GCP Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Google Cloud Platform Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 563 538
Rank change year-on-year +196 -25 +186
Permanent jobs requiring a GCP Engineer 30 29 135
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.086% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.089% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 112
10th Percentile £56,679 £52,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £77,395 £61,180 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +0.40% -12.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile - £92,500 £101,125
UK median annual salary £85,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +17.24% - -9.38%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

GCP Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured GCP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GCP Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GCP Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GCP Engineer.

GCP Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GCP Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GCP Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, GCP Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring GCP Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 22 (73.33%) GCP
2 22 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (73.33%) Python
3 19 (63.33%) Terraform
3 19 (63.33%) Docker
4 18 (60.00%) Google
5 17 (56.67%) Agile
6 16 (53.33%) Containerisation
7 15 (50.00%) SaaS
8 14 (46.67%) REST
8 14 (46.67%) Web Application Development
8 14 (46.67%) FastAPI
8 14 (46.67%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (46.67%) Flask
8 14 (46.67%) Process Improvement
9 9 (30.00%) Java
10 7 (23.33%) Banking
10 7 (23.33%) Finance
10 7 (23.33%) DevOps
10 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
11 6 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 6 (20.00%) SQL
11 6 (20.00%) E-Commerce
12 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
12 5 (16.67%) DNS
12 5 (16.67%) HTTPS
12 5 (16.67%) MySQL
12 5 (16.67%) PHP

GCP Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (16.67%) Apache Solr
1 5 (16.67%) nginx
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) GCP
2 15 (50.00%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) HTTPS
1 5 (16.67%) IPsec
1 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Couchbase
1 5 (16.67%) MySQL
1 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Big Data
2 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) Flink
2 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (23.33%) Banking
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Legal
2 2 (6.67%) Retail
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) FastAPI
1 14 (46.67%) Flask
1 14 (46.67%) REST
2 5 (16.67%) Kafka
2 5 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Beam
4 2 (6.67%) Jinja
5 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (56.67%) Agile
3 16 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 14 (46.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 14 (46.67%) Process Improvement
4 14 (46.67%) Web Application Development
5 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (23.33%) DevOps
6 6 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 6 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (16.67%) Microservices
7 5 (16.67%) Software Delivery
8 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 4 (13.33%) SDLC
9 3 (10.00%) Data Mapping
9 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 3 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) PHP
5 3 (10.00%) Go
6 2 (6.67%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (6.67%) PhD
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (63.33%) Terraform
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.67%) Teradata
4 1 (3.33%) New Relic