GCP Jobs in Wales

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 77 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 -26 +40
Permanent jobs citing GCP 20 43 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.98% 2.71% 4.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.20% 7.64% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 47
10th Percentile - £42,750 £38,550
25th Percentile £23,750 £44,750 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -57.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £48,125 £72,433 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,144 £73,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £78,071
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.93% +0.74%

All Cloud 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 244 563 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.13% 35.43% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 147 434 379
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,290 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £36,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +5.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,188 £64,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £72,433 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Wales

GCP
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in Wales.

Salary trend for GCP in Wales

GCP
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Wales over the 6 months to 17 February 2025.

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 17 February 2025. 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 +8 18 £27,500 -57.69% 9
West Wales +10 1 £60,000 -4.00%
North Wales - 1 - -
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Sentry
3 8 (40.00%) BrowserStack
3 8 (40.00%) Firebase
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub
3 8 (40.00%) Serverless
4 5 (25.00%) SaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (15.00%) CloudAMQP
5 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (10.00%) dbt
6 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) MQTT
2 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) MongoDB
2 10 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (50.00%) Redis
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Git
2 8 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (40.00%) Agriculture
2 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Backend Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Implementation Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Implementation Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Node.js
2 8 (40.00%) Express.js
2 8 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 8 (40.00%) HTML
2 8 (40.00%) HTML5
2 8 (40.00%) JSON
2 8 (40.00%) JWT
2 8 (40.00%) REST
2 8 (40.00%) Web Services
3 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (25.00%) RESTful
3 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (10.00%) Django
5 2 (10.00%) OAuth
5 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (10.00%) SAML
6 1 (5.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) IoT
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Housing Association
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
2 8 (40.00%) User Experience
2 8 (40.00%) UX Design
3 5 (25.00%) API Development
3 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Concurrent Programming
5 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (15.00%) Data Science
5 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Fintech
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (45.00%) Java
3 8 (40.00%) SQL
4 6 (30.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) C#
6 3 (15.00%) C
6 3 (15.00%) C++
6 3 (15.00%) Go
6 3 (15.00%) Rust
7 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) COBIT
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) KVM
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) VMware