Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect salary in the UK is £125,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 885 1045
Rank change year-on-year +8 +160 -254
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Architect 12 93 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.088% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.096% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 53 102
10th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 -
25th Percentile - £97,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured GCP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP Architect.

Salary trend for GCP Architect in the UK

GCP Architect
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
England +39 12 £125,000 +13.64% 2
London +72 6 £125,000 +13.64% 1
UK excluding London +4 6 £100,000 - 1
Yorkshire +86 3 - -
North of England +40 3 - - 1
South West - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £100,000 -
Midlands - 1 £100,000 -

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, GCP Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) GCP
2 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (58.33%) Java
4 6 (50.00%) Google
4 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (50.00%) Microservices
5 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
5 5 (41.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 5 (41.67%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (41.67%) RESTful
5 5 (41.67%) Web Services
5 5 (41.67%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) Banking
5 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (33.33%) Migration
7 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (25.00%) Docker
8 2 (16.67%) DevOps
8 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (16.67%) Analytics
8 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
8 2 (16.67%) Terraform
8 2 (16.67%) Looker

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Google App Engine
3 1 (8.33%) Anthos
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (16.67%) Looker
2 2 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Corporate Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
1 5 (41.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) DataOps
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Google