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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -59 +15 +8
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,015 7,654 10,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.09% 7.24% 6.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.56% 16.83% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,984 3,672 4,543
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,256 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,373 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £79,632 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -0.46% +12.28%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,029 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £122,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £64,029 £61,180
% change year-on-year +5.42% +4.66% +6.40%

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 35,226 45,481 73,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.05% 43.03% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,766 29,721 42,057
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 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 -54 2,568 £80,000 - 665
UK excluding London -73 1,612 £67,500 +5.42% 341
Work from Home -28 1,365 £77,500 - 382
London -18 1,244 £95,000 +8.57% 380
North of England -54 509 £69,447 +6.84% 89
South West -21 281 £70,000 +7.69% 64
Scotland -61 281 £70,000 +7.69% 42
North West -72 253 £69,447 +13.51% 55
Midlands -89 209 £65,000 +14.04% 33
Yorkshire -24 206 £69,000 +2.22% 27
South East -103 204 £60,000 -14.29% 66
West Midlands -79 134 £75,000 +29.31% 24
East Midlands -52 78 £57,500 +4.55% 9
East of England -64 68 £55,000 -15.38% 26
North East +12 50 £71,250 +29.55% 7
Wales -26 46 £62,500 +22.30% 16
Northern Ireland -23 13 £115,000 +119.05% 11
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 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
1 295 (9.78%) Apache Airflow
2 286 (9.49%) Apache
3 194 (6.43%) Apache Spark
4 52 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 48 (1.59%) Confluence
6 29 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 28 (0.93%) Captiva
7 28 (0.93%) FileNet
7 28 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 22 (0.73%) nginx
9 20 (0.66%) IIS
10 16 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.40%) SAS
12 8 (0.27%) WordPress
13 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
14 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
15 3 (0.100%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.066%) Sketch
7 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.033%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.13%) Magento
2 4 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.066%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.033%) HFM
4 1 (0.033%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.033%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,225 (73.80%) AWS
2 2,048 (67.93%) Azure
3 312 (10.35%) SaaS
4 229 (7.60%) GitHub
5 196 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 166 (5.51%) Power Platform
7 163 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 163 (5.41%) dbt
8 153 (5.07%) Snowflake
9 126 (4.18%) PaaS
10 117 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
11 105 (3.48%) Serverless
12 95 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
13 84 (2.79%) IaaS
14 80 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 71 (2.35%) Amazon S3
16 63 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
17 56 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
18 49 (1.63%) OpenShift
19 43 (1.43%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 168 (5.57%) Firewall
2 82 (2.72%) DNS
3 65 (2.16%) VPN
4 63 (2.09%) WAN
5 50 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 41 (1.36%) LAN
7 35 (1.16%) SD-WAN
8 30 (1.00%) AMQP
8 30 (1.00%) SAN
9 26 (0.86%) Network Security
10 25 (0.83%) DHCP
11 24 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (0.70%) Internet
13 18 (0.60%) VoIP
14 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
15 16 (0.53%) Kerberos
15 16 (0.53%) VLAN
16 15 (0.50%) BGP
17 14 (0.46%) Wireless
18 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (19.87%) BigQuery
2 429 (14.23%) Looker
3 366 (12.14%) Data Warehouse
4 249 (8.26%) Data Lake
5 214 (7.10%) Apache Ignite
6 171 (5.67%) NoSQL
7 163 (5.41%) Big Data
8 162 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
9 156 (5.17%) SQL Server
10 150 (4.98%) Power BI
11 135 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
12 134 (4.44%) Hadoop
13 128 (4.25%) MySQL
14 115 (3.81%) Apache Arrow
14 115 (3.81%) Dremio
15 112 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
16 110 (3.65%) Relational Database
17 96 (3.18%) Tableau
18 64 (2.12%) MongoDB
19 57 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 233 (7.73%) Git
2 232 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 101 (3.35%) JIRA
4 68 (2.26%) GitLab
5 64 (2.12%) Cypress.io
6 44 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 44 (1.46%) Selenium
7 41 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
8 26 (0.86%) Spinnaker
9 25 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
10 23 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.70%) Maven
12 20 (0.66%) JUnit
13 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.40%) webpack
16 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (0.33%) git-flow
18 9 (0.30%) JMeter
19 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,020 (33.83%) Finance
2 566 (18.77%) Banking
3 564 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 554 (18.37%) Social Skills
5 376 (12.47%) Front Office
6 252 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 164 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
7 164 (5.44%) Retail
8 150 (4.98%) Law
9 113 (3.75%) Investment Banking
10 96 (3.18%) Marketing
11 94 (3.12%) Public Sector
12 92 (3.05%) Legal
13 72 (2.39%) Billing
14 44 (1.46%) Back Office
15 36 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 33 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.06%) Retail Banking
17 32 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 624 (20.70%) Software Engineer
2 610 (20.23%) Senior
3 575 (19.07%) Architect
