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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 33 45
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 +7
Permanent jobs citing GCP 3,006 7,268 11,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.05% 7.02% 7.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.51% 16.41% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 3,569 4,509
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +11.89%
75th Percentile £102,500 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £123,787 £121,700
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 35,310 44,297 75,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.84% 42.78% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,696 29,083 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £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 £95,000 £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 4 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 4 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 2,550 £79,738 -0.33% 660
UK excluding London -71 1,625 £65,066 +1.62% 332
Work from Home -34 1,328 £77,500 - 388
London -21 1,223 £95,000 +8.57% 378
North of England -55 513 £69,447 +6.84% 85
Scotland -54 294 £69,750 +15.77% 37
South West -15 281 £70,000 +7.69% 64
North West -64 257 £69,447 +11.12% 47
South East -102 206 £60,000 -14.29% 59
Yorkshire -21 205 £68,000 -0.75% 31
Midlands -83 203 £65,000 +18.18% 35
West Midlands -85 130 £75,000 +29.87% 21
East Midlands -52 76 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East of England -63 68 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North East +7 51 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Wales -20 45 £62,500 +22.30% 13
Northern Ireland -19 14 £90,000 +71.43% 17
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
1 299 (9.95%) Apache Airflow
2 289 (9.61%) Apache
3 182 (6.05%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 47 (1.56%) Confluence
6 31 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.96%) WebSphere
8 28 (0.93%) Captiva
8 28 (0.93%) FileNet
9 22 (0.73%) nginx
10 20 (0.67%) IIS
11 17 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.43%) SAS
13 12 (0.40%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.30%) SharePoint 2010
14 9 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
15 8 (0.27%) WordPress
16 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.13%) Luigi
18 3 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 (0.067%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.067%) 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
3 2 (0.067%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.067%) 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 2,238 (74.45%) AWS
2 2,045 (68.03%) Azure
3 311 (10.35%) SaaS
4 224 (7.45%) GitHub
5 199 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
6 162 (5.39%) Snowflake
7 160 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
8 158 (5.26%) dbt
9 153 (5.09%) Power Platform
10 126 (4.19%) PaaS
11 119 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
12 104 (3.46%) Serverless
13 90 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
14 85 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 84 (2.79%) IaaS
16 68 (2.26%) Amazon S3
17 62 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
18 55 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
19 50 (1.66%) OpenShift
20 45 (1.50%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 170 (5.66%) Firewall
2 76 (2.53%) DNS
3 69 (2.30%) WAN
4 64 (2.13%) VPN
5 46 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 45 (1.50%) LAN
7 36 (1.20%) SD-WAN
8 31 (1.03%) AMQP
9 30 (1.00%) SAN
10 26 (0.86%) Network Security
11 22 (0.73%) DHCP
12 21 (0.70%) Internet
12 21 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (0.57%) Kerberos
13 17 (0.57%) VoIP
14 15 (0.50%) VLAN
15 14 (0.47%) BGP
15 14 (0.47%) Wireless
16 12 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 593 (19.73%) BigQuery
2 423 (14.07%) Looker
3 372 (12.38%) Data Warehouse
4 256 (8.52%) Data Lake
5 214 (7.12%) Apache Ignite
6 166 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
7 163 (5.42%) NoSQL
8 155 (5.16%) SQL Server
9 154 (5.12%) Big Data
10 137 (4.56%) Power BI
11 129 (4.29%) Hadoop
12 128 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
13 120 (3.99%) MySQL
14 110 (3.66%) Apache Arrow
14 110 (3.66%) Dremio
15 106 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
16 102 (3.39%) Relational Database
17 92 (3.06%) Tableau
18 62 (2.06%) MongoDB
19 55 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 227 (7.55%) Git
2 223 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 100 (3.33%) JIRA
4 71 (2.36%) Cypress.io
4 71 (2.36%) GitLab
5 46 (1.53%) CircleCI
5 46 (1.53%) Selenium
6 41 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
7 25 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
7 25 (0.83%) Spinnaker
8 23 (0.77%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.63%) Maven
10 18 (0.60%) JUnit
11 16 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.37%) webpack
14 9 (0.30%) JMeter
14 9 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (0.27%) git-flow
16 7 (0.23%) Appium
General
1 1,006 (33.47%) Finance
2 563 (18.73%) Banking
3 560 (18.63%) Social Skills
4 554 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
5 368 (12.24%) Front Office
6 274 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
8 162 (5.39%) Law
9 152 (5.06%) Retail
10 111 (3.69%) Investment Banking
11 101 (3.36%) Legal
12 99 (3.29%) Marketing
13 91 (3.03%) Public Sector
14 72 (2.40%) Billing
15 46 (1.53%) Back Office
16 38 (1.26%) Retail Banking
17 37 (1.23%) Aerospace
18 35 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 31 (1.03%) Telecoms
20 29 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 625 (20.79%) Software Engineer
2 612 (20.36%) Senior
3 581 (19.33%) Architect
4 545 (18.13%) Developer
5 442 (14.70%) Data Engineer
6 323 (10.75%) Lead
7 267 (8.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 217 (7.22%) Principal Engineer
9 198 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
