GCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 47 95
Rank change year-on-year -72 +48 +11
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,613 3,678 2,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.30% 5.95% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.89% 15.40% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 914 1,390 1,284
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,725
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,832 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +2.45% +8.70%
75th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,775 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +12.28%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,410 23,889 28,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.42% 38.66% 40.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,370 14,248 19,879
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK excluding London

GCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
North of England -51 507 £69,447 +6.84% 89
Scotland -59 287 £70,000 +11.63% 41
South West -15 281 £70,000 +7.69% 68
North West -70 253 £69,447 +12.92% 57
Midlands -94 206 £65,000 +18.18% 28
Yorkshire -23 204 £68,000 +0.74% 25
South East -96 204 £60,000 -14.29% 62
West Midlands -87 132 £75,000 +31.58% 18
East Midlands -50 77 £57,500 +4.55% 10
East of England -76 68 £55,000 -15.38% 27
North East +6 50 £71,250 +29.55% 7
Wales -20 46 £62,500 +22.30% 15
Northern Ireland -15 13 £115,000 +119.05% 14
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 2
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 91 (5.64%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.10%) Apache
3 44 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (2.17%) Confluence
5 26 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.43%) WebSphere
7 22 (1.36%) Captiva
7 22 (1.36%) FileNet
8 19 (1.18%) IIS
8 19 (1.18%) SharePoint
9 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
10 12 (0.74%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.62%) nginx
11 10 (0.62%) SAS
12 5 (0.31%) SharePoint 2010
12 5 (0.31%) SharePoint 2013
13 4 (0.25%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.12%) CMS
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Simulink
2 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.12%) Sketch
2 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.062%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (0.062%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.062%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,095 (67.89%) AWS
2 1,094 (67.82%) Azure
3 228 (14.14%) SaaS
4 155 (9.61%) Microsoft 365
5 140 (8.68%) GitHub
6 117 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (4.96%) Power Platform
8 75 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
9 60 (3.72%) PaaS
9 60 (3.72%) Serverless
10 47 (2.91%) Amazon S3
11 46 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (2.85%) IaaS
12 43 (2.67%) OpenShift
13 42 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (2.54%) Snowflake
15 36 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.98%) Slack
17 29 (1.80%) dbt
18 28 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.82%) Firewall
2 54 (3.35%) WAN
3 53 (3.29%) VPN
4 30 (1.86%) DNS
4 30 (1.86%) SD-WAN
5 29 (1.80%) LAN
6 25 (1.55%) SAN
7 24 (1.49%) AMQP
8 20 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.18%) DHCP
10 18 (1.12%) Network Security
11 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
12 16 (0.99%) VoIP
13 14 (0.87%) BGP
13 14 (0.87%) VLAN
14 13 (0.81%) Wireless
15 12 (0.74%) iSCSI
15 12 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
15 12 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (27.71%) BigQuery
2 373 (23.12%) Looker
3 275 (17.05%) Data Warehouse
4 119 (7.38%) Data Lake
5 113 (7.01%) SQL Server
6 111 (6.88%) Big Data
7 90 (5.58%) NoSQL
8 89 (5.52%) MySQL
9 75 (4.65%) Power BI
10 68 (4.22%) Hadoop
11 66 (4.09%) Relational Database
12 63 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
13 56 (3.47%) Tableau
14 47 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
15 37 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
16 31 (1.92%) Redis
17 30 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
18 24 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
19 23 (1.43%) Scylla
20 22 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 137 (8.49%) Git
2 118 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 69 (4.28%) JIRA
4 38 (2.36%) Selenium
5 34 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
6 31 (1.92%) GitLab
7 25 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
8 19 (1.18%) CircleCI
9 18 (1.12%) Spinnaker
10 16 (0.99%) Maven
11 15 (0.93%) JUnit
12 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.37%) Appium
15 6 (0.37%) JMeter
16 4 (0.25%) Jasmine
16 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
17 3 (0.19%) Gradle
General
1 462 (28.64%) Finance
2 400 (24.80%) Analytical Skills
3 280 (17.36%) Social Skills
4 260 (16.12%) Banking
5 139 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 123 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
7 102 (6.32%) Law
8 79 (4.90%) Retail
9 72 (4.46%) Billing
10 67 (4.15%) Legal
11 61 (3.78%) Marketing
12 30 (1.86%) Aerospace
13 18 (1.12%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.05%) Games
14 17 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 16 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.74%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (20.02%) Architect
2 291 (18.04%) Software Engineer
3 283 (17.54%) Data Engineer
4 259 (16.06%) Senior
5 187 (11.59%) Principal Engineer
6 176 (10.91%) Lead
7 161 (9.98%) Platform Engineer
8 158 (9.80%) Principal Data Engineer
9 126 (7.81%) Developer
10 111 (6.88%) Data Architect
11 100 (6.20%) Data Manager
