.96%) GitLab
3 7 (4.79%) Git
4 4 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.37%) JIRA
6 2 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
General
1 36 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.12%) Finance
3 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.90%) Marketing
5 9 (6.16%) Retail
6 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.79%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.11%) Law
8 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (21.23%) Senior
2 28 (19.18%) Developer
3 26 (17.81%) Architect
4 24 (16.44%) Lead
5 20 (13.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.53%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.85%) Lead DevOps
8 10 (6.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.48%) AWS Architect
10 8 (5.48%) AWS Solution Architect
10 8 (5.48%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (5.48%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 8 (5.48%) Project Manager
10 8 (5.48%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.38%) RESTful
2 20 (13.70%) React
3 14 (9.59%) Django
4 12 (8.22%) Spring
4 12 (8.22%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.85%) Node.js
6 8 (5.48%) AngularJS
6 8 (5.48%) FastAPI
6 8 (5.48%) Kafka
6 8 (5.48%) REST
6 8 (5.48%) Vue
7 7 (4.79%) Celery
7 7 (4.79%) CSS
7 7 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (4.79%) Flask
7 7 (4.79%) HTML
7 7 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (4.11%) gRPC
8 6 (4.11%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.42%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.79%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.05%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.37%) NHS
9 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.01%) Linux
2 13 (8.90%) Windows
3 6 (4.11%) Unix
4 4 (2.74%) CentOS
4 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.05%) Debian
5 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (52.05%) CI/CD
2 66 (45.21%) DevOps
3 54 (36.99%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (36.30%) Agile
5 51 (34.93%) Containerisation
6 43 (29.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (21.92%) Microservices
8 26 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (17.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 24 (16.44%) Mentoring
10 22 (15.07%) AI
10 22 (15.07%) Observability
11 21 (14.38%) Clean Code
11 21 (14.38%) Performance Optimisation
11 21 (14.38%) Roadmaps
12 20 (13.70%) Software Engineering
13 18 (12.33%) Analytics
14 17 (11.64%) Data Science
14 17 (11.64%) Open Source
15 16 (10.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 65 (44.52%) Python
2 31 (21.23%) SQL
3 28 (19.18%) Java
4 18 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.16%) C#
5 9 (6.16%) Go
5 9 (6.16%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.48%) Bash
6 8 (5.48%) PHP
6 8 (5.48%) Scala
7 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Degree
1 15 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.37%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CRISC
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) GDPR
1 6 (4.11%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.74%) NIST
4 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (38.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.05%) vSphere
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (34.25%) Kubernetes
2 37 (25.34%) Terraform
3 26 (17.81%) Ansible
4 20 (13.70%) Grafana
5 17 (11.64%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.42%) Puppet
7 3 (2.05%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (2.05%) cPanel
7 3 (2.05%) Plesk
8 2 (1.37%) Control-M
8 2 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.37%) Rancher
9 1 (0.68%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.68%) Nagios
Vendors
1 42 (28.77%) Google
2 8 (5.48%) Oracle
3 6 (4.11%) Databricks
4 5 (3.42%) Informatica
4 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.42%) Palantir
5 4 (2.74%) HubSpot
5 4 (2.74%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.74%) VMware
6 3 (2.05%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.05%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.37%) Dell
7 2 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.37%) SAP
7 2 (1.37%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) Pega
8 1 (0.68%) UiPath