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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 70 73
Rank change year-on-year -64 +3 -46
Permanent jobs citing GCP 180 261 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.27% 3.79% 3.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 10.87% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 141 214 349
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,401
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +2.84% +6.91%
75th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,865 £77,813
% change year-on-year -6.47% +6.49% -2.73%

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 4,985 2,402 5,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.24% 34.89% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,316 1,642 4,552
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -34 102 £70,932 -1.47% 70
Yorkshire -81 53 £70,466 -2.81% 51
North East -9 25 £50,000 -25.54% 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 14 (7.78%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.44%) Apache
4 4 (2.22%) SAS
5 2 (1.11%) CICS
5 2 (1.11%) WordPress
6 1 (0.56%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 152 (84.44%) AWS
1 152 (84.44%) Azure
2 31 (17.22%) GitHub
3 26 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
3 26 (14.44%) Serverless
4 24 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (7.22%) dbt
7 11 (6.11%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.00%) SaaS
10 8 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.44%) PaaS
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (3.89%) Pulumi
12 6 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 23 (12.78%) Firewall
3 18 (10.00%) DNS
3 18 (10.00%) HTTP
4 4 (2.22%) AMQP
5 3 (1.67%) VPN
6 2 (1.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.67%) BigQuery
2 19 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.33%) Metadata
3 15 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.22%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.67%) MySQL
5 12 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (5.56%) Power BI
7 9 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.89%) Big Data
9 7 (3.89%) Looker
9 7 (3.89%) Redis
9 7 (3.89%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.33%) Hadoop
10 6 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (2.78%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.78%) Git
3 13 (7.22%) GitLab
4 5 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.67%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.67%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.11%) JIRA
6 2 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
General
1 43 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.22%) Finance
3 21 (11.67%) Telecoms
4 20 (11.11%) Law
4 20 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.33%) Marketing
7 4 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.11%) Electronics
9 2 (1.11%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (30.00%) Senior
2 30 (16.67%) Developer
2 30 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (16.11%) Architect
4 15 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 15 (8.33%) Lead
4 15 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 15 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 11 (6.11%) Java Developer
6 10 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 9 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 9 (5.00%) Senior Architect
7 9 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.44%) Analyst
8 8 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (4.44%) Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.44%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.33%) React
2 21 (11.67%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (10.00%) RESTful
4 16 (8.89%) Django
4 16 (8.89%) Node.js
5 13 (7.22%) REST
5 13 (7.22%) Spring
5 13 (7.22%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.11%) AngularJS
6 11 (6.11%) CSS
6 11 (6.11%) HTML
7 9 (5.00%) FastAPI
7 9 (5.00%) Vue
8 6 (3.33%) CSS3
8 6 (3.33%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.33%) HTML5
8 6 (3.33%) Kafka
9 5 (2.78%) Celery
9 5 (2.78%) Laravel
9 5 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.67%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.11%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.22%) Linux
2 11 (6.11%) Windows
3 8 (4.44%) Unix
4 5 (2.78%) CentOS
4 5 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.22%) Debian
5 4 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (53.89%) CI/CD
2 91 (50.56%) DevOps
3 70 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 62 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (31.67%) Agile
6 50 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (20.56%) Mentoring
8 34 (18.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 31 (17.22%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (14.44%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (13.89%) Microservices
12 24 (13.33%) Observability
13 23 (12.78%) DevSecOps
14 21 (11.67%) Data Modelling
14 21 (11.67%) Software Engineering
15 20 (11.11%) Open Source
15 20 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 19 (10.56%) Analytics
16 19 (10.56%) High Availability
17 18 (10.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 84 (46.67%) Python
2 38 (21.11%) SQL
3 32 (17.78%) Java
4 29 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 25 (13.89%) Go
6 21 (11.67%) Bash
7 16 (8.89%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.44%) PHP
9 6 (3.33%) Scala
10 4 (2.22%) C#
10 4 (2.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.22%) Degree
4 11 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) CISA
7 1 (0.56%) CISM
7 1 (0.56%) CRISC
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.44%) QA
3 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.11%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (24.44%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (32.22%) Terraform
2 46 (25.56%) Kubernetes
3 35 (19.44%) Ansible
4 30 (16.67%) Grafana
5 27 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.78%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.22%) Puppet
8 3 (1.67%) cPanel
8 3 (1.67%) Plesk
8 3 (1.67%) Rancher
9 2 (1.11%) Control-M
9 2 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.56%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 56 (31.11%) Google
2 11 (6.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.44%) Oracle
4 5 (2.78%) Informatica
4 5 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.22%) Databricks
5 4 (2.22%) Palantir
5 4 (2.22%) Pega
5 4 (2.22%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.22%) VMware
6 3 (1.67%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.67%) UiPath
7 2 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.11%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe
8 1 (0.56%) Dell
8 1 (0.56%) F5
8 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk