GCP Jobs in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 70 21
Rank change year-on-year -50 -49 +42
Permanent jobs citing GCP 146 286 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.05% 3.33% 11.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.13% 9.30% 25.73%
Number of salaries quoted 122 160 248
10th Percentile £47,625 £46,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,447 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +11.12% +3.31%
75th Percentile £93,778 £77,715 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,750 £96,539 £107,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £78,126 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.80% -2.34% -

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,312 3,076 3,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.43% 35.80% 43.09%
Number of salaries quoted 923 2,448 2,094
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 19 March 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the North West

GCP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Manchester +5 135 £75,000 +8.00% 62
Cheshire +25 5 £80,000 +60.00% 8
Lancashire -40 4 £65,000 -16.80% 20
Merseyside +27 2 £55,500 - 3
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (9.59%) Confluence
2 8 (5.48%) Apache
3 5 (3.42%) nginx
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.05%) CMS
4 3 (2.05%) WordPress
5 2 (1.37%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.68%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 110 (75.34%) Azure
2 105 (71.92%) AWS
3 13 (8.90%) Azure Machine Learning
4 12 (8.22%) Cloud Composer
5 11 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (6.85%) PaaS
7 9 (6.16%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (5.48%) dbt
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.42%) AWS CodeBuild
9 5 (3.42%) Datadog
9 5 (3.42%) Pulumi
10 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.74%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.74%) SaaS
10 4 (2.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) DNS
2 9 (6.16%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.48%) DHCP
4 5 (3.42%) NAS
4 5 (3.42%) SAN
4 5 (3.42%) VSAN
5 4 (2.74%) Internet
6 3 (2.05%) Firewall
7 2 (1.37%) Network Security
8 1 (0.68%) BGP
8 1 (0.68%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.68%) HTTP
8 1 (0.68%) MPLS
8 1 (0.68%) OSPF
8 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.68%) VPN
8 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.75%) MySQL
2 21 (14.38%) BigQuery
3 20 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (9.59%) Cloud Spanner
5 11 (7.53%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.16%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.48%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.42%) Redis
10 4 (2.74%) Big Data
10 4 (2.74%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.37%) Power BI
12 2 (1.37%) Tableau
13 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 34 (23.29%) Git
2 18 (12.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.59%) JIRA
4 12 (8.22%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.42%) GitLab
5 5 (3.42%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (3.42%) PHPUnit
6 4 (2.74%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.05%) JUnit
8 2 (1.37%) Maven
8 2 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.68%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.68%) MLflow
9 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 64 (43.84%) Finance
2 52 (35.62%) Banking
3 42 (28.77%) Social Skills
4 28 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (10.96%) Games
6 10 (6.85%) Retail
7 9 (6.16%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.74%) Marketing
11 2 (1.37%) Law
11 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.68%) Automotive
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (30.14%) Senior
2 36 (24.66%) Software Engineer
3 22 (15.07%) Lead
4 20 (13.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 19 (13.01%) Developer
6 14 (9.59%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.22%) PHP Developer
8 11 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Senior PHP Developer
8 11 (7.53%) Site Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (6.85%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Architect
12 6 (4.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (4.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (3.42%) PHP Web Developer
13 5 (3.42%) Senior PHP Web Developer
13 5 (3.42%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.03%) React
2 35 (23.97%) Node.js
3 21 (14.38%) HTML
3 21 (14.38%) Spring Boot
4 20 (13.70%) RESTful
4 20 (13.70%) Spring
5 18 (12.33%) CSS
6 13 (8.90%) .NET
6 13 (8.90%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.53%) LAMP
8 10 (6.85%) Vue
9 9 (6.16%) Django
9 9 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (5.48%) Kafka
10 8 (5.48%) TensorFlow
11 7 (4.79%) jQuery
11 7 (4.79%) Playwright
11 7 (4.79%) PyTorch
12 6 (4.11%) Keras
12 6 (4.11%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.96%) Algorithms
2 14 (9.59%) Public Cloud
3 11 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.05%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.37%) NHS
8 2 (1.37%) PropTech
8 2 (1.37%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.68%) Home Automation
9 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (26.71%) Linux
2 25 (17.12%) Windows
3 9 (6.16%) Unix
4 3 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.47%) Software Engineering
2 59 (40.41%) Agile
3 55 (37.67%) DevOps
4 49 (33.56%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (32.88%) Mentoring
6 45 (30.82%) CI/CD
7 32 (21.92%) Microservices
8 26 (17.81%) Code Quality
9 25 (17.12%) Test Automation
10 24 (16.44%) Containerisation
10 24 (16.44%) TDD
11 22 (15.07%) Machine Learning
12 21 (14.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (14.38%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (13.70%) Roadmaps
14 17 (11.64%) Coaching
14 17 (11.64%) Data Engineering
14 17 (11.64%) Data Science
14 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.73%) Python
2 52 (35.62%) Java
3 45 (30.82%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.92%) SQL
5 16 (10.96%) TypeScript
6 15 (10.27%) PHP
7 12 (8.22%) Go
8 10 (6.85%) C#
9 7 (4.79%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.11%) Bash
11 5 (3.42%) C++
12 3 (2.05%) Rust
12 3 (2.05%) Scala
13 2 (1.37%) R
13 2 (1.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.59%) Degree
3 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.11%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.05%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) CCIE
8 1 (0.68%) CCNP
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.05%) QA
4 2 (1.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.68%) SEPA
5 1 (0.68%) TARGET2
System Software
1 57 (39.04%) Docker
2 5 (3.42%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.05%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (40.41%) Kubernetes
2 37 (25.34%) Terraform
3 15 (10.27%) Ansible
4 11 (7.53%) Grafana
5 9 (6.16%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.42%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.42%) Puppet
7 4 (2.74%) Istio
8 2 (1.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.68%) Automic
9 1 (0.68%) Consul
9 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 70 (47.95%) Google
2 13 (8.90%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.16%) VMware
4 7 (4.79%) Oracle
5 5 (3.42%) Databricks
6 3 (2.05%) Splunk
6 3 (2.05%) Twitter
6 3 (2.05%) Veeam
7 2 (1.37%) Adobe
7 2 (1.37%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.37%) New Relic
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Confluent
8 1 (0.68%) Dell
8 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.68%) Informatica
8 1 (0.68%) Juniper
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) Revolut
8 1 (0.68%) SAP