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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 71 92
Rank change year-on-year -35 +21 -45
Permanent jobs citing GCP 305 422 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 4.48% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 16.52% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 231 157 245
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £72,500 £66,663
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +8.76% +2.56%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,084 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.83% -2.42% +3.13%

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 5,229 2,555 5,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.09% 27.15% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,604 1,759 4,711
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,813
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,450 £84,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 15 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 15 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 -38 186 £72,500 -8.01% 122
Yorkshire -32 76 £70,466 -5.88% 61
North East -27 43 £70,000 +21.74% 22
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 28 (9.18%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.26%) Apache
2 13 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.31%) Confluence
4 3 (0.98%) SAS
5 2 (0.66%) CICS
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.93%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 219 (71.80%) AWS
2 214 (70.16%) Azure
3 31 (10.16%) GitHub
4 26 (8.52%) Serverless
5 25 (8.20%) SaaS
6 22 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.56%) Power Platform
9 19 (6.23%) dbt
10 13 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (4.26%) Snowflake
11 11 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.61%) Google Analytics
12 10 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.28%) Pulumi
13 8 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.97%) Cloudflare
15 5 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.89%) Firewall
2 15 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.26%) DNS
4 12 (3.93%) HTTP
5 11 (3.61%) Network Security
6 4 (1.31%) VPN
7 3 (0.98%) AMQP
7 3 (0.98%) SAN
8 1 (0.33%) DHCP
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.77%) BigQuery
2 30 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (6.23%) Power BI
5 17 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.57%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.25%) Metadata
7 14 (4.59%) Looker
7 14 (4.59%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.26%) Data Lake
9 12 (3.93%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.95%) MySQL
11 8 (2.62%) Data Vault
12 7 (2.30%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.64%) Big Data
13 5 (1.64%) Tableau
14 4 (1.31%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (0.98%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 31 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.23%) Git
3 9 (2.95%) JIRA
4 6 (1.97%) GitLab
5 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.31%) Postman
5 4 (1.31%) 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 (0.66%) MLflow
8 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (7.54%) Finance
5 21 (6.89%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.23%) Law
7 15 (4.92%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.97%) Retail
9 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.98%) Banking
10 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.66%) Games
11 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (29.18%) Senior
2 47 (15.41%) Architect
2 47 (15.41%) Data Engineer
3 39 (12.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (12.46%) GCP Engineer
5 33 (10.82%) Lead
6 28 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.85%) Analyst
8 25 (8.20%) Developer
9 19 (6.23%) Data Architect
10 17 (5.57%) Software Engineer
11 16 (5.25%) Senior Data Engineer
12 14 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.59%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.59%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.93%) Security Architect
15 11 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.61%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.18%) React
2 15 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (4.26%) .NET
3 13 (4.26%) JWT
3 13 (4.26%) Node.js
3 13 (4.26%) OAuth
4 12 (3.93%) Kafka
4 12 (3.93%) RESTful
5 11 (3.61%) Django
5 11 (3.61%) LangChain
5 11 (3.61%) REST
6 10 (3.28%) FastAPI
6 10 (3.28%) LlamaIndex
6 10 (3.28%) OpenID
6 10 (3.28%) SAML
7 9 (2.95%) Spring
7 9 (2.95%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.62%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.30%) Middleware
9 7 (2.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.25%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.61%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.95%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.62%) Life Science
9 7 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.98%) Online Gambling
13 3 (0.98%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.52%) Linux
2 7 (2.30%) Windows
3 6 (1.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.31%) CentOS
4 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.98%) Debian
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (33.44%) CI/CD
2 94 (30.82%) DevOps
3 75 (24.59%) AI
4 73 (23.93%) Mentoring
5 67 (21.97%) Agile
6 66 (21.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (17.38%) Containerisation
9 51 (16.72%) Analytics
10 44 (14.43%) Data Modelling
11 41 (13.44%) Data Engineering
11 41 (13.44%) Software Engineering
12 40 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (11.15%) Decision-Making
13 34 (11.15%) ETL
13 34 (11.15%) Roadmaps
14 33 (10.82%) Data Governance
15 31 (10.16%) Machine Learning
15 31 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 133 (43.61%) Python
2 77 (25.25%) SQL
3 35 (11.48%) Java
4 26 (8.52%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.54%) Go
6 20 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.23%) Bash
8 16 (5.25%) Scala
9 11 (3.61%) C#
10 7 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (8.20%) Degree
2 12 (3.93%) AWS Certification
2 12 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (3.93%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.28%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.95%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.64%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.31%) CCSP
7 4 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.31%) CISSP
8 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.98%) CISM
8 3 (0.98%) MBA
9 1 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.44%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.26%) GDPR
2 13 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.26%) QA
3 10 (3.28%) NIST
4 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (12.79%) Docker
2 5 (1.64%) 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 74 (24.26%) Terraform
2 50 (16.39%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.54%) Grafana
4 22 (7.21%) Ansible
5 19 (6.23%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.30%) Puppet
7 4 (1.31%) Istio
8 3 (0.98%) Control-M
8 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.66%) linkerd
10 1 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 78 (25.57%) Google
2 30 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.87%) Databricks
4 15 (4.92%) Adobe
5 13 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.93%) Apple
7 5 (1.64%) SAP
8 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.31%) VMware
9 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.98%) Pega
9 3 (0.98%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.98%) Splunk
10 2 (0.66%) Oracle
10 2 (0.66%) UiPath
11 1 (0.33%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco
11 1 (0.33%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.33%) Zscaler