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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 101 163
Rank change year-on-year -33 +62 -88
Permanent jobs citing GCP 61 70 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 2.07% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 6.19% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 46 44 76
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,750 £43,875
25th Percentile £59,500 £55,020 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.54% +23.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,813 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £106,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.83% -2.42% +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 1,920 1,131 2,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.98% 33.52% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 913 1,962
10th Percentile £32,625 £28,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £84,919
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +1 35 £82,500 +26.92% 13
Wolverhampton -12 9 £69,000 -1.43% 8
Staffordshire -7 4 £62,500 -12.28% 10
Worcestershire -14 3 £70,000 +75.00% 1
Herefordshire -16 3 £100,000 - 4
Shropshire -24 2 £49,500 -17.50% 6
Solihull +8 1 £45,000 -
Warwickshire -18 1 £62,500 +13.64% 9
Coventry -18 1 - - 4
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 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Cloudability
2 6 (9.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (88.52%) Azure
2 53 (86.89%) AWS
3 12 (19.67%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.92%) Google Analytics
4 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.92%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Run
5 2 (3.28%) Firebase
5 2 (3.28%) Google Ads
5 2 (3.28%) Google Tag Manager
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Advertising
6 1 (1.64%) Dagster
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) Network Security
2 2 (3.28%) VPN
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
3 1 (1.64%) SSL
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) Data Lake
2 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
3 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.92%) Looker
4 3 (4.92%) Metadata
4 3 (4.92%) Power BI
5 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (36.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (26.23%) Finance
2 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Advertising
4 2 (3.28%) Marketing
4 2 (3.28%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Billing
5 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Senior
2 22 (36.07%) Analyst
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Analyst
4 15 (24.59%) Architect
5 10 (16.39%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Security Specialist
8 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) Kafka
2 3 (4.92%) React
3 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.28%) pgvector
3 2 (3.28%) RESTful
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.64%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) LDAP
4 1 (1.64%) REST
4 1 (1.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (3.28%) Online Gambling
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) IoT
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) CentOS
2 2 (3.28%) Debian
2 2 (3.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) AI
2 19 (31.15%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (31.15%) Mentoring
3 18 (29.51%) Data Modelling
4 16 (26.23%) Analytics
5 15 (24.59%) Data Architecture
5 15 (24.59%) Roadmaps
6 14 (22.95%) Cost Optimisation
6 14 (22.95%) Data Governance
7 12 (19.67%) Agile
7 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
7 12 (19.67%) Cost Management
7 12 (19.67%) FinOps
7 12 (19.67%) Software Licensing
8 11 (18.03%) DevOps
9 10 (16.39%) Cloud Security
10 9 (14.75%) Containerisation
10 9 (14.75%) Data Sharing
10 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (14.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) Python
2 10 (16.39%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) Java
3 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.92%) Bash
5 2 (3.28%) Bicep
5 2 (3.28%) C#
5 2 (3.28%) Go
5 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) AWS Certification
2 12 (19.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) CISSP
6 2 (3.28%) Degree
7 1 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.64%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) CCSP
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.64%) CISM
7 1 (1.64%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) CRISC
7 1 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) GDPR
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Terraform
2 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.28%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) CASB
5 1 (1.64%) SCCM
5 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (32.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.59%) Google
3 13 (21.31%) ServiceNow
4 12 (19.67%) Adobe
4 12 (19.67%) Apple
4 12 (19.67%) Databricks
5 6 (9.84%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) Facebook
6 2 (3.28%) Instagram
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.28%) TikTok
7 1 (1.64%) Netskope
7 1 (1.64%) Okta
7 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.64%) Splunk