GCP Job Trends in Preston

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Permanent jobs citing GCP 11 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 3.19% - 4.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.38% - 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £94,000 - £65,350
25th Percentile £96,250 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.26%
75th Percentile - - £81,250
90th Percentile - - £85,750
Lancashire median annual salary £70,932 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 106 11 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 30.72% 17.46% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 38 8 39
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £34,250 £38,438 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +41.79% -28.72%
75th Percentile £68,750 £79,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £74,750
Lancashire median annual salary £42,500 £47,592 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.70% -20.68% +26.32%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Preston

GCP
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing GCP

GCP
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 9 (81.82%) AWS
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Database Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
1 5 (45.45%) Senior Database Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) GCP Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Principal Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
1 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) Coaching
2 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
2 1 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum
2 1 (9.09%) SDLC
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google