Hybrid/Remote GCP Architect Job Trends

Google Cloud Platform Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 465 490
Rank change year-on-year +53 +25 +286
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Architect 7 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.043% 0.005% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.005% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £106,250 £127,500 £100,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £135,000 £130,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £118,750 £142,500 £135,000
90th Percentile - - £155,250
UK median annual salary £112,500 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +18.42% -5.00% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 15,251 19,303 21,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 96.62% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,706 12,126 17,789
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -4.00% +2.16%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'GCP Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GCP Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

GCP Architect
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote GCP Architect job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote GCP Architect job vacancies

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, GCP Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Google
3 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
4 4 (57.14%) AI
4 4 (57.14%) Alation
4 4 (57.14%) Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
4 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
4 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (57.14%) Data Management
4 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (57.14%) Data Science
4 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (57.14%) Databricks
4 4 (57.14%) DataStage
4 4 (57.14%) DBS Check

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Alation
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub
4 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
4 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) DataStage
1 4 (57.14%) Metadata
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
1 4 (57.14%) QlikView
1 4 (57.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) ER Studio
1 4 (57.14%) ERwin
1 4 (57.14%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 4 (57.14%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
1 4 (57.14%) Reinsurance
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
2 4 (57.14%) GTM Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Metadata Management
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) DBS Check
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Informatica
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
16 hybrid/remote GCP Architect jobs