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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 139 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -97 +58
Permanent jobs citing GCP 65 122 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.55% 1.55% 6.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.18% 4.88% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 37 90 109
10th Percentile £47,000 £44,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +25.86% -10.77%
75th Percentile £74,014 £97,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £105,250 £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 1,051 2,499 2,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.13% 31.66% 37.86%
Number of salaries quoted 785 2,123 1,508
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £39,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -15 22 £67,629 -1.63% 34
Shropshire - 11 £60,000 - 4
Staffordshire +27 8 £67,500 +35.00% 42
Warwickshire -1 7 £55,000 -28.57% 4
Solihull +13 5 - - 3
Worcestershire +20 1 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Coventry -7 1 - - 1
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 13 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) CMS
2 2 (3.08%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 59 (90.77%) AWS
2 56 (86.15%) Azure
3 15 (23.08%) Serverless
4 9 (13.85%) Snowflake
5 5 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (6.15%) Google App Engine
6 4 (6.15%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.08%) Contentful
8 2 (3.08%) Figma
8 2 (3.08%) GitHub
8 2 (3.08%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.54%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.54%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) Broadband
2 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (13.85%) BigQuery
4 5 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.69%) Big Data
4 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Spanner
5 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.15%) MySQL
6 3 (4.62%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.62%) Power BI
6 3 (4.62%) Tableau
7 2 (3.08%) Looker
7 2 (3.08%) Metadata
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 13 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 13 (20.00%) GitLab
1 13 (20.00%) JIRA
1 13 (20.00%) Maven
1 13 (20.00%) Selenium
1 13 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 13 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.08%) ERwin
3 2 (3.08%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (3.08%) Storybook
4 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
4 16 (24.62%) Banking
5 14 (21.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (10.77%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.69%) Retail
8 3 (4.62%) Automotive
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 18 (27.69%) Architect
3 9 (13.85%) Java Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Lead
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Data Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Lead Data Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) C++ Developer
7 2 (3.08%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.08%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Python Developer
7 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 13 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 13 (20.00%) JPA
4 13 (20.00%) Kafka
4 13 (20.00%) Redux
4 13 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.77%) Node.js
6 6 (9.23%) Express.js
6 6 (9.23%) React Native
7 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.62%) Laravel
8 3 (4.62%) Vue
9 2 (3.08%) CSS3
9 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.08%) hapi
9 2 (3.08%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (3.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (12.31%) Mobile App
4 5 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.08%) CUDA
6 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.08%) SIMD
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%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 32 (49.23%) DevOps
3 30 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 27 (41.54%) Containerisation
4 27 (41.54%) Microservices
5 24 (36.92%) Agile
6 23 (35.38%) TDD
7 20 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
7 20 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (24.62%) Clean Code
8 16 (24.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (24.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
10 14 (21.54%) Front End Development
10 14 (21.54%) SDLC
11 11 (16.92%) Code Quality
12 10 (15.38%) Analytics
12 10 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (15.38%) CQRS
12 10 (15.38%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) Java
2 27 (41.54%) SQL
3 23 (35.38%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.92%) Python
5 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.62%) PHP
7 2 (3.08%) C++
8 1 (1.54%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
1 9 (13.85%) SC Cleared
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.08%) PhD
5 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CCSP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CISSP
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.08%) SLA
4 1 (1.54%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (41.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (44.62%) 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
Vendors
1 24 (36.92%) Google
2 13 (20.00%) Solace
3 4 (6.15%) Databricks
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) ConnectWise
6 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.54%) Twitter
6 1 (1.54%) VMware