GCP Jobs in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 21 60
Rank change year-on-year -72 +39 +33
Permanent jobs citing GCP 252 845 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.59% 10.70% 5.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.57% 24.90% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 156 227 220
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,167 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,447 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.12% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £78,286 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £107,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

All Cloud Skills
North West

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,327 3,393 4,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.25% 42.96% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,632 1,955 2,683
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -44 201 £69,447 +13.51% 51
Cheshire -47 23 £35,000 -63.16% 2
Lancashire -45 10 £78,126 +42.05% 2
Merseyside -52 10 - - 2
Cumbria - 7 - -
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 30 (11.90%) Apache Spark
2 18 (7.14%) Apache
3 15 (5.95%) Confluence
4 13 (5.16%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (4.76%) IIS
6 4 (1.59%) Captiva
6 4 (1.59%) FileNet
6 4 (1.59%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.79%) nginx
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.79%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 165 (65.48%) Azure
2 151 (59.92%) AWS
3 36 (14.29%) SaaS
4 32 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (11.51%) GitHub
6 19 (7.54%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 13 (5.16%) Serverless
10 12 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (3.97%) dbt
12 10 (3.97%) PaaS
13 9 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (3.17%) Google Analytics
15 7 (2.78%) Snowflake
16 5 (1.98%) Collibra
16 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.90%) Firewall
2 19 (7.54%) WAN
3 13 (5.16%) SD-WAN
4 12 (4.76%) DHCP
4 12 (4.76%) DNS
4 12 (4.76%) iSCSI
4 12 (4.76%) SAN
5 11 (4.37%) AMQP
6 7 (2.78%) LAN
6 7 (2.78%) Network Security
7 6 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.38%) Wireless
8 5 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.98%) VPN
9 4 (1.59%) BGP
9 4 (1.59%) DMVPN
9 4 (1.59%) EIGRP
9 4 (1.59%) IPsec
9 4 (1.59%) OSPF
9 4 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.21%) BigQuery
2 48 (19.05%) Looker
3 26 (10.32%) Big Data
4 20 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (7.54%) Power BI
6 17 (6.75%) Hadoop
6 17 (6.75%) NoSQL
7 14 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.76%) MySQL
8 12 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.76%) Tableau
9 11 (4.37%) Cloudera CDH
10 10 (3.97%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.78%) Metadata
13 6 (2.38%) DB2
14 5 (1.98%) Airbyte
14 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
16 2 (0.79%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 19 (7.54%) JIRA
2 18 (7.14%) Git
3 16 (6.35%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.76%) Spinnaker
5 9 (3.57%) GitLab
6 4 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.19%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
General
1 73 (28.97%) Finance
2 56 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.68%) Banking
5 22 (8.73%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (7.54%) Retail
7 11 (4.37%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.38%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Marketing
10 4 (1.59%) Publishing
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 59 (23.41%) Architect
2 47 (18.65%) Senior
3 46 (18.25%) Data Engineer
4 34 (13.49%) Platform Engineer
4 34 (13.49%) Software Engineer
5 29 (11.51%) Principal Data Engineer
5 29 (11.51%) Principal Engineer
6 28 (11.11%) Lead
7 23 (9.13%) Developer
8 20 (7.94%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.95%) Data Scientist
9 15 (5.95%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.76%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
10 12 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
11 11 (4.37%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 11 (4.37%) GCP Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.89%) React
2 21 (8.33%) Node.js
3 18 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 17 (6.75%) Kafka
5 16 (6.35%) REST
6 15 (5.95%) Spring
7 13 (5.16%) .NET
8 12 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (4.76%) RESTful
8 12 (4.76%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.37%) gRPC
9 11 (4.37%) Material-UI
9 11 (4.37%) OpenAPI
9 11 (4.37%) Swagger
10 10 (3.97%) CSS
11 8 (3.17%) Web Services
12 7 (2.78%) Laravel
13 6 (2.38%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.38%) HTML
13 6 (2.38%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.48%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (13.49%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.92%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.95%) Mainframe
6 14 (5.56%) PKI
7 12 (4.76%) PMI
8 8 (3.17%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.78%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.78%) PropTech
10 6 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.38%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.98%) IoT
12 4 (1.59%) DataPower
12 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.59%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.25%) Linux
2 19 (7.54%) Windows
3 13 (5.16%) Unix
4 11 (4.37%) CentOS
4 11 (4.37%) Debian
4 11 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.37%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.38%) Android
5 6 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (62.30%) Agile
2 78 (30.95%) Mentoring
3 65 (25.79%) DevOps
4 61 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (23.02%) Data Engineering
6 54 (21.43%) Data Science
6 54 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 54 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 48 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (13.89%) Project Management
9 33 (13.10%) Analytics
9 33 (13.10%) Change Management
9 33 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (11.90%) Roadmaps
11 29 (11.51%) CI/CD
11 29 (11.51%) DataOps
11 29 (11.51%) Visualisation
12 28 (11.11%) Data Governance
12 28 (11.11%) Data Management
13 27 (10.71%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.75%) Python
2 62 (24.60%) SQL
3 45 (17.86%) Java
4 35 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.75%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.35%) C#
7 10 (3.97%) Bash
8 9 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.17%) PHP
10 6 (2.38%) Go
10 6 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.98%) Perl
12 4 (1.59%) R
12 4 (1.59%) Scala
13 3 (1.19%) Groovy
13 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.79%) Julia
15 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (10.71%) Degree
2 17 (6.75%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.16%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.97%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.38%) CCNA
9 6 (2.38%) OCP
9 6 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.79%) CEH
10 2 (0.79%) CISM
10 2 (0.79%) CISSP
10 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.67%) GDPR
2 19 (7.54%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.59%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (11.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.95%) Docker
4 9 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 41 (16.27%) Terraform
3 24 (9.52%) Ansible
4 17 (6.75%) Puppet
5 12 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (4.76%) Opsgenie
5 12 (4.76%) VxRail
5 12 (4.76%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.59%) Grafana
7 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.79%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.40%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 121 (48.02%) Google
2 44 (17.46%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.51%) VMware
4 17 (6.75%) Cisco
5 16 (6.35%) IBM
6 14 (5.56%) Oracle
7 13 (5.16%) Fortinet
7 13 (5.16%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.76%) Dell
8 12 (4.76%) NetApp
9 11 (4.37%) Red Hat
9 11 (4.37%) SaltStack
10 10 (3.97%) Teradata
11 7 (2.78%) Confluent
11 7 (2.78%) SAP
12 5 (1.98%) Citrix
13 4 (1.59%) Juniper
13 4 (1.59%) Kofax
13 4 (1.59%) Pega
13 4 (1.59%) ServiceNow