GCP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 99 139
Rank change year-on-year -71 +40 -92
Permanent jobs citing GCP 689 975 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.03% 3.29% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.27% 11.42% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 472 439 850
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -1.81%
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,000 £78,126
% change year-on-year -8.54% +4.96% -2.34%

All Cloud Computing 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 16,133 8,540 23,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.14% 28.80% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10,253 5,869 17,952
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,350 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 2026. 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 -44 290 £70,932 -5.42% 128
North West -38 172 £74,651 -5.28% 85
South East -33 134 £62,500 -3.85% 100
South West -27 110 £70,000 +7.69% 58
Yorkshire -55 77 £70,932 -7.77% 30
Midlands -49 74 £69,000 +10.40% 25
West Midlands -33 50 £70,000 +12.00% 17
North East -15 41 £67,500 +21.08% 13
East of England -20 29 £60,100 +14.48% 15
Scotland -62 28 £55,000 -30.21% 18
East Midlands -49 24 £60,000 +4.35% 8
Wales -26 22 £72,500 +3.57% 6
Northern Ireland -29 7 £73,801 - 17
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 54 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (4.93%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.05%) Confluence
4 20 (2.90%) Apache
5 6 (0.87%) CMS
5 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.29%) CICS
7 2 (0.29%) nginx
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (3.48%) Cloudability
2 11 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 535 (77.65%) AWS
2 507 (73.58%) Azure
3 63 (9.14%) GitHub
4 42 (6.10%) Serverless
5 40 (5.81%) Power Platform
6 39 (5.66%) SaaS
7 36 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
8 35 (5.08%) dbt
9 31 (4.50%) Snowflake
10 24 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.89%) Cloud Run
15 13 (1.89%) Pulumi
16 12 (1.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 11 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.69%) Firewall
2 29 (4.21%) DNS
3 26 (3.77%) VPN
4 24 (3.48%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.19%) Broadband
6 21 (3.05%) Network Security
7 17 (2.47%) HTTP
8 14 (2.03%) WAN
9 13 (1.89%) LAN
10 11 (1.60%) MQTT
11 5 (0.73%) AMQP
11 5 (0.73%) SSL
12 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.44%) VXLAN
13 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.29%) DHCP
13 2 (0.29%) Internet
14 1 (0.15%) SMS
14 1 (0.15%) SNA
14 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.89%) BigQuery
2 58 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (5.52%) Power BI
6 37 (5.37%) MongoDB
7 34 (4.93%) Data Lake
8 31 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (4.21%) Looker
9 29 (4.21%) MySQL
10 28 (4.06%) SQL Server
11 25 (3.63%) Metadata
12 23 (3.34%) Big Data
13 21 (3.05%) Relational Database
14 19 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (2.61%) Tableau
16 11 (1.60%) Semantic Layer
17 10 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.45%) Redis
18 9 (1.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 60 (8.71%) Git
2 49 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.08%) JIRA
4 32 (4.64%) GitLab
5 11 (1.60%) MLflow
6 9 (1.31%) Eclipse
7 8 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.02%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.02%) JUnit
9 5 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.73%) Selenium
9 5 (0.73%) Subversion
10 4 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.58%) Mockito
11 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.44%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.44%) JMeter
11 3 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 167 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 103 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (12.48%) Finance
5 61 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 33 (4.79%) Law
7 31 (4.50%) Telecoms
8 25 (3.63%) Retail
9 13 (1.89%) Banking
10 10 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.73%) Marketing
13 5 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.58%) Games
14 4 (0.58%) Legal
15 3 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 174 (25.25%) Senior
2 100 (14.51%) Architect
3 78 (11.32%) Data Engineer
4 69 (10.01%) Lead
5 65 (9.43%) Software Engineer
6 62 (9.00%) Analyst
6 62 (9.00%) Developer
7 60 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
10 34 (4.93%) Data Architect
11 31 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
12 25 (3.63%) Python Engineer
13 22 (3.19%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (3.05%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.90%) Security Engineer
16 19 (2.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 18 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (9.87%) React
