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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -58 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,033 7,124 11,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 7.14% 7.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.58% 16.66% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,980 3,477 4,418
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,310 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £130,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £64,029 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.45% +8.70%

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 35,363 42,773 77,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,666 28,061 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,924
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 £100,000
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -55 2,579 £80,000 - 678
UK excluding London -70 1,620 £65,066 +1.62% 351
Work from Home -33 1,330 £77,500 - 421
London -19 1,262 £95,000 +5.56% 382
North of England -54 508 £67,500 +3.85% 97
Scotland -51 293 £69,500 +15.59% 36
South West -22 282 £70,000 +11.11% 59
North West -68 256 £67,500 +5.88% 52
South East -107 212 £61,000 -12.86% 72
Yorkshire -24 200 £67,750 +0.37% 37
Midlands -93 194 £65,000 +18.18% 32
West Midlands -90 125 £73,000 +27.51% 17
East Midlands -62 69 £55,000 - 15
East of England -79 67 £55,000 -8.33% 22
North East +4 52 £71,250 +29.55% 8
Wales -30 43 £57,500 +11.65% 16
Northern Ireland -20 15 £90,000 +71.43% 19
Isle of Man - 8 £46,500 - 1

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
1 341 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
2 329 (10.85%) Apache
3 183 (6.03%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 46 (1.52%) Confluence
6 30 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.96%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.92%) Captiva
8 28 (0.92%) FileNet
9 22 (0.73%) nginx
10 20 (0.66%) IIS
11 17 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
12 14 (0.46%) SAS
13 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
14 11 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
15 7 (0.23%) Luigi
15 7 (0.23%) WordPress
16 6 (0.20%) Apache Solr
17 3 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Trello
5 3 (0.099%) 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 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.099%) Magento
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%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.033%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,286 (75.37%) AWS
2 2,066 (68.12%) Azure
3 310 (10.22%) SaaS
4 223 (7.35%) GitHub
5 201 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
6 178 (5.87%) Snowflake
7 177 (5.84%) dbt
8 163 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
9 137 (4.52%) Power Platform
10 129 (4.25%) PaaS
11 116 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
12 102 (3.36%) Serverless
13 87 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 86 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
15 85 (2.80%) IaaS
16 66 (2.18%) Amazon S3
17 63 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
18 56 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
19 50 (1.65%) OpenShift
20 42 (1.38%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 171 (5.64%) Firewall
2 72 (2.37%) DNS
3 70 (2.31%) WAN
4 64 (2.11%) VPN
5 46 (1.52%) LAN
6 43 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 33 (1.09%) AMQP
9 30 (0.99%) SAN
10 27 (0.89%) Network Security
11 22 (0.73%) Internet
12 19 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (0.59%) DHCP
14 17 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
14 17 (0.56%) Kerberos
15 16 (0.53%) VoIP
16 14 (0.46%) VLAN
16 14 (0.46%) Wireless
17 13 (0.43%) BGP
18 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (19.06%) BigQuery
2 419 (13.81%) Looker
3 364 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
4 261 (8.61%) Data Lake
5 253 (8.34%) Apache Ignite
6 172 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
7 153 (5.04%) Big Data
8 151 (4.98%) NoSQL
8 151 (4.98%) SQL Server
9 146 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
10 130 (4.29%) Apache Arrow
10 130 (4.29%) Dremio
11 127 (4.19%) Hadoop
12 122 (4.02%) Power BI
13 113 (3.73%) MySQL
14 104 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
15 100 (3.30%) Relational Database
16 83 (2.74%) Tableau
17 60 (1.98%) MongoDB
18 51 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 230 (7.58%) Git
2 219 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 96 (3.17%) JIRA
4 82 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 73 (2.41%) GitLab
6 49 (1.62%) Selenium
7 47 (1.55%) CircleCI
8 41 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
9 27 (0.89%) Spinnaker
10 25 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
11 22 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 18 (0.59%) JUnit
13 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 16 (0.53%) Maven
14 14 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.40%) webpack
16 10 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
17 8 (0.26%) JMeter
18 7 (0.23%) Appium
18 7 (0.23%) git-flow
General
1 1,030 (33.96%) Finance
2 577 (19.02%) Banking
3 571 (18.83%) Social Skills
4 554 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
5 402 (13.25%) Front Office
6 276 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (5.51%) Law
8 166 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
9 149 (4.91%) Retail
10 126 (4.15%) Investment Banking
11 105 (3.46%) Legal
12 99 (3.26%) Marketing
13 92 (3.03%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.37%) Billing
15 46 (1.52%) Back Office
16 38 (1.25%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.25%) Retail Banking
17 36 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 32 (1.06%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 660 (21.76%) Software Engineer
2 614 (20.24%) Senior
3 585 (19.29%) Architect
4 572 (18.86%) Developer
5 437 (14.41%) Data Engineer
6 329 (10.85%) Lead
7 295 (9.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 217 (7.15%) Principal Engineer
9 209 (6.89%) Python Developer
10 200 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
11 188 (6.20%) Python Engineer
12 182 (6.00%) Principal Data Engineer
13 177 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
14 171 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
15 169 (5.57%) Data Architect
16 164 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
17 156 (5.14%) Python Software Engineer
18 149 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
19 137 (4.52%) Senior Developer
20 132 (4.35%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 515 (16.98%) React
2 293 (9.66%) gRPC
3 251 (8.28%) Protocol Buffers
3 251 (8.28%) Redux
4 247 (8.14%) AngularJS
5 204 (6.73%) .NET
6 199 (6.56%) Node.js
7 187 (6.17%) Kafka
8 163 (5.37%) Pandas
9 150 (4.95%) Material-UI
10 147 (4.85%) Vue
11 135 (4.45%) NumPy
12 128 (4.22%) REST
13 125 (4.12%) SciPy
14 122 (4.02%) Spring
15 94 (3.10%) GraphQL
16 89 (2.93%) CSS
17 88 (2.90%) RESTful
18 84 (2.77%) .NET Core
19 83 (2.74%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 402 (13.25%) Fixed Income
2 344 (11.34%) Public Cloud
3 328 (10.81%) Hedge funds
4 302 (9.96%) Equities
5 290 (9.56%) Self-Motivation
6 244 (8.04%) Derivative
7 207 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 187 (6.17%) Cloud Native
9 151 (4.98%) Product Ownership
10 136 (4.48%) Algorithms
11 111 (3.66%) PKI
12 96 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.84%) Onboarding
14 82 (2.70%) Management Information System
15 71 (2.34%) Data Structures
16 60 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
17 58 (1.91%) Private Cloud
18 51 (1.68%) Data Centre
19 45 (1.48%) Mobile App
20 40 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 317 (10.45%) Linux
2 227 (7.48%) Windows
3 86 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 76 (2.51%) Unix
5 46 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 41 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (1.25%) CentOS
8 33 (1.09%) Debian
9 32 (1.06%) Android
10 25 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 12 (0.40%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.26%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.23%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
18 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,537 (50.68%) Agile
2 990 (32.64%) Software Engineering
3 855 (28.19%) DevOps
4 779 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
5 600 (19.78%) Mentoring
6 576 (18.99%) CI/CD
7 568 (18.73%) Data Engineering
8 465 (15.33%) Asset Management
9 434 (14.31%) Platform Engineering
10 415 (13.68%) ETL
11 401 (13.22%) Analytics
12 392 (12.92%) Machine Learning
13 386 (12.73%) Data Science
14 367 (12.10%) Data Modelling
15 351 (11.57%) Data Pipeline
16 345 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
17 344 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
17 344 (11.34%) Investment Management
18 315 (10.39%) Full Stack Development
19 298 (9.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,181 (38.94%) Python
2 699 (23.05%) SQL
3 675 (22.26%) Java
4 548 (18.07%) JavaScript
5 504 (16.62%) TypeScript
6 240 (7.91%) C#
7 164 (5.41%) Go
8 128 (4.22%) Scala
9 119 (3.92%) Bash
10 87 (2.87%) PowerShell
11 80 (2.64%) R
12 64 (2.11%) PHP
13 63 (2.08%) Kotlin
14 46 (1.52%) Ruby
15 41 (1.35%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.96%) Groovy
17 26 (0.86%) T-SQL
18 23 (0.76%) C++
19 17 (0.56%) Perl
20 15 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 361 (11.90%) Degree
2 171 (5.64%) Security Cleared
3 167 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (4.19%) SC Cleared
5 102 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 70 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 67 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 59 (1.95%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 48 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.52%) CISSP
12 33 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.02%) CCNA
13 31 (1.02%) CISM
14 27 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.66%) GIAC
16 19 (0.63%) DBS Check
16 19 (0.63%) PhD
17 16 (0.53%) CRISC
17 16 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (10.91%) GDPR
2 203 (6.69%) Data Quality
3 189 (6.23%) QA
4 51 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.12%) NIST
7 21 (0.69%) SLA
8 20 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.53%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.26%) PSD2
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.23%) NCSC
12 7 (0.23%) WCAG
13 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.099%) CRD IV
15 3 (0.099%) GRC
15 3 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 399 (13.16%) Docker
2 128 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 103 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 64 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.73%) XenApp
7 17 (0.56%) XenDesktop
8 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.46%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
11 8 (0.26%) vSphere
12 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.066%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.066%) Varnish
14 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 528 (17.41%) Kubernetes
2 481 (15.86%) Terraform
3 213 (7.02%) Ansible
4 85 (2.80%) Puppet
5 55 (1.81%) Progress Chef
6 53 (1.75%) Grafana
7 44 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.86%) Nagios
9 23 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.69%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 18 (0.59%) SCCM
13 15 (0.49%) Istio
14 14 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.43%) Graphite
16 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
16 12 (0.40%) VxRail
17 10 (0.33%) Argo
17 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,367 (45.07%) Google
2 431 (14.21%) Microsoft
3 154 (5.08%) VMware
4 134 (4.42%) Oracle
5 115 (3.79%) Databricks
6 94 (3.10%) Cisco
7 89 (2.93%) IBM
8 63 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.85%) Red Hat
10 55 (1.81%) Dell
11 52 (1.71%) SAP
12 41 (1.35%) Alteryx
13 39 (1.29%) Citrix
14 38 (1.25%) Bloomberg
15 28 (0.92%) Kofax
15 28 (0.92%) Pega
16 27 (0.89%) SaltStack
17 25 (0.82%) NetApp
18 24 (0.79%) Splunk
19 22 (0.73%) HP