GCP Jobs in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 147 40
Rank change year-on-year +25 -107 +50
Permanent jobs citing GCP 65 119 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.62% 1.36% 6.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.14% 4.55% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 37 87 106
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,520 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £73,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +21.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £97,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £101,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,059 2,617 2,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 26.34% 29.89% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 835 2,167 1,538
10th Percentile £28,200 £26,750 £31,175
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,298 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,387 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +3.29% +1.43%
75th Percentile £68,125 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in the West Midlands

GCP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Birmingham -11 19 £67,563 +3.94% 61
Shropshire - 11 £60,000 - 40
Staffordshire +38 10 £67,500 +35.00% 49
Warwickshire +11 7 £55,000 -28.57% 14
Solihull +16 6 - -
Wolverhampton +17 1 £70,000 +33.33% 20
Worcestershire +17 1 £40,000 -11.11% 23
Coventry +1 1 - - 25
Herefordshire - 1 - -
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (21.54%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) CMS
2 2 (3.08%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.54%) SAS
3 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 63 (96.92%) AWS
2 56 (86.15%) Azure
3 11 (16.92%) Serverless
4 10 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 6 (9.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (9.23%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.15%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (6.15%) Google App Engine
7 4 (6.15%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.62%) GitHub
9 2 (3.08%) Contentful
9 2 (3.08%) Figma
9 2 (3.08%) Lucidchart
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.54%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Broadband
2 1 (1.54%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.62%) SQL Server
2 15 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 11 (16.92%) BigQuery
4 6 (9.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (9.23%) Big Data
4 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.69%) MySQL
5 5 (7.69%) Power BI
5 5 (7.69%) Tableau
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Spanner
6 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
6 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.62%) Metadata
8 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.08%) Looker
9 1 (1.54%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.54%) HBase
9 1 (1.54%) QlikView
9 1 (1.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) JIRA
2 13 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 13 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 13 (20.00%) GitLab
2 13 (20.00%) Maven
2 13 (20.00%) Selenium
2 13 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 13 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (6.15%) Git
4 2 (3.08%) ER Studio
4 2 (3.08%) ERwin
4 2 (3.08%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (3.08%) Storybook
5 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (24.62%) Banking
5 14 (21.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.69%) Retail
8 3 (4.62%) Automotive
8 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.08%) Advertising
9 2 (3.08%) Games
10 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.54%) Law
10 1 (1.54%) Legal
10 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) Architect
3 9 (13.85%) Java Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) Senior
5 7 (10.77%) Lead
6 6 (9.23%) Data Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead Architect
7 5 (7.69%) Lead Data Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) C++ Developer
10 2 (3.08%) C++ Software Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Data Modeller
10 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 2 (3.08%) JavaScript Developer
10 2 (3.08%) PHP Software Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) Spring
2 20 (30.77%) React
3 17 (26.15%) CSS
3 17 (26.15%) HTML
4 14 (21.54%) Kafka
5 13 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 13 (20.00%) JPA
5 13 (20.00%) Redux
5 13 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.77%) Node.js
7 6 (9.23%) Express.js
7 6 (9.23%) React Native
8 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.62%) Laravel
9 3 (4.62%) PySpark
9 3 (4.62%) Vue
10 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
10 2 (3.08%) Material-UI
10 2 (3.08%) MEAN Stack
10 2 (3.08%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (21.54%) Product Ownership
3 8 (12.31%) Mobile App
4 6 (9.23%) Data Structures
4 6 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.08%) CUDA
6 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.08%) SIMD
6 2 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) Software Engineering
2 33 (50.77%) DevOps
3 30 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 27 (41.54%) Agile
4 27 (41.54%) Microservices
5 26 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 23 (35.38%) TDD
7 21 (32.31%) Performance Optimisation
8 17 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (24.62%) Clean Code
9 16 (24.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
11 14 (21.54%) Front End Development
11 14 (21.54%) SDLC
12 12 (18.46%) Analytics
13 11 (16.92%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (16.92%) Data Governance
13 11 (16.92%) Data Modelling
13 11 (16.92%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 29 (44.62%) Java
3 23 (35.38%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.46%) Python
5 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.62%) PHP
7 2 (3.08%) C++
8 1 (1.54%) Bash
8 1 (1.54%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) PROC SQL
8 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.08%) CCSP
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.08%) CISSP
5 2 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.08%) PhD
5 2 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (24.62%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) GRC
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (41.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Grafana
3 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (1.54%) Kibana
4 1 (1.54%) logstash
4 1 (1.54%) Oozie
Vendors
1 23 (35.38%) Google
2 13 (20.00%) Solace
3 5 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) ConnectWise
6 1 (1.54%) Informatica
6 1 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.54%) SAP
6 1 (1.54%) Twitter
6 1 (1.54%) VMware