GCP Jobs in the North of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 90 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 -59 +34
Permanent jobs citing GCP 432 484 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.38% 2.45% 7.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.31% 7.41% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 167 273 478
10th Percentile £46,800 £37,500 £45,875
25th Percentile £54,382 £48,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £97,528 £78,750 £85,938
90th Percentile £99,084 £87,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

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 2,495 6,535 6,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.50% 33.09% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 5,040 3,783
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,759 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North of England.

Salary trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +29 332 £78,810 +21.25% 492
Yorkshire -18 86 £75,000 +21.26% 287
North East +10 14 £57,500 -23.33% 47
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 67 (15.51%) Confluence
2 8 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.62%) SAS
4 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.69%) Apache
6 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.46%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 367 (84.95%) Azure
2 362 (83.80%) AWS
3 22 (5.09%) GitHub
4 14 (3.24%) Serverless
5 13 (3.01%) Azure Machine Learning
6 12 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (2.55%) Cloud Composer
7 11 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (2.31%) SaaS
9 9 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (1.62%) dbt
11 7 (1.62%) OCI
11 7 (1.62%) Pulumi
12 6 (1.39%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 6 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.39%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.31%) Firewall
2 10 (2.31%) SAN
2 10 (2.31%) VPN
3 9 (2.08%) Broadband
4 8 (1.85%) DNS
5 7 (1.62%) NAS
5 7 (1.62%) Network Security
6 6 (1.39%) BGP
6 6 (1.39%) OSPF
6 6 (1.39%) VLAN
7 5 (1.16%) DHCP
7 5 (1.16%) VSAN
8 4 (0.93%) 5G
9 3 (0.69%) LAN
9 3 (0.69%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.69%) WAN
10 2 (0.46%) FCoE
10 2 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.03%) NoSQL
3 36 (8.33%) MySQL
4 34 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (5.79%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.40%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.78%) Cloud Spanner
8 11 (2.55%) Power BI
9 8 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.62%) Redis
10 7 (1.62%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.39%) Tableau
12 5 (1.16%) Big Data
12 5 (1.16%) Metadata
13 4 (0.93%) Apache Hive
13 4 (0.93%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.93%) Looker
14 3 (0.69%) HBase
Development Applications
1 74 (17.13%) JIRA
2 59 (13.66%) SonarQube
3 50 (11.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 47 (10.88%) Selenium
5 46 (10.65%) GitLab
5 46 (10.65%) Maven
6 44 (10.19%) Git
7 43 (9.95%) Bitbucket
8 40 (9.26%) Cucumber
9 27 (6.25%) Jenkins
10 10 (2.31%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.16%) JUnit
12 4 (0.93%) Appium
12 4 (0.93%) Fiddler
12 4 (0.93%) JMeter
12 4 (0.93%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.93%) Postman
13 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.69%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 222 (51.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 149 (34.49%) Finance
3 124 (28.70%) Banking
4 71 (16.44%) Social Skills
5 36 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.85%) Games
8 8 (1.85%) Marketing
9 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.16%) Retail
10 4 (0.93%) Advertising
10 4 (0.93%) Back Office
10 4 (0.93%) Cantonese Language
10 4 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 253 (58.56%) Software Engineer
2 249 (57.64%) Senior
3 193 (44.68%) Senior Software Engineer
4 35 (8.10%) Architect
4 35 (8.10%) Lead
5 29 (6.71%) Developer
5 29 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
7 17 (3.94%) AWS Architect
8 16 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.70%) Senior Developer
9 14 (3.24%) AWS Solution Architect
9 14 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (3.24%) TOGAF Architect
10 12 (2.78%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.08%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (2.08%) DevOps Architect
11 9 (2.08%) PHP Developer
11 9 (2.08%) Senior Architect
