GCP Engineer Jobs

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 793 618 864
Rank change year-on-year -175 +246 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 49 281 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.38% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 38 249 193
10th Percentile £66,250 £43,411 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,813 £48,091 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £97,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £54,590 £70,000
% change year-on-year +46.55% -22.02% +7.69%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP Engineer in the UK

GCP Engineer
Top 14 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 26 July 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 -182 42 £80,000 +6.67% 5
Work from Home -63 34 £85,000 +13.33% 2
UK excluding London -123 23 £80,000 +46.55% 3
London -36 21 £80,000 -5.88% 2
North of England -31 10 £80,000 +46.55% 2
North West -17 8 £80,000 +46.55% 2
South West -42 5 £77,500 +17.47%
Scotland -46 3 £53,000 -2.91%
Yorkshire +27 2 £85,000 +55.71%
South East +1 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
Wales +29 1 £85,000 +13.33%
West Midlands -10 1 £85,000 +15.25%
Midlands -29 1 £85,000 +15.25%
Northern Ireland - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 33 (67.35%) GCP
2 26 (53.06%) Python
3 23 (46.94%) Google
4 20 (40.82%) AWS
5 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (32.65%) Kubernetes
7 14 (28.57%) Terraform
7 14 (28.57%) Linux
8 13 (26.53%) Retail
8 13 (26.53%) Data Centre
8 13 (26.53%) Go
8 13 (26.53%) BigQuery
8 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (26.53%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (22.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (22.45%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 11 (22.45%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (22.45%) DevOps
9 11 (22.45%) Blog
9 11 (22.45%) PCI DSS
9 11 (22.45%) Banking
9 11 (22.45%) Law
10 9 (18.37%) Fintech
10 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
11 8 (16.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (16.33%) Disruptive Innovation
11 8 (16.33%) Kafka
11 8 (16.33%) Social Skills

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 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) GCP
2 20 (40.82%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) GitHub
4 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (12.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (8.16%) Azure
5 4 (8.16%) SaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Datadog
6 3 (6.12%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (6.12%) Google Workspace
6 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.08%) Anthos
7 2 (4.08%) Apigee
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) Kong
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.08%) Stackdriver
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.04%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) DNS
2 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.16%) Firewall
4 3 (6.12%) BGP
4 3 (6.12%) VLAN
4 3 (6.12%) VPN
5 2 (4.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.04%) Looker
3 1 (2.04%) Redshift Spectrum
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
General
1 13 (26.53%) Retail
2 11 (22.45%) Banking
2 11 (22.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (22.45%) Law
3 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
5 3 (6.12%) Back Office
5 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) Kafka
2 3 (6.12%) RESTful
3 2 (4.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Data Centre
2 11 (22.45%) Blog
2 11 (22.45%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.12%) Client/Server
6 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (4.08%) PropTech
7 1 (2.04%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (26.53%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (22.45%) DevOps
3 11 (22.45%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (18.37%) Fintech
4 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
5 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.33%) Disruptive Innovation
5 8 (16.33%) Software Engineering
5 8 (16.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.24%) Agile
7 6 (12.24%) ETL
7 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
7 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
7 6 (12.24%) Migration
8 5 (10.20%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Python
2 13 (26.53%) Go
3 7 (14.29%) SQL
4 6 (12.24%) Java
5 5 (10.20%) Bash
6 3 (6.12%) Scala
7 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.45%) PCI DSS
2 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.12%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (28.57%) Terraform
3 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.16%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) Istio
5 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.08%) Grafana
6 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.08%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) F5
2 2 (4.08%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) New Relic
2 2 (4.08%) PagerDuty
2 2 (4.08%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) Brio