Hybrid/Remote GCP Job Trends

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 56 50
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing GCP 536 846 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.39% 5.22% 5.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.18% 11.18% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 368 589 1,193
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £66,625 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £118,750 £108,750 £96,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £138,750 £118,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,838 7,568 12,145
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.92% 46.69% 46.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,052 4,814 10,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,575 £35,825
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

GCP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GCP
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GCP

GCP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GCP over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

GCP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

GCP
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:

Application Platforms
1 57 (10.63%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.43%) Apache
3 13 (2.43%) Confluence
4 7 (1.31%) IIS
5 5 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
7 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Trello
3 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.19%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 458 (85.45%) AWS
2 366 (68.28%) Azure
3 121 (22.57%) SaaS
4 48 (8.96%) dbt
4 48 (8.96%) GitHub
5 40 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (5.60%) Snowflake
7 28 (5.22%) Serverless
8 27 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (5.04%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.36%) Vertex AI
10 13 (2.43%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (2.24%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
12 11 (2.05%) Google Analytics
13 10 (1.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.48%) Firewall
2 16 (2.99%) Broadband
2 16 (2.99%) Network Security
3 13 (2.43%) VPN
4 12 (2.24%) DNS
5 10 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.68%) WAN
7 7 (1.31%) LAN
8 6 (1.12%) DHCP
8 6 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.75%) SSL
10 3 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.56%) SCCP
11 2 (0.37%) AMQP
11 2 (0.37%) Wireless
12 1 (0.19%) NAS
12 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.99%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (11.01%) BigQuery
3 43 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (8.02%) NoSQL
4 29 (5.41%) Metadata
5 28 (5.22%) Tableau
6 27 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 21 (3.92%) Power BI
9 20 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
10 18 (3.36%) Data Lake
10 18 (3.36%) MySQL
11 17 (3.17%) Apache Arrow
11 17 (3.17%) Dremio
11 17 (3.17%) Looker
11 17 (3.17%) SQL Server
12 16 (2.99%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.24%) Relational Database
14 11 (2.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (7.28%) TeamCity
2 30 (5.60%) GitLab
3 29 (5.41%) Git
4 22 (4.10%) JIRA
5 13 (2.43%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.05%) MLflow
7 9 (1.68%) Subversion
8 8 (1.49%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.49%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.31%) Storybook
10 5 (0.93%) git-flow
11 4 (0.75%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.75%) ERwin
11 4 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.56%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.56%) webpack
13 2 (0.37%) Mocha
13 2 (0.37%) Mockito
13 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 177 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 172 (32.09%) Finance
3 82 (15.30%) Law
4 78 (14.55%) Retail
5 69 (12.87%) Banking
6 65 (12.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (9.33%) Public Sector
8 43 (8.02%) Financial Institution
9 41 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (7.09%) Telecoms
11 36 (6.72%) Back Office
12 25 (4.66%) Legal
13 18 (3.36%) Front Office
14 17 (3.17%) Marketing
15 15 (2.80%) Manufacturing
16 12 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
20 6 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 155 (28.92%) Senior
2 110 (20.52%) Software Engineer
3 91 (16.98%) Developer
4 76 (14.18%) Architect
5 54 (10.07%) Lead
6 41 (7.65%) Data Engineer
7 35 (6.53%) Engineering Manager
7 35 (6.53%) Software Developer
8 30 (5.60%) .NET Developer
8 30 (5.60%) .NET Software Developer
9 29 (5.41%) Python Engineer
10 28 (5.22%) Consultant
11 27 (5.04%) Data Architect
11 27 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
13 23 (4.29%) Senior Developer
14 22 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (18.84%) React
2 67 (12.50%) .NET
3 62 (11.57%) Node.js
4 59 (11.01%) Kafka
5 44 (8.21%) RESTful
6 28 (5.22%) Vue
7 27 (5.04%) AngularJS
8 25 (4.66%) gRPC
9 23 (4.29%) Django
10 21 (3.92%) Pandas
11 20 (3.73%) REST
12 19 (3.54%) CSS
13 18 (3.36%) HTML
13 18 (3.36%) NumPy
13 18 (3.36%) Spring
14 17 (3.17%) OAuth
14 17 (3.17%) SciPy
15 16 (2.99%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (2.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 128 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 71 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (8.77%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.29%) Blog
5 18 (3.36%) Public Cloud
6 17 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 17 (3.17%) Equities
6 17 (3.17%) Fixed Income
6 17 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (2.24%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.05%) Video\Live Streaming
9 10 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.68%) Over-the-Top Content
10 9 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.09%) Linux
2 24 (4.48%) Windows
3 21 (3.92%) Android
4 18 (3.36%) Unix
5 12 (2.24%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.19%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (42.16%) CI/CD
2 197 (36.75%) Software Engineering
3 166 (30.97%) Agile
4 161 (30.04%) DevOps
5 156 (29.10%) AI
6 125 (23.32%) Microservices
7 113 (21.08%) Roadmaps
8 107 (19.96%) Mentoring
9 96 (17.91%) Containerisation
10 92 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 85 (15.86%) Computer Science
13 76 (14.18%) Clean Code
14 75 (13.99%) Machine Learning
15 72 (13.43%) Test Automation
16 70 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (12.69%) Analytics
18 62 (11.57%) Data Modelling
19 59 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
20 58 (10.82%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 172 (32.09%) Python
2 123 (22.95%) Java
3 118 (22.01%) TypeScript
4 97 (18.10%) SQL
5 92 (17.16%) JavaScript
6 58 (10.82%) Go
7 39 (7.28%) C#
8 28 (5.22%) Scala
9 25 (4.66%) Bash
10 13 (2.43%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.87%) C++
12 7 (1.31%) PHP
13 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.75%) R
15 3 (0.56%) Rust
16 2 (0.37%) Bicep
16 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.37%) Ruby
16 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (18.10%) Degree
2 61 (11.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (9.51%) Security Cleared
4 48 (8.96%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.80%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.43%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.87%) CISSP
8 10 (1.87%) CREST Certified
8 10 (1.87%) OSCP
9 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.93%) CISM
10 5 (0.93%) OSCE
11 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.75%) CEH
11 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.75%) PhD
11 4 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.56%) CISA
13 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.04%) GDPR
3 25 (4.66%) Data Quality
4 24 (4.48%) QA
5 19 (3.54%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.99%) NIST
6 16 (2.99%) SOC 2
7 12 (2.24%) GRC
8 11 (2.05%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.12%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.93%) SLA
11 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.37%) SOC 1
System Software
1 116 (21.64%) Docker
2 18 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 133 (24.81%) Terraform
3 61 (11.38%) Grafana
4 45 (8.40%) Ansible
5 27 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.87%) Argo
7 8 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.12%) Puppet
9 4 (0.75%) Cilium
9 4 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) cPanel
10 3 (0.56%) Plesk
11 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.19%) Icinga
11 1 (0.19%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Nessus
11 1 (0.19%) Nmap
11 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 119 (22.20%) Google
2 40 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.97%) Databricks
4 13 (2.43%) Atlassian
5 12 (2.24%) Palantir
6 10 (1.87%) SAP
7 9 (1.68%) Informatica
7 9 (1.68%) Oracle
7 9 (1.68%) Typelevel
8 8 (1.49%) Adobe
9 7 (1.31%) Sage
9 7 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.12%) Talend
10 6 (1.12%) VMware
11 5 (0.93%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.93%) IBM
11 5 (0.93%) Nokia
11 5 (0.93%) Splunk
11 5 (0.93%) Xamarin
11 5 (0.93%) Zoho