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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 93 20
Rank change year-on-year +15 -73 +43
Permanent jobs citing GCP 330 251 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.21% 2.41% 10.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.77% 7.20% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 89 145 204
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +3.85% +12.44%
75th Percentile £97,528 £76,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £141,151 £87,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

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 1,449 3,486 3,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.47% 33.51% 43.28%
Number of salaries quoted 833 2,698 1,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £32,916
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 31 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 31 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 +30 196 £79,405 +17.64% 155
Lancashire -11 77 £65,000 -13.69% 45
Cheshire +29 51 £78,250 +123.57% 14
Merseyside +24 5 £72,500 +26.09% 18
Cumbria -73 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 51 (15.45%) Confluence
2 2 (0.61%) Apache
2 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.61%) CMS
2 2 (0.61%) WordPress
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) IIS
3 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 303 (91.82%) Azure
2 301 (91.21%) AWS
3 13 (3.94%) Azure Machine Learning
4 12 (3.64%) Cloud Composer
5 7 (2.12%) dbt
6 6 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.82%) Serverless
7 4 (1.21%) Apigee
7 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (1.21%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (0.91%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (0.91%) GitHub
8 3 (0.91%) NuGet
8 3 (0.91%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.73%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.42%) DNS
3 5 (1.52%) DHCP
3 5 (1.52%) NAS
3 5 (1.52%) SAN
3 5 (1.52%) VSAN
4 3 (0.91%) Broadband
4 3 (0.91%) Firewall
5 2 (0.61%) Internet
5 2 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.30%) HTTP
6 1 (0.30%) MPLS
6 1 (0.30%) OSPF
6 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.94%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.06%) MySQL
3 18 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.85%) BigQuery
5 14 (4.24%) Cloud Spanner
5 14 (4.24%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.21%) Power BI
8 4 (1.21%) Redis
8 4 (1.21%) Tableau
9 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.30%) Big Data
11 1 (0.30%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (16.67%) JIRA
2 51 (15.45%) SonarQube
3 43 (13.03%) Selenium
4 42 (12.73%) GitLab
4 42 (12.73%) Maven
4 42 (12.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 39 (11.82%) Bitbucket
5 39 (11.82%) Cucumber
6 32 (9.70%) Git
7 14 (4.24%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.21%) Appium
9 4 (1.21%) Fiddler
9 4 (1.21%) JMeter
9 4 (1.21%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.21%) Postman
10 3 (0.91%) JUnit
11 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 214 (64.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 105 (31.82%) Finance
3 89 (26.97%) Banking
4 36 (10.91%) Social Skills
5 23 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.82%) Games
6 6 (1.82%) Marketing
7 5 (1.52%) Cantonese Language
7 5 (1.52%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.91%) Retail
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Billing
11 1 (0.30%) Electronics
11 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 236 (71.52%) Software Engineer
2 212 (64.24%) Senior
3 185 (56.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (6.06%) Lead
5 14 (4.24%) Architect
6 13 (3.94%) Developer
7 10 (3.03%) Senior Developer
7 10 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.73%) AWS Architect
9 8 (2.42%) AWS Solution Architect
9 8 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (2.42%) TOGAF Architect
10 7 (2.12%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (1.82%) Data Engineer
11 6 (1.82%) DevOps Architect
11 6 (1.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (1.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (1.82%) PHP Developer
11 6 (1.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (60.91%) Node.js
2 178 (53.94%) .NET
3 65 (19.70%) React
4 60 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 58 (17.58%) Spring
6 51 (15.45%) CSS
6 51 (15.45%) HTML
7 46 (13.94%) Kafka
8 44 (13.33%) Hibernate
9 39 (11.82%) JPA
9 39 (11.82%) Redux
10 18 (5.45%) RESTful
11 7 (2.12%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.12%) Playwright
12 6 (1.82%) LAMP
13 5 (1.52%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.52%) Django
13 5 (1.52%) jQuery
13 5 (1.52%) Middleware
13 5 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 175 (53.03%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (52.12%) Cyberattack
2 172 (52.12%) Linux Command Line
3 48 (14.55%) Product Ownership
4 40 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.85%) Algorithms
6 14 (4.24%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.73%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.30%) IBM Mainframe
11 1 (0.30%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.30%) PKI
11 1 (0.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 195 (59.09%) Linux
2 10 (3.03%) Windows
3 8 (2.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (81.82%) Agile
2 256 (77.58%) Software Engineering
3 241 (73.03%) Microservices
4 214 (64.85%) Mentoring
5 191 (57.88%) Machine Learning
6 182 (55.15%) Data Engineering
7 179 (54.24%) User Experience
8 176 (53.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 175 (53.03%) Cloud Security
10 174 (52.73%) Scrum
11 90 (27.27%) CI/CD
12 89 (26.97%) DevOps
13 68 (20.61%) Test Automation
14 61 (18.48%) TDD
15 60 (18.18%) Containerisation
16 50 (15.15%) SDLC
17 47 (14.24%) Clean Code
17 47 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (14.24%) Full-Stack Development
17 47 (14.24%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 262 (79.39%) Java
2 249 (75.45%) JavaScript
3 222 (67.27%) Python
4 182 (55.15%) Go
5 174 (52.73%) C++
6 172 (52.12%) Rust
7 70 (21.21%) SQL
8 18 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.24%) C#
10 9 (2.73%) PHP
11 5 (1.52%) Bash
12 3 (0.91%) R
13 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.30%) Perl
14 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Ruby
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (54.55%) AWS Certification
1 180 (54.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 176 (53.33%) Security Cleared
3 173 (52.42%) DV Cleared
4 172 (52.12%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (3.94%) Degree
6 12 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.21%) PhD
9 4 (1.21%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CCIE
11 1 (0.30%) CCNP
11 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.30%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.64%) QA
2 8 (2.42%) GDPR
3 7 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.82%) NIST
5 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 87 (26.36%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.27%) Terraform
3 5 (1.52%) Ansible
3 5 (1.52%) Grafana
3 5 (1.52%) Istio
3 5 (1.52%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.30%) Automic
5 1 (0.30%) Consul
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.30%) Rancher
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (19.70%) Google
2 39 (11.82%) Solace
3 11 (3.33%) Oracle
4 8 (2.42%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.82%) VMware
6 3 (0.91%) Databricks
6 3 (0.91%) IBM
6 3 (0.91%) Splunk
6 3 (0.91%) Twitter
7 2 (0.61%) New Relic
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco
8 1 (0.30%) Confluent
8 1 (0.30%) Dell
8 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.30%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.30%) Juniper
8 1 (0.30%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.30%) Qualys
8 1 (0.30%) Revolut
8 1 (0.30%) Zend