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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 64 69
Rank change year-on-year -74 +5 -43
Permanent jobs citing GCP 177 273 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.22% 4.09% 3.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.50% 11.73% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 135 223 347
10th Percentile £45,500 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £52,500 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +2.84% +6.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £78,126
% change year-on-year -6.06% +5.60% -2.34%

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 5,061 2,327 5,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.99% 34.83% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 1,663 4,606
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,650 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,015 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -39 99 £73,801 -1.60% 73
Yorkshire -77 54 £70,932 -1.82% 43
North East -13 24 £47,500 -29.27% 24
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 15 (8.47%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.52%) Apache
4 4 (2.26%) SAS
5 2 (1.13%) CICS
5 2 (1.13%) WordPress
6 1 (0.56%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 148 (83.62%) Azure
2 147 (83.05%) AWS
3 30 (16.95%) GitHub
4 24 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (12.99%) Serverless
6 16 (9.04%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.91%) dbt
9 11 (6.21%) Power Platform
10 10 (5.65%) SaaS
11 9 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.52%) PaaS
13 7 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.95%) Pulumi
14 6 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (2.82%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.12%) Firewall
1 25 (14.12%) TCP/IP
2 18 (10.17%) DNS
2 18 (10.17%) HTTP
3 4 (2.26%) AMQP
3 4 (2.26%) VPN
4 2 (1.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) Internet
5 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.86%) BigQuery
2 19 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.47%) Metadata
3 15 (8.47%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.91%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.78%) MySQL
6 11 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (6.21%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.65%) Power BI
8 9 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.95%) Looker
10 7 (3.95%) Redis
10 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.39%) Big Data
11 6 (3.39%) Hadoop
11 6 (3.39%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (2.82%) Tableau
13 4 (2.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.91%) Git
3 13 (7.34%) GitLab
4 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.69%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.69%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.86%) Telecoms
3 20 (11.30%) Finance
3 20 (11.30%) Law
3 20 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.39%) Marketing
6 4 (2.26%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.13%) Electronics
8 2 (1.13%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (30.51%) Senior
2 31 (17.51%) Architect
3 29 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (14.12%) Developer
5 16 (9.04%) Lead
5 16 (9.04%) Software Engineer
6 15 (8.47%) Data Engineer
7 14 (7.91%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.65%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (5.08%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.08%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Senior Architect
10 8 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.95%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.95%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.95%) React
2 20 (11.30%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (9.04%) Django
3 16 (9.04%) RESTful
4 14 (7.91%) Node.js
5 12 (6.78%) REST
5 12 (6.78%) Spring
5 12 (6.78%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.08%) CSS
6 9 (5.08%) FastAPI
6 9 (5.08%) HTML
7 8 (4.52%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.39%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.39%) Kafka
8 6 (3.39%) Vue
9 5 (2.82%) .NET
9 5 (2.82%) Celery
9 5 (2.82%) Flask
9 5 (2.82%) Laravel
9 5 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.13%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.13%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.13%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.86%) Linux
2 9 (5.08%) Windows
3 7 (3.95%) Unix
4 5 (2.82%) CentOS
4 5 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.26%) Debian
5 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (53.11%) CI/CD
2 86 (48.59%) DevOps
3 67 (37.85%) Containerisation
4 62 (35.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (29.38%) Agile
6 49 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (20.90%) Mentoring
8 34 (19.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 30 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (14.69%) Continuous Delivery
10 26 (14.69%) Observability
11 25 (14.12%) Microservices
12 23 (12.99%) Data Modelling
12 23 (12.99%) DevSecOps
13 21 (11.86%) Open Source
13 21 (11.86%) Software Engineering
13 21 (11.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 20 (11.30%) Analytics
15 19 (10.73%) High Availability
16 18 (10.17%) AI
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.59%) Python
2 38 (21.47%) SQL
3 29 (16.38%) Java
4 26 (14.69%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.12%) Go
6 20 (11.30%) Bash
7 13 (7.34%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.52%) PHP
9 6 (3.39%) Scala
10 4 (2.26%) C#
10 4 (2.26%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) R
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (7.91%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.78%) Degree
4 10 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.13%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) CISA
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CISM
7 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) GSEC
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.95%) QA
3 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.13%) GDPR
4 2 (1.13%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 40 (22.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (33.33%) Terraform
2 43 (24.29%) Kubernetes
3 34 (19.21%) Ansible
4 29 (16.38%) Grafana
5 27 (15.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.82%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.26%) Puppet
8 3 (1.69%) cPanel
8 3 (1.69%) Plesk
8 3 (1.69%) Rancher
9 1 (0.56%) Control-M
9 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.56%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 51 (28.81%) Google
2 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.52%) Oracle
4 5 (2.82%) Databricks
4 5 (2.82%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.26%) Informatica
5 4 (2.26%) Palantir
5 4 (2.26%) Pega
5 4 (2.26%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.69%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.69%) UiPath
6 3 (1.69%) VMware
7 2 (1.13%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) Dell
8 1 (0.56%) F5
8 1 (0.56%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk