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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 90 33
Rank change year-on-year +35 -57 +57
Permanent jobs citing GCP 151 295 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.13% 4.40% 7.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.92% 10.06% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 77 127 147
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,306 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,569 £69,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% +15.35% -3.60%
75th Percentile £93,778 £83,774 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,313 £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 561 2,931 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.07% 43.73% 35.35%
Number of salaries quoted 345 1,020 916
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,210 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,548 £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 9 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 9 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 -6 89 £80,000 +13.35% 33
Lanarkshire -4 19 - - 1
Glasgow +81 14 £55,000 +10.00% 21
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 16
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
Fife - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 52 (34.44%) Confluence
2 11 (7.28%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 115 (76.16%) Azure
2 106 (70.20%) AWS
3 12 (7.95%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.97%) GitHub
4 6 (3.97%) SaaS
5 4 (2.65%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (2.65%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.99%) IaaS
6 3 (1.99%) PaaS
7 2 (1.32%) Apigee
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.32%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.66%) AWS IoT
8 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.66%) Datadog
8 1 (0.66%) Firebase
8 1 (0.66%) npm
8 1 (0.66%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.66%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Firewall
1 2 (1.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.66%) BGP
2 1 (0.66%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.66%) Modbus
2 1 (0.66%) MQTT
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (33.11%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.93%) MySQL
3 13 (8.61%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.28%) BigQuery
5 10 (6.62%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) Power BI
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (35.76%) Maven
2 53 (35.10%) GitLab
2 53 (35.10%) JIRA
3 52 (34.44%) SonarQube
3 52 (34.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (32.45%) Bitbucket
4 49 (32.45%) Cucumber
4 49 (32.45%) Selenium
5 18 (11.92%) Git
6 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
7 8 (5.30%) webpack
8 5 (3.31%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (2.65%) JUnit
10 3 (1.99%) Gradle
11 2 (1.32%) Mockito
12 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 115 (76.16%) Finance
2 101 (66.89%) Banking
3 51 (33.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (12.58%) Social Skills
5 14 (9.27%) Games
6 11 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.65%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.32%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.66%) Billing
9 1 (0.66%) Electronics
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (62.25%) Software Engineer
2 44 (29.14%) Senior
3 28 (18.54%) Senior Software Engineer
4 24 (15.89%) Architect
5 20 (13.25%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (12.58%) Lead
7 12 (7.95%) Developer
8 11 (7.28%) Lead Architect
8 11 (7.28%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.96%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.97%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (3.97%) PHP Developer
10 6 (3.97%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (3.97%) Senior PHP Developer
11 4 (2.65%) PHP Software Engineer
12 3 (1.99%) Analyst
12 3 (1.99%) Auditor
12 3 (1.99%) Java Developer
12 3 (1.99%) Security Auditor
12 3 (1.99%) Senior Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (54.97%) CSS
1 83 (54.97%) React
2 73 (48.34%) Spring
3 72 (47.68%) HTML
3 72 (47.68%) Spring Boot
4 58 (38.41%) Kafka
4 58 (38.41%) Redux
5 54 (35.76%) Hibernate
6 52 (34.44%) JPA
7 17 (11.26%) OAuth
8 11 (7.28%) Ajax
8 11 (7.28%) jQuery
8 11 (7.28%) OpenID
8 11 (7.28%) SAML
9 10 (6.62%) LAMP
9 10 (6.62%) Laravel
9 10 (6.62%) RESTful
10 6 (3.97%) .NET
10 6 (3.97%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 53 (35.10%) Product Ownership
2 49 (32.45%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (17.22%) Public Cloud
4 13 (8.61%) Private Cloud
5 11 (7.28%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.97%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.31%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.32%) IoT
11 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.66%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.66%) Mobile Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.95%) Linux
2 8 (5.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (71.52%) Software Engineering
2 93 (61.59%) Agile
3 84 (55.63%) DevOps
4 83 (54.97%) Microservices
5 81 (53.64%) CI/CD
6 70 (46.36%) TDD
7 68 (45.03%) SDLC
7 68 (45.03%) Test Automation
8 61 (40.40%) Containerisation
9 59 (39.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 55 (36.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (35.76%) Clean Code
12 52 (34.44%) Front End Development
13 50 (33.11%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (16.56%) MVC
15 21 (13.91%) Customer Experience
15 21 (13.91%) Web Development
16 19 (12.58%) Analytics
16 19 (12.58%) Translating Business Requirements
17 17 (11.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 96 (63.58%) JavaScript
2 85 (56.29%) Java
3 67 (44.37%) SQL
4 15 (9.93%) Python
5 10 (6.62%) PHP
6 8 (5.30%) Go
7 7 (4.64%) Bash
7 7 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.97%) C#
9 5 (3.31%) JCL
9 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.66%) C
10 1 (0.66%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
1 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (1.32%) Degree
2 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (0.66%) CCNP
2 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.76%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) JTAG
System Software
1 72 (47.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (56.95%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.28%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.97%) Terraform
4 5 (3.31%) CA Endevor
5 2 (1.32%) Grafana
5 2 (1.32%) Istio
5 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (32.45%) Solace
2 17 (11.26%) Google
3 16 (10.60%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.65%) Adobe
4 4 (2.65%) Tealium
5 2 (1.32%) Databricks
5 2 (1.32%) Ping Identity
5 2 (1.32%) Twitter
6 1 (0.66%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.66%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) Qualys
6 1 (0.66%) SAP
6 1 (0.66%) Splunk
6 1 (0.66%) Symantec