GCP Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -54 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing GCP 63 91 158
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.03% 7.94% 5.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.17% 18.88% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 50 77 127
10th Percentile £46,148 £46,700 £34,600
25th Percentile £58,125 £59,145 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £72,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% +6.62% -0.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,084 £100,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,932 £72,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +5.07% +2.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,021 482 1,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.86% 42.06% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 602 356 923
10th Percentile £28,775 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,769 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +8.67% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,685
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,228 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.42% +3.29% -4.55%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

GCP
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GCP in West Yorkshire

GCP
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Leeds -42 60 £77,500 +7.65% 11
Wakefield - 1 £56,500 -
GCP
Yorkshire

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 8 (12.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (79.37%) Azure
2 46 (73.02%) AWS
3 8 (12.70%) GitHub
3 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
3 8 (12.70%) Serverless
4 7 (11.11%) SaaS
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) dbt
8 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.17%) Google Analytics
9 2 (3.17%) IaaS
9 2 (3.17%) PaaS
9 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Metadata
2 8 (12.70%) BigQuery
3 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.11%) MySQL
3 7 (11.11%) Power BI
4 5 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.76%) Looker
6 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.76%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.76%) Tableau
6 3 (4.76%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.59%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) GitLab
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Finance
5 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Games
7 1 (1.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Senior
2 16 (25.40%) Lead
3 12 (19.05%) Architect
4 10 (15.87%) Data Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Developer
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Data Architect
7 6 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) SAP Architect
9 3 (4.76%) SAP Data Architect
9 3 (4.76%) SAP MDM Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) React
2 7 (11.11%) Node.js
3 5 (7.94%) REST
4 3 (4.76%) Laravel
4 3 (4.76%) MACH
4 3 (4.76%) Middleware
4 3 (4.76%) Symfony
5 2 (3.17%) Express.js
5 2 (3.17%) NestJS
5 2 (3.17%) PySpark
6 1 (1.59%) LDAP
6 1 (1.59%) RESTful
6 1 (1.59%) Spring
6 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) DevOps
2 22 (34.92%) CI/CD
3 18 (28.57%) Agile
3 18 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 15 (23.81%) Data Modelling
4 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (19.05%) Analytics
6 12 (19.05%) Data Governance
7 11 (17.46%) Observability
8 10 (15.87%) Data Engineering
8 10 (15.87%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (15.87%) ETL
8 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (15.87%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 9 (14.29%) Data Science
9 9 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) Python
2 14 (22.22%) SQL
3 13 (20.63%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.94%) Scala
6 4 (6.35%) Java
7 3 (4.76%) Go
7 3 (4.76%) PHP
8 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.76%) SAP Certification
3 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Terraform
2 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.11%) Grafana
3 7 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (9.52%) Ansible
5 1 (1.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Google
2 5 (7.94%) Databricks
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Palantir
4 3 (4.76%) Informatica
4 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) TIBCO
4 3 (4.76%) UiPath
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.59%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism