GCP Engineer Job Trends in Preston

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Preston is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 0.88% - 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% - 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £94,000 - -
25th Percentile £96,250 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £72,500
75th Percentile - - £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £100,000 - £76,250

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Preston. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Preston with a recognized job title 334 67 193
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.66% 90.54% 90.19%
Number of salaries quoted 202 48 150
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,683 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,647 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +12.94% +8.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £63,750
Lancashire median annual salary £45,497 £47,683 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.58% +5.96% -5.26%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'GCP Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Preston.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in Preston

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Preston.

Salary distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Preston

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 7 July 2026, GCP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Preston region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
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