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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 82 100
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -42
Permanent jobs citing GCP 353 368 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.55% 3.85% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.74% 14.35% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 262 109 190
10th Percentile £42,625 £46,450 £40,993
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £88,438 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £141,151 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +5.86%

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 5,241 2,565 4,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.01% 26.86% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,719 1,790 3,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,001
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £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 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,525 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -30 212 £70,000 -11.18% 58
Yorkshire -23 75 £70,000 -3.45% 44
North East -6 66 £73,750 +43.20% 25
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 (8.50%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.40%) Apache
4 9 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.42%) Confluence
6 2 (0.57%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.28%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.40%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 256 (72.52%) AWS
2 240 (67.99%) Azure
3 34 (9.63%) SaaS
4 27 (7.65%) dbt
4 27 (7.65%) GitHub
5 24 (6.80%) Serverless
6 19 (5.38%) Google Analytics
6 19 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.82%) Snowflake
8 14 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.12%) Google Tag Manager
12 10 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.83%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.55%) IaaS
13 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.82%) Firewall
2 12 (3.40%) Network Security
3 10 (2.83%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.70%) HTTP
5 5 (1.42%) VPN
6 4 (1.13%) SAN
7 3 (0.85%) DNS
8 2 (0.57%) AMQP
8 2 (0.57%) LAN
8 2 (0.57%) WAN
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) DHCP
9 1 (0.28%) Internet
9 1 (0.28%) OSPF
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.01%) BigQuery
2 41 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 20 (5.67%) Looker
5 20 (5.67%) Metadata
6 19 (5.38%) Power BI
7 15 (4.25%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.40%) Data Lake
9 11 (3.12%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.98%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.98%) MySQL
12 6 (1.70%) Tableau
13 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.13%) Big Data
14 4 (1.13%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.13%) Metadata Repository
15 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (10.20%) Git
2 25 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.83%) JIRA
4 9 (2.55%) GitLab
5 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.13%) Postman
7 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.85%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.85%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.85%) Selenium
7 3 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.57%) MLflow
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.28%) Gatling
9 1 (0.28%) JMeter
9 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (13.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (13.31%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.20%) Finance
6 15 (4.25%) Retail
7 8 (2.27%) Law
7 8 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.42%) Local Government
10 4 (1.13%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.57%) Games
12 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (27.76%) Senior
2 61 (17.28%) Data Engineer
3 58 (16.43%) Architect
4 46 (13.03%) Lead
5 42 (11.90%) GCP Engineer
6 37 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (8.50%) Analyst
8 26 (7.37%) Developer
9 21 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 20 (5.67%) Data Architect
10 20 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.67%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (4.53%) Python Engineer
13 15 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (4.25%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.97%) GCP Data Engineer
14 14 (3.97%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.40%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (21.25%) Terraform
2 23 (6.52%) React
3 19 (5.38%) LangChain
4 18 (5.10%) LlamaIndex
5 15 (4.25%) .NET
6 14 (3.97%) Kafka
6 14 (3.97%) Middleware
7 13 (3.68%) JWT
7 13 (3.68%) OAuth
8 12 (3.40%) Node.js
8 12 (3.40%) REST
9 10 (2.83%) OpenID
9 10 (2.83%) RESTful
9 10 (2.83%) SAML
10 9 (2.55%) Spring
10 9 (2.55%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.27%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.27%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.27%) Pulumi
11 8 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.53%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.12%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.83%) Life Science
8 9 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.98%) Online Gambling
10 7 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.70%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.78%) Linux
2 8 (2.27%) Windows
3 7 (1.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.13%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.85%) CentOS
6 2 (0.57%) Android
6 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.57%) Debian
6 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Solaris
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (34.56%) CI/CD
2 111 (31.44%) AI
3 99 (28.05%) Agile
4 98 (27.76%) Mentoring
5 95 (26.91%) DevOps
6 79 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (18.98%) Analytics
8 67 (18.98%) Data Engineering
9 60 (17.00%) Software Engineering
10 58 (16.43%) Machine Learning
11 56 (15.86%) Decision-Making
12 53 (15.01%) Data Modelling
13 52 (14.73%) Technical Leadership
14 48 (13.60%) ETL
15 47 (13.31%) Data Pipeline
16 44 (12.46%) Containerisation
16 44 (12.46%) Data Governance
16 44 (12.46%) Roadmaps
17 39 (11.05%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 157 (44.48%) Python
2 97 (27.48%) SQL
3 40 (11.33%) Java
4 25 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.80%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.82%) Go
6 17 (4.82%) Scala
7 13 (3.68%) Bash
8 12 (3.40%) C#
9 10 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.98%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Bicep
12 2 (0.57%) C++
12 2 (0.57%) Swift
13 1 (0.28%) C
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (8.78%) Degree
2 24 (6.80%) AWS Certification
3 21 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (5.95%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.82%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.53%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.83%) DBS Check
8 10 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.42%) SAP Certification
11 4 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.13%) CCSP
11 4 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.13%) CISM
11 4 (1.13%) CISSP
11 4 (1.13%) MBA
12 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.28%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.45%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.10%) GDPR
3 15 (4.25%) QA
4 14 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.12%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.83%) NIST
7 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.42%) NCSC
9 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (13.88%) Docker
2 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 54 (15.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.25%) Grafana
3 13 (3.68%) Ansible
4 11 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.55%) Puppet
6 6 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.42%) Istio
8 3 (0.85%) Control-M
8 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.85%) linkerd
9 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 101 (28.61%) Google
2 42 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.22%) Databricks
4 23 (6.52%) Adobe
5 14 (3.97%) Apple
6 13 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.27%) Splunk
8 5 (1.42%) New Relic
8 5 (1.42%) SAP
8 5 (1.42%) VMware
9 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.85%) Cisco
9 3 (0.85%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.85%) Pega
9 3 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.57%) Oracle
10 2 (0.57%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.28%) Citrix
11 1 (0.28%) Dell