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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 69 75
Rank change year-on-year -58 +6 +22
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,303 2,192 3,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.00% 4.55% 3.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.75% 12.07% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 658 1,164 1,396
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,091 £47,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.23%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,548 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,725 £97,500 £91,875
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +10.34%

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 19,313 18,168 31,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.59% 37.74% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,490 12,560 19,951
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,239 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,443 £71,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -42 416 £65,000 - 41
South East -44 224 £60,000 -20.00% 34
South West -37 216 £57,500 -14.18% 18
North West -60 214 £63,750 -1.92% 29
Scotland -56 198 £67,000 +11.44% 22
Yorkshire -19 163 £62,500 -6.81% 10
Midlands -101 125 £67,500 +6.17% 20
West Midlands -89 66 £78,000 +24.80% 14
East of England -24 59 £55,000 -2.22% 12
East Midlands -44 58 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Wales 0 46 £46,750 -20.76% 7
North East -7 39 £75,000 +36.36% 2
Northern Ireland -16 13 £65,000 +23.81% 41
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 -
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 61 (4.68%) Apache
2 58 (4.45%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.46%) Confluence
6 17 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 14 (1.07%) nginx
8 13 (1.00%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.77%) IIS
10 9 (0.69%) SharePoint 2010
10 9 (0.69%) SharePoint 2013
11 7 (0.54%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.46%) Luigi
13 2 (0.15%) CMS
13 2 (0.15%) SAS
14 1 (0.077%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Simulink
2 1 (0.077%) Revit
2 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.077%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.077%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.077%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (0.077%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 966 (74.14%) AWS
2 877 (67.31%) Azure
3 138 (10.59%) SaaS
4 128 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (7.29%) GitHub
7 61 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (4.60%) Serverless
9 56 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
11 40 (3.07%) Power Platform
12 39 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (2.69%) OpenShift
14 30 (2.30%) Snowflake
15 29 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (2.00%) dbt
16 26 (2.00%) PaaS
17 25 (1.92%) IaaS
18 21 (1.61%) Datadog
18 21 (1.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.68%) Firewall
2 55 (4.22%) WAN
3 41 (3.15%) VPN
4 34 (2.61%) LAN
5 29 (2.23%) AMQP
6 27 (2.07%) Network Security
7 23 (1.77%) SD-WAN
8 18 (1.38%) Ethernet
9 17 (1.30%) Kerberos
10 16 (1.23%) SAN
11 14 (1.07%) Wireless
12 13 (1.00%) DNS
13 12 (0.92%) VLAN
14 10 (0.77%) MQTT
14 10 (0.77%) VoIP
15 8 (0.61%) BGP
16 7 (0.54%) DHCP
16 7 (0.54%) MPLS
16 7 (0.54%) PBX
16 7 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (26.48%) BigQuery
2 321 (24.64%) Looker
3 176 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (5.83%) Data Lake
5 75 (5.76%) Big Data
6 74 (5.68%) SQL Server
7 69 (5.30%) MySQL
8 49 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
9 45 (3.45%) Hadoop
9 45 (3.45%) Relational Database
10 39 (2.99%) NoSQL
10 39 (2.99%) Power BI
11 35 (2.69%) Qlik Sense
11 35 (2.69%) Tableau
12 29 (2.23%) Cloudera CDH
13 25 (1.92%) Redis
14 19 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.30%) CockroachDB
16 15 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 105 (8.06%) Git
2 55 (4.22%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.38%) JIRA
4 33 (2.53%) CircleCI
5 31 (2.38%) GitLab
5 31 (2.38%) Selenium
6 16 (1.23%) PHPUnit
7 12 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.77%) Terragrunt
9 7 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.38%) Maven
10 5 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.38%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.23%) GoCD
11 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 346 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
2 226 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 207 (15.89%) Finance
4 91 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 82 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (5.60%) Billing
7 64 (4.91%) Law
8 55 (4.22%) Legal
9 52 (3.99%) Retail
10 48 (3.68%) Public Sector
11 38 (2.92%) Marketing
12 35 (2.69%) Banking
13 30 (2.30%) Aerospace
14 27 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.15%) Games
16 15 (1.15%) Tech for Good
17 11 (0.84%) Agriculture
18 7 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 257 (19.72%) Architect
2 247 (18.96%) Data Engineer
3 210 (16.12%) Senior
4 189 (14.50%) Software Engineer
5 176 (13.51%) Principal Engineer
6 162 (12.43%) Principal Data Engineer
7 159 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
8 143 (10.97%) Lead
9 128 (9.82%) Developer
10 93 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
11 92 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 90 (6.91%) Data Manager
13 88 (6.75%) Data Architect
14 84 (6.45%) Engineering Manager
