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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 60 80
Rank change year-on-year -62 +20 -52
Permanent jobs citing GCP 244 391 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.31% 5.36% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 16.15% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 174 199 330
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,850 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £74,870 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.81% +6.84%
75th Percentile £89,688 £97,528 £82,536
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £79,738
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.60% -0.33%

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 6,083 2,421 5,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 32.76% 33.16% 35.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,798 1,707 4,933
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -56 136 £75,000 -4.83% 80
Yorkshire -67 78 £70,932 -5.26% 31
North East -12 30 £50,000 -20.00% 26
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 21 (8.61%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.69%) Apache
4 3 (1.23%) Confluence
4 3 (1.23%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) CICS
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (4.10%) Cloudability
2 4 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 180 (73.77%) AWS
2 177 (72.54%) Azure
3 34 (13.93%) GitHub
4 27 (11.07%) Serverless
5 24 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (7.38%) Power Platform
8 16 (6.56%) SaaS
9 15 (6.15%) dbt
10 12 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.51%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.87%) Google Analytics
14 7 (2.87%) OpenShift
15 6 (2.46%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.25%) Firewall
2 20 (8.20%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.38%) DNS
3 18 (7.38%) HTTP
4 7 (2.87%) Network Security
5 5 (2.05%) VPN
6 4 (1.64%) AMQP
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.93%) BigQuery
2 21 (8.61%) Metadata
3 17 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.97%) MySQL
3 17 (6.97%) Power BI
4 16 (6.56%) Data Lake
4 16 (6.56%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (6.15%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.10%) Looker
9 9 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.69%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (2.87%) Big Data
10 7 (2.87%) Data Vault
11 6 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.46%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.46%) Tableau
12 5 (2.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.74%) Git
3 10 (4.10%) GitLab
4 5 (2.05%) JIRA
5 4 (1.64%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.23%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.23%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) Gatling
7 1 (0.41%) JMeter
7 1 (0.41%) MLflow
7 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.25%) Finance
4 21 (8.61%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.61%) Telecoms
5 20 (8.20%) Law
6 19 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.64%) Retail
8 3 (1.23%) Banking
8 3 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (33.20%) Senior
2 44 (18.03%) Architect
3 33 (13.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.07%) Data Engineer
4 27 (11.07%) Developer
4 27 (11.07%) Lead
5 26 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (8.61%) Analyst
7 18 (7.38%) Data Architect
7 18 (7.38%) GCP Engineer
8 17 (6.97%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.51%) Security Architect
11 11 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (4.10%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.69%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.69%) Senior Architect
13 9 (3.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.11%) React
2 19 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (5.74%) Node.js
4 13 (5.33%) REST
5 12 (4.92%) RESTful
6 11 (4.51%) .NET
6 11 (4.51%) Django
7 9 (3.69%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.28%) Spring
8 8 (3.28%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.87%) CSS
9 7 (2.87%) HTML
9 7 (2.87%) Kafka
10 6 (2.46%) Middleware
11 5 (2.05%) JWT
11 5 (2.05%) Laravel
11 5 (2.05%) OAuth
11 5 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.64%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.97%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.23%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.82%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Life Science
10 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.82%) NHS
10 2 (0.82%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.20%) Linux
2 7 (2.87%) Windows
3 5 (2.05%) CentOS
3 5 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.64%) Debian
4 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.82%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (39.34%) CI/CD
2 95 (38.93%) DevOps
3 66 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (25.41%) Agile
5 59 (24.18%) Containerisation
6 54 (22.13%) Mentoring
7 49 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (17.62%) AI
9 36 (14.75%) Data Modelling
10 33 (13.52%) Analytics
11 31 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (11.89%) Data Governance
13 28 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (11.07%) Continuous Delivery
14 27 (11.07%) Microservices
15 26 (10.66%) Data Engineering
15 26 (10.66%) Software Engineering
16 25 (10.25%) Data Architecture
17 24 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
17 24 (9.84%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.21%) Python
2 51 (20.90%) SQL
3 27 (11.07%) Java
3 27 (11.07%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.66%) Go
5 19 (7.79%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.38%) Bash
7 7 (2.87%) C#
7 7 (2.87%) PHP
7 7 (2.87%) Scala
8 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (7.38%) Degree
2 10 (4.10%) AWS Certification
2 10 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.46%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.64%) CCSP
6 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.64%) CISSP
6 4 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.64%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.23%) CISM
8 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) GSEC
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.69%) QA
3 8 (3.28%) GDPR
4 7 (2.87%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.05%) NIST
6 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (12.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (27.05%) Terraform
2 37 (15.16%) Kubernetes
3 33 (13.52%) Ansible
4 29 (11.89%) Grafana
5 27 (11.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.64%) Puppet
7 3 (1.23%) Rancher
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.82%) cPanel
8 2 (0.82%) Istio
8 2 (0.82%) Plesk
9 1 (0.41%) Control-M
9 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (25.41%) Google
2 27 (11.07%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.51%) Adobe
4 10 (4.10%) Apple
4 10 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.69%) Databricks
6 5 (2.05%) Oracle
6 5 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.64%) Informatica
7 4 (1.64%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.64%) SAP
8 3 (1.23%) Palantir
8 3 (1.23%) Pega
8 3 (1.23%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.23%) UiPath
9 2 (0.82%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.41%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.41%) Proofpoint