10 187 (6.22%) Python Developer
11 182 (6.05%) Principal Data Engineer
12 174 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 174 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
13 169 (5.62%) Data Architect
14 166 (5.52%) Python Engineer
15 162 (5.39%) Cloud Architect
16 147 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
17 137 (4.56%) Senior Developer
18 134 (4.46%) Python Software Engineer
19 116 (3.86%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (16.47%) React
2 252 (8.38%) gRPC
3 243 (8.08%) AngularJS
4 229 (7.62%) Redux
5 212 (7.05%) Protocol Buffers
6 206 (6.85%) .NET
7 194 (6.45%) Node.js
8 189 (6.29%) Kafka
9 144 (4.79%) Pandas
10 143 (4.76%) Vue
11 135 (4.49%) Material-UI
12 126 (4.19%) REST
13 121 (4.03%) Spring
14 116 (3.86%) NumPy
15 105 (3.49%) SciPy
16 99 (3.29%) GraphQL
17 89 (2.96%) RESTful
18 88 (2.93%) CSS
19 84 (2.79%) .NET Core
20 82 (2.73%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 368 (12.24%) Fixed Income
2 342 (11.38%) Public Cloud
3 300 (9.98%) Hedge funds
4 288 (9.58%) Self-Motivation
5 275 (9.15%) Equities
6 231 (7.68%) Derivative
7 192 (6.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 179 (5.95%) Cloud Native
9 157 (5.22%) Product Ownership
10 139 (4.62%) Algorithms
11 110 (3.66%) PKI
12 98 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
13 86 (2.86%) Onboarding
14 77 (2.56%) Management Information System
15 73 (2.43%) Data Structures
16 58 (1.93%) Private Cloud
17 57 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (1.73%) Data Centre
19 45 (1.50%) Mobile App
20 42 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 322 (10.71%) Linux
2 221 (7.35%) Windows
3 85 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 80 (2.66%) Unix
5 42 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 39 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.16%) CentOS
8 33 (1.10%) Android
9 31 (1.03%) Debian
10 26 (0.86%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.53%) zOS
12 11 (0.37%) Solaris
13 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
14 9 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.27%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.20%) Mesosphere
17 5 (0.17%) VMS
18 2 (0.067%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,511 (50.27%) Agile
2 957 (31.84%) Software Engineering
3 863 (28.71%) DevOps
4 776 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
5 600 (19.96%) Mentoring
6 575 (19.13%) CI/CD
7 571 (19.00%) Data Engineering
8 429 (14.27%) Platform Engineering
9 426 (14.17%) Asset Management
10 421 (14.01%) ETL
11 409 (13.61%) Analytics
12 397 (13.21%) Data Science
13 386 (12.84%) Machine Learning
14 374 (12.44%) Data Modelling
15 359 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
16 341 (11.34%) Artificial Intelligence
16 341 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 324 (10.78%) Investment Management
18 303 (10.08%) Full Stack Development
19 302 (10.05%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,153 (38.36%) Python
2 703 (23.39%) SQL
3 656 (21.82%) Java
4 516 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 474 (15.77%) TypeScript
6 244 (8.12%) C#
7 161 (5.36%) Go
8 126 (4.19%) Scala
9 119 (3.96%) Bash
10 89 (2.96%) PowerShell
11 85 (2.83%) R
12 65 (2.16%) PHP
13 56 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 44 (1.46%) Ruby
15 42 (1.40%) Shell Script
16 29 (0.96%) Groovy
17 28 (0.93%) T-SQL
18 22 (0.73%) C++
19 17 (0.57%) Perl
20 13 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 355 (11.81%) Degree
2 171 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 164 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (4.22%) SC Cleared
5 96 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 71 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 54 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 49 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 46 (1.53%) CISSP
12 31 (1.03%) CCNA
12 31 (1.03%) CISM
13 29 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 19 (0.63%) GIAC
16 19 (0.63%) PhD
17 15 (0.50%) ISSMP
17 15 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (11.01%) GDPR
2 204 (6.79%) Data Quality
3 187 (6.22%) QA
4 49 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.13%) NIST
7 20 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.63%) SLA
9 15 (0.50%) COBIT
10 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.27%) NCSC
11 8 (0.27%) PSD2
11 8 (0.27%) WCAG
12 6 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.17%) 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
1 399 (13.27%) Docker
2 127 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 62 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.60%) XenApp
7 16 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.43%) XenDesktop
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 8 (0.27%) HDFS
12 6 (0.20%) vSphere
13 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 2 (0.067%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.067%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 524 (17.43%) Kubernetes
2 482 (16.03%) Terraform
3 211 (7.02%) Ansible
4 81 (2.69%) Puppet
5 57 (1.90%) Grafana
6 53 (1.76%) Progress Chef
7 47 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 25 (0.83%) Nagios
9 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.67%) ZABBIX
11 19 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (0.53%) SCCM
13 15 (0.50%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.47%) Istio
15 12 (0.40%) Graphite
15 12 (0.40%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.40%) VxRail
16 10 (0.33%) HAProxy
16 10 (0.33%) Packer
16 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,357 (45.14%) Google
2 424 (14.11%) Microsoft
3 153 (5.09%) VMware
4 136 (4.52%) Oracle
5 113 (3.76%) Databricks
6 93 (3.09%) Cisco
7 88 (2.93%) IBM
8 61 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.83%) SAP
10 54 (1.80%) Red Hat
11 53 (1.76%) Dell
12 41 (1.36%) Alteryx
13 38 (1.26%) Bloomberg
14 35 (1.16%) Citrix
15 28 (0.93%) Kofax
15 28 (0.93%) Pega
16 25 (0.83%) NetApp
16 25 (0.83%) SaltStack
16 25 (0.83%) Splunk
17 21 (0.70%) Fortinet