GCP Job Trends in Wales

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 57 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -21
Permanent jobs citing GCP 16 5 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.02% 0.94% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 3.57% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 33
10th Percentile £66,750 £58,452 -
25th Percentile £68,297 £63,630 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +12.00% +22.30%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile - £82,500 £72,487
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -2.68%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 432 140 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 27.50% 26.37% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 166 125 463
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,873 £71,250 £66,000
90th Percentile £74,839 £78,750 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

GCP job vacancy trend in Wales

GCP
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Wales over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in Wales

GCP
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
South Wales -22 13 £79,401 +13.43% 5
Dyfed - 1 - -
GCP
UK

GCP
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (18.75%) dbt
4 3 (18.75%) Pulumi
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Datadog
5 2 (12.50%) Google Sheets
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Sentry
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
1 4 (25.00%) SSL
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Redis
3 2 (12.50%) Looker
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Parquet
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (18.75%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 4 (25.00%) Head of IT
2 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) QA Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Django
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Digital Media
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (37.50%) Observability
2 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
3 5 (31.25%) IT Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
4 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CEH
1 4 (25.00%) CISM
1 4 (25.00%) CISSP
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
1 5 (31.25%) NIST
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 2 (12.50%) GRC
3 2 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (12.50%) SEPA
4 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Opsgenie
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) GoldenSource
2 2 (12.50%) PagerDuty
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle