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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 94 31
Rank change year-on-year +41 -63 +68
Permanent jobs citing GCP 143 274 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.80% 4.02% 8.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.55% 9.36% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 60 111 135
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,306 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £49,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £69,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +15.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,548 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £97,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% -

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 519 2,927 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.43% 42.97% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 280 1,011 879
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,114 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -4 75 £78,810 +11.67% 109
Glasgow +72 19 £55,000 +10.00% 101
Lanarkshire -2 19 - - 2
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 21
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife - 2 - - 7
West Lothian - 2 - - 7
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +28 1 - - 79
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 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 (35.66%) Confluence
2 11 (7.69%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.70%) Apache
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 108 (75.52%) Azure
2 104 (72.73%) AWS
3 14 (9.79%) OpenShift
4 7 (4.90%) SaaS
5 5 (3.50%) IaaS
5 5 (3.50%) PaaS
6 4 (2.80%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (2.80%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.40%) Apigee
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.40%) Datadog
7 2 (1.40%) GitHub
7 2 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.40%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.70%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.70%) Firebase
8 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.70%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) Network Security
2 2 (1.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) BGP
3 1 (0.70%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.70%) Modbus
3 1 (0.70%) MQTT
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.97%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.79%) MySQL
3 12 (8.39%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.29%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.10%) Big Data
8 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.40%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.70%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) Redis
9 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (38.46%) GitLab
2 54 (37.76%) Maven
3 52 (36.36%) JIRA
4 51 (35.66%) SonarQube
4 51 (35.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (34.27%) Bitbucket
5 49 (34.27%) Cucumber
5 49 (34.27%) Selenium
6 16 (11.19%) Git
7 13 (9.09%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.80%) JUnit
8 4 (2.80%) webpack
9 3 (2.10%) Gradle
10 2 (1.40%) Mockito
11 1 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 104 (72.73%) Finance
2 85 (59.44%) Banking
3 58 (40.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (11.89%) Social Skills
5 12 (8.39%) Games
6 8 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.90%) Law
8 5 (3.50%) Marketing
9 4 (2.80%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.40%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.70%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (58.04%) Software Engineer
2 30 (20.98%) Senior
3 26 (18.18%) Architect
4 24 (16.78%) Lead
5 20 (13.99%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (12.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (7.69%) Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Lead Architect
7 11 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.50%) PHP Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Senior PHP Developer
10 4 (2.80%) Auditor
10 4 (2.80%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Security Auditor
10 4 (2.80%) Senior Auditor
10 4 (2.80%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (2.10%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (54.55%) React
2 70 (48.95%) CSS
3 64 (44.76%) Spring
4 62 (43.36%) Spring Boot
5 59 (41.26%) HTML
5 59 (41.26%) Kafka
6 54 (37.76%) Hibernate
6 54 (37.76%) Redux
7 52 (36.36%) JPA
8 13 (9.09%) OAuth
9 12 (8.39%) OpenID
9 12 (8.39%) SAML
10 11 (7.69%) Ajax
10 11 (7.69%) jQuery
11 8 (5.59%) LAMP
11 8 (5.59%) Laravel
11 8 (5.59%) RESTful
12 6 (4.20%) .NET
12 6 (4.20%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 54 (37.76%) Product Ownership
2 50 (34.97%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (13.99%) Public Cloud
4 16 (11.19%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.29%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.90%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.80%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.10%) Credit Risk
9 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.40%) IoT
11 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.70%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.59%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (65.73%) Software Engineering
2 86 (60.14%) Agile
3 79 (55.24%) DevOps
4 77 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 71 (49.65%) Microservices
6 64 (44.76%) TDD
6 64 (44.76%) Test Automation
7 60 (41.96%) SDLC
8 59 (41.26%) Containerisation
9 57 (39.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (39.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 52 (36.36%) Clean Code
10 52 (36.36%) Front End Development
11 50 (34.97%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (16.08%) MVC
13 21 (14.69%) Analytics
14 19 (13.29%) Web Development
15 18 (12.59%) Roadmaps
16 16 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
17 13 (9.09%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 86 (60.14%) JavaScript
2 75 (52.45%) Java
3 65 (45.45%) SQL
4 23 (16.08%) Python
5 8 (5.59%) PHP
6 7 (4.90%) C#
7 4 (2.80%) Go
8 3 (2.10%) Bash
8 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.40%) C
9 2 (1.40%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) JCL
10 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.70%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.40%) CCNP
2 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.40%) Degree
3 1 (0.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (37.76%) QA
2 3 (2.10%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) JTAG
System Software
1 70 (48.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (58.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (7.69%) Terraform
3 5 (3.50%) Grafana
4 4 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.40%) Istio
5 2 (1.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Ansible
6 1 (0.70%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (34.27%) Solace
2 18 (12.59%) Google
3 17 (11.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.80%) Adobe
4 4 (2.80%) Tealium
5 2 (1.40%) Databricks
5 2 (1.40%) IBM
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle
5 2 (1.40%) Ping Identity
5 2 (1.40%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) F5
6 1 (0.70%) Facebook
6 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.70%) Qualys
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) Sybase
6 1 (0.70%) Symantec
6 1 (0.70%) Twitter