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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 88 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 -57 +14
Permanent jobs citing GCP 1,524 3,011 7,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.92% 3.06% 7.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.11% 8.52% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 1,976 3,600
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £102,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £136,250 £123,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,582 £64,343
% change year-on-year +5.13% +3.48% +2.95%

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 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 18 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 30 April 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 -7 1,368 £85,000 +6.25% 1,358
London -2 775 £95,000 - 834
Work from Home +16 710 £85,253 +10.00% 876
UK excluding London -40 668 £70,000 +5.13% 594
North of England -45 243 £74,870 +7.81% 226
South East +59 145 £60,000 - 103
North West -61 125 £78,810 +13.48% 153
Yorkshire +5 106 £73,685 +8.36% 64
Scotland +28 102 £79,190 +13.13% 42
South West -2 92 £71,991 +2.84% 64
Midlands -51 62 £67,500 +3.85% 86
West Midlands -24 49 £67,629 -9.83% 59
East Midlands -13 13 £65,000 +13.04% 24
North East +13 12 £62,500 -16.67% 9
East of England +1 12 £48,750 -11.36% 36
Northern Ireland +33 10 £90,000 -21.74% 16
Wales 0 6 £70,000 +12.00% 23
Isle of Man +8 1 £34,500 -25.81% 2

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
1 144 (9.45%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (5.45%) Apache
3 48 (3.15%) Confluence
4 47 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.92%) CMS
7 12 (0.79%) nginx
8 11 (0.72%) Umbraco
9 9 (0.59%) SAS
10 8 (0.52%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.39%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.33%) IIS
14 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.26%) Luigi
14 4 (0.26%) SharePoint
14 4 (0.26%) WordPress
15 2 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.66%) Maya
3 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.26%) Trello
6 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.066%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.52%) SAP IBP
3 3 (0.20%) HFM
3 3 (0.20%) Shopify
3 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.13%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.066%) Finacle
5 1 (0.066%) Magento
5 1 (0.066%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,157 (75.92%) AWS
2 1,032 (67.72%) Azure
3 159 (10.43%) dbt
4 118 (7.74%) Snowflake
5 113 (7.41%) SaaS
6 83 (5.45%) GitHub
6 83 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 75 (4.92%) Serverless
8 60 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
9 58 (3.81%) Dagster
10 56 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
10 56 (3.67%) PaaS
11 48 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
12 47 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 33 (2.17%) IaaS
15 33 (2.17%) Pulumi
16 31 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 107 (7.02%) Firewall
2 61 (4.00%) Network Security
3 58 (3.81%) DNS
4 42 (2.76%) WAN
5 38 (2.49%) LAN
6 34 (2.23%) TCP/IP
7 32 (2.10%) SD-WAN
8 31 (2.03%) VPN
9 26 (1.71%) DHCP
9 26 (1.71%) Ethernet
10 25 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
11 13 (0.85%) BGP
12 11 (0.72%) SAN
13 10 (0.66%) MPLS
13 10 (0.66%) OSPF
14 9 (0.59%) HTTP
14 9 (0.59%) NAS
15 8 (0.52%) Internet
15 8 (0.52%) Multicast
16 7 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (10.96%) NoSQL
2 160 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (8.73%) MySQL
4 126 (8.27%) Amazon Athena
5 125 (8.20%) Data Lake
6 124 (8.14%) BigQuery
7 114 (7.48%) Apache Iceberg
7 114 (7.48%) Dremio
8 101 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
9 91 (5.97%) Apache Arrow
10 84 (5.51%) MongoDB
11 77 (5.05%) Power BI
12 64 (4.20%) Apache Ignite
13 62 (4.07%) Metadata
14 56 (3.67%) Big Data
15 45 (2.95%) Relational Database
15 45 (2.95%) Tableau
16 43 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 43 (2.82%) SQL Server
17 41 (2.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 212 (13.91%) Git
2 122 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 82 (5.38%) JIRA
4 45 (2.95%) GitLab
5 36 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 29 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.77%) Maven
8 25 (1.64%) CircleCI
9 23 (1.51%) JUnit
9 23 (1.51%) webpack
10 21 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.05%) Selenium
12 13 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.79%) Gradle
13 12 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
13 12 (0.79%) Postman
14 11 (0.72%) JMeter
15 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 678 (44.49%) Finance
2 434 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 402 (26.38%) Banking
4 216 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
5 172 (11.29%) Front Office
6 105 (6.89%) Law
7 90 (5.91%) Games
8 83 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 74 (4.86%) Retail
10 62 (4.07%) Public Sector
11 49 (3.22%) Telecoms
12 46 (3.02%) Marketing
13 36 (2.36%) Legal
14 35 (2.30%) Investment Banking
15 32 (2.10%) Financial Institution
16 31 (2.03%) Manufacturing
16 31 (2.03%) Retail Banking
17 26 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
18 21 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 438 (28.74%) Senior
2 336 (22.05%) Software Engineer
3 269 (17.65%) Architect
4 250 (16.40%) Developer
5 218 (14.30%) Lead
6 124 (8.14%) Solutions Architect
7 108 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
7 108 (7.09%) Data Engineer
8 106 (6.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 104 (6.82%) Python Engineer
10 91 (5.97%) AWS Software Engineer
10 91 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 73 (4.79%) Senior Developer
13 63 (4.13%) Python Developer
14 62 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 61 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
16 60 (3.94%) AWS Developer
16 60 (3.94%) Data Architect
17 55 (3.61%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (17.13%) React
2 221 (14.50%) Node.js
3 136 (8.92%) Pandas
4 126 (8.27%) AngularJS
5 123 (8.07%) NumPy
6 117 (7.68%) CSS
7 114 (7.48%) SciPy
8 113 (7.41%) Spring Boot
9 107 (7.02%) HTML
10 105 (6.89%) Spring
11 100 (6.56%) Vue
12 98 (6.43%) Kafka
13 83 (5.45%) Redux
13 83 (5.45%) RESTful
14 79 (5.18%) PySpark
14 79 (5.18%) REST
15 62 (4.07%) gRPC
16 61 (4.00%) Protocol Buffers
17 58 (3.81%) LAMP
17 58 (3.81%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 159 (10.43%) Fixed Income
2 158 (10.37%) Public Cloud
3 136 (8.92%) Cloud Native
4 99 (6.50%) Product Ownership
5 92 (6.04%) Management Information System
6 87 (5.71%) Equities
7 69 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (4.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 66 (4.33%) Algorithms
9 64 (4.20%) Mobile App
10 51 (3.35%) Hedge funds
11 47 (3.08%) Data Centre
11 47 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
12 43 (2.82%) Security Posture
13 35 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (2.23%) Derivative
15 33 (2.17%) Data Structures
16 31 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 22 (1.44%) Private Cloud
18 20 (1.31%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 159 (10.43%) Linux
2 96 (6.30%) Windows
3 38 (2.49%) Unix
4 35 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.52%) VMS
6 7 (0.46%) CentOS
7 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.20%) Android
8 3 (0.20%) Rocky
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.20%) zOS
9 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.066%) SUSE
10 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (41.21%) Agile
2 516 (33.86%) CI/CD
3 505 (33.14%) Software Engineering
4 464 (30.45%) DevOps
5 311 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 301 (19.75%) Analytics
7 257 (16.86%) Microservices
8 244 (16.01%) Containerisation
9 235 (15.42%) Asset Management
10 227 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 204 (13.39%) Mentoring
12 185 (12.14%) Artificial Intelligence
13 177 (11.61%) Machine Learning
14 173 (11.35%) Fintech
15 172 (11.29%) Data Engineering
16 164 (10.76%) Roadmaps
17 155 (10.17%) Test Automation
18 151 (9.91%) Computer Science
19 147 (9.65%) Migration
20 144 (9.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 699 (45.87%) Python
2 390 (25.59%) JavaScript
3 364 (23.88%) Java
4 358 (23.49%) SQL
5 227 (14.90%) TypeScript
6 98 (6.43%) Bash
7 81 (5.31%) Go
8 80 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 77 (5.05%) PHP
10 64 (4.20%) C#
11 48 (3.15%) Scala
12 22 (1.44%) R
13 16 (1.05%) Bicep
14 15 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.79%) C++
16 10 (0.66%) Ruby
17 8 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.52%) Groovy
17 8 (0.52%) JCL
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 240 (15.75%) Degree
2 96 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (6.23%) Security Cleared
4 83 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 78 (5.12%) SC Cleared
6 76 (4.99%) Azure Certification
7 62 (4.07%) Master's Degree
8 39 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.71%) CISSP
12 18 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 18 (1.18%) CCNP
13 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
14 16 (1.05%) CCSP
14 16 (1.05%) PhD
15 14 (0.92%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.79%) CCNA
17 11 (0.72%) A+ Certification
17 11 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.71%) QA
2 82 (5.38%) GDPR
3 59 (3.87%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.61%) NIST
5 52 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 34 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.92%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.59%) Basel III
10 9 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.52%) IFRS
11 8 (0.52%) IFRS 9
11 8 (0.52%) SLA
12 7 (0.46%) Basel II
12 7 (0.46%) Dodd-Frank
13 5 (0.33%) NCSC
14 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 387 (25.39%) Docker
2 49 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 34 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 30 (1.97%) VMware NSX
6 16 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.79%) vSphere
8 8 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.39%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.39%) HDFS
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Flume
10 5 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.26%) XenApp
11 4 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.13%) SRDF
13 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 464 (30.45%) Kubernetes
2 346 (22.70%) Terraform
3 140 (9.19%) Ansible
4 60 (3.94%) Grafana
5 53 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.62%) Puppet
7 37 (2.43%) Istio
8 36 (2.36%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.84%) FortiGate
10 24 (1.57%) Argo
11 23 (1.51%) Nagios
12 14 (0.92%) CASB
13 13 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
15 11 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
16 10 (0.66%) Podman
17 8 (0.52%) SCCM
18 6 (0.39%) Consul
18 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
18 6 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 483 (31.69%) Google
2 213 (13.98%) Microsoft
3 97 (6.36%) VMware
4 95 (6.23%) Databricks
5 60 (3.94%) Oracle
6 47 (3.08%) Cisco
7 39 (2.56%) SAP
8 34 (2.23%) F5
9 29 (1.90%) CheckPoint
10 28 (1.84%) Splunk
11 25 (1.64%) Blue Coat
12 16 (1.05%) Twitter
13 15 (0.98%) SolarWinds
14 14 (0.92%) IBM
14 14 (0.92%) Informatica
15 13 (0.85%) Citrix
15 13 (0.85%) Symantec
16 12 (0.79%) Hitachi
17 11 (0.72%) New Relic
17 11 (0.72%) Teradata