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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 35 58
Rank change year-on-year -60 +23 +17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 214 457 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.31% 7.06% 5.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.18% 17.35% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 102 191 251
10th Percentile £40,250 £46,250 £39,905
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +9.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £84,056 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,251 £107,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%

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 2,979 2,634 4,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.17% 40.70% 45.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,093 1,774 2,883
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,040
25th Percentile £41,933 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,645 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -52 154 £61,250 -5.77% 19
Cheshire -27 21 £35,000 -63.16% 4
Lancashire -27 18 £72,500 +31.82% 1
Merseyside -15 15 £66,250 -1.85% 3
Cumbria - 6 - - 1
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 23 (10.75%) Apache
2 19 (8.88%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.67%) Confluence
5 9 (4.21%) nginx
6 6 (2.80%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 143 (66.82%) AWS
2 134 (62.62%) Azure
3 29 (13.55%) SaaS
4 21 (9.81%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (6.54%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (6.54%) GitHub
7 13 (6.07%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.07%) Serverless
8 11 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.14%) OpenShift
9 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.74%) Datadog
11 7 (3.27%) dbt
12 6 (2.80%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (2.80%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.87%) npm
13 4 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.14%) AMQP
1 11 (5.14%) Firewall
2 8 (3.74%) DNS
3 7 (3.27%) WAN
4 6 (2.80%) DHCP
4 6 (2.80%) HTTP
4 6 (2.80%) iSCSI
4 6 (2.80%) Network Security
4 6 (2.80%) SAN
4 6 (2.80%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.87%) BGP
5 4 (1.87%) DMVPN
5 4 (1.87%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.87%) IPsec
5 4 (1.87%) OSPF
5 4 (1.87%) SSL
5 4 (1.87%) VPN
6 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.47%) LAN
6 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.43%) BigQuery
2 43 (20.09%) Looker
3 22 (10.28%) Big Data
4 15 (7.01%) Hadoop
5 14 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.07%) Power BI
7 11 (5.14%) Cloudera CDH
7 11 (5.14%) MySQL
8 10 (4.67%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.67%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.21%) Tableau
10 8 (3.74%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.74%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.34%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.87%) DB2
12 4 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.93%) Airbyte
15 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (5.61%) JIRA
2 11 (5.14%) Git
3 10 (4.67%) GitLab
4 6 (2.80%) PHPUnit
5 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.40%) Maven
6 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.93%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
1 39 (18.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.15%) Finance
3 19 (8.88%) Retail
4 16 (7.48%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.14%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.87%) Legal
7 4 (1.87%) Publishing
7 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (24.30%) Senior
2 42 (19.63%) Architect
3 41 (19.16%) Data Engineer
4 39 (18.22%) Software Engineer
5 34 (15.89%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (15.42%) Principal Data Engineer
6 33 (15.42%) Principal Engineer
7 29 (13.55%) Developer
8 25 (11.68%) Lead
9 24 (11.21%) Senior Developer
10 20 (9.35%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (7.48%) PHP Developer
12 15 (7.01%) Senior PHP Developer
13 13 (6.07%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (5.14%) Data Scientist
15 11 (5.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
16 10 (4.67%) Data Architect
17 8 (3.74%) Senior Data Scientist
18 6 (2.80%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.09%) React
2 22 (10.28%) Node.js
3 18 (8.41%) REST
3 18 (8.41%) Spring
4 16 (7.48%) AngularJS
5 15 (7.01%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (7.01%) Spring Boot
6 12 (5.61%) CSS
7 11 (5.14%) gRPC
7 11 (5.14%) Material-UI
7 11 (5.14%) OpenAPI
7 11 (5.14%) Swagger
8 10 (4.67%) RESTful
9 9 (4.21%) Kafka
9 9 (4.21%) Laravel
10 8 (3.74%) HTML
11 6 (2.80%) .NET
11 6 (2.80%) LAMP
11 6 (2.80%) React Native
11 6 (2.80%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.36%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (11.21%) Public Cloud
3 21 (9.81%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (6.54%) PKI
6 13 (6.07%) Media Streaming
7 12 (5.61%) Product Ownership
8 11 (5.14%) PropTech
9 7 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.27%) Mainframe
10 6 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.80%) Blockchain
10 6 (2.80%) NFT
10 6 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.80%) PMI
10 6 (2.80%) Web3
11 5 (2.34%) IoT
11 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.29%) Linux
2 12 (5.61%) CentOS
3 11 (5.14%) Debian
3 11 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (5.14%) Ubuntu
4 7 (3.27%) Windows
5 6 (2.80%) Android
5 6 (2.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.40%) Unix
7 2 (0.93%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (56.07%) Agile
2 66 (30.84%) Mentoring
3 59 (27.57%) DevOps
4 55 (25.70%) Data Pipeline
5 54 (25.23%) Data Engineering
6 53 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (24.30%) Software Engineering
8 50 (23.36%) Data Science
9 44 (20.56%) Platform Engineering
10 40 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (17.76%) Project Management
12 32 (14.95%) Roadmaps
13 29 (13.55%) Configuration Management
14 28 (13.08%) Change Management
14 28 (13.08%) Scrum
15 27 (12.62%) Actionable Insight
15 27 (12.62%) DataOps
16 26 (12.15%) CI/CD
16 26 (12.15%) Migration
17 25 (11.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.98%) Python
2 48 (22.43%) SQL
3 45 (21.03%) Java
4 43 (20.09%) JavaScript
5 24 (11.21%) Scala
6 17 (7.94%) PHP
7 13 (6.07%) Kotlin
7 13 (6.07%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.61%) C#
9 9 (4.21%) Bash
10 8 (3.74%) Go
11 5 (2.34%) Perl
11 5 (2.34%) R
11 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.40%) C++
13 2 (0.93%) C
13 2 (0.93%) Julia
13 2 (0.93%) Ruby
14 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (9.35%) Degree
2 16 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.07%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.80%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.93%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CCA
10 1 (0.47%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) MCITP
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.42%) GDPR
2 8 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (10.75%) Docker
2 16 (7.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.07%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.14%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) Firmware
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
6 1 (0.47%) XenApp
6 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (22.90%) Terraform
2 35 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.28%) Ansible
4 15 (7.01%) Puppet
5 6 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (2.80%) Opsgenie
5 6 (2.80%) VxRail
5 6 (2.80%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.40%) Grafana
6 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.93%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.47%) Nagios
8 1 (0.47%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 125 (58.41%) Google
2 43 (20.09%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.94%) VMware
4 12 (5.61%) Oracle
4 12 (5.61%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.14%) SaltStack
6 10 (4.67%) Cisco
7 7 (3.27%) IBM
7 7 (3.27%) Teradata
8 6 (2.80%) Dell
8 6 (2.80%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.80%) NetApp
8 6 (2.80%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.87%) Databricks
9 4 (1.87%) Juniper
10 3 (1.40%) Apple
10 3 (1.40%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.40%) Splunk
11 2 (0.93%) LogicMonitor