GCP Engineer Jobs

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 855 714
Rank change year-on-year +176 -141 +111
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 32 40 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.040% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.043% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26 32 226
10th Percentile £49,464 £52,500 £43,143
25th Percentile £79,688 £61,180 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £73,854
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -1.83% -7.68%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,813 £91,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £89,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £69,447 £54,590
% change year-on-year -8.20% +27.22% -22.02%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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 +143 30 £85,000 +17.24% 30
Work from Home +123 26 £85,000 +22.40% 13
London +110 21 £85,000 +1.49% 16
UK excluding London +180 11 £63,750 -8.20% 17
South West +106 3 £48,507 -37.41%
South East +102 3 £67,500 -15.63% 10
East of England - 2 £67,500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £85,000 -
North of England +41 1 £85,000 +22.40% 5
North West -4 1 £85,000 +22.40% 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, GCP Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (78.13%) GCP
2 24 (75.00%) Python
3 23 (71.88%) Google
4 22 (68.75%) Kubernetes
5 20 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (56.25%) Terraform
7 17 (53.13%) Docker
7 17 (53.13%) Agile
8 14 (43.75%) Containerisation
8 14 (43.75%) SaaS
9 13 (40.63%) REST
9 13 (40.63%) Process Improvement
9 13 (40.63%) Flask
9 13 (40.63%) Web Application Development
9 13 (40.63%) FastAPI
9 13 (40.63%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (28.13%) DevOps
11 8 (25.00%) SQL
12 7 (21.88%) Java
13 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
13 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
13 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
14 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 5 (15.63%) Banking
14 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce
14 5 (15.63%) Microservices
15 4 (12.50%) SDLC
15 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
15 4 (12.50%) DNS

GCP Engineer 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 3 (9.38%) Apache Solr
1 3 (9.38%) nginx
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) GCP
2 14 (43.75%) SaaS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
4 3 (9.38%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.25%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) Fivetran
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Google App Engine
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.38%) HTTPS
2 3 (9.38%) IPsec
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) Multicast
3 1 (3.13%) SSH
3 1 (3.13%) Unicast
3 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
1 3 (9.38%) Couchbase
1 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.38%) MySQL
1 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (15.63%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) FastAPI
1 13 (40.63%) Flask
1 13 (40.63%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.25%) Jinja
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
1 3 (9.38%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) IoT
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 14 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 13 (40.63%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (40.63%) Process Improvement
4 13 (40.63%) Web Application Development
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (15.63%) Microservices
7 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) ETL
8 4 (12.50%) SDLC
9 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.38%) Data Mapping
9 3 (9.38%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) PHP
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.25%) PhD
3 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CCSK
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 18 (56.25%) Terraform
3 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) New Relic
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle