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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 51 94
Rank change year-on-year -71 +43 +14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,625 3,497 2,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.30% 5.70% 3.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.91% 14.96% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 922 1,359 1,289
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,783 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +2.45% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £99,800 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +12.87%

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 23,520 23,379 28,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.34% 38.13% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,436 14,052 19,862
10th Percentile £27,375 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -53 514 £69,447 +6.84% 90
Scotland -52 294 £69,750 +15.77% 39
South West -24 280 £70,000 +7.69% 66
North West -67 257 £69,447 +11.12% 50
Yorkshire -19 206 £68,000 -0.75% 31
South East -100 206 £60,000 -14.29% 74
Midlands -86 203 £65,000 +18.18% 37
West Midlands -84 130 £75,000 +30.43% 23
East Midlands -52 76 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East of England -67 68 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North East +2 51 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Wales -22 45 £62,500 +21.83% 15
Northern Ireland -20 14 £90,000 +71.43% 20
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1
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 88 (5.42%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.02%) Apache
3 46 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (2.03%) Confluence
5 27 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.42%) WebSphere
7 22 (1.35%) Captiva
7 22 (1.35%) FileNet
8 20 (1.23%) SharePoint
9 19 (1.17%) IIS
10 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.74%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.62%) nginx
12 10 (0.62%) SAS
13 6 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
13 6 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
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 1,114 (68.55%) AWS
2 1,100 (67.69%) Azure
3 229 (14.09%) SaaS
4 157 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
5 137 (8.43%) GitHub
6 120 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (4.74%) Power Platform
8 76 (4.68%) Cloud Computing
9 60 (3.69%) PaaS
9 60 (3.69%) Serverless
10 47 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 46 (2.83%) IaaS
12 45 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (2.71%) OpenShift
14 43 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 43 (2.65%) Snowflake
15 37 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.97%) Slack
17 29 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (1.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.77%) Firewall
2 56 (3.45%) WAN
3 52 (3.20%) VPN
4 31 (1.91%) SD-WAN
5 30 (1.85%) LAN
6 28 (1.72%) DNS
7 25 (1.54%) AMQP
7 25 (1.54%) SAN
8 19 (1.17%) DHCP
8 19 (1.17%) Network Security
9 18 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
11 16 (0.98%) VoIP
12 14 (0.86%) VLAN
13 13 (0.80%) BGP
13 13 (0.80%) Wireless
14 12 (0.74%) iSCSI
14 12 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
14 12 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (27.38%) BigQuery
2 370 (22.77%) Looker
3 278 (17.11%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (7.38%) Data Lake
5 113 (6.95%) SQL Server
6 107 (6.58%) Big Data
7 86 (5.29%) NoSQL
8 84 (5.17%) MySQL
9 72 (4.43%) Power BI
10 69 (4.25%) Hadoop
11 62 (3.82%) Relational Database
12 59 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
13 54 (3.32%) Tableau
14 47 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
15 39 (2.40%) Qlik Sense
16 32 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (1.91%) Redis
18 25 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
19 23 (1.42%) Scylla
20 22 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 138 (8.49%) Git
2 114 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 66 (4.06%) JIRA
4 40 (2.46%) Selenium
5 35 (2.15%) GitLab
6 34 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
8 22 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.05%) Spinnaker
10 15 (0.92%) JUnit
10 15 (0.92%) Maven
11 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.37%) Appium
14 6 (0.37%) JMeter
15 4 (0.25%) Jasmine
15 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
16 3 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 454 (27.94%) Finance
2 400 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
3 284 (17.48%) Social Skills
4 251 (15.45%) Banking
5 145 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
7 106 (6.52%) Law
8 75 (4.62%) Retail
9 72 (4.43%) Billing
10 69 (4.25%) Legal
11 61 (3.75%) Marketing
12 31 (1.91%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.29%) Public Sector
14 18 (1.11%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.05%) Games
15 17 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 323 (19.88%) Architect
2 290 (17.85%) Software Engineer
3 289 (17.78%) Data Engineer
4 269 (16.55%) Senior
5 187 (11.51%) Principal Engineer
6 179 (11.02%) Lead
7 162 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
8 158 (9.72%) Principal Data Engineer
9 127 (7.82%) Developer
10 111 (6.83%) Data Architect
11 100 (6.15%) Data Manager
12 98 (6.03%) Cloud Architect
13 91 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 85 (5.23%) Engineering Manager
15 79 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
16 78 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
