Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 53 46 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing GCP 2,672 7,855 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.01% 6.27% 5.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.74% 14.60% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,030 4,325 4,893
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,200 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,632 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,064 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,450 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% +8.33% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,754 53,785 60,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.64% 42.91% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,950 35,940 42,584
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,664 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 -8 2,330 £80,000 - 815
Work from Home +14 1,464 £77,500 - 525
UK excluding London -11 1,267 £69,447 +6.84% 458
London -5 1,225 £90,000 +2.86% 471
North of England -5 452 £69,500 +0.08% 124
South West 0 262 £70,576 +12.92% 65
North West -3 241 £65,000 - 79
Yorkshire -7 200 £70,576 +1.62% 37
Scotland -12 179 £70,576 +15.36% 42
Midlands -20 167 £60,000 -11.11% 53
South East -27 125 £73,500 +13.08% 129
West Midlands -36 89 £64,500 -7.86% 32
East Midlands +11 81 £55,000 -16.98% 21
Wales -3 43 £65,000 +9.86% 20
Northern Ireland -5 31 £70,000 +9.80% 10
East of England -4 15 £65,000 - 23
North East +15 11 £65,000 -13.33% 9

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
1 190 (7.11%) Apache
2 156 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 156 (5.84%) Apache Spark
3 45 (1.68%) Confluence
4 30 (1.12%) WebSphere
5 26 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 23 (0.86%) MS Exchange
7 22 (0.82%) Captiva
7 22 (0.82%) FileNet
8 20 (0.75%) SAS
9 15 (0.56%) nginx
10 14 (0.52%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.41%) IIS
12 9 (0.34%) Luigi
13 6 (0.22%) Mendix
14 5 (0.19%) CMS
15 4 (0.15%) WordPress
16 2 (0.075%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.075%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.075%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.26%) PTC Creo
3 7 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
4 6 (0.22%) Trello
5 3 (0.11%) SPSS
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.52%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.26%) Magento
3 6 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.11%) Shopify
5 2 (0.075%) FastStats
5 2 (0.075%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.037%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.037%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.037%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.037%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.037%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 1,896 (70.96%) AWS
2 1,595 (59.69%) Azure
3 282 (10.55%) SaaS
4 275 (10.29%) GitHub
5 237 (8.87%) PaaS
5 237 (8.87%) Serverless
6 190 (7.11%) Power Platform
7 187 (7.00%) IaaS
8 163 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
9 156 (5.84%) OpenShift
10 116 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
11 109 (4.08%) dbt
12 108 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 88 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
14 82 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
15 75 (2.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 58 (2.17%) Snowflake
17 53 (1.98%) Vertex AI
18 48 (1.80%) Amazon S3
18 48 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.67%) Firewall
2 82 (3.07%) DNS
3 74 (2.77%) TCP/IP
4 48 (1.80%) VPN
5 36 (1.35%) WAN
6 35 (1.31%) DHCP
7 28 (1.05%) Network Security
8 27 (1.01%) LAN
9 26 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.90%) HTTP
11 20 (0.75%) VLAN
12 19 (0.71%) SAN
13 18 (0.67%) SSL
14 16 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
15 15 (0.56%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.52%) AMQP
17 9 (0.34%) BGP
17 9 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
17 9 (0.34%) VoIP
18 8 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (9.88%) NoSQL
2 253 (9.47%) BigQuery
3 248 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (8.98%) Data Lake
5 185 (6.92%) Power BI
6 184 (6.89%) Big Data
7 179 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
8 124 (4.64%) Tableau
9 121 (4.53%) MySQL
10 105 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
11 103 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
12 98 (3.67%) Relational Database
13 90 (3.37%) Looker
14 89 (3.33%) Hadoop
15 88 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
16 79 (2.96%) SQL Server
17 70 (2.62%) MongoDB
18 67 (2.51%) Redis
19 58 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
19 58 (2.17%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 373 (13.96%) Jenkins
2 151 (5.65%) Git
3 117 (4.38%) JIRA
4 91 (3.41%) GitLab
5 63 (2.36%) Cypress.io
6 54 (2.02%) Maven
6 54 (2.02%) Spinnaker
7 44 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 42 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
9 30 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.12%) webpack
10 28 (1.05%) Selenium
11 22 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 21 (0.79%) JUnit
13 20 (0.75%) Mocha
14 18 (0.67%) Gradle
15 16 (0.60%) ERwin
16 11 (0.41%) Artifactory
17 10 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,118 (41.84%) Finance
2 701 (26.24%) Banking
3 435 (16.28%) Social Skills
4 293 (10.97%) Front Office
5 238 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 220 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
7 183 (6.85%) Retail
8 129 (4.83%) Telecoms
9 120 (4.49%) Investment Banking
10 87 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 85 (3.18%) Marketing
12 48 (1.80%) Law
13 41 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.20%) Manufacturing
17 24 (0.90%) Games
18 20 (0.75%) Legal
19 17 (0.64%) Automotive
19 17 (0.64%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 568 (21.26%) Senior
2 535 (20.02%) Software Engineer
3 525 (19.65%) Developer
4 480 (17.96%) Architect
5 305 (11.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 266 (9.96%) Lead
7 237 (8.87%) Data Engineer
7 237 (8.87%) Solutions Architect
