GCP Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 31 53
Rank change year-on-year -29 +22 -11
Permanent jobs citing GCP 7 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.73% 2.55% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.72% 10.53% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £58,763 - -
25th Percentile £62,531 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.81%
75th Percentile £86,895 - £95,000
90th Percentile £91,758 - £111,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,000 £78,126
% change year-on-year -8.54% +4.96% -2.34%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 188 57 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 19.73% 24.26% 33.98%
Number of salaries quoted 64 25 152
10th Percentile £32,000 £40,400 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,188 £42,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62,813 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,778 £91,250 £94,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

GCP
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in Northern Ireland

GCP
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
County Antrim -21 7 £73,801 - 15
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Sentry
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) SMS
1 1 (14.29%) SNA
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LangChain
1 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
2 3 (42.86%) LLM
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 1 (14.29%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCSP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI