Cloud Spanner Job Trends

Google Cloud Spanner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cloud Spanner skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 753 666 -
Rank change year-on-year -87 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Spanner 5 14 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.029% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.058% 0.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile - £52,500 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,148 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,662 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 -
90th Percentile £86,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £88,662 -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Cloud Spanner falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,566 7,556 17,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.78% 15.73% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,698 4,883 12,107
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Cloud Spanner
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Spanner relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Spanner job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Spanner
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Spanner.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Spanner within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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
England -64 5 £80,000 -9.77% 2
London - 5 £80,000 - 2
Work from Home -14 2 £85,000 -33.43%

Cloud Spanner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Run
3 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google