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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 38 64
Rank change year-on-year -56 +26 +14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 198 257 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.47% 6.77% 4.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.07% 18.64% 11.65%
Number of salaries quoted 82 118 116
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,525 £42,940
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £60,125 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.44% -7.50% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +10.34%

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 2,183 1,379 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 38.31% 36.35% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 824 827 1,369
10th Percentile £27,825 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,208 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow -59 103 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Edinburgh -13 78 £71,991 +10.76% 8
Lanarkshire - 8 - - 5
Aberdeen -4 4 £50,000 -4.76%
Dundee - 4 - - 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 17 (8.59%) Cloud Foundry
2 9 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.53%) Confluence
4 4 (2.02%) Apache
5 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.01%) SAS
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 163 (82.32%) AWS
2 149 (75.25%) Azure
3 26 (13.13%) SaaS
4 18 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (6.57%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (6.57%) IaaS
5 13 (6.57%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.06%) PaaS
7 11 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.03%) Serverless
9 5 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.02%) GitHub
10 4 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.02%) Google Docs
10 4 (2.02%) Lucidchart
10 4 (2.02%) Miro
10 4 (2.02%) Slack
11 2 (1.01%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.59%) Kerberos
2 13 (6.57%) Firewall
2 13 (6.57%) WAN
3 12 (6.06%) SD-WAN
3 12 (6.06%) VPN
4 3 (1.52%) BGP
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
5 1 (0.51%) LAN
5 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 35 (17.68%) Qlik Sense
3 18 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 17 (8.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (8.59%) BigQuery
4 17 (8.59%) CockroachDB
4 17 (8.59%) Looker
5 13 (6.57%) Power BI
6 11 (5.56%) Big Data
6 11 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (3.54%) Tableau
9 5 (2.53%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.53%) Redis
10 4 (2.02%) Scylla
11 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.57%) Git
2 13 (6.57%) JIRA
3 7 (3.54%) Selenium
4 5 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (2.53%) Spinnaker
5 3 (1.52%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.52%) GoCD
5 3 (1.52%) webpack
6 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.51%) Gradle
7 1 (0.51%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
General
1 85 (42.93%) Finance
2 72 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 59 (29.80%) Law
4 35 (17.68%) Legal
5 30 (15.15%) Social Skills
6 22 (11.11%) Marketing
7 20 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (8.59%) Banking
8 17 (8.59%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.54%) Billing
10 5 (2.53%) Games
11 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.52%) Retail
12 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 79 (39.90%) Software Engineer
2 50 (25.25%) Data Engineer
3 45 (22.73%) Senior
4 30 (15.15%) Lead
4 30 (15.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (12.12%) Lead Software Engineer
6 22 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 22 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 19 (9.60%) Senior Java Engineer
7 19 (9.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 17 (8.59%) Architect
8 17 (8.59%) Data Manager
8 17 (8.59%) Lead Java Engineer
9 16 (8.08%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (7.07%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (7.07%) Developer
11 13 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (6.57%) Engineering Manager
12 10 (5.05%) Principal Data Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.18%) PySpark
2 29 (14.65%) Kafka
3 25 (12.63%) Spring
4 21 (10.61%) GraphQL
5 17 (8.59%) OAuth
5 17 (8.59%) REST
6 14 (7.07%) React
7 12 (6.06%) .NET
8 11 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.55%) RESTful
10 7 (3.54%) CSS
10 7 (3.54%) HTML
10 7 (3.54%) Node.js
11 6 (3.03%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (3.03%) Vue
12 5 (2.53%) Middleware
13 4 (2.02%) Playwright
13 4 (2.02%) Redux
13 4 (2.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (30.81%) Public Cloud
2 44 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 35 (17.68%) Onboarding
4 25 (12.63%) Cloud Native
5 16 (8.08%) Data Centre
6 14 (7.07%) PKI
7 13 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (6.06%) Replication
9 9 (4.55%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
12 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
13 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
14 1 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.12%) Linux
2 21 (10.61%) Windows
3 12 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.52%) Android
5 3 (1.52%) Unix
6 2 (1.01%) Mesosphere
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.57%) Agile
2 92 (46.46%) Software Engineering
3 69 (34.85%) CI/CD
4 68 (34.34%) SDLC
5 66 (33.33%) DevOps
6 63 (31.82%) Operational Stability
7 52 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (25.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (25.25%) Machine Learning
9 43 (21.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 41 (20.71%) Visualisation
11 39 (19.70%) Mentoring
12 37 (18.69%) Community of Practice
13 36 (18.18%) OO
14 35 (17.68%) Client Onboarding
14 35 (17.68%) KYC
14 35 (17.68%) Risk Management
15 32 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (13.64%) Computer Science
16 27 (13.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 82 (41.41%) Java
2 78 (39.39%) Python
3 38 (19.19%) SQL
4 22 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.56%) C#
6 10 (5.05%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.55%) Bash
7 9 (4.55%) Scala
7 9 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.03%) Go
9 4 (2.02%) Groovy
9 4 (2.02%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.02%) PHP
9 4 (2.02%) R
10 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) Ruby
12 1 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Elixir
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
12 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.08%) CCNA
1 16 (8.08%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (3.54%) Degree
3 6 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.52%) CCNP
4 3 (1.52%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.51%) OCP
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.07%) QA
2 9 (4.55%) GDPR
3 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (15.15%) Docker
2 12 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.06%) VMware NSX
3 5 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 47 (23.74%) Terraform
3 36 (18.18%) Ansible
4 12 (6.06%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.54%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.03%) Puppet
7 3 (1.52%) Fortio
7 3 (1.52%) Istio
7 3 (1.52%) Kiali
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 90 (45.45%) Google
2 35 (17.68%) Alteryx
3 18 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 16 (8.08%) VMware
5 13 (6.57%) Cisco
6 12 (6.06%) NetApp
7 11 (5.56%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.03%) Databricks
9 4 (2.02%) Dell
10 2 (1.01%) Black Duck
10 2 (1.01%) IBM
10 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.51%) Adobe
11 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.51%) Juniper
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle
11 1 (0.51%) Red Hat