GCP Job Trends in Swansea

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 18 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 5.14% - 2.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% - 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18 0 1
10th Percentile £45,000 - -
25th Percentile £58,125 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile - - £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £70,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +38.89%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 153 7 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 43.71% 17.07% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 91 7 42
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,040 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,367 £43,665
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,124 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% -1.72% +13.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,201 - £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,124 £51,000
% change year-on-year +19.70% -1.72% +13.33%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

GCP job vacancy trend in Swansea

GCP
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Swansea over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in Swansea

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) MySQL
1 8 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
3 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 4 (22.22%) Redis
3 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) GitLab
3 4 (22.22%) minitest
3 4 (22.22%) RSpec
4 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (61.11%) Public Sector
2 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
5 4 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Software Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Principal Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Principal Software Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (72.22%) RESTful
2 9 (50.00%) Kafka
2 9 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (38.89%) Hibernate
3 7 (38.89%) JPA
3 7 (38.89%) Spring
3 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
4 6 (33.33%) React
5 5 (27.78%) GraphQL
6 4 (22.22%) Node.js
6 4 (22.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (22.22%) Sidekiq
6 4 (22.22%) Vue
7 2 (11.11%) CSS
7 2 (11.11%) Jest
7 2 (11.11%) Next.js
7 2 (11.11%) Playwright
7 2 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 8 (44.44%) Product Ownership
3 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (22.22%) Virtual Team
4 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 17 (94.44%) DevOps
2 17 (94.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 15 (83.33%) Microservices
4 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (72.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (66.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (61.11%) Software Engineering
7 10 (55.56%) Mentoring
7 10 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (50.00%) Event-Driven
8 9 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (44.44%) Decision-Making
9 8 (44.44%) Observability
9 8 (44.44%) Scrum
10 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (38.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 4 (22.22%) Bicep
4 4 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) Ruby
5 3 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (16.67%) Go
5 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
3 2 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (61.11%) Terraform
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) OneLogin