4 560 (18.57%) Developer
5 444 (14.73%) Data Engineer
6 318 (10.55%) Lead
7 275 (9.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 214 (7.10%) Principal Engineer
9 198 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
10 182 (6.04%) Python Developer
11 181 (6.00%) Principal Data Engineer
12 179 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 171 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
14 167 (5.54%) Data Architect
15 165 (5.47%) Cloud Architect
16 163 (5.41%) Python Engineer
17 148 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
18 141 (4.68%) Senior Developer
19 129 (4.28%) Python Software Engineer
20 122 (4.05%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (16.55%) React
2 255 (8.46%) AngularJS
3 249 (8.26%) gRPC
4 223 (7.40%) Redux
5 218 (7.23%) .NET
6 210 (6.97%) Protocol Buffers
7 205 (6.80%) Kafka
8 201 (6.67%) Node.js
9 152 (5.04%) Pandas
10 151 (5.01%) Vue
11 131 (4.34%) Material-UI
12 130 (4.31%) REST
13 121 (4.01%) NumPy
14 115 (3.81%) Spring
15 110 (3.65%) SciPy
16 106 (3.52%) GraphQL
17 93 (3.08%) CSS
18 92 (3.05%) RESTful
19 87 (2.89%) .NET Core
19 87 (2.89%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 364 (12.07%) Fixed Income
2 341 (11.31%) Public Cloud
3 287 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 283 (9.39%) Hedge funds
5 269 (8.92%) Equities
6 229 (7.60%) Derivative
7 194 (6.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 169 (5.61%) Cloud Native
9 162 (5.37%) Product Ownership
10 138 (4.58%) Algorithms
11 110 (3.65%) PKI
12 103 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
13 84 (2.79%) Onboarding
14 75 (2.49%) Management Information System
15 70 (2.32%) Data Structures
16 58 (1.92%) Private Cloud
17 55 (1.82%) Data Centre
18 53 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
19 45 (1.49%) Mobile App
20 42 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 333 (11.04%) Linux
2 216 (7.16%) Windows
3 83 (2.75%) Unix
4 81 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.36%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.23%) Android
8 34 (1.13%) CentOS
9 30 (1.00%) Apple iOS
9 30 (1.00%) Debian
10 16 (0.53%) zOS
11 11 (0.36%) Solaris
12 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
13 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.27%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
16 5 (0.17%) VMS
17 2 (0.066%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,528 (50.68%) Agile
2 958 (31.77%) Software Engineering
3 868 (28.79%) DevOps
4 777 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
5 610 (20.23%) Mentoring
6 575 (19.07%) CI/CD
7 571 (18.94%) Data Engineering
8 430 (14.26%) Analytics
9 427 (14.16%) Asset Management
9 427 (14.16%) ETL
10 421 (13.96%) Platform Engineering
11 395 (13.10%) Data Science
12 370 (12.27%) Machine Learning
13 369 (12.24%) Data Modelling
14 360 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
15 338 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
16 325 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
17 319 (10.58%) Investment Management
18 304 (10.08%) Containerisation
19 303 (10.05%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (38.34%) Python
2 708 (23.48%) SQL
3 657 (21.79%) Java
4 538 (17.84%) JavaScript
5 482 (15.99%) TypeScript
6 258 (8.56%) C#
7 162 (5.37%) Go
8 129 (4.28%) Scala
9 124 (4.11%) Bash
10 91 (3.02%) PowerShell
11 84 (2.79%) R
12 64 (2.12%) PHP
13 57 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 45 (1.49%) Ruby
15 44 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 31 (1.03%) Groovy
17 30 (1.00%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.80%) C++
19 18 (0.60%) Perl
20 13 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 355 (11.77%) Degree
2 172 (5.70%) Security Cleared
3 155 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 126 (4.18%) SC Cleared
5 90 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 73 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (1.49%) CISSP
12 32 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (1.03%) CCNA
14 30 (1.00%) CISM
15 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 20 (0.66%) PhD
18 18 (0.60%) GIAC
19 16 (0.53%) OCP
19 16 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (10.98%) GDPR
2 204 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 187 (6.20%) QA
4 49 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.09%) NIST
7 20 (0.66%) SLA
8 19 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.46%) COBIT
10 10 (0.33%) WCAG
11 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.27%) NCSC
12 8 (0.27%) PSD2
13 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.100%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.100%) GRC
15 3 (0.100%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.100%) NIST 800
System Software
1 394 (13.07%) Docker
2 122 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (3.38%) Active Directory
4 57 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
8 14 (0.46%) XenApp
9 9 (0.30%) KVM
10 8 (0.27%) HDFS
10 8 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.20%) vSphere
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.066%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.066%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 519 (17.21%) Kubernetes
2 479 (15.89%) Terraform
3 210 (6.97%) Ansible
4 79 (2.62%) Puppet
5 53 (1.76%) Grafana
6 51 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 43 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.86%) Nagios
9 20 (0.66%) ZABBIX
10 19 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.50%) Istio
12 12 (0.40%) Graphite
12 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
12 12 (0.40%) SCCM
12 12 (0.40%) VxRail
13 11 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,349 (44.74%) Google
2 422 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 148 (4.91%) VMware
4 137 (4.54%) Oracle
5 111 (3.68%) Databricks
6 89 (2.95%) IBM
7 88 (2.92%) Cisco
8 62 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.96%) SAP
10 53 (1.76%) Red Hat
11 48 (1.59%) Dell
12 38 (1.26%) Alteryx
12 38 (1.26%) Bloomberg
13 30 (1.00%) Citrix
14 28 (0.93%) Kofax
14 28 (0.93%) Pega
15 25 (0.83%) NetApp
16 24 (0.80%) SaltStack
16 24 (0.80%) Splunk
17 20 (0.66%) OpenAI