GCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 122 46
Rank change year-on-year -29 -76 +51
Permanent jobs citing GCP 678 1,614 3,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.86% 2.33% 6.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.89% 6.93% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 530 916 1,408
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £63,840
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.73% +4.40%
75th Percentile £93,778 £83,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £79,816
% change year-on-year +6.45% -2.90% -0.23%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,596 23,280 24,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.54% 33.59% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,369 17,365 14,412
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,778 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

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 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 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
North of England -33 252 £72,500 +4.40% 304
South East +63 147 £60,000 - 324
North West -56 130 £78,155 +12.54% 182
Yorkshire +7 109 £72,500 +5.07% 96
Scotland +19 98 £79,569 +13.67% 74
South West 0 93 £71,991 +2.42% 120
Midlands -52 62 £67,500 +3.85% 151
West Midlands -37 50 £67,629 -9.83% 87
East of England +9 14 £52,500 -10.64% 95
North East +11 13 £62,500 -12.28% 26
East Midlands -3 12 £65,000 +13.04% 59
Northern Ireland +37 10 £90,000 -21.74% 55
Wales +12 6 £70,000 +12.00% 36
Isle of Man +7 1 £34,500 -25.81% 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 40 (5.90%) Confluence
2 12 (1.77%) Apache
2 12 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.62%) Umbraco
4 9 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.18%) CMS
5 8 (1.18%) SAS
6 4 (0.59%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.59%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Luigi
6 4 (0.59%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.44%) WordPress
8 2 (0.29%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) HFM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 460 (67.85%) Azure
2 447 (65.93%) AWS
3 55 (8.11%) SaaS
4 51 (7.52%) GitHub
5 40 (5.90%) Snowflake
6 37 (5.46%) Serverless
7 35 (5.16%) Power Platform
8 26 (3.83%) PaaS
9 24 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
9 24 (3.54%) dbt
10 20 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 17 (2.51%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (2.36%) IaaS
14 14 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (2.06%) npm
14 14 (2.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.16%) DNS
2 27 (3.98%) Firewall
3 26 (3.83%) TCP/IP
4 23 (3.39%) DHCP
5 15 (2.21%) Network Security
6 14 (2.06%) VPN
7 10 (1.47%) SAN
8 8 (1.18%) NAS
9 7 (1.03%) LAN
9 7 (1.03%) WAN
10 5 (0.74%) Broadband
10 5 (0.74%) VSAN
11 4 (0.59%) 5G
11 4 (0.59%) Multicast
12 3 (0.44%) HTTP
12 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.44%) IPsec
12 3 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (14.75%) MySQL
2 82 (12.09%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.06%) BigQuery
4 55 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 50 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.87%) Power BI
8 28 (4.13%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.83%) Data Lake
10 24 (3.54%) Metadata
11 22 (3.24%) Tableau
12 20 (2.95%) Cloud Spanner
13 19 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (2.80%) Looker
14 17 (2.51%) Relational Database
15 16 (2.36%) Big Data
16 13 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.77%) Redis
18 11 (1.62%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 151 (22.27%) Git
2 76 (11.21%) Jenkins
3 51 (7.52%) JIRA
4 33 (4.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 28 (4.13%) GitLab
6 27 (3.98%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.10%) webpack
8 17 (2.51%) JUnit
8 17 (2.51%) Maven
9 16 (2.36%) Cypress.io
10 13 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.77%) IBM UrbanCode
12 11 (1.62%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (1.18%) Selenium
14 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.74%) JMeter
15 5 (0.74%) Mockito
16 4 (0.59%) LoadRunner
General
1 305 (44.99%) Finance
2 211 (31.12%) Social Skills
3 209 (30.83%) Banking
4 112 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (7.52%) Games
6 43 (6.34%) Law
7 40 (5.90%) Retail
8 33 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.62%) Tech for Good
12 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.47%) Marketing
13 9 (1.33%) Advertising
13 9 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.74%) Cantonese Language
15 5 (0.74%) Mandarin Language
16 4 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 240 (35.40%) Senior
2 150 (22.12%) Software Engineer
3 131 (19.32%) Lead
4 86 (12.68%) Architect
5 82 (12.09%) Developer
6 66 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
7 54 (7.96%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 36 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 32 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 30 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.83%) PHP Developer
