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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 63 89
Rank change year-on-year -38 +26 -60
Permanent jobs citing GCP 313 427 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.52% 4.79% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 17.23% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 238 166 273
10th Percentile £44,450 £46,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,875 £54,073 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.18% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,590 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,237 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -

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 5,158 2,478 6,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.11% 27.80% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,543 1,697 5,040
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,759
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -32 188 £72,500 -8.01% 106
Yorkshire -40 80 £70,932 -5.42% 36
North East -19 45 £70,000 +21.74% 19
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 30 (9.58%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.47%) Apache
4 4 (1.28%) Confluence
5 3 (0.96%) SAS
6 2 (0.64%) CICS
6 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.32%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.83%) Cloudability
2 5 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 225 (71.88%) AWS
2 218 (69.65%) Azure
3 37 (11.82%) GitHub
4 28 (8.95%) SaaS
4 28 (8.95%) Serverless
5 25 (7.99%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 20 (6.39%) dbt
9 13 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (4.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (4.15%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.51%) Google Analytics
11 10 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.19%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.92%) Cloud Functions
13 6 (1.92%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.67%) Firewall
2 16 (5.11%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.47%) DNS
3 14 (4.47%) HTTP
4 12 (3.83%) Network Security
5 6 (1.92%) VPN
6 3 (0.96%) AMQP
7 2 (0.64%) SAN
8 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.06%) BigQuery
2 31 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (6.71%) Metadata
3 21 (6.71%) Power BI
4 20 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.11%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.47%) Looker
7 14 (4.47%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.83%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.88%) MySQL
10 8 (2.56%) Data Vault
11 7 (2.24%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.24%) Tableau
12 5 (1.60%) Big Data
12 5 (1.60%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (1.28%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 37 (11.82%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.07%) Git
3 9 (2.88%) JIRA
4 6 (1.92%) GitLab
5 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.28%) Postman
5 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.96%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.96%) Selenium
6 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.64%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) Gatling
8 1 (0.32%) JMeter
8 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.35%) Finance
5 21 (6.71%) Law
6 17 (5.43%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.92%) Retail
8 5 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.96%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.96%) Banking
9 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.64%) Games
10 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (31.63%) Senior
2 52 (16.61%) Architect
3 50 (15.97%) Data Engineer
4 40 (12.78%) GCP Engineer
5 39 (12.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (10.22%) Lead
7 28 (8.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (8.63%) Analyst
9 25 (7.99%) Developer
10 24 (7.67%) Data Architect
11 19 (6.07%) Software Engineer
12 17 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (5.11%) Python Engineer
14 14 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (4.47%) Senior Developer
15 13 (4.15%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (3.83%) Security Architect
17 11 (3.51%) GCP Data Engineer
17 11 (3.51%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.63%) React
2 17 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (4.79%) .NET
4 14 (4.47%) JWT
4 14 (4.47%) OAuth
5 13 (4.15%) Kafka
5 13 (4.15%) Node.js
6 12 (3.83%) RESTful
7 11 (3.51%) Django
7 11 (3.51%) LangChain
7 11 (3.51%) REST
8 10 (3.19%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.19%) LlamaIndex
8 10 (3.19%) OpenID
8 10 (3.19%) SAML
9 9 (2.88%) Spring
9 9 (2.88%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.56%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.24%) Middleware
11 7 (2.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.43%) AI Agents
3 17 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.56%) Life Science
7 7 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.96%) Online Gambling
10 3 (0.96%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.03%) Linux
2 7 (2.24%) Windows
3 4 (1.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.96%) CentOS
4 3 (0.96%) Debian
4 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (35.14%) CI/CD
2 99 (31.63%) DevOps
3 77 (24.60%) Mentoring
4 75 (23.96%) AI
5 71 (22.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (22.36%) Agile
7 58 (18.53%) Containerisation
8 56 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (16.93%) Analytics
10 49 (15.65%) Data Modelling
11 42 (13.42%) Data Engineering
12 40 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (12.78%) Software Engineering
13 39 (12.46%) Data Governance
14 36 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (11.18%) Data Architecture
15 35 (11.18%) ETL
16 34 (10.86%) Decision-Making
17 33 (10.54%) Roadmaps
18 31 (9.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 140 (44.73%) Python
2 78 (24.92%) SQL
3 35 (11.18%) Java
4 26 (8.31%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.35%) Go
6 22 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.75%) Bash
8 15 (4.79%) Scala
9 11 (3.51%) C#
10 7 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.64%) Bicep
12 2 (0.64%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (7.67%) Degree
2 12 (3.83%) AWS Certification
2 12 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (3.83%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.88%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.88%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.60%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.28%) CCSP
7 4 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.28%) CISSP
8 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.96%) CISM
8 3 (0.96%) MBA
9 1 (0.32%) CISA
9 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.15%) GDPR
2 13 (4.15%) QA
3 12 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.88%) NIST
5 7 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (12.46%) Docker
2 5 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (24.92%) Terraform
2 50 (15.97%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.35%) Ansible
3 23 (7.35%) Grafana
4 19 (6.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.92%) Puppet
6 4 (1.28%) Istio
7 3 (0.96%) Control-M
7 3 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.64%) linkerd
9 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 82 (26.20%) Google
2 34 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.67%) Databricks
4 15 (4.79%) Adobe
5 13 (4.15%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.83%) Apple
7 5 (1.60%) SAP
8 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.96%) Pega
8 3 (0.96%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.96%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.96%) Splunk
8 3 (0.96%) VMware
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle
9 2 (0.64%) UiPath
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco
10 1 (0.32%) Dell
10 1 (0.32%) Informatica
10 1 (0.32%) Proofpoint