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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 68 86
Rank change year-on-year -37 +18 -36
Permanent jobs citing GCP 323 406 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 4.27% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.09% 15.84% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 242 144 219
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £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 5,305 2,563 4,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.94% 26.93% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 1,778 3,744
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -30 196 £71,461 -10.00% 111
Yorkshire -24 77 £70,000 -3.45% 60
North East -15 50 £70,000 +27.27% 27
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 33 (10.22%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.02%) Apache
4 4 (1.24%) Confluence
5 3 (0.93%) SAS
6 2 (0.62%) CICS
6 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.72%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 231 (71.52%) AWS
2 221 (68.42%) Azure
3 31 (9.60%) GitHub
4 28 (8.67%) dbt
5 26 (8.05%) Serverless
6 24 (7.43%) SaaS
7 21 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 19 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 14 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (4.33%) Google Analytics
9 14 (4.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.10%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.48%) Cloud Functions
13 8 (2.48%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.81%) Firewall
2 17 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.02%) HTTP
4 11 (3.41%) DNS
4 11 (3.41%) Network Security
5 4 (1.24%) SAN
5 4 (1.24%) VPN
6 2 (0.62%) AMQP
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) Internet
7 1 (0.31%) LAN
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
7 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.72%) BigQuery
2 41 (12.69%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (7.43%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.88%) Power BI
6 17 (5.26%) Metadata
7 16 (4.95%) Data Lake
7 16 (4.95%) Looker
8 15 (4.64%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (4.02%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.48%) Data Vault
11 8 (2.48%) MySQL
12 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.86%) Tableau
13 4 (1.24%) Big Data
13 4 (1.24%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.93%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 33 (10.22%) Jenkins
2 27 (8.36%) Git
3 9 (2.79%) JIRA
4 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.86%) GitLab
5 4 (1.24%) Postman
5 4 (1.24%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.93%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.93%) Selenium
6 3 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.62%) MLflow
8 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.31%) Gatling
8 1 (0.31%) JMeter
8 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (8.36%) Finance
5 26 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.95%) Law
7 13 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.48%) Retail
9 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.24%) Local Government
11 3 (0.93%) Banking
11 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Advertising
12 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Games
12 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Legal
13 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (29.10%) Senior
2 59 (18.27%) Data Engineer
3 47 (14.55%) Architect
4 39 (12.07%) GCP Engineer
5 38 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (11.76%) Lead
6 28 (8.67%) Analyst
7 27 (8.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.43%) Developer
9 19 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (5.26%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.26%) Python Engineer
11 16 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.64%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (4.64%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.33%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (4.02%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (3.72%) Security Architect
16 11 (3.41%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.36%) React
2 15 (4.64%) .NET
3 14 (4.33%) Kafka
4 13 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (4.02%) JWT
4 13 (4.02%) LangChain
4 13 (4.02%) OAuth
5 12 (3.72%) LlamaIndex
5 12 (3.72%) Node.js
5 12 (3.72%) REST
6 10 (3.10%) Django
6 10 (3.10%) OpenID
6 10 (3.10%) SAML
7 9 (2.79%) RESTful
8 8 (2.48%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.48%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.17%) Middleware
9 7 (2.17%) Spring
9 7 (2.17%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.95%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.41%) Security Posture
5 10 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.48%) Life Science
8 7 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.86%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.29%) Linux
2 8 (2.48%) Unix
2 8 (2.48%) Windows
3 4 (1.24%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) CentOS
5 2 (0.62%) Debian
5 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Solaris
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (34.37%) CI/CD
2 94 (29.10%) DevOps
3 88 (27.24%) AI
4 82 (25.39%) Mentoring
5 75 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (22.91%) Agile
7 62 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (17.96%) Analytics
9 56 (17.34%) Data Engineering
10 50 (15.48%) Data Modelling
11 47 (14.55%) Containerisation
12 45 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
12 45 (13.93%) Software Engineering
13 42 (13.00%) Decision-Making
14 41 (12.69%) ETL
15 40 (12.38%) Machine Learning
16 38 (11.76%) Data Governance
17 37 (11.46%) Roadmaps
18 35 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
18 35 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 151 (46.75%) Python
2 90 (27.86%) SQL
3 36 (11.15%) Java
4 27 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.74%) Go
6 21 (6.50%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.88%) Bash
8 17 (5.26%) Scala
9 12 (3.72%) C#
10 7 (2.17%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.62%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) C
14 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.31%) Swift
14 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (8.67%) Degree
2 17 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.10%) DBS Check
8 9 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.48%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.55%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.24%) CCSP
13 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.24%) CISSP
13 4 (1.24%) MBA
14 3 (0.93%) CISM
15 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
15 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.64%) GDPR
3 14 (4.33%) QA
4 13 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.10%) NIST
6 8 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (13.62%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.24%) vSphere
4 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 76 (23.53%) Terraform
2 50 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.12%) Grafana
4 19 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.57%) Ansible
6 7 (2.17%) Puppet
7 5 (1.55%) Istio
8 4 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.93%) Control-M
9 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.93%) linkerd
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 85 (26.32%) Google
2 32 (9.91%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.67%) Databricks
4 16 (4.95%) Adobe
5 13 (4.02%) Apple
5 13 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.55%) SAP
6 5 (1.55%) Splunk
6 5 (1.55%) VMware
7 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.93%) Pega
7 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.62%) Dataiku
8 2 (0.62%) New Relic
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle
8 2 (0.62%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco
9 1 (0.31%) Dell
9 1 (0.31%) Proofpoint