8 232 (8.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 198 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
10 168 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 167 (6.25%) Python Engineer
12 155 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 134 (5.01%) GCP Engineer
14 131 (4.90%) Python Developer
15 127 (4.75%) Full Stack Developer
16 120 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
17 114 (4.27%) .NET Developer
18 104 (3.89%) Full Stack Engineer
19 103 (3.85%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (15.53%) React
2 271 (10.14%) .NET
3 268 (10.03%) Node.js
4 231 (8.65%) Kafka
5 175 (6.55%) AngularJS
6 170 (6.36%) Redux
7 148 (5.54%) REST
8 117 (4.38%) gRPC
9 111 (4.15%) OpenID
10 110 (4.12%) Vue
11 108 (4.04%) ASP.NET
12 106 (3.97%) Web Services
13 97 (3.63%) HTML
14 89 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
15 85 (3.18%) Pandas
16 82 (3.07%) GraphQL
17 80 (2.99%) Protocol Buffers
18 79 (2.96%) CSS
19 72 (2.69%) .NET Core
20 71 (2.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 372 (13.92%) Public Cloud
2 213 (7.97%) Cloud Native
3 191 (7.15%) Fixed Income
4 160 (5.99%) Product Ownership
5 133 (4.98%) Derivative
6 117 (4.38%) Blockchain
7 114 (4.27%) Equities
8 110 (4.12%) Hedge funds
9 106 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
10 99 (3.71%) Mainframe
11 91 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 80 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 71 (2.66%) Private Cloud
14 61 (2.28%) Algorithms
15 58 (2.17%) Data Centre
16 55 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
17 54 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
18 50 (1.87%) Data Structures
19 42 (1.57%) Virtual Team
20 41 (1.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 417 (15.61%) Linux
2 189 (7.07%) Unix
3 129 (4.83%) Windows
4 70 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.12%) Android
6 25 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 16 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.34%) CentOS
11 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (0.19%) Debian
13 1 (0.037%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.037%) Solaris
13 1 (0.037%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,461 (54.68%) Agile
2 966 (36.15%) DevOps
3 810 (30.31%) Software Engineering
4 786 (29.42%) CI/CD
5 525 (19.65%) Analytics
6 473 (17.70%) Microservices
7 420 (15.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 413 (15.46%) Machine Learning
9 404 (15.12%) Mentoring
10 363 (13.59%) Artificial Intelligence
11 355 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
12 340 (12.72%) Containerisation
13 338 (12.65%) Roadmaps
14 319 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
15 293 (10.97%) Full Stack Development
16 274 (10.25%) Asset Management
17 270 (10.10%) Computer Science
18 245 (9.17%) Enterprise Architecture
19 239 (8.94%) Cloud Security
20 237 (8.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (42.18%) Python
2 646 (24.18%) Java
3 563 (21.07%) SQL
4 453 (16.95%) JavaScript
5 412 (15.42%) TypeScript
6 289 (10.82%) C#
7 238 (8.91%) Bash
8 217 (8.12%) Go
9 155 (5.80%) PowerShell
10 81 (3.03%) Scala
11 61 (2.28%) Kotlin
12 55 (2.06%) C++
13 53 (1.98%) Groovy
14 51 (1.91%) Ruby
15 43 (1.61%) R
16 38 (1.42%) PHP
17 36 (1.35%) Rust
18 27 (1.01%) Perl
19 21 (0.79%) T-SQL
20 20 (0.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 340 (12.72%) Degree
2 297 (11.12%) Security Cleared
3 209 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 174 (6.51%) SC Cleared
5 107 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 99 (3.71%) AWS Certification
7 90 (3.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 44 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 38 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
12 26 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (0.94%) OCP
13 25 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
14 24 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 23 (0.86%) CISSP
16 17 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.56%) CCSP
18 14 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.70%) QA
2 99 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.42%) GDPR
4 31 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.90%) NIST
7 18 (0.67%) NCSC
8 16 (0.60%) WCAG
9 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.30%) SLA
11 5 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.11%) CRD IV
13 2 (0.075%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.037%) Basel III
14 1 (0.037%) COBIT
14 1 (0.037%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.037%) GLBA
14 1 (0.037%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.037%) PMO
System Software
1 517 (19.35%) Docker
2 112 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 57 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.41%) Firmware
8 9 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (0.19%) XenApp
10 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 3 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 3 (0.11%) LXC
12 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.075%) HDFS
14 1 (0.037%) NFS
14 1 (0.037%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 709 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 613 (22.94%) Terraform
3 189 (7.07%) Ansible
4 56 (2.10%) Puppet
5 42 (1.57%) Istio
6 40 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 39 (1.46%) Rancher
8 37 (1.38%) Prometheus
9 36 (1.35%) Argo
10 27 (1.01%) Grafana
11 26 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 25 (0.94%) SCCM
13 16 (0.60%) Nagios
14 12 (0.45%) WSUS
15 9 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.30%) Kibana
16 8 (0.30%) SCOM
16 8 (0.30%) vCenter Server
17 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 883 (33.05%) Google
2 274 (10.25%) Microsoft
3 135 (5.05%) Oracle
4 88 (3.29%) SAP
5 75 (2.81%) Databricks
6 74 (2.77%) VMware
7 64 (2.40%) IBM
8 52 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.46%) Cisco
10 38 (1.42%) Splunk
11 29 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 29 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 25 (0.94%) Informatica
13 24 (0.90%) Finsemble
14 22 (0.82%) Kofax
14 22 (0.82%) Pega
15 20 (0.75%) New Relic
16 19 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 18 (0.67%) Dell
17 18 (0.67%) Talend