11 9 (2.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (48.84%) Node.js
2 184 (42.59%) .NET
3 79 (18.29%) React
4 73 (16.90%) Spring Boot
5 70 (16.20%) Spring
6 55 (12.73%) CSS
6 55 (12.73%) HTML
7 54 (12.50%) Kafka
8 49 (11.34%) Hibernate
9 41 (9.49%) Redux
10 40 (9.26%) JPA
11 24 (5.56%) RESTful
12 13 (3.01%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.78%) Django
14 10 (2.31%) Playwright
14 10 (2.31%) Vue
15 9 (2.08%) OAuth
16 8 (1.85%) LAMP
16 8 (1.85%) REST
17 7 (1.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 176 (40.74%) Self-Motivation
2 173 (40.05%) Cyberattack
3 172 (39.81%) Linux Command Line
4 65 (15.05%) Product Ownership
5 42 (9.72%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (6.71%) Cloud Native
8 20 (4.63%) Algorithms
9 19 (4.40%) Management Information System
10 14 (3.24%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.16%) Clustering
12 5 (1.16%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.93%) Market Risk
13 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
15 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 205 (47.45%) Linux
2 16 (3.70%) Unix
3 14 (3.24%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Solaris
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (74.54%) Agile
2 285 (65.97%) Software Engineering
3 277 (64.12%) Microservices
4 230 (53.24%) Mentoring
5 207 (47.92%) Machine Learning
6 195 (45.14%) Data Engineering
7 180 (41.67%) Scrum
7 180 (41.67%) User Experience
8 179 (41.44%) Cloud Security
8 179 (41.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 136 (31.48%) CI/CD
10 131 (30.32%) DevOps
11 92 (21.30%) Test Automation
12 91 (21.06%) Containerisation
13 73 (16.90%) TDD
14 68 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
16 62 (14.35%) SDLC
17 59 (13.66%) Clean Code
18 54 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 287 (66.44%) Java
2 271 (62.73%) JavaScript
3 267 (61.81%) Python
4 188 (43.52%) Go
5 174 (40.28%) C++
6 172 (39.81%) Rust
7 107 (24.77%) SQL
8 34 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 27 (6.25%) C#
10 14 (3.24%) PHP
11 11 (2.55%) Bash
12 10 (2.31%) R
13 7 (1.62%) Scala
14 6 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.39%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.16%) Groovy
16 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.69%) PROC SQL
17 1 (0.23%) Ruby
17 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (43.29%) AWS Certification
2 184 (42.59%) Security Cleared
3 182 (42.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 173 (40.05%) DV Cleared
5 172 (39.81%) AWS Certified Developer
6 21 (4.86%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.63%) Degree
8 12 (2.78%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.62%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.16%) PhD
12 5 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.69%) OCP
14 3 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.23%) CEH
15 1 (0.23%) MBA
15 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.81%) QA
2 16 (3.70%) GDPR
3 14 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.31%) NIST
5 9 (2.08%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.16%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.93%) Basel II
7 4 (0.93%) Basel III
7 4 (0.93%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.93%) IFRS
7 4 (0.93%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 133 (30.79%) Docker
2 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.69%) HDFS
4 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.69%) vSphere
5 2 (0.46%) KVM
5 2 (0.46%) NFS
5 2 (0.46%) SRDF
5 2 (0.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.46%) Xen
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.88%) Terraform
3 22 (5.09%) Ansible
4 12 (2.78%) Grafana
5 8 (1.85%) Istio
5 8 (1.85%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.39%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.69%) Argo
7 3 (0.69%) Control-M
7 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.69%) Kibana
7 3 (0.69%) logstash
7 3 (0.69%) Oozie
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.23%) Nmap
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (20.14%) Google
2 40 (9.26%) Solace
3 23 (5.32%) Oracle
4 15 (3.47%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.78%) VMware
6 9 (2.08%) Databricks
7 7 (1.62%) IBM
8 6 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.16%) SAP
10 4 (0.93%) Cisco
10 4 (0.93%) Informatica
10 4 (0.93%) Palantir
11 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.69%) Twitter
12 2 (0.46%) Dell
12 2 (0.46%) EMC
12 2 (0.46%) F5
12 2 (0.46%) NetApp
12 2 (0.46%) Splunk