GCP Jobs in Scotland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 99 29
Rank change year-on-year +42 -70 +57
Permanent jobs citing GCP 153 229 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.95% 3.31% 8.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.47% 8.38% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 57 97 119
10th Percentile £52,950 £46,283 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £69,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +16.76% -8.42%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,548 £77,607
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £97,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £78,126 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -2.34% -

All Cloud 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 578 2,734 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.70% 39.58% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 275 1,015 837
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.71% +0.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,307 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £81,200 £83,151
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in Scotland.

Salary trend for GCP in Scotland

GCP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

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 16 June 2025. 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 +3 74 £80,000 +11.13% 142
Glasgow +73 29 £61,250 +22.50% 139
Lanarkshire -4 19 - - 3
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 17
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife - 2 - - 4
West Lothian - 2 - - 4
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +32 1 - - 67
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 51 (33.33%) Confluence
2 11 (7.19%) Umbraco
3 4 (2.61%) Apache
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 120 (78.43%) Azure
2 112 (73.20%) AWS
3 16 (10.46%) OpenShift
4 7 (4.58%) SaaS
5 5 (3.27%) IaaS
5 5 (3.27%) PaaS
6 4 (2.61%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.61%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.31%) Apigee
7 2 (1.31%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.31%) Datadog
7 2 (1.31%) GitHub
7 2 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.31%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.65%) Firebase
8 1 (0.65%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) Network Security
2 3 (1.96%) DNS
2 3 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (1.31%) Bluetooth
3 2 (1.31%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (1.31%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (1.31%) Modbus
3 2 (1.31%) MQTT
4 1 (0.65%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (32.68%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.80%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.84%) MySQL
4 11 (7.19%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.27%) Big Data
8 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.65%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (37.25%) GitLab
2 54 (35.29%) Maven
3 52 (33.99%) JIRA
4 51 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 51 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (32.03%) Bitbucket
5 49 (32.03%) Cucumber
5 49 (32.03%) Selenium
6 16 (10.46%) Git
7 13 (8.50%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.61%) JUnit
8 4 (2.61%) webpack
9 3 (1.96%) Gradle
10 2 (1.31%) Mockito
11 1 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 112 (73.20%) Finance
2 90 (58.82%) Banking
3 68 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (12.42%) Social Skills
5 18 (11.76%) Law
6 12 (7.84%) Marketing
7 10 (6.54%) Games
8 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.61%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.96%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.31%) Electronics
11 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 91 (59.48%) Software Engineer
2 32 (20.92%) Lead
3 30 (19.61%) Senior
4 28 (18.30%) Architect
5 20 (13.07%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (12.42%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) Lead Architect
7 11 (7.19%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.54%) Developer
8 10 (6.54%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Java Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.61%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (52.29%) React
2 68 (44.44%) CSS
3 64 (41.83%) Spring
4 62 (40.52%) Spring Boot
5 59 (38.56%) Kafka
6 57 (37.25%) HTML
7 54 (35.29%) Hibernate
7 54 (35.29%) Redux
8 52 (33.99%) JPA
9 18 (11.76%) OAuth
10 17 (11.11%) OpenID
10 17 (11.11%) SAML
11 11 (7.19%) Ajax
11 11 (7.19%) jQuery
12 8 (5.23%) RESTful
13 7 (4.58%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.92%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.92%) LAMP
14 6 (3.92%) Laravel
14 6 (3.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 54 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 52 (33.99%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (13.73%) Public Cloud
4 19 (12.42%) Private Cloud
5 13 (8.50%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.23%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.58%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.96%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.96%) IoT
9 2 (1.31%) ARM Cortex
9 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 95 (62.09%) Agile
3 82 (53.59%) DevOps
4 77 (50.33%) CI/CD
5 71 (46.41%) Microservices
6 69 (45.10%) Test Automation
7 67 (43.79%) SDLC
8 64 (41.83%) TDD
9 62 (40.52%) Containerisation
10 58 (37.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (37.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 52 (33.99%) Clean Code
12 52 (33.99%) Front End Development
13 50 (32.68%) Performance Optimisation
14 28 (18.30%) Analytics
15 21 (13.73%) MVC
16 19 (12.42%) Roadmaps
17 17 (11.11%) Web Development
18 16 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
19 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 84 (54.90%) JavaScript
2 80 (52.29%) Java
3 68 (44.44%) SQL
4 29 (18.95%) Python
5 9 (5.88%) Go
6 7 (4.58%) C#
7 6 (3.92%) PHP
8 4 (2.61%) Bash
9 3 (1.96%) C
9 3 (1.96%) C++
9 3 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) JCL
10 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.27%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.61%) CCNP
2 4 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.96%) CCNA
3 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.29%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.31%) JTAG
System Software
1 73 (47.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.15%) Terraform
3 11 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.27%) Grafana
5 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.31%) Istio
6 2 (1.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.65%) Ansible
7 1 (0.65%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (32.03%) Solace
2 23 (15.03%) Google
3 16 (10.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.92%) Facebook
5 4 (2.61%) Adobe
5 4 (2.61%) Tealium
6 3 (1.96%) F5
7 2 (1.31%) Databricks
7 2 (1.31%) IBM
7 2 (1.31%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.31%) Oracle
7 2 (1.31%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.31%) SAP
7 2 (1.31%) Splunk
8 1 (0.65%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.65%) Qualys
8 1 (0.65%) Sybase
8 1 (0.65%) Symantec
8 1 (0.65%) Twitter