15 55 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
16 52 (3.99%) Senior Developer
17 49 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
18 40 (3.07%) Lead Software Engineer
19 37 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
20 36 (2.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (11.05%) React
2 93 (7.14%) Node.js
3 87 (6.68%) AngularJS
4 83 (6.37%) Spring
5 80 (6.14%) REST
6 61 (4.68%) Kafka
7 58 (4.45%) CSS
8 52 (3.99%) HTML
9 49 (3.76%) Spring Boot
10 45 (3.45%) PySpark
11 41 (3.15%) GraphQL
11 41 (3.15%) RESTful
12 37 (2.84%) .NET
12 37 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
13 35 (2.69%) gRPC
14 29 (2.23%) Laravel
14 29 (2.23%) Material-UI
14 29 (2.23%) OpenAPI
14 29 (2.23%) Swagger
15 27 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 241 (18.50%) Self-Motivation
2 206 (15.81%) Public Cloud
3 115 (8.83%) Product Ownership
4 99 (7.60%) Cloud Native
5 70 (5.37%) Algorithms
5 70 (5.37%) PKI
6 56 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 32 (2.46%) IoT
9 30 (2.30%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.77%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.30%) Replication
14 13 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.00%) Media Streaming
15 11 (0.84%) PropTech
16 9 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 144 (11.05%) Linux
2 100 (7.67%) Windows
3 50 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 46 (3.53%) Ubuntu
5 37 (2.84%) Debian
6 36 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (2.38%) CentOS
8 25 (1.92%) Unix
9 22 (1.69%) Android
10 8 (0.61%) Solaris
11 7 (0.54%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.15%) Mesosphere
15 2 (0.15%) VMS
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (44.21%) Agile
2 476 (36.53%) DevOps
3 473 (36.30%) Problem-Solving
4 385 (29.55%) Mentoring
5 362 (27.78%) Data Engineering
6 320 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
7 276 (21.18%) CI/CD
8 262 (20.11%) Software Engineering
9 238 (18.27%) Data Pipeline
10 219 (16.81%) Data Science
11 198 (15.20%) ETL
12 187 (14.35%) Data Modelling
13 181 (13.89%) Project Management
14 176 (13.51%) Scrum
15 164 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
16 163 (12.51%) Change Management
17 151 (11.59%) DataOps
18 135 (10.36%) Roadmaps
19 134 (10.28%) Configuration Management
20 132 (10.13%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 315 (24.17%) Python
2 204 (15.66%) Java
2 204 (15.66%) SQL
3 177 (13.58%) JavaScript
4 67 (5.14%) TypeScript
5 62 (4.76%) PHP
6 48 (3.68%) Go
7 47 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.38%) Scala
9 43 (3.30%) Bash
10 39 (2.99%) C#
11 21 (1.61%) C++
12 18 (1.38%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.23%) R
13 16 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.77%) Rust
15 6 (0.46%) Perl
15 6 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.38%) C
17 4 (0.31%) JSX
Qualifications
1 117 (8.98%) Degree
2 106 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 90 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 63 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 33 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.00%) CCNA
9 15 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.00%) MCITP
11 11 (0.84%) CISSP
12 10 (0.77%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.69%) CCNP
13 9 (0.69%) MCSE
14 7 (0.54%) CESG Certified Professional
14 7 (0.54%) CISM
14 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (16.19%) GDPR
2 95 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 93 (7.14%) QA
4 16 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.92%) NIST
6 10 (0.77%) SLA
7 9 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.23%) NCSC
8 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.15%) GRC
9 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.15%) IFRS
9 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.077%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.077%) PMO
10 1 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 201 (15.43%) Docker
2 80 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (4.68%) Active Directory
4 48 (3.68%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.38%) XenApp
6 17 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.30%) XenDesktop
7 14 (1.07%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.00%) vSphere
9 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.15%) KVM
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.077%) Firmware
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 226 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 224 (17.19%) Terraform
3 112 (8.60%) Ansible
4 54 (4.14%) Puppet
5 30 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.00%) Grafana
7 20 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (1.07%) SCCM
10 12 (0.92%) FortiGate
10 12 (0.92%) ZABBIX
11 9 (0.69%) Nagios
12 7 (0.54%) Istio
13 6 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.46%) Opsgenie
13 6 (0.46%) VxRail
14 5 (0.38%) SCOM
15 4 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
16 3 (0.23%) Fortio
16 3 (0.23%) Kiali
Vendors
1 717 (55.03%) Google
2 197 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 91 (6.98%) VMware
4 61 (4.68%) Cisco
5 41 (3.15%) Oracle
5 41 (3.15%) Red Hat
6 35 (2.69%) Alteryx
7 29 (2.23%) SaltStack
8 27 (2.07%) Dell
9 25 (1.92%) Citrix
9 25 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.69%) Databricks
10 22 (1.69%) IBM
11 20 (1.53%) HP
12 18 (1.38%) NetApp
13 15 (1.15%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.00%) Symantec
15 11 (0.84%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.84%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.77%) Veeam