2 40 (5.81%) Node.js
3 39 (5.66%) Kafka
4 36 (5.22%) REST
5 30 (4.35%) RESTful
6 25 (3.63%) .NET
6 25 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (3.48%) Django
8 23 (3.34%) AngularJS
8 23 (3.34%) PyTorch
9 21 (3.05%) LangChain
9 21 (3.05%) Spring
9 21 (3.05%) Spring Boot
10 20 (2.90%) OAuth
10 20 (2.90%) scikit-learn
11 19 (2.76%) gRPC
12 18 (2.61%) FastAPI
13 17 (2.47%) TensorFlow
14 16 (2.32%) JWT
14 16 (2.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 117 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.52%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.37%) Public Cloud
5 22 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.90%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.32%) Client/Server
10 12 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
11 11 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.60%) Life Science
11 11 (1.60%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.31%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.92%) Linux
2 39 (5.66%) Windows
3 14 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.74%) Unix
5 7 (1.02%) CentOS
5 7 (1.02%) Debian
5 7 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (37.30%) CI/CD
2 207 (30.04%) DevOps
3 198 (28.74%) Agile
4 181 (26.27%) AI
5 151 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (21.48%) Mentoring
7 141 (20.46%) Containerisation
8 139 (20.17%) Software Engineering
9 137 (19.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 117 (16.98%) Analytics
11 116 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 103 (14.95%) Machine Learning
13 94 (13.64%) Data Modelling
14 88 (12.77%) Observability
15 84 (12.19%) Microservices
16 80 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
17 76 (11.03%) Roadmaps
17 76 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
18 75 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
19 74 (10.74%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 310 (44.99%) Python
2 147 (21.34%) SQL
3 92 (13.35%) Java
4 80 (11.61%) JavaScript
5 55 (7.98%) TypeScript
6 41 (5.95%) Bash
7 34 (4.93%) Go
8 30 (4.35%) C#
9 28 (4.06%) Scala
10 27 (3.92%) Rust
11 24 (3.48%) C++
12 22 (3.19%) PowerShell
13 17 (2.47%) C
14 10 (1.45%) PHP
15 6 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.73%) Bicep
17 4 (0.58%) Perl
17 4 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 99 (14.37%) Degree
1 99 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 75 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (5.37%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.79%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.76%) DBS Check
8 16 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.45%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.31%) CISSP
10 9 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.02%) CCNA
11 7 (1.02%) CISM
11 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.87%) CCSP
13 5 (0.73%) CCNP
13 5 (0.73%) SAP Certification
13 5 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.01%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.10%) QA
3 24 (3.48%) GDPR
4 23 (3.34%) NIST
5 20 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.45%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.87%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.73%) NCSC
10 5 (0.73%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.58%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.44%) GRC
12 3 (0.44%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.44%) SLA
13 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.29%) SEPA
13 2 (0.29%) WCAG
14 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 136 (19.74%) Docker
2 23 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.32%) Active Directory
5 14 (2.03%) KVM
6 6 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.44%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 170 (24.67%) Terraform
2 145 (21.04%) Kubernetes
3 67 (9.72%) Ansible
4 58 (8.42%) Grafana
5 44 (6.39%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.90%) Puppet
7 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.16%) Podman
8 7 (1.02%) Istio
9 4 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.44%) Control-M
10 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.29%) Argo
11 2 (0.29%) CASB
11 2 (0.29%) linkerd
11 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 185 (26.85%) Google
2 87 (12.63%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.68%) Databricks
4 32 (4.64%) VMware
5 31 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.92%) Adobe
7 24 (3.48%) Apple
8 15 (2.18%) Pega
9 12 (1.74%) Oracle
10 11 (1.60%) SAP
11 9 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.16%) Dell
12 8 (1.16%) Splunk
12 8 (1.16%) Typelevel
13 7 (1.02%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.87%) Cisco
14 6 (0.87%) Citrix
14 6 (0.87%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.73%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.73%) SaltStack