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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 876 699
Rank change year-on-year +196 -177 +132
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 31 34 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.033% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.035% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 26 27 232
10th Percentile £49,464 £52,500 £43,411
25th Percentile £79,688 £61,180 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £73,474 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.23% +33.59% -21.43%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

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 28 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 28 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 +155 30 £85,000 +13.33% 203
Work from Home +125 25 £85,000 +21.91% 120
London +126 21 £85,000 +7.94% 42
UK excluding London +188 10 £63,750 -13.23% 188
South West +116 3 £48,507 -37.41% 21
South East +92 3 £67,500 -15.63% 58
East of England - 2 £67,500 - 24
North of England +33 1 £85,000 +22.40% 46
North West -7 1 £85,000 +22.40% 22
Northern Ireland - 1 £85,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 24 (77.42%) GCP
2 23 (74.19%) Python
3 22 (70.97%) Google
3 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
4 20 (64.52%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (58.06%) Terraform
6 17 (54.84%) Docker
6 17 (54.84%) Agile
7 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
7 14 (45.16%) SaaS
8 13 (41.94%) REST
8 13 (41.94%) Process Improvement
8 13 (41.94%) Flask
8 13 (41.94%) Web Application Development
8 13 (41.94%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (41.94%) FastAPI
9 9 (29.03%) DevOps
10 8 (25.81%) SQL
11 7 (22.58%) Java
12 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
12 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
12 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
13 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (16.13%) Banking
13 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
13 5 (16.13%) Microservices
14 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
14 4 (12.90%) DNS
14 4 (12.90%) ETL

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 (9.68%) Apache Solr
1 3 (9.68%) nginx
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) GCP
2 14 (45.16%) SaaS
3 4 (12.90%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.45%) dbt
4 2 (6.45%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.68%) HTTPS
2 3 (9.68%) IPsec
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) Multicast
3 1 (3.23%) SSH
3 1 (3.23%) Unicast
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
1 3 (9.68%) Couchbase
1 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.68%) MySQL
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (16.13%) Banking
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) FastAPI
1 13 (41.94%) Flask
1 13 (41.94%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) Kafka
2 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.45%) Jinja
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
1 3 (9.68%) Reference Data
2 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (54.84%) Agile
3 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
4 13 (41.94%) Architectural Patterns
4 13 (41.94%) Process Improvement
4 13 (41.94%) Web Application Development
5 9 (29.03%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
6 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.13%) Microservices
7 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) ETL
8 4 (12.90%) SDLC
9 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.68%) Data Mapping
9 3 (9.68%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) PHP
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.45%) PhD
3 1 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) CCSK
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
2 18 (58.06%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Grafana
4 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) New Relic
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle