GCP Engineer Job Trends in Wales

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary in Wales is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.089% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 - -
75th Percentile £70,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,365 £75,669
% change year-on-year -12.90% +6.21% +0.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Wales with a recognized job title 1,001 897 824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 95.63% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 718 500 628
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £29,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £72,307
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

GCP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'GCP Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

GCP Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Wales.

Salary distribution trend for GCP Engineer job vacancies in Wales

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, GCP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wales region featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google