GCP Job Trends in the West Midlands

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 148 89
Rank change year-on-year +6 -59 -36
Permanent jobs citing GCP 38 51 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.72% 1.18% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 3.53% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 30 31 82
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £61,243 £51,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% +6.63% -1.37%
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £87,500 £91,816
England median annual salary £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.13% -

All Cloud Computing 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 2,042 1,446 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.82% 33.34% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 882 824 1,130
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

GCP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GCP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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
Birmingham +9 15 £73,801 +9.13% 15
Staffordshire -9 12 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Coventry 0 3 £70,000 - 8
Warwickshire +26 2 - - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £60,000 -
Shropshire - 2 £60,000 - 9
Worcestershire - 1 £64,500 - 6
GCP
England

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.63%) CMS
1 1 (2.63%) IIS
1 1 (2.63%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (2.63%) Strapi
1 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 35 (92.11%) AWS
2 33 (86.84%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) SaaS
4 5 (13.16%) PaaS
5 4 (10.53%) IaaS
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.89%) Datadog
6 3 (7.89%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.26%) Azure AI
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.26%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.63%) Kong
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.89%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.89%) MySQL
2 3 (7.89%) Redis
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.26%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) MLflow
4 1 (2.63%) Git
4 1 (2.63%) JUnit
4 1 (2.63%) Mockito
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Marketing
3 3 (7.89%) Retail
4 2 (5.26%) Automotive
4 2 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Architect
2 8 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) IT Support
5 3 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior IT Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Junior IT Support
5 3 (7.89%) Junior Support Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (5.26%) Django
2 2 (5.26%) OAuth
2 2 (5.26%) React
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.63%) EDI
3 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.63%) JWT
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.63%) Snowpark
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.63%) Derivative
2 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.63%) PKI
2 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) CI/CD
1 12 (31.58%) DevOps
2 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (21.05%) TOGAF
5 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.79%) AI
6 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.53%) Agile
7 4 (10.53%) Analytics
7 4 (10.53%) Clean Code
7 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
7 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.53%) ITIL
7 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.53%) Microservices
7 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
4 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) C++
5 2 (5.26%) R
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.89%) Degree
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.26%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CBAP
6 1 (2.63%) CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) NIST
2 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Nagios
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Google
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) Adobe
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Dell
5 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.63%) mParticle
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.63%) New Relic
5 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.63%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Tealium
5 1 (2.63%) WSO2