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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 19 59
Rank change year-on-year -70 +40 +41
Permanent jobs citing GCP 253 882 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.61% 11.06% 5.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.61% 25.58% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 158 234 220
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,175
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,447 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £77,715 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £106,000 £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 3,326 3,448 4,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.26% 43.22% 42.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 1,982 2,700
10th Percentile £29,000 £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 £86,125 £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 26 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 26 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 -46 202 £69,447 +15.27% 51
Cheshire -48 23 £35,000 -63.16% 2
Lancashire -51 10 £78,126 +42.05% 2
Merseyside -54 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 31 (12.25%) Apache Spark
2 18 (7.11%) Apache
3 15 (5.93%) Confluence
4 13 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (4.74%) IIS
6 4 (1.58%) Captiva
6 4 (1.58%) FileNet
6 4 (1.58%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.79%) nginx
8 1 (0.40%) Mendix
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.79%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 166 (65.61%) Azure
2 151 (59.68%) AWS
3 36 (14.23%) SaaS
4 32 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (11.86%) GitHub
6 20 (7.91%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (5.53%) OpenShift
9 13 (5.14%) Serverless
10 12 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (3.95%) dbt
12 10 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (3.95%) PaaS
13 8 (3.16%) Google Analytics
14 7 (2.77%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.98%) Collibra
15 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (12.25%) Firewall
2 19 (7.51%) WAN
3 13 (5.14%) SD-WAN
4 12 (4.74%) DHCP
4 12 (4.74%) DNS
4 12 (4.74%) iSCSI
4 12 (4.74%) SAN
5 11 (4.35%) AMQP
6 7 (2.77%) LAN
6 7 (2.77%) Network Security
7 6 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.37%) Wireless
8 5 (1.98%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.98%) VPN
9 4 (1.58%) BGP
9 4 (1.58%) DMVPN
9 4 (1.58%) EIGRP
9 4 (1.58%) IPsec
9 4 (1.58%) OSPF
9 4 (1.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.11%) BigQuery
2 48 (18.97%) Looker
3 26 (10.28%) Big Data
4 20 (7.91%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (7.91%) Power BI
5 17 (6.72%) Hadoop
5 17 (6.72%) NoSQL
6 14 (5.53%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.74%) MySQL
7 12 (4.74%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.74%) Tableau
8 11 (4.35%) Cloudera CDH
9 10 (3.95%) Data Lake
10 8 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.77%) Metadata
12 6 (2.37%) DB2
13 5 (1.98%) Airbyte
13 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (1.58%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.79%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 19 (7.51%) JIRA
2 18 (7.11%) Git
3 17 (6.72%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.14%) Spinnaker
5 9 (3.56%) GitLab
6 4 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.19%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
General
1 73 (28.85%) Finance
2 56 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.02%) Banking
5 22 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (7.91%) Retail
7 11 (4.35%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.37%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.98%) Marketing
10 4 (1.58%) Publishing
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Law
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%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 59 (23.32%) Architect
2 46 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 46 (18.18%) Senior
3 35 (13.83%) Software Engineer
4 34 (13.44%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (11.46%) Principal Data Engineer
5 29 (11.46%) Principal Engineer
6 28 (11.07%) Lead
7 23 (9.09%) Developer
8 20 (7.91%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (5.93%) Data Scientist
10 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.74%) Data Architect
11 12 (4.74%) GCP Engineer
11 12 (4.74%) Infrastructure Manager
11 12 (4.74%) Senior Data Scientist
12 11 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 10 (3.95%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.44%) React
2 20 (7.91%) Node.js
3 18 (7.11%) AngularJS
3 18 (7.11%) Kafka
4 16 (6.32%) REST
5 15 (5.93%) Spring
6 13 (5.14%) .NET
7 12 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (4.74%) Spring Boot
8 11 (4.35%) gRPC
8 11 (4.35%) Material-UI
8 11 (4.35%) OpenAPI
8 11 (4.35%) RESTful
8 11 (4.35%) Swagger
9 10 (3.95%) CSS
10 8 (3.16%) Web Services
11 7 (2.77%) Laravel
12 6 (2.37%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.37%) HTML
12 6 (2.37%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.42%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (13.44%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.88%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.30%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.93%) Mainframe
6 14 (5.53%) PKI
7 12 (4.74%) PMI
8 8 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.77%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.77%) Blockchain
9 7 (2.77%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.77%) PropTech
10 6 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.37%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (1.98%) IoT
12 4 (1.58%) DataPower
12 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.18%) Linux
2 19 (7.51%) Windows
3 13 (5.14%) Unix
4 11 (4.35%) CentOS
4 11 (4.35%) Debian
4 11 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.37%) Android
5 6 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (62.85%) Agile
2 78 (30.83%) Mentoring
3 65 (25.69%) DevOps
4 61 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (22.92%) Data Engineering
6 55 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 54 (21.34%) Data Science
7 54 (21.34%) Platform Engineering
8 49 (19.37%) Data Pipeline
9 36 (14.23%) Project Management
10 33 (13.04%) Analytics
10 33 (13.04%) Change Management
10 33 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (11.86%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.46%) CI/CD
12 29 (11.46%) Data Management
12 29 (11.46%) DataOps
12 29 (11.46%) Visualisation
13 28 (11.07%) Data Governance
14 27 (10.67%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.62%) Python
2 63 (24.90%) SQL
3 46 (18.18%) Java
4 34 (13.44%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.72%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.32%) C#
7 10 (3.95%) Bash
8 9 (3.56%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.16%) PHP
10 6 (2.37%) Go
10 6 (2.37%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.98%) Perl
12 4 (1.58%) R
12 4 (1.58%) 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 (10.67%) Degree
2 17 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.14%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.74%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.74%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.95%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.37%) CCNA
9 6 (2.37%) OCP
9 6 (2.37%) 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 (16.60%) GDPR
2 19 (7.51%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.58%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.53%) Docker
4 9 (3.56%) 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 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 40 (15.81%) Terraform
3 24 (9.49%) Ansible
4 17 (6.72%) Puppet
5 12 (4.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (4.74%) Opsgenie
5 12 (4.74%) VxRail
5 12 (4.74%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.37%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.58%) Grafana
7 4 (1.58%) 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 (47.83%) Google
2 44 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.46%) VMware
4 17 (6.72%) Cisco
5 16 (6.32%) IBM
6 14 (5.53%) Oracle
7 13 (5.14%) Fortinet
7 13 (5.14%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.74%) Dell
8 12 (4.74%) NetApp
9 11 (4.35%) Red Hat
9 11 (4.35%) SaltStack
10 10 (3.95%) Teradata
11 8 (3.16%) Confluent
12 7 (2.77%) SAP
13 5 (1.98%) Citrix
14 4 (1.58%) Juniper
14 4 (1.58%) Kofax
14 4 (1.58%) Pega
14 4 (1.58%) ServiceNow