17 65 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
18 61 (3.75%) Java Engineer
19 58 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
20 52 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (10.15%) React
2 108 (6.65%) AngularJS
3 96 (5.91%) Kafka
4 91 (5.60%) Spring
5 81 (4.98%) Node.js
6 72 (4.43%) REST
7 71 (4.37%) Spring Boot
8 62 (3.82%) GraphQL
9 61 (3.75%) CSS
10 58 (3.57%) HTML
11 57 (3.51%) .NET
12 55 (3.38%) RESTful
13 44 (2.71%) PySpark
14 32 (1.97%) gRPC
14 32 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
14 32 (1.97%) Vue
15 26 (1.60%) jQuery
15 26 (1.60%) OpenAPI
15 26 (1.60%) Swagger
16 25 (1.54%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 273 (16.80%) Public Cloud
2 259 (15.94%) Self-Motivation
3 134 (8.25%) Product Ownership
4 113 (6.95%) Cloud Native
5 103 (6.34%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.31%) PKI
7 57 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 46 (2.83%) Private Cloud
9 39 (2.40%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.78%) Mainframe
12 28 (1.72%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.48%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 24 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 22 (1.35%) DataPower
15 21 (1.29%) IoT
16 19 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
17 18 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 204 (12.55%) Linux
2 149 (9.17%) Windows
3 72 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 64 (3.94%) Unix
5 37 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 35 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (1.91%) Debian
8 25 (1.54%) CentOS
9 17 (1.05%) Android
10 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.55%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.49%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.49%) 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
1 809 (49.78%) Agile
2 561 (34.52%) DevOps
3 545 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
4 449 (27.63%) Mentoring
5 447 (27.51%) Data Engineering
6 365 (22.46%) Software Engineering
7 363 (22.34%) Platform Engineering
8 324 (19.94%) CI/CD
9 265 (16.31%) Data Science
10 263 (16.18%) ETL
11 246 (15.14%) Data Modelling
12 237 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
13 201 (12.37%) Change Management
14 193 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 193 (11.88%) Project Management
15 183 (11.26%) Analytics
16 181 (11.14%) Microservices
17 175 (10.77%) Containerisation
17 175 (10.77%) Roadmaps
18 163 (10.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 396 (24.37%) Python
2 351 (21.60%) SQL
3 323 (19.88%) Java
4 184 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 93 (5.72%) TypeScript
6 91 (5.60%) Go
7 79 (4.86%) C#
8 62 (3.82%) Bash
9 52 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 52 (3.20%) Scala
10 50 (3.08%) PHP
11 25 (1.54%) Groovy
12 24 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.05%) R
14 16 (0.98%) C++
15 10 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.37%) Bicep
17 6 (0.37%) Ruby
18 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 132 (8.12%) Degree
2 87 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 61 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 42 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.72%) CCNA
9 25 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.86%) OCP
13 14 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.74%) MCSE
14 12 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 11 (0.68%) CCNP
16 10 (0.62%) CISSP
17 9 (0.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (17.05%) GDPR
2 137 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 113 (6.95%) QA
4 16 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (0.86%) SLA
6 12 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.68%) NIST
8 8 (0.49%) PSD2
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.18%) GRC
11 3 (0.18%) NCSC
11 3 (0.18%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.12%) CRD IV
12 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.062%) Basel III
13 1 (0.062%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.062%) PMO
13 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 218 (13.42%) Docker
2 99 (6.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (4.68%) Active Directory
4 54 (3.32%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.92%) XenApp
6 10 (0.62%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (0.25%) vSphere
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.062%) KVM
Systems Management
1 293 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 247 (15.20%) Terraform
3 116 (7.14%) Ansible
4 53 (3.26%) Puppet
5 45 (2.77%) Progress Chef
6 30 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.42%) Grafana
8 18 (1.11%) ZABBIX
9 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.86%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.80%) Nagios
11 13 (0.80%) SCCM
12 12 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.74%) VxRail
13 9 (0.55%) WSUS
14 8 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
15 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.37%) Istio
15 6 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 878 (54.03%) Google
2 251 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 124 (7.63%) VMware
4 94 (5.78%) Oracle
5 74 (4.55%) IBM
6 68 (4.18%) Cisco
7 49 (3.02%) Dell
8 47 (2.89%) Red Hat
9 41 (2.52%) Alteryx
10 36 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 33 (2.03%) SAP
12 31 (1.91%) Citrix
13 28 (1.72%) Databricks
14 25 (1.54%) NetApp
14 25 (1.54%) SaltStack
15 22 (1.35%) Kofax
15 22 (1.35%) Pega
16 20 (1.23%) Fortinet
17 19 (1.17%) SolarWinds
18 18 (1.11%) Teradata