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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 70 87
Rank change year-on-year -38 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing GCP 307 416 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 4.41% 2.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.87% 16.33% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 232 151 231
10th Percentile £45,125 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,563 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £89,063 £93,778 £78,750
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 5,227 2,547 5,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.84% 27.01% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,627 1,757 4,210
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,919
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 21 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 21 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 -31 187 £71,716 -9.00% 93
Yorkshire -37 75 £70,000 -6.50% 41
North East -15 45 £70,000 +21.74% 23
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 30 (9.77%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.91%) Apache
2 12 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.30%) Confluence
4 3 (0.98%) SAS
5 2 (0.65%) CICS
5 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.91%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 220 (71.66%) AWS
2 213 (69.38%) Azure
3 30 (9.77%) GitHub
4 26 (8.47%) Serverless
5 25 (8.14%) SaaS
6 22 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.51%) dbt
8 20 (6.51%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.89%) Snowflake
10 13 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (3.91%) Google Analytics
12 11 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.26%) Pulumi
14 8 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.95%) Cloudflare
15 6 (1.95%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.17%) Firewall
2 16 (5.21%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.23%) DNS
3 13 (4.23%) HTTP
4 11 (3.58%) Network Security
5 4 (1.30%) VPN
6 3 (0.98%) SAN
7 2 (0.65%) AMQP
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.33%) BigQuery
2 33 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.19%) Power BI
5 18 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.89%) Looker
6 15 (4.89%) Metadata
6 15 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.23%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.58%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.61%) Data Vault
9 8 (2.61%) MySQL
10 7 (2.28%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.63%) Tableau
12 4 (1.30%) Big Data
12 4 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.98%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 32 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.51%) Git
3 9 (2.93%) JIRA
4 5 (1.63%) GitLab
5 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.30%) Postman
5 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.98%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.98%) Selenium
6 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 45 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (7.82%) Finance
5 20 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.19%) Law
7 15 (4.89%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.28%) Retail
9 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.98%) Banking
10 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.65%) Games
11 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (28.34%) Senior
2 50 (16.29%) Data Engineer
3 46 (14.98%) Architect
4 38 (12.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (12.38%) GCP Engineer
5 34 (11.07%) Lead
6 29 (9.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.79%) Analyst
8 26 (8.47%) Developer
9 17 (5.54%) Data Architect
10 16 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (4.89%) Python Engineer
11 15 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.89%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.56%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.91%) Security Architect
15 11 (3.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.58%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.79%) React
2 15 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (4.56%) .NET
4 13 (4.23%) JWT
4 13 (4.23%) Kafka
4 13 (4.23%) OAuth
5 12 (3.91%) Node.js
6 11 (3.58%) LangChain
6 11 (3.58%) REST
7 10 (3.26%) Django
7 10 (3.26%) LlamaIndex
7 10 (3.26%) OpenID
7 10 (3.26%) RESTful
7 10 (3.26%) SAML
8 9 (2.93%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.61%) OAuth2
10 7 (2.28%) Middleware
10 7 (2.28%) Spring
10 7 (2.28%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.21%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.58%) Security Posture
5 10 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.61%) Life Science
8 7 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.30%) Online Gambling
12 3 (0.98%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.47%) Linux
2 7 (2.28%) Windows
3 6 (1.95%) Unix
4 3 (0.98%) CentOS
4 3 (0.98%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Debian
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.25%) CI/CD
2 90 (29.32%) DevOps
3 75 (24.43%) AI
4 73 (23.78%) Mentoring
5 66 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (21.17%) Agile
7 57 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (16.94%) Analytics
9 48 (15.64%) Containerisation
10 44 (14.33%) Data Modelling
11 43 (14.01%) Data Engineering
12 40 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (13.03%) Software Engineering
13 35 (11.40%) Decision-Making
13 35 (11.40%) ETL
13 35 (11.40%) Roadmaps
14 34 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (10.75%) Data Governance
15 33 (10.75%) Machine Learning
16 32 (10.42%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 138 (44.95%) Python
2 80 (26.06%) SQL
3 34 (11.07%) Java
4 26 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.82%) Go
6 21 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.51%) Bash
8 16 (5.21%) Scala
9 11 (3.58%) C#
10 7 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Bicep
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (8.14%) Degree
2 12 (3.91%) AWS Certification
2 12 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (3.91%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.26%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.93%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.63%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.30%) CCSP
7 4 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.30%) CISSP
7 4 (1.30%) MBA
8 3 (0.98%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) CISA
9 1 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.56%) GDPR
3 13 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.23%) QA
4 10 (3.26%) NIST
5 7 (2.28%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (12.38%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) vSphere
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) KVM
4 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (23.45%) Terraform
2 47 (15.31%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.82%) Grafana
4 20 (6.51%) Ansible
4 20 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.95%) Puppet
6 4 (1.30%) Istio
7 3 (0.98%) Control-M
7 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 77 (25.08%) Google
2 28 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.47%) Databricks
4 16 (5.21%) Adobe
5 13 (4.23%) Apple
5 13 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.63%) SAP
7 4 (1.30%) Splunk
7 4 (1.30%) VMware
8 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.98%) Pega
8 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle
9 2 (0.65%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.65%) UiPath
10 1 (0.33%) Cisco
10 1 (0.33%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.33%) Dell
10 1 (0.33%) Proofpoint