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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 91 32
Rank change year-on-year +19 -59 +12
Permanent jobs citing GCP 2,006 3,026 6,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.59% 2.92% 7.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.03% 8.41% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 962 1,928 3,352
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,750 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £64,656
% change year-on-year +7.69% +0.53% +3.45%

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 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the UK

GCP
Top 19 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 31 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 +11 1,809 £82,500 +3.13% 1,828
Work from Home +33 1,170 £85,253 +9.12% 1,192
UK excluding London +6 1,024 £70,000 +7.69% 797
London +1 806 £95,500 +0.53% 1,190
North of England -4 438 £75,000 +15.27% 281
North West +15 330 £78,810 +16.76% 186
South East +39 179 £65,000 +5.26% 116
Scotland +43 147 £74,870 +9.30% 80
Midlands -2 112 £65,000 - 106
Yorkshire -9 96 £75,000 +15.27% 76
South West +1 88 £70,996 +7.79% 81
West Midlands +6 65 £65,000 -10.96% 77
East of England +35 52 £50,000 -9.09% 48
East Midlands +21 47 £65,000 +18.18% 28
North East +9 12 £58,250 -22.33% 20
Northern Ireland +29 6 - - 31
Wales -2 5 £70,000 +12.00% 22
Isle of Man +7 1 £34,500 -25.81%
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 42

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
1 201 (10.02%) Confluence
2 123 (6.13%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 48 (2.39%) Apache
5 14 (0.70%) CMS
6 13 (0.65%) nginx
7 11 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.30%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.25%) SAS
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 2 (0.100%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.100%) CICS
14 2 (0.100%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.50%) Maya
2 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.050%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.40%) SAP IBP
3 4 (0.20%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Magento
4 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.100%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.050%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.050%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.050%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,690 (84.25%) AWS
2 1,576 (78.56%) Azure
3 294 (14.66%) Serverless
4 235 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
5 137 (6.83%) dbt
6 100 (4.99%) Snowflake
7 91 (4.54%) SaaS
8 86 (4.29%) Power Platform
9 70 (3.49%) GitHub
10 57 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
11 52 (2.59%) PaaS
12 45 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
13 40 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 39 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
15 34 (1.69%) OpenShift
16 33 (1.65%) IaaS
17 32 (1.60%) Pulumi
18 27 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 221 (11.02%) Broadband
2 110 (5.48%) Firewall
3 60 (2.99%) Network Security
4 53 (2.64%) DNS
5 42 (2.09%) WAN
6 41 (2.04%) TCP/IP
7 40 (1.99%) LAN
8 38 (1.89%) VPN
9 32 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 30 (1.50%) Ethernet
11 28 (1.40%) Cisco ISE
12 23 (1.15%) BGP
13 22 (1.10%) DHCP
14 21 (1.05%) OSPF
15 13 (0.65%) MPLS
15 13 (0.65%) SAN
15 13 (0.65%) VLAN
16 10 (0.50%) NAS
17 9 (0.45%) HTTP
18 7 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 178 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
3 173 (8.62%) NoSQL
4 119 (5.93%) BigQuery
4 119 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
5 112 (5.58%) MySQL
6 111 (5.53%) Data Lake
7 107 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
8 98 (4.89%) Apache Iceberg
9 96 (4.79%) Dremio
10 90 (4.49%) MongoDB
11 85 (4.24%) Apache Arrow
12 80 (3.99%) Power BI
13 67 (3.34%) Metadata
14 55 (2.74%) Big Data
15 50 (2.49%) Relational Database
16 45 (2.24%) Hadoop
17 44 (2.19%) Tableau
18 40 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
19 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 239 (11.91%) JIRA
2 203 (10.12%) GitLab
3 185 (9.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 183 (9.12%) SonarQube
5 181 (9.02%) Git
6 178 (8.87%) Maven
7 171 (8.52%) Selenium
8 168 (8.37%) Cucumber
9 167 (8.33%) Bitbucket
10 101 (5.03%) Jenkins
11 22 (1.10%) CircleCI
12 19 (0.95%) JUnit
13 16 (0.80%) Cypress.io
14 15 (0.75%) webpack
15 12 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
16 11 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
16 11 (0.55%) Postman
16 11 (0.55%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.50%) Gradle
17 10 (0.50%) JMeter
General
1 789 (39.33%) Finance
2 497 (24.78%) Banking
3 461 (22.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 414 (20.64%) Analytical Skills
5 412 (20.54%) Social Skills
6 172 (8.57%) Law
7 144 (7.18%) Front Office
8 75 (3.74%) Marketing
9 69 (3.44%) Games
10 67 (3.34%) Public Sector
11 63 (3.14%) Retail
12 52 (2.59%) Legal
12 52 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.45%) Retail Banking
15 28 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.70%) Electronics
19 13 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 796 (39.68%) Senior
2 643 (32.05%) Software Engineer
3 269 (13.41%) Developer
4 265 (13.21%) Architect
5 242 (12.06%) Lead
5 242 (12.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 224 (11.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 119 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (5.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 105 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
10 100 (4.99%) Data Engineer
11 90 (4.49%) Python Engineer
12 88 (4.39%) AWS Software Engineer
13 78 (3.89%) AWS Developer
14 77 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
15 72 (3.59%) Python Developer
15 72 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 61 (3.04%) Python Software Engineer
17 59 (2.94%) Java Engineer
18 57 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (20.94%) React
2 396 (19.74%) Node.js
3 270 (13.46%) Kafka
4 254 (12.66%) Spring Boot
5 250 (12.46%) Spring
6 241 (12.01%) CSS
7 230 (11.47%) HTML
8 225 (11.22%) .NET
9 220 (10.97%) Redux
10 176 (8.77%) Hibernate
11 163 (8.13%) JPA
12 142 (7.08%) AngularJS
13 125 (6.23%) Vue
14 111 (5.53%) Pandas
15 102 (5.08%) NumPy
16 96 (4.79%) SciPy
17 88 (4.39%) RESTful
18 77 (3.84%) REST
19 49 (2.44%) PySpark
20 46 (2.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 403 (20.09%) Self-Motivation
2 238 (11.86%) Product Ownership
3 187 (9.32%) Linux Command Line
4 183 (9.12%) Enterprise Software
5 178 (8.87%) Cyberattack
6 163 (8.13%) Cloud Native
7 153 (7.63%) Public Cloud
8 137 (6.83%) Fixed Income
9 92 (4.59%) Management Information System
10 90 (4.49%) Equities
11 80 (3.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 70 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
13 58 (2.89%) Algorithms
14 56 (2.79%) Mobile App
15 46 (2.29%) Data Centre
16 45 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
17 37 (1.84%) Security Posture
18 32 (1.60%) Data Structures
19 30 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
19 30 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 310 (15.45%) Linux
2 68 (3.39%) Windows
3 33 (1.65%) Unix
4 19 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.35%) CentOS
6 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.20%) zOS
9 3 (0.15%) Android
9 3 (0.15%) Rocky
9 3 (0.15%) VMS
9 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.100%) Solaris
10 2 (0.100%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.050%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,133 (56.48%) Agile
2 870 (43.37%) CI/CD
3 795 (39.63%) Software Engineering
4 601 (29.96%) DevOps
5 591 (29.46%) Mentoring
6 576 (28.71%) Microservices
7 566 (28.22%) Machine Learning
8 516 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
9 412 (20.54%) Clean Code
10 395 (19.69%) Containerisation
11 369 (18.39%) Data Science
12 348 (17.35%) Data Engineering
13 303 (15.10%) Test Automation
14 295 (14.71%) Analytics
15 287 (14.31%) Cloud Security
16 262 (13.06%) Full-Stack Development
17 260 (12.96%) TDD
18 253 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 248 (12.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 237 (11.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,052 (52.44%) Python
2 681 (33.95%) JavaScript
3 663 (33.05%) Java
4 510 (25.42%) SQL
5 421 (20.99%) TypeScript
6 261 (13.01%) Go
7 192 (9.57%) C++
8 181 (9.02%) Rust
9 84 (4.19%) Bash
10 68 (3.39%) C#
11 62 (3.09%) PowerShell
12 60 (2.99%) PHP
13 48 (2.39%) Scala
14 23 (1.15%) R
15 14 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.65%) Bicep
17 12 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.55%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.50%) T-SQL
20 8 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 453 (22.58%) Degree
2 281 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 269 (13.41%) AWS Certification
4 224 (11.17%) PhD
5 208 (10.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 193 (9.62%) DV Cleared
7 179 (8.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 112 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 84 (4.19%) SC Cleared
10 83 (4.14%) Azure Certification
11 71 (3.54%) Master's Degree
12 42 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (1.25%) CISSP
14 23 (1.15%) CCNP
14 23 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.90%) CCNA
16 16 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.75%) PMI Certification
18 14 (0.70%) CCSP
19 13 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (12.11%) QA
2 89 (4.44%) GDPR
3 66 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.64%) NIST
6 42 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.10%) HIPAA
7 22 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.40%) SLA
11 7 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.25%) NCSC
14 4 (0.20%) Basel II
14 4 (0.20%) Basel III
14 4 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (0.20%) GRC
14 4 (0.20%) IFRS
14 4 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 527 (26.27%) Docker
2 35 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.69%) VMware NSX
4 22 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.50%) vSphere
8 7 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.35%) HDFS
9 6 (0.30%) Apache Flume
9 6 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.30%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.15%) Firmware
12 2 (0.100%) NFS
12 2 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.100%) Xen
12 2 (0.100%) XenApp
12 2 (0.100%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 599 (29.86%) Kubernetes
2 330 (16.45%) Terraform
3 134 (6.68%) Ansible
4 83 (4.14%) Grafana
5 66 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.74%) Puppet
7 32 (1.60%) FortiGate
7 32 (1.60%) Istio
8 28 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 25 (1.25%) Nagios
10 18 (0.90%) Argo
11 13 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.35%) Podman
13 7 (0.35%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.30%) Consul
14 6 (0.30%) Oozie
14 6 (0.30%) SCCM
14 6 (0.30%) vMotion
Vendors
1 463 (23.08%) Google
2 197 (9.82%) Microsoft
3 157 (7.83%) Solace
4 94 (4.69%) Databricks
5 84 (4.19%) VMware
6 55 (2.74%) Oracle
7 47 (2.34%) Cisco
8 42 (2.09%) F5
8 42 (2.09%) SAP
9 31 (1.55%) CheckPoint
10 30 (1.50%) Splunk
11 28 (1.40%) Blue Coat
12 19 (0.95%) SolarWinds
13 18 (0.90%) IBM
14 15 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.70%) Hitachi
15 14 (0.70%) Informatica
16 13 (0.65%) Citrix
17 12 (0.60%) Symantec
18 11 (0.55%) HP