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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 99 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -40 -5
Permanent jobs citing GCP 345 291 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.67% 2.07% 4.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.08% 7.07% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 91 176 324
10th Percentile £46,750 £46,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,751 £75,000 £82,925
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -

All Cloud 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 2,451 4,115 3,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.05% 29.20% 42.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,699 2,595 3,055
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £33,875 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +57 287 £65,000 +8.33% 82
Yorkshire -38 49 £75,000 +11.11% 54
North East +10 11 £55,000 -28.10% 17
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (12.75%) Confluence
2 9 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.87%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 336 (97.39%) AWS
2 327 (94.78%) Azure
3 11 (3.19%) GitHub
3 11 (3.19%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.32%) SaaS
5 7 (2.03%) OCI
6 6 (1.74%) Serverless
7 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.16%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.87%) Apigee
9 3 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.58%) Boomi
10 2 (0.58%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.61%) Firewall
2 8 (2.32%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.32%) VPN
3 7 (2.03%) BGP
3 7 (2.03%) Network Security
4 6 (1.74%) OSPF
4 6 (1.74%) VLAN
5 3 (0.87%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.87%) SAN
6 2 (0.58%) DNS
6 2 (0.58%) LAN
6 2 (0.58%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) Broadband
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.29%) DAB
7 1 (0.29%) DHCP
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.78%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.99%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.38%) MySQL
5 19 (5.51%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.19%) Power BI
7 10 (2.90%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.90%) Tableau
8 9 (2.61%) Big Data
9 8 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.74%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.16%) Looker
12 4 (1.16%) Metadata
13 3 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.87%) HBase
13 3 (0.87%) Impala
13 3 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
13 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 51 (14.78%) JIRA
2 46 (13.33%) GitLab
2 46 (13.33%) SonarQube
3 44 (12.75%) Selenium
4 43 (12.46%) Bitbucket
4 43 (12.46%) Maven
4 43 (12.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 40 (11.59%) Cucumber
6 16 (4.64%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.19%) Git
8 4 (1.16%) Appium
8 4 (1.16%) Fiddler
8 4 (1.16%) JMeter
8 4 (1.16%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.16%) Postman
9 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.87%) JUnit
9 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 212 (61.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 76 (22.03%) Finance
3 49 (14.20%) Banking
4 29 (8.41%) Social Skills
5 16 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.19%) Marketing
7 11 (3.19%) Retail
8 10 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.16%) Cantonese Language
9 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.16%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.58%) Law
10 2 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Games
11 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 218 (63.19%) Software Engineer
2 204 (59.13%) Senior
3 175 (50.72%) Senior Software Engineer
4 31 (8.99%) Architect
5 26 (7.54%) Lead
6 22 (6.38%) Developer
6 22 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (5.80%) AWS Architect
8 19 (5.51%) AWS Solution Architect
8 19 (5.51%) TOGAF Architect
9 17 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.93%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (3.48%) DevOps Architect
10 12 (3.48%) Senior Architect
10 12 (3.48%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.32%) Analyst
11 8 (2.32%) Azure Architect
11 8 (2.32%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (52.46%) Node.js
2 176 (51.01%) .NET
3 52 (15.07%) Kafka
3 52 (15.07%) React
4 50 (14.49%) Spring
4 50 (14.49%) Spring Boot
5 49 (14.20%) Hibernate
6 45 (13.04%) CSS
6 45 (13.04%) HTML
7 41 (11.88%) Redux
8 40 (11.59%) JPA
9 20 (5.80%) RESTful
10 7 (2.03%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.03%) Vue
11 5 (1.45%) Celery
11 5 (1.45%) Django
11 5 (1.45%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.45%) Flask
11 5 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 173 (50.14%) Cyberattack
1 173 (50.14%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (49.86%) Self-Motivation
3 44 (12.75%) Product Ownership
4 42 (12.17%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (8.99%) Cloud Native
6 20 (5.80%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.03%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.58%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.29%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.29%) PKI
13 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.29%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 186 (53.91%) Linux
2 8 (2.32%) Windows
3 7 (2.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (80.87%) Agile
2 256 (74.20%) Microservices
3 236 (68.41%) Software Engineering
4 198 (57.39%) Mentoring
5 191 (55.36%) Machine Learning
6 183 (53.04%) Data Engineering
7 181 (52.46%) User Experience
8 179 (51.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 178 (51.59%) Cloud Security
10 174 (50.43%) Scrum
11 110 (31.88%) CI/CD
12 103 (29.86%) DevOps
13 84 (24.35%) Containerisation
14 72 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (16.23%) Performance Optimisation
16 55 (15.94%) Test Automation
17 53 (15.36%) Clean Code
18 50 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
18 50 (14.49%) TDD
19 48 (13.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 252 (73.04%) Java
2 245 (71.01%) Python
3 236 (68.41%) JavaScript
4 179 (51.88%) Go
5 173 (50.14%) C++
6 172 (49.86%) Rust
7 85 (24.64%) SQL
8 23 (6.67%) C#
9 9 (2.61%) Bash
9 9 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.16%) R
11 4 (1.16%) Scala
12 3 (0.87%) PROC SQL
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 190 (55.07%) AWS Certification
2 184 (53.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 178 (51.59%) Security Cleared
4 172 (49.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (49.86%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.22%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.64%) Degree
7 7 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.74%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CEH
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
11 1 (0.29%) MBA
11 1 (0.29%) MCSA
11 1 (0.29%) PhD
11 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (15.07%) QA
2 17 (4.93%) GDPR
3 14 (4.06%) NIST
4 12 (3.48%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (29.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) HDFS
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.87%) vSphere
4 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 98 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.96%) Terraform
3 20 (5.80%) Ansible
4 10 (2.90%) Grafana
5 7 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.87%) Control-M
6 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.87%) Istio
6 3 (0.87%) Kibana
6 3 (0.87%) logstash
6 3 (0.87%) Oozie
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.58%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.29%) Nmap
8 1 (0.29%) SCOM
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (12.75%) Google
2 40 (11.59%) Solace
3 9 (2.61%) Databricks
3 9 (2.61%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.61%) Oracle
4 5 (1.45%) Informatica
5 4 (1.16%) HubSpot
5 4 (1.16%) IBM
5 4 (1.16%) SAP
6 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.87%) Dell
6 3 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (0.87%) Palantir
6 3 (0.87%) VMware
7 2 (0.58%) Cisco
7 2 (0.58%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.58%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.29%) Citrix
8 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.29%) Palo Alto