Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 53 44
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 2,972 3,006 9,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.93% 5.06% 6.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.69% 11.80% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 2,224 4,359
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,306 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,438 £60,200 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £80,000 £78,142
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.38% +4.19%
75th Percentile £113,563 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,351 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% +0.54% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,425 25,468 63,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.96% 42.84% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 13,587 19,908 37,407
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for GCP in the UK

GCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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 +2 2,757 £85,000 +6.25% 694
London +11 1,802 £102,500 +13.89% 291
Work from Home +11 1,621 £90,000 +13.02% 1,003
UK excluding London -46 1,062 £62,500 -4.36% 432
North of England -54 278 £61,853 -8.37% 91
South East +28 257 £60,000 -20.00% 124
South West -8 223 £63,773 -8.17% 110
North West -68 150 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Scotland -30 118 £69,654 +4.47% 16
Yorkshire -17 107 £65,000 -7.90% 25
Midlands -87 96 £68,404 +14.01% 45
West Midlands -58 64 £69,308 +15.51% 30
Wales +32 46 £27,500 -57.69% 13
East of England -28 32 £61,250 +22.50% 23
East Midlands -73 30 £56,250 -6.25% 15
North East -23 21 £78,000 +20.00% 7
Northern Ireland -7 12 £67,154 -4.07% 14

GCP
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
1 373 (12.55%) Apache Airflow
2 350 (11.78%) Apache
3 78 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.62%) nginx
5 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 20 (0.67%) Confluence
8 16 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
8 16 (0.54%) SharePoint 2013
9 13 (0.44%) Apache Solr
9 13 (0.44%) CMS
10 7 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 6 (0.20%) Luigi
12 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.10%) IIS
13 3 (0.10%) SAS
13 3 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.067%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.067%) Jupyter
15 1 (0.034%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.067%) Trello
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.034%) InDesign
8 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.034%) Revit
Business Applications
1 45 (1.51%) Ripple
2 11 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.27%) Shopify
4 3 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.034%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.034%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.034%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,940 (65.28%) AWS
2 1,391 (46.80%) Azure
3 292 (9.83%) dbt
4 261 (8.78%) Cloud Computing
5 260 (8.75%) Snowflake
6 148 (4.98%) Collibra
7 139 (4.68%) GitHub
7 139 (4.68%) SaaS
8 131 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
9 130 (4.37%) Serverless
10 111 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 93 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 78 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
14 66 (2.22%) PaaS
15 65 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
16 60 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
17 54 (1.82%) Dagster
18 52 (1.75%) Power Platform
19 50 (1.68%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 845 (28.43%) Broadband
2 160 (5.38%) Network Security
3 107 (3.60%) Firewall
4 52 (1.75%) WAN
5 49 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 48 (1.62%) LAN
7 42 (1.41%) DNS
8 39 (1.31%) MQTT
9 31 (1.04%) Internet
10 29 (0.98%) VPN
11 25 (0.84%) DHCP
12 24 (0.81%) Ethernet
13 22 (0.74%) Modbus
14 16 (0.54%) VLAN
15 15 (0.50%) Wireless
16 13 (0.44%) HTTP
16 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.37%) NAS
17 11 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 634 (21.33%) Data Hub
2 355 (11.94%) BigQuery
3 308 (10.36%) Data Lake
4 275 (9.25%) Apache Ignite
5 264 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
6 246 (8.28%) Dremio
7 194 (6.53%) Apache Arrow
8 169 (5.69%) Metadata
9 167 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
10 151 (5.08%) NoSQL
11 130 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
12 119 (4.00%) MySQL
13 109 (3.67%) Big Data
14 69 (2.32%) SQL Server
15 68 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
15 68 (2.29%) Looker
16 61 (2.05%) Redis
17 60 (2.02%) MongoDB
18 54 (1.82%) Tableau
19 52 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 226 (7.60%) Git
2 149 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 83 (2.79%) GitLab
4 59 (1.99%) JIRA
5 45 (1.51%) CircleCI
6 41 (1.38%) PHPUnit
7 37 (1.24%) Maven
8 36 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.18%) Gradle
9 35 (1.18%) Selenium
10 32 (1.08%) Cypress.io
11 26 (0.87%) Mockito
12 22 (0.74%) MSI
12 22 (0.74%) SonarQube
13 21 (0.71%) Artifactory
14 19 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
15 16 (0.54%) Spinnaker
16 12 (0.40%) Terragrunt
17 11 (0.37%) TeamCity
18 10 (0.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,083 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 761 (25.61%) Finance
3 497 (16.72%) Influencing Skills
4 421 (14.17%) Banking
5 372 (12.52%) Front Office
6 334 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
7 200 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 185 (6.22%) Investment Banking
9 131 (4.41%) Law
10 107 (3.60%) Retail
11 106 (3.57%) Public Sector
12 88 (2.96%) Legal
12 88 (2.96%) Marketing
13 70 (2.36%) Financial Institution
14 58 (1.95%) Games
15 54 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
16 52 (1.75%) Retail Banking
17 48 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
18 38 (1.28%) Advertising
19 28 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,174 (39.50%) Senior
2 859 (28.90%) Analyst
3 710 (23.89%) Senior Analyst
4 532 (17.90%) Software Engineer
5 463 (15.58%) Developer
6 381 (12.82%) Audit Analyst
6 381 (12.82%) IT Analyst
