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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 50 92
Rank change year-on-year -73 +42 +17
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,625 3,464 2,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.29% 5.78% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.91% 15.12% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 920 1,342 1,264
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,066 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.45% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £99,975 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +13.68%

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 23,519 22,907 28,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.13% 38.22% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17,429 13,743 19,599
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 10 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 10 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 -58 507 £68,000 +4.62% 85
Scotland -52 296 £69,500 +15.35% 34
South West -18 283 £70,000 +7.69% 65
North West -71 253 £69,447 +11.12% 45
South East -98 209 £61,000 -12.86% 74
Yorkshire -22 202 £68,000 +0.74% 32
Midlands -99 197 £65,000 +18.18% 34
West Midlands -95 125 £73,000 +26.41% 19
East Midlands -58 73 £55,000 - 15
East of England -62 69 £55,000 -8.33% 26
North East +4 52 £71,250 +29.55% 8
Wales -27 44 £62,500 +21.83% 14
Northern Ireland -24 15 £90,000 +71.43% 17
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 89 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 52 (3.20%) Apache
3 46 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.91%) Confluence
5 29 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (1.42%) WebSphere
7 22 (1.35%) Captiva
7 22 (1.35%) FileNet
8 20 (1.23%) SharePoint
9 18 (1.11%) IIS
10 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.74%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.62%) nginx
12 10 (0.62%) SAS
13 7 (0.43%) SharePoint 2010
13 7 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.25%) Luigi
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.062%) Skype for Business
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 1,118 (68.80%) AWS
2 1,100 (67.69%) Azure
3 229 (14.09%) SaaS
4 158 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
5 138 (8.49%) GitHub
6 120 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
8 71 (4.37%) Power Platform
9 61 (3.75%) PaaS
10 60 (3.69%) Serverless
11 46 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (2.83%) IaaS
12 45 (2.77%) Amazon S3
12 45 (2.77%) OpenShift
12 45 (2.77%) Snowflake
13 44 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.97%) Slack
16 30 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (1.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.77%) Firewall
2 56 (3.45%) WAN
3 53 (3.26%) VPN
4 30 (1.85%) LAN
4 30 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 26 (1.60%) AMQP
6 25 (1.54%) SAN
7 24 (1.48%) DNS
8 19 (1.17%) Network Security
9 17 (1.05%) DHCP
9 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
10 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.92%) VoIP
11 13 (0.80%) BGP
11 13 (0.80%) VLAN
11 13 (0.80%) Wireless
12 12 (0.74%) iSCSI
12 12 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 442 (27.20%) BigQuery
2 370 (22.77%) Looker
3 278 (17.11%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (7.38%) Data Lake
5 110 (6.77%) Big Data
6 107 (6.58%) SQL Server
7 85 (5.23%) NoSQL
8 80 (4.92%) MySQL
9 68 (4.18%) Hadoop
10 67 (4.12%) Power BI
11 62 (3.82%) Relational Database
12 55 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (3.26%) Tableau
14 47 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
15 39 (2.40%) Qlik Sense
16 33 (2.03%) Redis
17 30 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
19 23 (1.42%) Scylla
20 19 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 142 (8.74%) Git
2 115 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 62 (3.82%) JIRA
4 42 (2.58%) Selenium
5 36 (2.22%) GitLab
6 34 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
8 23 (1.42%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.05%) Spinnaker
10 15 (0.92%) JUnit
11 13 (0.80%) Maven
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 5 (0.31%) webpack
17 4 (0.25%) Jasmine
17 4 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
17 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 447 (27.51%) Finance
2 399 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
3 293 (18.03%) Social Skills
4 245 (15.08%) Banking
5 145 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 123 (7.57%) Presentation Skills
7 107 (6.58%) Law
8 75 (4.62%) Retail
9 72 (4.43%) Billing
10 69 (4.25%) Legal
11 61 (3.75%) Marketing
12 32 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.48%) Public Sector
14 18 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.11%) Tech for Good
15 17 (1.05%) Games
15 17 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 321 (19.75%) Architect
2 292 (17.97%) 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
9 123 (7.57%) Developer
10 111 (6.83%) Data Architect
11 100 (6.15%) Data Manager
12 98 (6.03%) Cloud Architect
13 92 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 85 (5.23%) Engineering Manager
15 78 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 76 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
