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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 36 85
Rank change year-on-year -77 +49 -52
Permanent jobs citing GCP 29 150 283
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.88% 7.69% 4.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.27% 26.83% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26 76 128
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £79,569 £69,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.02% +14.08% +15.77%
75th Percentile £72,938 £93,778 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £98,474 £97,119
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -3.13%

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 888 559 2,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.99% 28.65% 43.98%
Number of salaries quoted 350 343 1,023
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,160 £68,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -29 26 £56,250 -29.69% 5
Glasgow -28 2 £76,250 +38.64% 9
Aberdeen - 1 - -
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 6 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (13.79%) Confluence
3 3 (10.34%) Apache
4 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Run
5 3 (10.34%) Apigee
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (10.34%) Dataform
5 3 (10.34%) dbt
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) BGP
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) MPLS
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
1 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
2 3 (10.34%) Metadata
3 2 (6.90%) Big Data
3 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (55.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (37.93%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Senior
2 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Junior
4 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Product Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) React
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) LangChain
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 14 (48.28%) DevOps
4 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 11 (37.93%) Knowledge Transfer
5 10 (34.48%) Mentoring
6 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (27.59%) Observability
7 7 (24.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Analytics
9 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
9 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
10 4 (13.79%) AI
10 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
10 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.79%) Data Science
10 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
10 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
10 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (10.34%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) Scala
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) CSPO
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Google
2 9 (31.03%) Pega
3 4 (13.79%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) FIS
5 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk