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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -44
Permanent jobs citing GCP 354 334 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.47% 3.49% 2.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.12% 13.69% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 261 87 169
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year - +14.37% -5.84%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £74,144
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,500
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 4,973 2,440 3,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.60% 25.47% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 1,678 2,333
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,715 £82,241 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +2.22%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -33 210 £70,000 +7.69% 368
North East -5 72 £80,500 +46.36% 130
Yorkshire -9 72 £70,000 -6.67% 209
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 26 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.67%) Apache
4 7 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.85%) Confluence
6 2 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.39%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 263 (74.29%) AWS
2 242 (68.36%) Azure
3 29 (8.19%) SaaS
4 24 (6.78%) dbt
4 24 (6.78%) Serverless
5 19 (5.37%) GitHub
5 19 (5.37%) Google Analytics
6 17 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 15 (4.24%) Snowflake
8 13 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (3.67%) Google Tag Manager
9 11 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.95%) Firewall
2 12 (3.39%) Internet
3 11 (3.11%) Network Security
4 8 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.13%) HTTP
5 4 (1.13%) SAN
5 4 (1.13%) VPN
6 3 (0.85%) AMQP
7 2 (0.56%) DNS
7 2 (0.56%) LAN
7 2 (0.56%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) DHCP
8 1 (0.28%) OSPF
8 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.84%) BigQuery
2 37 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (6.50%) Metadata
4 22 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (5.08%) Looker
7 16 (4.52%) Power BI
8 12 (3.39%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.11%) Data Lake
9 11 (3.11%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.98%) MySQL
12 5 (1.41%) Big Data
12 5 (1.41%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.41%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.41%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (1.13%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (1.13%) Spark SQL
13 4 (1.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (12.99%) Git
2 18 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.54%) GitLab
4 7 (1.98%) JIRA
5 6 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.13%) Postman
7 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.85%) Selenium
7 3 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 84 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (16.38%) Public Sector
5 32 (9.04%) Finance
6 14 (3.95%) Retail
7 8 (2.26%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.69%) Law
9 5 (1.41%) Local Government
9 5 (1.41%) Marketing
10 4 (1.13%) Legal
10 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.85%) Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Games
12 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (24.58%) Senior
2 60 (16.95%) Data Engineer
3 57 (16.10%) Architect
4 48 (13.56%) Lead
5 38 (10.73%) GCP Engineer
6 32 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (8.76%) Analyst
8 29 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 29 (8.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 22 (6.21%) Developer
10 20 (5.65%) Data Architect
11 19 (5.37%) Software Engineer
12 18 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (4.24%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 15 (4.24%) Databricks Engineer
13 15 (4.24%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.24%) Technical Architect
14 14 (3.95%) GCP Data Engineer
14 14 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
15 13 (3.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (19.49%) Terraform
2 25 (7.06%) LangChain
3 24 (6.78%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (4.80%) Middleware
4 17 (4.80%) React
5 14 (3.95%) Node.js
6 12 (3.39%) .NET
7 11 (3.11%) JWT
7 11 (3.11%) OAuth
7 11 (3.11%) REST
8 10 (2.82%) Kafka
8 10 (2.82%) OpenID
8 10 (2.82%) SAML
8 10 (2.82%) Spring
8 10 (2.82%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.82%) Web Services
9 8 (2.26%) AWS CDK
9 8 (2.26%) FastAPI
10 7 (1.98%) Pulumi
10 7 (1.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 63 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.52%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.11%) Life Science
6 11 (3.11%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.98%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.69%) Online Gambling
11 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (1.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.15%) Linux
2 8 (2.26%) Windows
3 7 (1.98%) Unix
4 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.13%) CentOS
5 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.85%) Debian
6 3 (0.85%) 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
1 133 (37.57%) CI/CD
2 123 (34.75%) AI
3 112 (31.64%) Mentoring
4 102 (28.81%) Agile
5 98 (27.68%) DevOps
6 88 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (20.62%) Data Engineering
9 65 (18.36%) Analytics
9 65 (18.36%) Machine Learning
10 62 (17.51%) Software Engineering
11 61 (17.23%) Decision-Making
12 56 (15.82%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (15.25%) Containerisation
14 51 (14.41%) Cloud Security
15 50 (14.12%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
17 47 (13.28%) Data Modelling
18 45 (12.71%) ETL
19 44 (12.43%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 152 (42.94%) Python
2 95 (26.84%) SQL
3 37 (10.45%) Java
4 24 (6.78%) TypeScript
5 22 (6.21%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.08%) Scala
7 14 (3.95%) Go
7 14 (3.95%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.39%) Bash
9 10 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.26%) C#
10 8 (2.26%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.13%) Bicep
12 2 (0.56%) C++
12 2 (0.56%) Swift
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (9.04%) AWS Certification
2 30 (8.47%) Degree
3 28 (7.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (6.21%) Azure Certification
5 21 (5.93%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.08%) SC Cleared
7 14 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.82%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.41%) CISM
12 5 (1.41%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.13%) MBA
14 3 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.85%) CCSP
14 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.85%) CISSP
15 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.56%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.41%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.52%) GDPR
3 14 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.11%) QA
5 9 (2.54%) NCSC
5 9 (2.54%) NIST
6 4 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (17.23%) Docker
2 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) 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 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.95%) Grafana
3 12 (3.39%) Ansible
4 11 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.82%) Puppet
6 6 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.85%) Control-M
7 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.85%) Istio
7 3 (0.85%) linkerd
8 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 111 (31.36%) Google
2 52 (14.69%) Microsoft
3 28 (7.91%) Databricks
4 23 (6.50%) Adobe
5 14 (3.95%) Apple
6 13 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.82%) Splunk
8 5 (1.41%) New Relic
8 5 (1.41%) SAP
8 5 (1.41%) VMware
9 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.85%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco
11 2 (0.56%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.56%) Foundry
11 2 (0.56%) Palantir
12 1 (0.28%) Citrix
12 1 (0.28%) Salesforce