17 67 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
18 61 (3.75%) Java Engineer
19 58 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
20 51 (3.14%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (10.22%) React
2 108 (6.65%) AngularJS
3 94 (5.78%) Kafka
4 93 (5.72%) Spring
5 80 (4.92%) Node.js
6 73 (4.49%) REST
6 73 (4.49%) Spring Boot
7 61 (3.75%) CSS
8 60 (3.69%) GraphQL
9 58 (3.57%) HTML
10 54 (3.32%) RESTful
11 53 (3.26%) .NET
12 46 (2.83%) PySpark
13 33 (2.03%) gRPC
14 32 (1.97%) Vue
15 31 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (1.66%) jQuery
16 27 (1.66%) OpenAPI
16 27 (1.66%) Swagger
17 26 (1.60%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 276 (16.98%) Public Cloud
2 260 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
3 129 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 115 (7.08%) Cloud Native
5 102 (6.28%) Algorithms
6 70 (4.31%) PKI
7 57 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.83%) Private Cloud
9 44 (2.71%) Data Structures
10 40 (2.46%) Data Centre
11 34 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (1.78%) Mainframe
12 29 (1.78%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.54%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.48%) Blockchain
15 22 (1.35%) DataPower
16 20 (1.23%) IoT
17 19 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
18 18 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 203 (12.49%) Linux
2 151 (9.29%) Windows
3 72 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 62 (3.82%) Unix
5 38 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 36 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 32 (1.97%) Debian
8 27 (1.66%) 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
1 800 (49.23%) Agile
2 557 (34.28%) DevOps
3 545 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
4 447 (27.51%) Data Engineering
4 447 (27.51%) Mentoring
5 365 (22.46%) Software Engineering
6 363 (22.34%) Platform Engineering
7 322 (19.82%) CI/CD
8 264 (16.25%) Data Science
9 261 (16.06%) ETL
10 242 (14.89%) Data Modelling
11 235 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
12 202 (12.43%) Change Management
13 195 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 193 (11.88%) Project Management
15 184 (11.32%) Analytics
16 180 (11.08%) Microservices
17 176 (10.83%) Roadmaps
18 170 (10.46%) Containerisation
19 163 (10.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 396 (24.37%) Python
2 346 (21.29%) SQL
3 322 (19.82%) Java
4 189 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 92 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 91 (5.60%) Go
7 77 (4.74%) C#
8 63 (3.88%) Bash
9 52 (3.20%) Scala
10 50 (3.08%) PowerShell
11 49 (3.02%) PHP
12 25 (1.54%) Groovy
13 24 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.98%) C++
14 16 (0.98%) R
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
1 137 (8.43%) Degree
2 88 (5.42%) Security Cleared
3 62 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 61 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.08%) 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
9 25 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.48%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.74%) MCSE
12 12 (0.74%) OCP
12 12 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
12 12 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.68%) CCNP
13 11 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.62%) CISSP
15 9 (0.55%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (17.05%) GDPR
2 137 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 114 (7.02%) 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
12 2 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.062%) Basel III
13 1 (0.062%) PMO
13 1 (0.062%) SOC 2
System Software
1 216 (13.29%) Docker
2 98 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (4.74%) Active Directory
4 55 (3.38%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.11%) XenApp
6 14 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.80%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.37%) vSphere
10 4 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.062%) KVM
Systems Management
1 291 (17.91%) Kubernetes
2 248 (15.26%) Terraform
3 118 (7.26%) Ansible
4 55 (3.38%) Puppet
5 46 (2.83%) Progress Chef
6 30 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 23 (1.42%) Grafana
8 19 (1.17%) ZABBIX
9 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.86%) Nagios
10 14 (0.86%) SCCM
11 13 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.74%) VxRail
13 8 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
13 8 (0.49%) WSUS
14 6 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.37%) Istio
14 6 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 877 (53.97%) Google
2 255 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 123 (7.57%) VMware
4 94 (5.78%) Oracle
5 74 (4.55%) IBM
6 68 (4.18%) Cisco
7 50 (3.08%) Dell
8 48 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 41 (2.52%) Alteryx
10 36 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 34 (2.09%) Citrix
12 31 (1.91%) SAP
13 30 (1.85%) Databricks
14 26 (1.60%) SaltStack
15 25 (1.54%) NetApp
16 22 (1.35%) Kofax
16 22 (1.35%) Pega
17 19 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 18 (1.11%) SolarWinds
18 18 (1.11%) Teradata