13 24 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (3.54%) Lead Architect
13 24 (3.54%) Senior PHP Developer
13 24 (3.54%) Support Engineer
14 22 (3.24%) Analyst
15 19 (2.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (2.65%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.51%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (17.11%) React
2 97 (14.31%) CSS
3 95 (14.01%) Node.js
4 91 (13.42%) Spring Boot
5 89 (13.13%) HTML
6 74 (10.91%) Spring
7 59 (8.70%) RESTful
8 53 (7.82%) LAMP
9 51 (7.52%) Laravel
10 47 (6.93%) Kafka
11 41 (6.05%) AngularJS
12 39 (5.75%) .NET
13 32 (4.72%) Web Services
14 31 (4.57%) OAuth
15 30 (4.42%) REST
16 22 (3.24%) Vue
17 20 (2.95%) Jest
18 19 (2.80%) Hibernate
18 19 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
19 17 (2.51%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.06%) Public Cloud
2 52 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 43 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (6.34%) Mobile App
5 41 (6.05%) Algorithms
6 26 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.95%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.77%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.62%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.33%) Clustering
13 9 (1.33%) Mainframe
13 9 (1.33%) Reinsurance
14 8 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (1.18%) Market Risk
14 8 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 95 (14.01%) Linux
2 61 (9.00%) Windows
3 27 (3.98%) Unix
4 18 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.44%) VMS
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (37.32%) DevOps
2 251 (37.02%) Software Engineering
3 245 (36.14%) CI/CD
4 241 (35.55%) Agile
5 164 (24.19%) Microservices
5 164 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (20.06%) Analytics
7 127 (18.73%) Mentoring
8 111 (16.37%) Test Automation
9 110 (16.22%) Containerisation
10 95 (14.01%) Infrastructure as Code
11 84 (12.39%) Data Engineering
12 81 (11.95%) TDD
13 75 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
14 73 (10.77%) Machine Learning
15 72 (10.62%) E-Commerce
16 68 (10.03%) Data Science
17 65 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence
17 65 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
18 64 (9.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 213 (31.42%) Python
2 183 (26.99%) JavaScript
3 171 (25.22%) SQL
4 170 (25.07%) Java
5 67 (9.88%) PHP
6 55 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 40 (5.90%) Bash
7 40 (5.90%) Go
8 38 (5.60%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.72%) C#
10 11 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.62%) R
11 8 (1.18%) Groovy
11 8 (1.18%) Scala
12 6 (0.88%) C++
12 6 (0.88%) JCL
13 5 (0.74%) Ruby
13 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (11.95%) Degree
2 35 (5.16%) Security Cleared
3 27 (3.98%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.95%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.77%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.47%) MCP
11 9 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.18%) CISSP
13 7 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.59%) CCNP
16 4 (0.59%) OCP
16 4 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.01%) QA
3 22 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.10%) GDPR
5 8 (1.18%) Basel III
5 8 (1.18%) IFRS
5 8 (1.18%) IFRS 9
5 8 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.03%) Basel II
6 7 (1.03%) Dodd-Frank
6 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.74%) NIST
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) SEPA
10 2 (0.29%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 212 (31.27%) Docker
2 31 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.47%) vSphere
6 5 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.44%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.44%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.29%) HDFS
9 2 (0.29%) KVM
9 2 (0.29%) NFS
9 2 (0.29%) SRDF
9 2 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.29%) Xen
10 1 (0.15%) XenApp
10 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 244 (35.99%) Kubernetes
2 137 (20.21%) Terraform
3 59 (8.70%) Ansible
4 24 (3.54%) Grafana
5 22 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.36%) Istio
6 16 (2.36%) Puppet
7 15 (2.21%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.18%) Argo
9 8 (1.18%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.74%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.59%) Nagios
11 4 (0.59%) QRadar
11 4 (0.59%) SCCM
12 3 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.44%) vMotion
13 2 (0.29%) Graylog
13 2 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 214 (31.56%) Google
2 89 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 42 (6.19%) Databricks
4 38 (5.60%) VMware
5 33 (4.87%) Oracle
6 13 (1.92%) Splunk
6 13 (1.92%) Twitter
7 10 (1.47%) Cisco
8 8 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.18%) Citrix
9 6 (0.88%) Adobe
9 6 (0.88%) F5
9 6 (0.88%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.74%) HP
10 5 (0.74%) Symantec
11 4 (0.59%) IBM
11 4 (0.59%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.59%) Tealium
12 3 (0.44%) Palantir