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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 95 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 -37 -14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 209 274 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.18% 2.19% 4.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.41% 7.64% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 107 167 298
10th Percentile £46,650 £47,950 £42,874
25th Percentile £53,125 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,750 £91,934
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 2,485 3,587 3,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.92% 28.72% 44.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 2,027 2,787
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,775 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +19 151 £65,000 +8.33% 249
Yorkshire -41 45 £71,000 +16.00% 78
North East +7 15 £60,000 -24.02% 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 11 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.91%) SAS
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Magento
1 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 205 (98.09%) AWS
2 196 (93.78%) Azure
3 12 (5.74%) GitHub
4 11 (5.26%) Serverless
5 10 (4.78%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.31%) SaaS
7 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (3.83%) OCI
8 7 (3.35%) dbt
9 6 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.87%) Pulumi
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (2.39%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.91%) PaaS
11 4 (1.91%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.44%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.22%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.26%) Firewall
3 9 (4.31%) VPN
4 7 (3.35%) BGP
4 7 (3.35%) Network Security
5 6 (2.87%) OSPF
5 6 (2.87%) VLAN
6 3 (1.44%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.44%) SAN
7 2 (0.96%) DNS
7 2 (0.96%) LAN
7 2 (0.96%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) AMQP
8 1 (0.48%) Broadband
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.48%) DAB
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (11.00%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.57%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.18%) MySQL
5 10 (4.78%) BigQuery
5 10 (4.78%) Power BI
6 9 (4.31%) Big Data
6 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.31%) Tableau
7 7 (3.35%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.35%) Redis
7 7 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.87%) Metadata
9 5 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.91%) Looker
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.18%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.78%) GitLab
3 7 (3.35%) Git
4 4 (1.91%) JIRA
5 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.44%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.96%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.96%) MLflow
7 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
General
1 61 (29.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (18.66%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.83%) Finance
4 17 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.70%) Marketing
6 13 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.74%) Retail
8 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.44%) Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Electronics
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 96 (45.93%) Senior
2 66 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 63 (30.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 32 (15.31%) Architect
5 26 (12.44%) Developer
6 24 (11.48%) Lead
7 22 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (8.13%) AWS Architect
8 17 (8.13%) AWS Solution Architect
9 16 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (7.18%) TOGAF Architect
11 11 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.31%) Azure Architect
12 9 (4.31%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Analyst
13 8 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (3.83%) DevOps Architect
13 8 (3.83%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.83%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.35%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (33.01%) Node.js
2 65 (31.10%) .NET
3 22 (10.53%) RESTful
4 14 (6.70%) Django
4 14 (6.70%) React
5 13 (6.22%) Kafka
6 12 (5.74%) Spring
6 12 (5.74%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.31%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.83%) Celery
8 8 (3.83%) Flask
8 8 (3.83%) Hibernate
8 8 (3.83%) Vue
9 6 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.87%) CSS
9 6 (2.87%) HTML
9 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.39%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.39%) REST
10 5 (2.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 65 (31.10%) Linux Command Line
2 62 (29.67%) Cyberattack
3 61 (29.19%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (14.35%) Cloud Native
5 18 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (7.66%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.35%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.91%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.48%) IBM Mainframe
12 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.48%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 76 (36.36%) Linux
2 11 (5.26%) Windows
3 9 (4.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) CentOS
4 1 (0.48%) Debian
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (59.81%) Agile
2 99 (47.37%) Microservices
3 87 (41.63%) Mentoring
4 85 (40.67%) Software Engineering
5 82 (39.23%) Machine Learning
6 77 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 75 (35.89%) CI/CD
8 73 (34.93%) Data Engineering
9 69 (33.01%) DevOps
10 67 (32.06%) Cloud Security
10 67 (32.06%) User Experience
11 65 (31.10%) Scrum
12 63 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (23.44%) Containerisation
14 36 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (15.31%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (13.40%) Roadmaps
17 26 (12.44%) AI
18 22 (10.53%) Data Science
19 21 (10.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 135 (64.59%) Python
2 98 (46.89%) Java
3 77 (36.84%) JavaScript
4 64 (30.62%) Go
5 62 (29.67%) C++
6 61 (29.19%) Rust
7 37 (17.70%) SQL
8 20 (9.57%) C#
9 8 (3.83%) Bash
10 6 (2.87%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.39%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.39%) R
11 5 (2.39%) Scala
12 4 (1.91%) PHP
13 3 (1.44%) PROC SQL
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (35.41%) Security Cleared
2 73 (34.93%) AWS Certification
3 69 (33.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 64 (30.62%) DV Cleared
5 61 (29.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 16 (7.66%) Degree
7 12 (5.74%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.96%) CISSP
12 1 (0.48%) CBAP
12 1 (0.48%) CISA
12 1 (0.48%) CISM
12 1 (0.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) PhD
12 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.22%) GDPR
2 11 (5.26%) NIST
3 9 (4.31%) QA
4 8 (3.83%) HIPAA
5 7 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.96%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (31.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) HDFS
2 4 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.91%) vSphere
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 57 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.92%) Terraform
3 21 (10.05%) Ansible
4 13 (6.22%) Grafana
5 9 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.44%) Control-M
6 3 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.44%) Kibana
6 3 (1.44%) logstash
6 3 (1.44%) Oozie
6 3 (1.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) cPanel
8 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.48%) Nmap
8 1 (0.48%) Plesk
8 1 (0.48%) SCOM
8 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (24.88%) Google
2 10 (4.78%) Databricks
2 10 (4.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.83%) Oracle
4 7 (3.35%) Informatica
5 6 (2.87%) SAP
6 4 (1.91%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.91%) IBM
6 4 (1.91%) Palantir
6 4 (1.91%) VMware
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.44%) Dell
7 3 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.96%) Cisco
8 2 (0.96%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.96%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.96%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.48%) SaltStack