GCP Job Trends in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 83 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 -31 -26
Permanent jobs citing GCP 94 137 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.45% 2.70% 4.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 8.74% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 66 91 153
10th Percentile £52,250 £45,000 £46,261
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,466 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,811
England median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -6.06% +3.60% -0.46%

All Cloud Computing 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 2,784 1,567 1,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 42.92% 30.91% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 897 1,520
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,650 £30,983
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £74,444 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,253 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

GCP job vacancy trend in the North West

GCP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

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 17 January 2026. 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 -22 64 £80,000 +28.00% 44
Cheshire -7 15 £70,000 - 21
Cumbria - 7 £60,000 - 1
Merseyside -2 4 £55,000 +26.15% 8
Lancashire +11 3 £60,000 -5.88% 12
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
2 5 (5.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) WordPress
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (86.17%) AWS
2 75 (79.79%) Azure
3 14 (14.89%) Serverless
4 10 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (9.57%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.51%) GitHub
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.19%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.19%) SaaS
11 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (2.13%) dbt
11 2 (2.13%) Google Workspace
11 2 (2.13%) PaaS
11 2 (2.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) Firewall
2 4 (4.26%) AMQP
3 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.19%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) Broadband
4 1 (1.06%) DAB
4 1 (1.06%) DNS
4 1 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) BigQuery
2 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.64%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (8.51%) Big Data
6 7 (7.45%) Hadoop
7 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.32%) Power BI
7 5 (5.32%) Tableau
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.26%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (4.26%) Looker
8 4 (4.26%) MySQL
8 4 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.19%) Redis
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (2.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.45%) Git
2 7 (7.45%) GitLab
3 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
General
1 20 (21.28%) Finance
2 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Marketing
5 4 (4.26%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.13%) Electronics
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Games
8 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Senior
2 17 (18.09%) Developer
3 14 (14.89%) Architect
4 13 (13.83%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Python Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Manager
6 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 7 (7.45%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 7 (7.45%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) AWS Architect
7 6 (6.38%) AWS Solution Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) GCP Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) React
2 12 (12.77%) RESTful
2 12 (12.77%) Spring
2 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
3 9 (9.57%) Django
3 9 (9.57%) Node.js
4 8 (8.51%) AngularJS
5 7 (7.45%) Vue
6 6 (6.38%) CSS
6 6 (6.38%) FastAPI
6 6 (6.38%) Hibernate
6 6 (6.38%) HTML
6 6 (6.38%) REST
7 5 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.26%) .NET
8 4 (4.26%) Celery
8 4 (4.26%) Flask
8 4 (4.26%) Material-UI
8 4 (4.26%) OpenAPI
8 4 (4.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.51%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.13%) NHS
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) IoT
6 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.06%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.89%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) CentOS
3 5 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.26%) Debian
4 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) CI/CD
2 40 (42.55%) DevOps
3 38 (40.43%) Containerisation
4 34 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (32.98%) Agile
6 25 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (22.34%) Software Engineering
8 19 (20.21%) Microservices
9 13 (13.83%) Roadmaps
10 12 (12.77%) AI
10 12 (12.77%) Decision-Making
11 11 (11.70%) Clean Code
11 11 (11.70%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (11.70%) Computer Science
11 11 (11.70%) Data Science
11 11 (11.70%) Open Source
11 11 (11.70%) TDD
12 10 (10.64%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (43.62%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) Java
3 22 (23.40%) SQL
4 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.38%) Go
5 6 (6.38%) PHP
6 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.26%) Bash
7 4 (4.26%) C#
8 3 (3.19%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) Degree
2 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.38%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CISM
7 1 (1.06%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
2 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (28.72%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Firmware
3 1 (1.06%) HDFS
3 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 20 (21.28%) Terraform
3 12 (12.77%) Ansible
4 6 (6.38%) Puppet
5 4 (4.26%) Grafana
6 3 (3.19%) cPanel
6 3 (3.19%) Plesk
6 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.19%) Rancher
7 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (1.06%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.06%) Nagios
Vendors
1 34 (36.17%) Google
2 5 (5.32%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.26%) HubSpot
3 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.26%) SaltStack
4 3 (3.19%) Informatica
5 2 (2.13%) Dell
5 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) SnapLogic
5 2 (2.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.06%) Adobe
6 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.06%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.06%) Databricks
6 1 (1.06%) F5
6 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Splunk