12 98 (6.08%) Cloud Architect
13 91 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
14 85 (5.27%) Engineering Manager
15 80 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
15 80 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
16 65 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
17 60 (3.72%) Java Engineer
18 57 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
19 54 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (10.23%) React
2 112 (6.94%) AngularJS
3 103 (6.39%) Kafka
4 90 (5.58%) Spring
5 81 (5.02%) Node.js
6 71 (4.40%) REST
6 71 (4.40%) Spring Boot
7 62 (3.84%) GraphQL
8 61 (3.78%) CSS
9 58 (3.60%) .NET
9 58 (3.60%) HTML
10 56 (3.47%) RESTful
11 43 (2.67%) PySpark
12 33 (2.05%) Vue
13 32 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (1.92%) gRPC
15 25 (1.55%) jQuery
15 25 (1.55%) OpenAPI
15 25 (1.55%) Swagger
16 24 (1.49%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 272 (16.86%) Public Cloud
2 258 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
3 137 (8.49%) Product Ownership
4 114 (7.07%) Cloud Native
5 100 (6.20%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.34%) PKI
7 54 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.85%) Data Structures
8 46 (2.85%) Private Cloud
9 40 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 30 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.80%) Mainframe
12 27 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.43%) Blockchain
13 23 (1.43%) Management Information System
14 22 (1.36%) DataPower
14 22 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.36%) IoT
15 19 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
16 18 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 207 (12.83%) Linux
2 146 (9.05%) Windows
3 70 (4.34%) Windows Server
4 67 (4.15%) Unix
5 36 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 34 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 30 (1.86%) Debian
8 24 (1.49%) CentOS
9 18 (1.12%) Android
10 11 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.56%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.37%) Mesosphere
13 6 (0.37%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) VMS
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (50.34%) Agile
2 558 (34.59%) DevOps
3 542 (33.60%) Problem-Solving
4 446 (27.65%) Mentoring
5 445 (27.59%) Data Engineering
6 364 (22.57%) Software Engineering
7 358 (22.19%) Platform Engineering
8 321 (19.90%) CI/CD
9 264 (16.37%) Data Science
10 261 (16.18%) ETL
11 242 (15.00%) Data Modelling
12 237 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
13 200 (12.40%) Change Management
14 195 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 193 (11.97%) Project Management
16 185 (11.47%) Microservices
17 182 (11.28%) Analytics
18 175 (10.85%) Roadmaps
19 173 (10.73%) Containerisation
20 160 (9.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 387 (23.99%) Python
2 347 (21.51%) SQL
3 322 (19.96%) Java
4 182 (11.28%) JavaScript
5 92 (5.70%) TypeScript
6 91 (5.64%) Go
7 79 (4.90%) C#
8 62 (3.84%) Bash
9 52 (3.22%) Scala
10 51 (3.16%) PowerShell
11 49 (3.04%) PHP
12 25 (1.55%) Groovy
13 24 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.99%) C++
15 15 (0.93%) R
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.37%) Bicep
17 6 (0.37%) Rust
18 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 127 (7.87%) Degree
2 85 (5.27%) Security Cleared
3 58 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 32 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.74%) CCNA
9 25 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.36%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.99%) OCP
12 16 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
13 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.68%) MCSE
16 10 (0.62%) CCNP
16 10 (0.62%) CISSP
17 9 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (17.17%) GDPR
2 134 (8.31%) Data Quality
3 112 (6.94%) QA
4 16 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.87%) SLA
6 11 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.68%) NIST
7 8 (0.50%) PSD2
8 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.19%) GRC
10 3 (0.19%) NCSC
10 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.12%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.062%) Basel III
12 1 (0.062%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.062%) PMO
12 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 216 (13.39%) Docker
2 97 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (4.59%) Active Directory
4 52 (3.22%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.87%) XenApp
7 9 (0.56%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.25%) vSphere
11 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.062%) KVM
Systems Management
1 287 (17.79%) Kubernetes
2 246 (15.25%) Terraform
3 111 (6.88%) Ansible
4 51 (3.16%) Puppet
5 44 (2.73%) Progress Chef
6 28 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.30%) Grafana
8 18 (1.12%) ZABBIX
9 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.87%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.81%) Nagios
12 12 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.74%) SCCM
12 12 (0.74%) VxRail
13 9 (0.56%) WSUS
14 8 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.37%) Istio
15 6 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 875 (54.25%) Google
2 248 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 122 (7.56%) VMware
4 94 (5.83%) Oracle
5 75 (4.65%) IBM
6 66 (4.09%) Cisco
7 48 (2.98%) Dell
8 46 (2.85%) Red Hat
9 39 (2.42%) Alteryx
10 36 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 33 (2.05%) SAP
12 30 (1.86%) Citrix
13 27 (1.67%) Databricks
14 25 (1.55%) NetApp
15 24 (1.49%) SaltStack
16 22 (1.36%) Kofax
16 22 (1.36%) Pega
17 19 (1.18%) Fortinet
17 19 (1.18%) SolarWinds
18 18 (1.12%) Teradata