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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 91 22
Rank change year-on-year -54 -69 +41
Permanent jobs citing GCP 125 252 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.65% 2.59% 10.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.02% 7.56% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 105 156 227
10th Percentile £49,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,167
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £69,447 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% +11.12% +4.17%
75th Percentile £97,528 £78,286 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £96,539 £107,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

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 1,247 3,334 3,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 16.46% 34.30% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 914 2,636 1,955
10th Percentile £31,575 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,982 £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 1 May 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 1 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
Manchester +10 116 £78,810 +13.48% 141
Cheshire +23 5 £80,000 +128.57% 18
Merseyside +32 2 £55,500 - 9
Lancashire -55 2 £56,250 -28.00% 45
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 (11.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Apache
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.60%) CMS
2 2 (1.60%) IBM Domino
2 2 (1.60%) WordPress
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (76.00%) Azure
2 89 (71.20%) AWS
3 13 (10.40%) Azure Machine Learning
4 12 (9.60%) Cloud Composer
5 6 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.80%) dbt
6 4 (3.20%) Apigee
6 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.20%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.20%) SaaS
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (2.40%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.40%) Pulumi
7 3 (2.40%) Serverless
7 3 (2.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) DNS
2 7 (5.60%) DHCP
2 7 (5.60%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.00%) NAS
3 5 (4.00%) SAN
3 5 (4.00%) VSAN
4 3 (2.40%) Firewall
5 2 (1.60%) Internet
5 2 (1.60%) Network Security
6 1 (0.80%) BGP
6 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.80%) HTTP
6 1 (0.80%) MPLS
6 1 (0.80%) OSPF
6 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.80%) MySQL
2 18 (14.40%) BigQuery
3 17 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (11.20%) Cloud Spanner
5 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
6 10 (8.00%) MongoDB
7 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.40%) Power BI
9 3 (2.40%) Redis
9 3 (2.40%) Tableau
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.60%) Big Data
10 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 33 (26.40%) Git
2 18 (14.40%) JIRA
3 16 (12.80%) Jenkins
4 13 (10.40%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.00%) GitLab
5 5 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (3.20%) Appium
6 4 (3.20%) Fiddler
6 4 (3.20%) JMeter
6 4 (3.20%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.20%) Postman
6 4 (3.20%) Selenium
7 3 (2.40%) JUnit
7 3 (2.40%) Maven
7 3 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.80%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (52.00%) Finance
2 52 (41.60%) Banking
3 38 (30.40%) Social Skills
4 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.60%) Games
6 6 (4.80%) Retail
7 5 (4.00%) Cantonese Language
7 5 (4.00%) Mandarin Language
7 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.20%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.20%) Marketing
8 4 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.80%) Billing
11 1 (0.80%) Electronics
11 1 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (28.00%) Senior
2 27 (21.60%) Software Engineer
3 24 (19.20%) Lead
4 14 (11.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Architect
6 10 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) PHP Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Senior PHP Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Site Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.80%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Analyst
11 5 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.00%) Node.js
2 27 (21.60%) React
3 22 (17.60%) Spring Boot
4 21 (16.80%) Spring
5 19 (15.20%) RESTful
6 13 (10.40%) CSS
6 13 (10.40%) HTML
7 9 (7.20%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.60%) LAMP
8 7 (5.60%) Playwright
8 7 (5.60%) Vue
9 6 (4.80%) .NET
9 6 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.80%) Hibernate
9 6 (4.80%) jQuery
9 6 (4.80%) Kafka
9 6 (4.80%) TensorFlow
10 5 (4.00%) Django
10 5 (4.00%) Middleware
10 5 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Algorithms
2 13 (10.40%) Public Cloud
3 11 (8.80%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.80%) NHS
9 1 (0.80%) PKI
9 1 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.80%) Linux
2 15 (12.00%) Windows
3 8 (6.40%) Unix
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.60%) Agile
2 51 (40.80%) DevOps
3 46 (36.80%) CI/CD
3 46 (36.80%) Software Engineering
4 44 (35.20%) Mentoring
5 41 (32.80%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (22.40%) Microservices
6 28 (22.40%) Test Automation
7 27 (21.60%) Code Quality
8 22 (17.60%) Roadmaps
8 22 (17.60%) TDD
9 21 (16.80%) Containerisation
10 19 (15.20%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (13.60%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (13.60%) Coaching
12 16 (12.80%) Architectural Design
12 16 (12.80%) Machine Learning
13 14 (11.20%) Data Science
13 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (11.20%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) Java
2 47 (37.60%) Python
3 37 (29.60%) JavaScript
4 31 (24.80%) SQL
5 15 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.00%) Go
6 10 (8.00%) PHP
7 9 (7.20%) Bash
7 9 (7.20%) C#
8 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.60%) C++
9 2 (1.60%) R
10 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.80%) Ruby
10 1 (0.80%) Scala
10 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.60%) Degree
2 9 (7.20%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.20%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.60%) PhD
8 1 (0.80%) CCIE
8 1 (0.80%) CCNP
8 1 (0.80%) CEH
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.80%) MBA
8 1 (0.80%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
4 3 (2.40%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) SEPA
5 1 (0.80%) TARGET2
System Software
1 51 (40.80%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.60%) vSphere
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (43.20%) Kubernetes
2 27 (21.60%) Terraform
3 8 (6.40%) Ansible
3 8 (6.40%) Grafana
4 6 (4.80%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.00%) Istio
5 5 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.80%) Automic
7 1 (0.80%) Consul
7 1 (0.80%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.80%) Rancher
7 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (48.80%) Google
2 12 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.80%) Oracle
4 8 (6.40%) VMware
5 5 (4.00%) Databricks
6 3 (2.40%) Splunk
6 3 (2.40%) Twitter
7 2 (1.60%) Adobe
7 2 (1.60%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.60%) New Relic
7 2 (1.60%) Veeam
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco
8 1 (0.80%) Dell
8 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.80%) Informatica
8 1 (0.80%) Juniper
8 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.80%) Qualys
8 1 (0.80%) SAP
8 1 (0.80%) Zend