GCP Job Trends in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -69 +6 -22
Permanent jobs citing GCP 20 109 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.74% 4.11% 6.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 11.67% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15 61 125
10th Percentile £48,900 £52,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £53,000 £53,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.82% +15.36%
75th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £82,666 - £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +2.56% -2.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 702 934 1,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.80% 35.23% 41.35%
Number of salaries quoted 260 449 723
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,768
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,475 £85,952 £89,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Scotland

GCP
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Edinburgh -55 18 £71,901 +2.72% 17
Glasgow +1 2 £67,500 +20.00% 11
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) dbt
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (20.00%) Pulumi
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (15.00%) PaaS
5 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Sentry
6 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
1 6 (30.00%) LAN
1 6 (30.00%) WAN
2 4 (20.00%) BGP
2 4 (20.00%) MPLS
2 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (20.00%) Wireless
3 3 (15.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (10.00%) DNS
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (20.00%) Redis
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Product Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Project Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) Django
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
5 2 (10.00%) .NET
5 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.00%) Next.js
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (5.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Observability
4 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (25.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (20.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
7 4 (20.00%) Microservices
7 4 (20.00%) People Management
7 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Scala
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
3 5 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
1 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 5 (25.00%) Splunk
2 4 (20.00%) F5
2 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.00%) Databricks