7 366 (12.31%) Architect
8 312 (10.50%) Lead
9 213 (7.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 213 (7.17%) Python Engineer
10 179 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
11 166 (5.59%) Data Engineer
12 163 (5.48%) Data Analyst
13 158 (5.32%) Security Analyst
14 133 (4.48%) Lead Software Engineer
15 129 (4.34%) Python Software Engineer
16 127 (4.27%) Python Developer
17 114 (3.84%) Java Engineer
18 113 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (13.06%) React
2 287 (9.66%) Pandas
3 277 (9.32%) gRPC
4 270 (9.08%) NumPy
5 268 (9.02%) Protocol Buffers
6 265 (8.92%) SciPy
7 236 (7.94%) Node.js
8 172 (5.79%) PySpark
9 153 (5.15%) AngularJS
10 141 (4.74%) HTML
10 141 (4.74%) REST
11 138 (4.64%) Redux
12 135 (4.54%) CSS
13 128 (4.31%) Spring
14 119 (4.00%) Kafka
15 114 (3.84%) RESTful
16 86 (2.89%) Spring Boot
17 83 (2.79%) .NET
18 74 (2.49%) Vue
19 61 (2.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 320 (10.77%) Fixed Income
2 297 (9.99%) Cloud Native
3 216 (7.27%) Hedge funds
4 209 (7.03%) Equities
5 180 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 179 (6.02%) Derivative
7 165 (5.55%) Public Cloud
8 155 (5.22%) Cyber Threat
9 143 (4.81%) Over-the-Top Content
10 134 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
10 134 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 126 (4.24%) Social Media
12 113 (3.80%) Cyberattack
13 94 (3.16%) Product Ownership
14 83 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
15 62 (2.09%) Management Information System
16 60 (2.02%) IoT
17 59 (1.99%) Onboarding
18 57 (1.92%) Blockchain
19 49 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 205 (6.90%) Linux
2 133 (4.48%) Windows
3 64 (2.15%) Unix
4 60 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.04%) Android
6 30 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.74%) CentOS
8 21 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.34%) Debian
9 10 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.34%) SUSE
9 10 (0.34%) VMS
10 9 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.27%) Solaris
12 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.13%) AIX
13 4 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.034%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (35.73%) Agile
2 964 (32.44%) Problem-Solving
3 909 (30.59%) Analytics
4 866 (29.14%) Software Engineering
5 729 (24.53%) Customer Experience
6 713 (23.99%) Data Governance
7 692 (23.28%) Data Management
8 665 (22.38%) Data Transformation
9 639 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 610 (20.52%) DevOps
11 475 (15.98%) CI/CD
12 451 (15.17%) Asset Management
13 419 (14.10%) Data Analysis
14 382 (12.85%) IT Audit
15 379 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
16 377 (12.69%) Mentoring
17 361 (12.15%) Microservices
18 317 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
19 305 (10.26%) Fintech
20 268 (9.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (35.06%) Python
2 670 (22.54%) Java
3 597 (20.09%) JavaScript
4 478 (16.08%) SQL
5 420 (14.13%) TypeScript
6 152 (5.11%) Go
7 111 (3.73%) Scala
8 108 (3.63%) Bash
9 98 (3.30%) Kotlin
10 92 (3.10%) PHP
11 89 (2.99%) C#
12 85 (2.86%) PowerShell
13 74 (2.49%) C++
14 69 (2.32%) Rust
15 36 (1.21%) C
15 36 (1.21%) R
16 30 (1.01%) Solidity
17 24 (0.81%) Ruby
18 16 (0.54%) Perl
19 14 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 496 (16.69%) CISA
2 271 (9.12%) Degree
3 214 (7.20%) Security Cleared
4 156 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 121 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 68 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 64 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 55 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 48 (1.62%) DBS Check
11 45 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 32 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (1.08%) CCNA
13 32 (1.08%) CISSP
14 22 (0.74%) CCNP
15 21 (0.71%) CRISC
16 20 (0.67%) MCITP
17 18 (0.61%) CEH
17 18 (0.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (16.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 199 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 140 (4.71%) GDPR
4 136 (4.58%) NIST
5 133 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 122 (4.10%) HIPAA
7 88 (2.96%) QA
8 39 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 28 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.74%) SLA
11 10 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.30%) COBIT
13 3 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.10%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.10%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.10%) NCSC
13 3 (0.10%) SEPA
13 3 (0.10%) TARGET2
14 2 (0.067%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 593 (19.95%) Docker
2 88 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 66 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.84%) XenDesktop
7 24 (0.81%) XenApp
8 16 (0.54%) vSphere
9 11 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.17%) Firmware
10 5 (0.17%) HDFS
10 5 (0.17%) KVM
10 5 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.067%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.034%) Gluster
12 1 (0.034%) Lustre
12 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 580 (19.52%) Kubernetes
2 423 (14.23%) Terraform
3 182 (6.12%) Ansible
4 58 (1.95%) Puppet
5 49 (1.65%) Grafana
6 41 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 31 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 27 (0.91%) Argo
9 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.81%) SCCM
11 23 (0.77%) Istio
12 18 (0.61%) Nagios
13 12 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.24%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.20%) CASB
16 6 (0.20%) Nmap
17 4 (0.13%) Nessus
18 3 (0.10%) CSIRT
18 3 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,336 (44.95%) Google
2 252 (8.48%) Microsoft
3 188 (6.33%) Oracle
4 151 (5.08%) Informatica
5 147 (4.95%) Cloudera
6 119 (4.00%) VMware
7 93 (3.13%) Databricks
8 63 (2.12%) Bloomberg
9 61 (2.05%) Cisco
10 60 (2.02%) Reuters
11 53 (1.78%) Splunk
12 35 (1.18%) ServiceNow
13 34 (1.14%) Salesforce
13 34 (1.14%) SAP
14 32 (1.08%) Red Hat
15 29 (0.98%) Citrix
15 29 (0.98%) HP
16 24 (0.81%) Dell
17 22 (0.74%) IBM
18 21 (0.71%) Symantec