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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 79 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -52 +42
Permanent jobs citing GCP 439 507 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.86% 2.90% 8.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.63% 8.23% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 198 324 557
10th Percentile £46,775 £37,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,816 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% +4.62% +13.04%
75th Percentile £97,528 £81,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £96,539 £102,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,490 6,164 7,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.89% 35.29% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 4,968 3,934
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,548 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,182 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.40% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +16 322 £78,810 +13.48% 170
Yorkshire -1 104 £74,870 +10.10% 83
North East +13 13 £62,500 -12.28% 16
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 69 (15.72%) Confluence
2 8 (1.82%) SAS
3 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.46%) CMS
5 2 (0.46%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.46%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) CICS
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (80.41%) Azure
2 341 (77.68%) AWS
3 22 (5.01%) GitHub
4 18 (4.10%) SaaS
5 14 (3.19%) dbt
6 13 (2.96%) Azure Machine Learning
6 13 (2.96%) Power Platform
7 12 (2.73%) Cloud Composer
8 11 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (2.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (2.51%) Serverless
9 9 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.82%) Apigee
10 8 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.59%) PaaS
12 6 (1.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 6 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.73%) DNS
2 10 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.05%) SAN
4 7 (1.59%) DHCP
4 7 (1.59%) NAS
5 6 (1.37%) Firewall
6 5 (1.14%) Broadband
6 5 (1.14%) VSAN
7 4 (0.91%) 5G
8 3 (0.68%) Network Security
8 3 (0.68%) VPN
8 3 (0.68%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.46%) FCoE
9 2 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.46%) Internet
9 2 (0.46%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) Multicast
9 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.88%) MySQL
3 37 (8.43%) NoSQL
4 31 (7.06%) BigQuery
5 30 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (5.47%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.19%) Cloud Spanner
8 13 (2.96%) Power BI
9 9 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.59%) Tableau
12 6 (1.37%) Redis
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.91%) Looker
15 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.68%) Power Query
15 3 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 75 (17.08%) JIRA
2 62 (14.12%) SonarQube
3 53 (12.07%) Git
3 53 (12.07%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (11.16%) Maven
5 48 (10.93%) GitLab
5 48 (10.93%) Selenium
6 41 (9.34%) Bitbucket
7 40 (9.11%) Cucumber
8 32 (7.29%) Jenkins
9 11 (2.51%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (1.82%) JUnit
11 6 (1.37%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.14%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.91%) Appium
13 4 (0.91%) Fiddler
13 4 (0.91%) JMeter
13 4 (0.91%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.91%) Postman
14 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 215 (48.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 167 (38.04%) Finance
3 148 (33.71%) Banking
4 90 (20.50%) Social Skills
5 33 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.19%) Games
7 13 (2.96%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.28%) Retail
9 7 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.37%) Marketing
11 5 (1.14%) Advertising
11 5 (1.14%) Cantonese Language
11 5 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.14%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.91%) Back Office
12 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 255 (58.09%) Software Engineer
2 235 (53.53%) Senior
3 186 (42.37%) Senior Software Engineer
4 43 (9.79%) Lead
5 32 (7.29%) Architect
6 27 (6.15%) Developer
7 25 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.10%) Data Engineer
10 16 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.42%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (2.51%) PHP Developer
14 9 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (2.05%) Lead Software Engineer
14 9 (2.05%) Senior PHP Developer
15 8 (1.82%) Lead Architect
15 8 (1.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 8 (1.82%) Site Engineer
15 8 (1.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (46.70%) Node.js
2 175 (39.86%) .NET
3 83 (18.91%) React
4 80 (18.22%) Spring Boot
5 76 (17.31%) Spring
6 62 (14.12%) Kafka
7 58 (13.21%) CSS
7 58 (13.21%) HTML
8 50 (11.39%) Hibernate
9 41 (9.34%) Redux
10 40 (9.11%) JPA
11 26 (5.92%) RESTful
12 15 (3.42%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.73%) Vue
14 11 (2.51%) Django
14 11 (2.51%) LAMP
15 10 (2.28%) OAuth
15 10 (2.28%) Playwright
15 10 (2.28%) REST
16 9 (2.05%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 163 (37.13%) Self-Motivation
2 161 (36.67%) Cyberattack
2 161 (36.67%) Linux Command Line
3 75 (17.08%) Product Ownership
4 41 (9.34%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (5.24%) Cloud Native
7 20 (4.56%) Algorithms
8 19 (4.33%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.51%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.28%) Credit Risk
11 9 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.82%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.37%) Clustering
13 6 (1.37%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.91%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.91%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
16 2 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
16 2 (0.46%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 198 (45.10%) Linux
2 18 (4.10%) Windows
3 15 (3.42%) Unix
4 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) Solaris
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (71.07%) Agile
2 291 (66.29%) Software Engineering
3 273 (62.19%) Microservices
4 221 (50.34%) Mentoring
5 186 (42.37%) Data Engineering
6 185 (42.14%) Machine Learning
7 174 (39.64%) Scrum
8 171 (38.95%) Cloud Security
9 170 (38.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 167 (38.04%) User Experience
11 144 (32.80%) DevOps
12 143 (32.57%) CI/CD
13 101 (23.01%) Test Automation
14 93 (21.18%) Containerisation
15 78 (17.77%) TDD
16 62 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (13.90%) SDLC
18 54 (12.30%) Clean Code
19 52 (11.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 51 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 277 (63.10%) Java
2 264 (60.14%) JavaScript
3 255 (58.09%) Python
4 177 (40.32%) Go
5 163 (37.13%) C++
6 161 (36.67%) Rust
7 122 (27.79%) SQL
8 32 (7.29%) TypeScript
9 21 (4.78%) C#
10 17 (3.87%) PHP
11 13 (2.96%) Bash
12 10 (2.28%) R
13 8 (1.82%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.82%) Scala
14 7 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.14%) Groovy
16 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.23%) JCL
17 1 (0.23%) Ruby
17 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (39.41%) Security Cleared
2 170 (38.72%) AWS Certification
3 167 (38.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 162 (36.90%) DV Cleared
5 161 (36.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 19 (4.33%) Degree
7 13 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.73%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.91%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.68%) OCP
13 3 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.46%) PhD
15 1 (0.23%) CCIE
15 1 (0.23%) CCNP
15 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.93%) QA
2 14 (3.19%) GDPR
3 11 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.82%) Basel III
4 8 (1.82%) IFRS
4 8 (1.82%) IFRS 9
5 7 (1.59%) Basel II
5 7 (1.59%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.91%) NIST
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 142 (32.35%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.14%) VMware NSX
3 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.68%) 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
Systems Management
1 147 (33.49%) Kubernetes
2 57 (12.98%) Terraform
3 17 (3.87%) Ansible
4 12 (2.73%) Grafana
4 12 (2.73%) Istio
5 8 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.68%) Argo
8 2 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.23%) Automic
9 1 (0.23%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.23%) Consul
9 1 (0.23%) Control-M
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.23%) Rancher
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (18.68%) Google
2 40 (9.11%) Solace
3 22 (5.01%) Oracle
4 18 (4.10%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.19%) VMware
6 13 (2.96%) Databricks
7 5 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.91%) IBM
9 3 (0.68%) Cisco
9 3 (0.68%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.68%) Palantir
9 3 (0.68%) Splunk
9 3 (0.68%) Twitter
10 2 (0.46%) Adobe
10 2 (0.46%) EMC
10 2 (0.46%) F5
10 2 (0.46%) NetApp
10 2 (0.46%) New Relic
10 2 (0.46%) Veeam
11 1 (0.23%) Hitachi